Facebook apps leaked users' personal data to advertisers, other third parties, for years

A Facebook security hole allowed advertisers and other third parties to access user accounts and personal data, according to a blog post today from internet security firm Symantec. They identify the exposure as having been active for as long as Facebook has offered applications on its platform, beginning in 2007— so, four years. That unintended access included "profiles, photographs, chat, and the ability to post messages and mine personal...

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Triple Cheetah Cute Sound Madness

Now we don’t wanna overload you on cat videos, but we’ve got a perfect pair for you here today. What’s the problem with kittens? They turn into cats and they get a little less cute. But cheetahs seem to have solved this problem by retaining their cuteness into adulthood. Case in point: ...

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Why Microsoft is Buying Skype for $8.5 Billion

midnight: Microsoft has bought Skype for $8.5 billion, in an all cash deal. The deal closed a few hours ago.  is close to finalizing a deal to buy Skype for between $7 billion to $8 billion . The Wall Street Journal confirmed the news after we had first reported it yesterday. The announcement is likely to come out later today or tomorrow morning, according to several reports. Steve Ballmer, chief executive officer of Microsoft is said...

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AN INTERESTING CHALLENGE FOR YOU

There are more than 100 world known personalities on this painting. If you can name a minimum of 25, you may consider yourself a well-informed pers...

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Frog Baby

On 2006, this bizarre-looking baby was born in Nepal, attracting a huge number of onlookers to witness the astonishing sight. The bizarre baby, however, died after half an hour of its birth. the baby has a condition called anencephaly, a neural tube defect (like the cyclops baby), with no proper brain formati...

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There is a town in Colorado called Dinosaur.

In 1966, Artesia, CO changed its name to ‘Dinosaur’ in order to take advantage of the nearby Dinosaur National Monument. As a result, many of the streets in town have subsequently been given dinosaur names, including: Brontosaurus Boulevard, Stegosaurus Freeway, Triceratops Terrace, Cletisaurus Circle, and Tyrannosaurus Tra...

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The longest full name ever of a person.

The longest full name ever is Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Jack Gerald Hubert Irvin John Kenneth Lloyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Sherman Thomas Uncas Victor William Xerxes Yancy Zeus Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorft, Sr. Adolph Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorft, Sr. was born in 1904 near Hamburg, Germany. was born in 1904 near Hamburg, Germa...

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Toward the end of his life, billionaire Howard Hughes was known for storing his urine in bottles.

During Hughes’ later years he was probably best known for the dramatic eccentricities he displayed. He became extremely germophobic, insisting that anything handed to him be wrapped in tissues. A painkiller addict, Hughes also refused to cut his hair or fingernails and wore Kleenex boxes as shoes. During the last decade of his life he would travel sporadically, working for days without sleep and in complete solitude in darkened hotel rooms. And...

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Mathematician William Shanks spent 15 years calculating the value of pi to 707 places…but he made a mistake on the 528th digit.

Luckily, this discovery was made over 60 years after his death – Shanks would not have been pleased to know that he’d accidentally written a 5 instead of a 4 – which threw off the next 179 calculations! Pi is an irrational number that describes the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. It has an infinite number of digits, but that doesn’t stop mathematicians from calculating it to as many places as they can. Thankfully, now that we’re...

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Some hair bands manufactured in China are made of recycled condoms.

Supposedly the condoms are unused rejected ones, but it’s not clear whether or not they were repurposed after having served their originally intended function. In that case, this could lead to the spread of disease. According to government regulations, the prophylactics (technical term for condoms) should have been sent to a plastics factory and broken down first. Instead, the rubbers were just inserted directly into the center of the hair bands...

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The record for the world’s tallest dog belongs to a Great Dane named Giant George.

George measures a colossal 3 feet 7 inches from paw to shoulder and over 7 feet long from nose to tail. As you would probably expect, the 245 lb behemoth sleeps alone in his own queen size bed...

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Sylvester Stallone once worked as a lion cage cleaner.

Back in 1969, Stallone was struggling to get by as a 22-year-old writer and actor in New York City. Money was so hard to come by that at one point he appeared in a cheap porno just to earn $200 with which to feed himself! After a while, he was able to land a few steady jobs which were marginally less humiliating. At various points in his early career he worked as a movie theater usher and even sliced and wrapped smelly fish! Regardless, his...

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The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it!

