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The World’s First Tickle Spa in Spain

Relaxing is perhaps one of the last words people use to describe tickling, but at the CosquilleArte Spa, in Madrid, Spain, they actually use fragile tickling techniques to relieve clients’ stress.

What I found more ridiculous was that the idea actually worked and CosquilleArte has become one of the most well-liked spa venues in the Spanish capital. It wasn’t until later, when I learned the tickling methods have nothing to do with the terrible torture we all had to face from childhood friends, that this unusual form of therapy started to make sense.

Instead of jabbing their fingers into clients’ sides and armpits, like I’m sure you and your friends/siblings used to torment each other, the massage therapists at CosquilleArte gently trace their fingertips and soft feathers down their backs and other sensible areas, and adjust their touches according to how ticklish every person is. Although most first time customers clench when they’re touched, they leave the wacky establishment a lot more relaxed than when they came in.

Kim Kardashian’s Engagement Ring Rumors Exposed

Despite rumors that Kris Humphries didn’t pay for Kim Kardashian’s ring and the accident that she sported a nearly indistinguishable ring in 2009 when she was dating Reggie Bush, an insider tells OK!

That Kris did pick out the ring and pay for it entirely. Kim has been a big fan and supporter of designer Lorraine Schwartz, a friend of the Kardashian family, and knew precisely the style of jewelry Kim preferred. Lorraine has also designed jewelry for Angelina Jolie, Barbra Streisand, Elizabeth Taylor, Beyoncé and Heidi Klum. “Anybody who knows Kim knows how much she’s always wanted a lovely diamond ring,” a friend of Kim tells OK!.

“In Kris’ mind, Kim is just a very classic Hollywood beautiful girl. He sees her that way.” An insider says Kris was obtainable free engagement rings from other jewelry companies, but he wanted the best quality for Kim and required to pay for the real deal. He made sure to go to Kim’s favorite jewelry designer, who’s recognized for never giving away free jewelry.

Lorraine is based in New York, creating it an easy trip for the New Jersey Nets basketball player.

The designer was open about the very mawkish message Kris had engraved in the ring, writing on her public Facebook page: “Wow, how romantic. Aside from the 20.5-carat diamonds, Kris wanted to add rather extra singular from him in the ring.

It took him 3 days to come up with a coded communication of love for Kim to be etched in the ring — along with a K <3 K. Amazing!!” Kim lovingly responded on Lorraine’s Facebook page: “A special thanks to Lorraine Schwartz! WOW!!! I love what you wrote on your facebook page!

 You are the best!!!! What a week! I LOVE YOU!” Kim’s ring, assessed to be worth $2 million, is 20.5 carats (which includes 2-carat diamonds on each side), making it superior than her sister Khloe’s giant 12.5-carat, radiant-cut engagement ring, estimated to be worth $850,000.

Kris’ 2011 salary with the New Jersey Nets was $3,200,000, making the ring a heavy commitment for his bank account. Guess that’s what true love can do!

Guarachero Boots – When Long Is Simply Too Long

They’ve only been around for about a year, but these ridiculously long Mexican pointy boots have already become a major fashion trend at dance clubs and rodeo dance floors around northern Mexico. The guys at Vice heard about the unusual footwear and journeyed to the Mexican city of Matehuala, in the northern state of San Luís Potosí, to learn more about it. Apparently the trend started about the same time the music known as “tribal guarachero” became popular among the youth of the area.

A combination of pre-Hispanic and African sounds, Colombian cumbia and modern house music mixed by young DJs, tribal quickly became the favorite dance music of young Mexicans who soon began organizing dance-offs in clubs and at rodeo festivals. At first, everyone wore normal size cowboy boots, but at one point people started making them longer and longer, until it got out of control.

It turned into a competition between ranches and neighborhoods over who had the longest, pointiest boots, and before long contests for the best chuntarito boots were organized. Much to the dissatisfaction of many fellow Mexicans who see the new fashion as a latino version of the “Jersey Shore” trend, fans of tribal guarachero kept making even longer boots and highlighting them by wearing skinny jeans. Some say they’ve seen guys wearing seven-foot long boots.

Guarachero boots start out as regular cowboy boots, but the guys then pimp-them out themselves using common materials and the flashiest dyes available. Some use rubber hoses to make the boot longer, cover it with a layer of leather and make it as pointiest as they can, using various carving tools.

High Chair Shoes

One of ther weirdest pair of shoes ever created. Designed for short people, High Chair Shoes can make you look taller as the heels sports three scaffolding base to elevate its wearer over 6 inches above the ground.

Therapeutic Treatment - Azerbaijan Clinic Uses Crude Oil Baths

A clinic in the town of Naftalan, 160 miles noth-west of Azerbaijan’s capital of Baku, has found a therapeutic use for its plentiful quantities of crude oil.

