WEIRD STUFF: Dentures lost at restaurant

Dentures lost at restaurant

A customer left a full set of teeth at a British restaurant.

The Barclay Pizza and Prosecco in Royton, Oldham, claim a set of dentures were found by staff during the nightly clean.

A post on their Facebook from the owner Emma Whelan read: "We get a lot of things left behind after a night in the Barclay.. we've had house keys, phones, even a single shoe (she must have hopped home) but this is a new one."

Emma continued to the Manchester Evening News: "It was a busy night last night. We had a party upstairs and it was busy downstairs as well. We didn't find the teeth until the end of the night. Our supervisor Cameron found them. They were on the floor by the bar. It's a full set of teeth.

"I particularly wanted to post it because someone is definitely missing them."

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A horse rescued from swimming pool

Firefighters were called to a scene in New York to help rescue a horse that fell into a swimming pool and got stuck in the winter cover.

A representative from the Bohemia Fire Department said that the horse had been trying to walk over the pool but was proved to be too heavy to make it over successfully.

They said on Facebook: "Crews from both agencies worked together to move the horse to the shallow end of the water and freed her from the cover."

The equine was guided towards and up the stairs and did not appear to be hurt by the ordeal.

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Arcade game prototype auctioned for big money

An original prototype for the Atari 'Home Pong' was sold for more than $270,000 approximately J$41 million) at auction.

The console - which came from the personal archive of the game's creator Allan Alcorn - was sold by RR Auction in Boston for $270,910 approximately $41.2 million).

The device - which is dated from 1976 - features a 'Pong' chip in the prototype in the base and a hand-made model of the Pong system. Pong was one of the first arcade games, which eventually spawned Atari's Home Pong.

Alan said: "In 1975, Atari had managed to become dominant in the coin-operated entertainment business and moved on to build video games for the home market. We had to get Pong running on a single chip of silicon so a product could be built at a price a consumer could afford."

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20,000-year-old tooth found at construction site

The tooth of a woolly mammoth was found at a construction site in Iowa.

Construction workers from DGR Engineering uncovered a tooth belonging to the extinct animal that is believed to be a whopping 20,000 years old.

Woolly mammoths are extinct relatives of elephants. They are thought to have lived in the ice age, but went extinct when the weather became warmer.

Justin Blauwet, a worker - and fossil fan - was the one who suspected it was something from the Ice Age creature, and the "lucky find" was confirmed by scientists at the University of Iowa.

Tiffany Adrian, a paleontologist at the university, said: "While discovery of mammoth remains is not uncommon in Iowa, once the bones and teeth are out in the open, they can fall apart and disappear quickly because they are not completely fossilised."