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Li Wenhua and Yan Hongxia from Nanhu forestry, Ning'an city, Heilongjiang province, worked together to make a record for a couple having the most bees on their bodies.By putting queen bees on their bodies, the couple drew hundreds of thousands of bees to stick to them, making them wear thick bee clothes. The couple said they have been raising bees for 25 years, and know every bit of bee behavior.




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Baboon's at Knowsley safari Park in Merseyside have learned how to open roof boxes on cars visiting their enclosure. The monkeys can open the cases and are running off with the owners clothes and holiday items.

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Dirk Auer takes on the Mammoth rollercoaster at Trips Drill theme park, Stuttgart, Germany in a pair of rollerskates.

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Patrick Koster next to a volcanic crater in Hawaii, November 2008. Koster has slept at the edge of an active crater, proposed to his wife on the slopes of a simmering cone, and reorganised his honeymoon to make sure he didn't miss an eruption.

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Local people crowd a swimming pool to get cool on July 20, 2009 in Nanjing of Jiangsu Province, China. Many parts of China are experiencing a heatwave, with tempratures touching 40 degress Celsius in some areas last month.

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Chicago White Sox pitcher Mark Buehrle, left, is embraced by teammate Josh Fields as catcher Ramon Castro, right, joins in the celebration after Buehrle threw a perfect game against the Tampa Bay Rays in a baseball game, Thursday, July 23, 2009, in Chicago. The White Sox won 5-0.

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President Obama appears to be checking out the junk in a young woman's trunk, or is he?

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Barbara "Redneck Queen" Bailey shows the crowd the proper way to do the Bellyflop during the 13th Annual Summer Redneck Games in East Dublin, Georgia. Bailey won the event several year running in the 1990s. Started in 1996 as a spoof for the summer Olympics held in Atlanta, the games feature bobbing for pigs feet, hub cap hurling and the mud pit belly flop contest for trophies.

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A man is gored by a Miura fighting bull during the sixth run of the bulls of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain. The festival is a symbol of Spanish culture, despite heavy condemnation from animal rights groups, and attracts thousands of tourists to watch the bull runs or take part.

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Local residents of Laguna Niguel expose their buttocks during the 30th annual "Mooning of the trains" event along a stretch of railroad track in Orange County, south of Los Angeles. Local legend has it the tradition began in 1979 when customer K.T. Smith offered to buy a drink for anyone who would run outside and moon the next train. Since then, on the second Saturday of each July, people have lowered their inhibitions and their underwear and pressed their naked buttocks up against a wire fence as the trains go by.

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