Football, not footsy

“A new study has found British men show far more loyalty, commitment and self-sacrifice toward their favorite soccer team than toward their partners,” ABC News reported yesterday. The survey, which was of about 2,000 men, found that 94 percent pledged undying loyalty to their favorite teams regardless of how the team was performing, while “52 percent said they would gladly ditch a relationship that was not going well.”

Get a load of these

Reuters reported Sunday that Androulla Charalambous has lemons the size of footballs. “They have a lot of juice in them,” said Charalambous, of Psevdhas, Cyprus. Owners of lemon trees in Psevdhas are not sure why they’re sprouting such mammoth fruits, ranging in size from 1.5 to 2.5 kilograms, but they swear that the product is completely organic.

Bulg-ing real estate market

A real estate agency in Bulgaria is warning that time is running out to purchase their specialty, which is property on the moon. According to ABC News, the Lunar Embassy “sells” one-acre plots of land on the moon for approximately $34.60. However, they say only one billion plots are left. Lunar Embassy ‘coordinator’ Denislav Stoichev, says that in the past his company has sold plots to, among others, “The late Pope John Paul II, former US President Richard Nixon, pop icon Madonna and NASA officials.”

Shell-shocked

A giant Aldabra tortoise called “Addwaitya,” which was the oldest known living tortoise, has passed away. Addwaitya, who resided at the Kolkata Zoo, in Kolkata, India, was an estimated 250 years old. According to the Reuters news service, Addwaitya was at one time the pet of British general Robert Clive, of the East India Company, during the mid-18th century.

The sky’s the limit at Wal-Mart

Skyler Bartels, a Drake University sophomore from Harvard, Neb., spent a significant portion of his spring break at Wal-Mart. The Des Moines Register reported Monday that Bartels, as part of a sociology experiment, spent 41 hours in a Des Moines Wal-Mart without leaving, subsisting completely on Wal-Mart products and services.