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Two hunters on a remote mountain in northern Sweden in October came across an installation of 70 pairs of shoes filled with butter, according to an Associated Press report. Artist Yu Xiuzhen was attributed as the probable creator, in that he had staged a similar display in the Tibetan mountains surrounding Lhasa, China, in 1996.
In April, according to Uganda’s prison service, 15 inmates escaped near Kampala after allegedly having weakened the jail’s walls and cell bars by months of urinating on them.
Also in April, The New York Times reported that a pest-control professional in Stockton, Calif., had developed a new termite-detection method that relies on locating concentrations of methane gas that are expelled because of termites’ high-fiber (i.e., wood) diet.
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