Babies in the womb “cry” after they have eaten green vegetables but are happy after they’ve eaten carrots, reported Sky News. Researchers at Durham University took 4D ultrasounds of 100 pregnant women, 20 minutes after they ate tablets filled with either carrot or kale powder and found that foetuses whose mothers had taken the carrot tablets appeared to make “smiling faces” but those mothers had consumed kale tablets made “crying faces”.
Woman’s car stuck in concrete
Hollywood makeover to be livestreamed
The makeover of the Hollywood sign will be live-streamed next year, said The Times. Workers will apply “extra-white Hollywood Centennial paint on the 45ft-high sign, which has been described as Hollywood’s biggest celebrity. The sign was built by Harry Chandler, publisher of the Los Angeles Times, in 1923 to serve as an outdoor advertisement for a real estate development and it originally read “Hollywoodland”.
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