How many of your Facebook friends have you seen lately? For Rob Jones, who is currently meeting every single friend on his Facebook page, the answer could soon be 700.
His aim to raise money for a children's charity means he has already come face-to-face with 123 Internet "fiends" in seven countries, some of whom he has never met before.

• Unlucky Parents
• A Lucky Escape
• The Skull Truth
• Unreal Miracle from Japan
• An Online Charity

I turned round to push something away from my foot, when suddenly everything went dark. I managed to free one hand and felt around — my hand touched a hippo's nose. It was only then that I realized I was underwater, my upper body actually in the hippo's mouth! I tried to move as much as I could, and when he opened his mouth, I managed to swim away.

Recently a picture has been circulating on the Internet of a bright blue watermelon, described as a Japanese moon melon. It seems the fruit grows in Japan and eating it will change the taste of anything you eat afterwards making sweet things taste sour and so on. Each watermelon is supposed to cost about $200, but no one is actually offering it for sale, because it doesn't exist.

In the early twentieth century, scientists were keen to find some evidence that would prove the link between early man and apes. In 1912, it seemed the evidence had been found in Piltdown, England, when Charles Dawson dug up a human skull with an ape-like jaw. For more than thirty years, everyone believed that this skull, known as "Piltdown Man", was genuine; but in 1953, a team of researchers discovered that it was a fake, made from an ancient human skull and a modern ape jaw.

On October 15, 2009, the media reported that a six-year-old boy was inside a large silver balloon floating high in the sky. When the balloon landed, the boy was nowhere to be found, leading to fears that he had fallen out. However, it was later discovered that the whole story had been made up by the boy's parents, in an attempt to get a reality TV deal.