Azerbaijan is one of the world’s leading oil exporters, and in the country’s western plains “black gold” has been leaking out of the ground for centuries. In fact, they have so much of the stuff, that in the town of Naftalan, they use the surplus crude oil as a cure for various illnesses. It all goes down at the famous Naftalan Clinic, where people from all over the former Soviet Union and even from the Emirates and Europe come to treat a variety of skin diseases, rheumatism, arthritis and even their anxiety with crude oil. Doctors here say their amazing oil therapy is used to trat up to 100 different conditions.

The most popular action at Naftalan is the crude oil bath. Patients lower their bodies into 35 gallons of crude oil, at a temperature of 40 degrees. Many of the m say the temperate oil relaxes their joints and they’d love to spend more than 10 minutes flooded in black oil, but since it contains almost 50% naphthalene, a hydrocarbon deemed potentially carcinogenic by EU regulations, longer sessions could be hazardous to their health. The clinic’s doctors claim millions of people have been treated at Naftalan over the years, and none of them have suffered any complications, as a result. Still, to be on the safe side they limit the sessions to 10 minutes, and no more than a bath per day, during a 10-day treatment.

Bullet stuck in man's brain for 23 years

Doctors have lastly discovered why Wang Tianqing has been suffering from epilepsy for more than two decades.

A two-centimetre rusted bullet, entrenched in the head of a farmer for 23 years, has been detached at a local hospital.

In 1988 Wang Tianqing, who lives in Zhangjiakouin city in northern China's Hebei province, was knocked comatose on his way home by a blow to the head.

"I thought I'd been hit by a slingshot," said Wang. "I saw a man rank on a hill and thought he'd hit me."

He woke up in a hospital bed, was given anti-inflammatory drugs by the doctors and sent home.

Shortly afterwards he started having epileptic seizure which grew progressively poorer over the next two decades.

On a return trip to the hospital for treatment for his seizures, the bullet was spotted on his CAT scan.

Wang Zhiming, an attending surgeon from Neurosurgical Oncology department, said that the continued existence rate for being shot in the head would usually be one out of several thousand, but the bullet missed his brain's main veins and not injured his brainstem.

Bizarre - World's Biggest Python Stuck In Wires

The World biggest Python got struck in wires in the zoo.

It has been a great war between the wire and the python for 30 mins. After which the zoo officials helped the python to get released. “It was a struggle for nearly 3 hrs for us to release the python”, said the zoo official.

World gone Crazy! Brooch Enthused by Vanessa Paradis’ Teeth on Sale!

The world must have gone crazy! A brooch enthused by Vanessa Paradis’ gap-toothed smile is to be on sale soon at a particular Paris Fashion Week pop-up store hosted by Chanel and French boutique Colette.

There are two sizes of the brooch you can be paying attention in. A smaller design will cost you $70 while the bigger one will go for $84. The brooch is made of plexiglass and looks rather humorous.

If you want my view about that, I’ll tell you I love Vanessa Paradis as an actress but I’ve never careful her beautiful. She has charm and her teeth are her trademark, nothing more.

It would be unjust to say it’s her teeth that made her well-known. Speaking honestly I like how Vanessa looks with her lips stopped up. She looks good-looking this way. But when she smiles her full smile she looks just an ordinary woman living next door.

Crazy pig jus like a dog

The nine-month-old pot-bellied pig is so convinced he’s part of a dog pack he happily trots through tunnels, leaps over jumps and weaves between poles just like a dog.

Bizarre Auction – Coffin

For the JFK-assassination plot junkie who has everything: L ee Harvey Oswald’s coffin. Body not included.

A Los Angeles sale house said on Tuesday it would sell the simple pine coffin in which the suspected killer of President John F. Kennedy was buried for almost 20 years.

Bidding will start at $1,000, but the item is expected to fetch physically powerful interest from museums and collectors of presidential memorabilia when it goes on the block on December 16.

“There’s just a lot of attention in Kennedy and anything to do with his assassination,” said Laura Yntema, auction manager at Santa Monica, California-based Nate D. Sanders.

The coffin was uncovered in October 1981 after a legal dispute between Oswald’s widow, Marina, and his brother, Robert. Marina successfully sought an exhumation to test a conspiracy theory that a double Russian agent had been buried in her husband’s place, according to the auction house.

A medical exam showed the badly decomposed body was indeed Oswald’s, and he was gone back to Shannon Rose Hill Memorial Park in Fort Worth, Texas, in a new casket.

The original coffin, which had suffered wide water damage, is being sold by Baumgardner Funeral Home, the local undertaker which handled the re-internment.