Friday links

Great Valentines Day gift: DIY beef jerky underwear.

A Chinese zoo is to mark Valentine's Day with a 'cross species wedding' between a sheep and a deer.

Mermaids scare off reservoir workers - "the only way to solve the problem was to brew traditional beer and carry out rites".

Woman with the longest fingernails in the world breaks them all in a car crash.

Gallery: coffee art and style 

Ancient origins of of plastic surgery.

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