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Cockroach Farm

As per one report:

Farmers are pinning their future on the often-dreaded insect, which when dried goes for as much as $20 a pound — for use in Asian medicine and in cosmetics. 

China has about 100 cockroach farms, and new ones are opening almost as fast as the prolific critters breed. But even among Chinese, the industry was little known until August, when a million cockroaches got out of a farm in neighboring Jiangsu province. The Great Escape made headlines around China and beyond, evoking biblical images of swarming locusts.

The start-up costs are minimal — Wang bought only eggs, a run-down abandoned chicken coop and the roofing tile. Notoriously hearty, roaches aren't susceptible to the same diseases as farm animals. As for feeding them, cockroaches are omnivores, though they favor rotten vegetables. Wang feeds his brood with potato and pumpkin peelings discarded from nearby restaurants.

Perhaps understandably, the cockroach business ("special farming," as it is euphemistically called) is a fairly secretive industry. Wang's farm, for instance, operates in an agribusiness industrial park under an elevated highway. The sign at the front gate simply reads Jinan Hualu Feed Co. Some companies that use cockroaches don't like to advertise their "secret ingredient." And the farmers themselves are wary of neighbors who might not like a cockroach farm in their backyard.

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Its Amazing, Strange, Bizarre: Maldivian police detained a Coconut over Vote-Rigging

Its really Amazing, Strange & absolutely Bizarre that Maldivian police detained a Coconut over Vote-Rigging. As per a Report:

In a bizarre 'detention', the Maldivian police has detained a coconut ahead of presidential elections over suspicion of vote-rigging claims, in an attempt to influence voting. According to a report, police took into its possession the "cursed coconut" after allegations of black-magic over it. 

On Tuesday morning, Maldivian police found the coconut, termed as 'young' near a school at the Guraidhoo Island, one of the polling-station, where voting is scheduled to take place on the election day. During the probe, the police summoned a white magician, who declared the coconut as "innocent". The 'young' coconut was found 'innocent' by a magician. 

Magician was called to establish whether the coconut was cursed with black magic or not. The police, who cracked the case, then, made no arrests. In Maldives, coconuts are reportedly used to perform black magic rituals in the strictly Islamic nation. The incumbent President Mohamed Waheed will be contesting in the presidential polls with his main rival, former president and leader of the Maldives Democratic Party Mohammad Nasheed.

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