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A new discovery of a 1912 eighth grade exam is both fascinating and potentially embarrassing.
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More than 1,800 knitters have covered Pittsburgh's Andy Warhol Bridge in 3,000 feet of colorful yarn.
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A black bear in search of a late-night snack broke into an Idaho house and licked leftover Chinese food from a cast iron pan on the stove.
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A judge in Tennessee changed a 7-month-old boy's name to Martin from Messiah, saying the religious name was earned by one person and "that one person is Jesus Christ."
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For years, curiosity seekers visiting the Fort Worth, Texas, grave of Lee Harvey Oswald have wondered about the simple headstone next door, marked Nick Beef.
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A Boston Globe newspaper delivery truck driver survives a dramatic crash and it's caught on video.
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The crash impact launched the truck over the guard-rail sending it some 20 feet down onto the exit ramp where it rolled to a stop.
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A Georgia man who lost his wallet while waterskiing in North Carolina now has it back - 24 years later.
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Robert "Bobby" Tufts hasn't made it to preschool yet, but he's already been elected twice as mayor of a tiny tourist town in northern Minnesota.
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A sideburns contest honoring a U.S. Navy commodore known for his impressive facial hair is marking the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Lake Erie.
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The 127 Yard Sale spanning 690 miles from Michigan to Alabama began Thursday and runs through Sunday.
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July is full-fledged baby season for one Utah family. Three sisters from Layton gave birth to three baby boys in the month of July, including two who were born about an hour apart.
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For a limited time, a Denver hotel is offering a package with a one-night stay in a pop-up, inflatable room that rises 22 feet in the air, thanks to a scissor lift on top of the van on which it sits.
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A Pennsylvania woman has been fined $500 for cursing because she was frustrated with being picked to serve on a jury.
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If finding a high school ring doesn't seem like a big deal consider this: Until a few days ago, the last time Dick Diedrich saw his ring he was living in suburban Chicago with his parents and Harry Truman was in the White House.
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A two-headed turtle born last month at the San Antonio Zoo has become so popular that she has her own Facebook page.
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The discovery of a plague-infected squirrel has prompted the closure of three campgrounds in Southern California's Angeles National Forest.
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Employees at the Edmonton Tim Horton's restaurant say an anonymous donor slapped down nearly CA$ 900 to pay for customers' orders behind him.
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A Massachusetts couple has won $1 million on a scratch-off lottery ticket they dug out of the trash after inadvertently throwing it away.
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The baby croc named George will remain in an aquarium in Australia, in hopes of one day luring William and Kate to bring their son for a visit.
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Here's something that may have you reaching for a drink today. It's National Tequila Day!
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A Milwaukee area animal shelter that turned a cat's near-record 26 toes into a fundraising windfall is closing.
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An Indonesian flower famous for its foul odor is expected to unfurl its putrid blossom within the next week at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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A Florida woman has been banned from swimming in her community's pool because she wants to wear a mermaid tail.
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A 54-year-old fisherman is safe after his 14-foot boat capsized as he was landing a 230-pound tuna in the ocean off Hawaii.
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A Pennsylvania man was briefly the richest man on the planet - with $92 quadrillion.
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It's all for an extreme version of wedding photography called "trashing the dress."
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A spate of five-figure water bills in an Ohio city is being blamed on new software, but a pastor jokes his church's $93,000 bill was from using too much holy water.
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A wayward, pregnant cow that had been roaming the streets and backyards of a Washington, D.C., suburb after escaping her farm has been captured.
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Bacon Bacon closed in May because neighbors complained of the pungent smell of sizzling pork.
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It was a lovely gift, a daughter who bought her father a car. Only it was an accident -- and that daughter is a 1-year-old.
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In San Francisco, a construction dig revealed something pretty exciting, and it's drawing the attention of paleontologists.
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The Browns are giving a jersey to the family of a fan who asked for six players to serve as pallbearers at his funeral.
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It's not the kind of sign you usually see at a park: "''Our deer don't smoke in your backyard. Please don't smoke in theirs."
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Authorities in Cincinnati have arrested a man who they say was vandalizing a high school while wearing only Spider-Man underwear.
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Joey Chestnut downed 69 franks and devoured his own record in the men's Fourth of July hot dog eating contest while Sonya Thomas defended her title in the women's competition.
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Joey Chestnut downed 69 franks to win his seventh straight Coney Island hot dog eating contest, while Sonya Thomas, known as the "Black Widow", won the women's competition.
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It's a dogfight, a roast, a frank encounter, a contest to win in the wurst way. In short, it's an event that devours puns. With relish.
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Three people who ordered food at a Taco Bell drive-thru in western Michigan got something more valuable: $3,600 in cash.
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Officials have identified the culprit behind a 20-hour Internet and cellphone outage last week in New Mexico- an eager beaver.
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A Michigan family gets to keep its housebroken pet deer after months of negotiations with the state.
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Walle, a 4-year-old Beagle-boxer-basset, won the title at the ugly dog contest in northern California. See pictures of the contestants.
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