Dumb But Profitable. 10 Million Dollar Ideas That Shouldn't Have Worked.

1. Million Dollar Homepage

1000000 pixels, charge a dollar per pixel – that’s perhaps the dumbest idea for online business anyone could have possible come up with. Still, Alex Tew, a 21-year-old who came up with the idea, is now a millionaire.

2. PickyDomains

Antiques dealer finds 19th-century children's publications headed for the trash

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - An antiques collector stumbled upon a Civil War-era rarity that was about to suffer the same fate as yesterday's trash.

Antiques collector Stephen Burns discovered that a pile of periodicals intended for the garbage heap turned out to be dozens of issues of "Little Pilgrim," a children's reader published in Philadelphia in the 1850s and '60s. The periodical featured fiction, poetry, riddles and other items for young readers.

Man Flips Cops Off, Gets Awarded $3000

MOBILE, Ala. -- The Mobile Police Department has been ordered to pay $3,000 to a government engineer who was arrested for cursing and making an obscene hand gesture to an officer.

56-year-old Addison DeBoi of Mobile was arrested shortly after Hurricane Katrina and was acquitted on the disorderly conduct charge last year. He sought $10,000 in damages from the police department because of time lost from work, the threat of losing his job, and the embarrassment of being put in jail.

Police force-feed 50 bananas to thief to expel stolen necklace

An Indian suspect was forced by police to eat 50 bananas as a laxative, to retrieve a necklace he was accused of stealing and swallowing. 

When the bananas failed to produce the desired effect, police fed Sheikh Mohsin rice, chicken and local bread.

Finally the necklace, which appeared on an X-ray taken on the suspect, was excreted and retrieved.

Workaholics Have Bad Sexlife

BERLIN (Reuters) - German workaholics may be suffering from a lack of sex, according to a university study published Friday.

A survey of 32,000 men and women by researchers at the University of Goettingen found over 35 percent of those reporting unsatisfying sex lives tended to use hard work as a diversion.

Some 36 percent of men and 35 percent of women surveyed for the "Apotheken Umschau" newsletter said they were likely to put in extra time at the office and volunteer for extra assignments.

Stay-At-Home Dads Worth $10K Less Than Moms

The work done each year by a typical stay-at-home dad is worth $128,755 in annual salary, according to a study by Salary.com.

That's 2.7 percent higher than last year, but still more than $9,000 less than the services provided by stay-at-home mothers.The survey of 6,500 fathers also found that fathers who work outside the house provide $72,000 worth of housework services.Meredith Hanrahan, Salary.com's chief marketing officer, said dads contribute a lot, though some could say they fall short.

237 Reasons For Sex

WASHINGTON -- After exhaustively compiling a list of the 237 reasons why people have sex, researchers found that young men and women get intimate for mostly the same motivations. It's more about lust in the body than a love connection in the heart.

ATM Rigged To Give Twenty Dollar Bills Instead Of Fives.

MANSFIELD, La. (AP) - An ATM at a northwest Louisiana truck stop gave out $20 bills instead of $5s, but authorities say they know who took the extra $7,000 the machine spit out and plan to track them down.

DeSoto Parish sheriff's Lt. Toni Morris said the automated teller machine has records showing 26 people who received the extra cash during five days in late June and early July.

Annette Parker, a supervisor at Eagle's Truck Stop, said she unplugged the machine after overhearing conversations about the excess payments.

Coin Dealer Carries $1.9M Dime in Pocket

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - John Feigenbaum didn't sleep at all during his redeye flight across country. He's not a nervous flier - he had a dime worth $1.9 million in his jeans pocket.

Feigenbaum, 38, of Virginia Beach, Va., is a rare coin dealer, and the dime he was carrying from San Jose to New York is a 1894-S dime, one of only nine known to exist.

He picked up the dime, one of only 24 known to be coined in 1894 in San Francisco, on Monday from the seller's vault in Oakland. He delivered it to the buyer's vault the following day, in midtown Manhattan.

Watching TV Could Cost You $1 Million

When people ask me what was the best decision I made when I decided to create this website, they are often surprised when I tell them that it was my decision to quit watching TV.

There is no doubt that TV costs people far more financially than they believe. For most people, TV is a habit that costs in excess of $1 million over a lifetime, or the equivalent of a healthy retirement account.

I made a conscious choice about five years ago to drastically reduce the amount of TV I watch. The average person now watches 4.5 hours of TV a day.