Kathmandu, India (WFN) -- Hindu priests in a remote Nepal village are breaking out in a cold sweat over a stone statue of a deity that has also begun to mysteriously sweat for no apparent reason. The priests take the sweaty signal as a sign that bad things are about to come and are now praying to spare the country and the people from disasters or calamities, according to Reuters.

MERRIAM, Kan. -- Could the movie "Dodgeball" be getting young teens hot under the collar? Police caught one teenage couple copulating at a movie theater in Merriam, Kansas, after a screening of the Ben Stiller comedy, according to local TV station KMBC. The kids tried to dodge police by dashing out and hiding in a car lot a block away, but were ultimately caught and charged in juvenile court.

KEMRI, India -- There may be a new "hair" to the title of the World's Longest Mustache. An Indian man whose mouth whiskers allegedly measure 13.5 feet has come forward in an attempt to topple the current record holder, who has an 11-foot-long mustache. Challenger Gurjar Khatana tells "The Asian Age" he hasn't trimmed his mustache in 26 years and the only special care he's given the 'stache is an application of oil every morning.

SANTIAGO, Chile -- Sounds like an old wives tale, but women in Peru are clamoring for a type of fruit from the Amazon which is supposed to make their figures more curvy. The so-called Aguaje fruit reportedly contains hormones that encourage voluptuous figures and one model tells the Chilean newspaper, "Las Ultimas Noticias," "If I don't eat the Aguaje, I have to go to the gym."

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