Mississauga woman nets noisy nose world record, other offbeat news

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MISSISSAUGA WOMAN HAS WORLD’S LOUDEST NOSE WHISTLE

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Even the most unusual talent nets you accolades.

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A Mississauga woman’s ability to whistle with her nose has garnered her a Guinness World Record for loudest nose whistle.

Lulu Lotus set the record after blowing a 44.1-decibel whistle, according to Guinness World Records. The GTA woman learned to use her nose to whistle at age seven.

Lotus visited Aerocustics Engineering Ltd. in her hometown to set the record by having the whistle loudness measured in a special room used for precision recording.

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“I would love to attempt an even louder whistle,” Lotus said in an interview with Guinness World Records, noting she may want to break her own record.

The record holder has a five-year-old son, who also recently discovered he could whistle with his nose, too.

“It would be a dream come true if he beat my record one day,” said Lotus.

MOTORISTS CALLED ON TO HELP LICK MOOSE SALT ADDICTION

While it may sound amusing, letting moose lick your car could prove to be fatal for them.

Parks Canada is urging motorists this winter not to let moose lick their cars as the animals crave the taste of road salt.

“It does sound very funny … It’s OK to laugh at it as long as people drive responsibly and do what’s best for the wildlife,” Parks Canada spokesperson Tracy McKay told CBC News.

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McKay told the news outlet that she issues the warning every winter as moose tend to wander down to highways to satisfy their salt cravings. However, in doing so, it puts the animals at risk of being injured or killed by a vehicle.

While seeing wildlife in real life is a highlight for many, McKay asked motorists not to stop so moose “can’t get used to licking salt off the cars.”

Moose and other large animals need sodium in the winter to maintain their bodily functions.

AUSSIE WOMAN WANTS TO RE-POPULATE WITH DEAD HUBBY’S SPERM

One can never be too old to have children, right?

A 62-year-old Australian woman got court permission to have sperm extracted from the body of her recently deceased husband with the idea of conceiving another baby after she previously lost her two adult children to accidents.

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Despite getting the legal green light to do so, the woman can’t really do anything with her hubby’s little swimmers as posthumous fertilization is banned in Western Australia, where she’s from.

According to a report by the Australian Broadcasting Company, the unnamed woman’s husband died suddenly on Dec. 17. The widow went to the Supreme Court the next day pleading to allow the removal of spermatozoa tissue from her husband’s body.

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The woman told court she and her husband of 39 years had talked about having another child after losing their children. A 29-year-old daughter drowned in 2013 and their 30-year-old son died in a car crash in 2019.

The senior said she and her partner had talked about having a surrogate overseas to carry the child using the sperm after a fertility expert said she was too old to have a child. However, her husband’s sperm was tested and deemed usable for in vitro fertilization.

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The woman said her cousin living in the Philippines had volunteered to be a surrogate. However, there would be legal hurdles as the couple would have to live in the Philippines for some time.

Justice Fiona Seward said she didn’t have a reason to believe the woman’s husband would’ve objected to having sperm removed from his body after death.

Under Western Australia laws, there is a provision to allow tissue removal from bodies in hospital strictly for medical reasons. But the use of reproductive cells after death is banned.

THIS MOUSE HAS CLEANING GENE

Even mice can’t stand a messy abode.

A Welsh photographer set up a night-vision camera in his shed, where he has captured footage of a mouse tidying up things nightly over a two-month period. Rodney Holbrook of Powys, Wales, said he had noticed objects he left out in his shed were put back where they came from overnight.

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That’s when he set up the camera on his workbench with the hope of seeing who or what was cleaning up his workspace. That’s when footage of the mouse emerged.

In an interview with the BBC News, Holbrook set up the camera after noticing “that some food that I was putting out for the birds was ending up in some old shoes I was storing in the shed.”

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The mouse, whom he called Welsh Tidy Mouse, had gathered items such as corks, nuts and bolts and clothes pegs and placed them in a tray on the man’s workbench.

Holbrook purposely left out other objects to see if the mouse could lift them. Spoiler alert: Welsh Tidy Mouse was able to.

“I couldn’t believe it when I saw that the mouse was tidying up,” Holbrook said.

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