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A lot of world records are inherently silly. Sure, you could set a record for the most mascot characters dancing in sync, but why would you? Because you are Japan, that’s why. And now Japan has grabbed another who-even-thinks-of-that world record: largest mailbox.
The mammoth mailbox stands in Ube City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, and was constructed largely by engineering students at the local university. The record is listed by capacity, and this mailbox can hold a whopping 68.484 cubic meters of letters, postcards and idol fan mail. It’s about 12 times the size of a standard Japanese mailbox and stands 7.181 meters tall.

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Have a problem with ghosts? Who you gonna call?

The Chinese police have found a new way to train their recruits physically, and even psychologically. Now they are trained not only to battle the living, but also to have the guts to face the dead and other supernatural beings.

Using an abandoned house and some scary props, the new soldiers are set for training when evening comes. Each is given a minute to study the house layout before entering with only a flashlight in hand. The goal is to survive all the “obstacles,” find the control room and disable the mechanisms working the props.

“After only three steps, my flashlight shone on a skeleton,” wrote a journalist who was permitted to test-run the new haunted house training center.

GhostBusters

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Former People First Party (PFP) legislator Lin Cheng-er (林正二), who was found guilty of vote-buying earlier this month, yesterday vowed to file an extraordinary appeal or seek a retrial to clear his name in what the party called a “politically motivated ruling.”
Lin was stripped of his seat after the Supreme Court on Thursday last week upheld the ruling of a second trial that found him guilty of vote-buying during his 2007 campaign.
The charges relate to his hosting a party in November 2007 to recruit campaign staffers, for which he received a 20-month jail sentence and was deprived of his civil rights for 17 months.

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