After cocoa beans are harvested they need to be fermented. This means that they are put in an earthen pit near where they are harvested and covered with leaves. In the hot sun they ferment (rot) and then can be shoveled out as mature cocoa beans. Of course during this process lots of insects are present. Almost all chocolate have bugs in it, because it is too expensive to manufacture without bugs. The FDA allows a certain amount of bugs or animal...

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German Shepherd bite humans more than any other breed of dog.

In the United States, one source suggests that German Shepherd Dogs are responsible for more reported bitings than any other breed, and suggest a tendency to attack smaller breeds of dogs. An Australian report from 1999 provides statistics showing that German Shepherd Dogs are the third breed most likely to attack a person in some Australian locales. However, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which advises on dog bite prevention...

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An Amazing Fact From Libya

In Libya, if you hit man with a car and he dies, you do not go to jail, because it's Allah's will. But if you hit men with a car, and he survives and sue you, then you go to ja...

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Razia Sultana

  Daughter of Iltutmush, Razia Sultana was the first female Muslim ruler of South Asia. She was a talented, wise, just and generous woman. She was a great administrator and was well versed in governmental affairs. She was not only a good leader in the battlefield but herself was also an excellent fighter. As the most capable son of Iltutmush died during his own life, and the rest were incompetent to govern, Iltutmush nominated his daughter,...

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World's Heaviest Apple

The heaviest apple weighed 1.849 kg (4 lb 1 oz) and was grown and picked by Chisato Iwasaki at his apple farm in Hirosaki City, Japan October 24 20...

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World's Youngest Mother (5 years old)

Lina Medina born in 1939, she's the youngest confirmed mother in medical history, giving birth at the age of five years, seven months and 21 days. Born in Ticrapo, Peru, Medina was brought to a hospital by her parents at the age of five years due to increasing abdominal size. She was originally thought to have had a tumor, but her doctors determined she was in her seventh month of pregnancy. Dr. Gerardo Lozada took her to Lima, Peru, prior...

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Girl Addicted To Eating Soap And Washing Powder

The 19-year-old girl Tempestt Henderson Addicted To Eating Soap And Washing Powder with a dangerous compulsion. Doctors say it could kill her because of it’s toxic compulsion. But this 19-year-old girl claims she is hopelessly addicted… to eating soap and washing powder. A rare medical condition has left Tempestt Henderson, from Florida, eating up to five bars of soap a week – and washing powder too. ‘I remember the first time I dipped my...

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You're living in a computer simulation, and math proves it

Is your life really your life, or is it actually the dream of a butterfly? Or is it a complex computer simulation indistinguishable from "real" reality? Don't worry, it's just a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they change something. Questions about the nature of reality weren't invented by high-as-a-kite college sophomores. Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi noticed sometime around 300 BCE that his dreams of being something other than human...

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Highest Glass Floor of the World in Chicago USA

If you're scared of heights, it may be time to look away now. Not content with having the tallest building in America, the owners of Sears Tower in Chicago have installed four glass box viewing platforms which stick out of the building 103 floors up. The balconies are suspended 1,353 feet in the air and jut out four feet from the building's Skydeck. Fearless: Anna Kane, five, spreads out on the floor of the 10ft square box which is 1,353ft up...

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World's Biggest Golden Coin of 1 Million Dollar

Here are some amazing pictures of rarest and World's Biggest Golden Coin amounting to USD 1 Million...

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Happy Mothers Day

Smiles of happy sunshine, Arms of everlasting luv,Touch of sweet roses,There is magic in the airWhenever ur there,Mother, everything to U I owe,May all pleasures of life come ur way. As children, we were poor.  Some would say,  “Oh yeah, right.  You guys always say that.”  But no, we were really poor.  In fact, one-year things were so bad that the four of us, my brother and 2 sisters only had enough money to purchase...

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The power of Google

Ok Google, we give up! You have Gmail, Google Search, Google map, and your company is worth 150 billion dollars. What else do you want? Th...

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Ferret Enjoys Jolly Romp Through the Snow

Snow has fallen. It’s white, it’s thick and it’s covering the neighbor’s Volvo. What’s a house trained ferret to do? Romp. Romp is what a ferret is to do. The little guy looks stoked to be outside of the house, but we’re not sure if he’s familiar with the concept of snow. He appears to be trying to dig a hole through it. We get that ferrets dig holes, but snow is cold. That snow is cold, ferret. You are going to catch a cold. You’re not even...

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