WEIRD BUT TRUE
Senior citizens have better sperm counts than young whippersnappers, according to a new Danish study.
Researchers, led by University of Arhus professor Jens Bonde, found that of the 1,000 men they tested, the younger men on average had lower-quality sperm.
The average 20-year-old had half as many sperm as the average 60-year-old, and many of the younger men were close to infertile, Bonde said.
A Kansas family was reunited with their pet pooch – six years after the dog disappeared.
Jeanie Flores was stunned when she glanced out the window of her Wichita home and spotted Bear. The Lab and chow mix had vanished shortly after the family moved to a new neighborhood.
Jeanie’s husband, Frank Flores, said he wished Bear could talk.
“Where was he? He hasn’t told us yet,” he said. “We don’t know how rough a life he’s had.”
Bill Fickett’s nice gesture went up in smoke on Thanksgiving Day – literally.
The St. Cloud, Minn., man just wanted to give his wife a break from the kitchen, so he offered to cook.
But he ended up burning down the garage, causing about $14,000 in damage.
However, Fickett said his family still had a nice dinner.
“We just had to have chicken instead of turkey,” he said.
Aromatherapy is popular among humans, but now it’s being used to soothe animals.
The Denver Zoo is using aromatherapy to keep its four monkeys from going ape.
Keepers say the soothing scents have really helped improve the primates’ physical, spiritual and emotional health.
A Czechoslovakian family claims to have bred a rabbit with three penises.
The Samek family from Liblice said they’re hopeful they can enter the record books.
“We saw a vet about it, and he was puzzled,” said Lenka Samova, 14.
“He said he’d never seen anything like the rabbit with three penises before.”


