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Major League Baseball Beetle
Former Toronto Blue Jays star Jose Bautista has another honor to add to his resume, thanks to entomologist Bob Anderson of the Canadian Museum of Nature. Anderson named a newly discovered species of beetle
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Selling Used Socks=$125,000/Year
Roxy Sykes of London had an idea when someone complimented her on her beautiful feet. “I was convinced to set up a social media account to show them off,” she said. But that was
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Do I Believe In My Book?
I have a marketing degree. Turns out I hate selling…things I don’t believe in. Armed with my college sheepskin, I ventured off to Dallas to enter the Land of Adults. I got a job
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Preschool Fight Club
Two mothers are suing the Adventure Learning Center day care in St. Louis over an incident in which teachers organized a fight club among preschoolers. The idea was conceived as a way to entertain
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Good Boy!
Beagle Brigade K-9 officer Hardy probably thought he’d hit the jackpot when U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents discovered an unusual item in a passenger’s luggage at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson airport on Oct. 11. Something
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No More Sushi For You
Ironman triathlete Jaroslav Bobrowski, 30, of Landshut, Bavaria, was banned from Running Sushi, an all-you-can-eat restaurant, for eating too much sushi. Bobrowski, a former bodybuilder, ate close to 100 plates of sushi, which sent
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You Want Fries With That?
University of Houston student Jehv M. looked at a blank wall in his local McDonald’s and saw opportunity. Hoping to boost Asian representation in the burger chain’s advertising, Jehv created a poster featuring himself
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Home Depot Monkey Madness
Tina Ballard, 56, of Okeechobee County, Fla., was arrested in North Carolina by Linville Land Harbor police after fleeing there to hide her pet monkey so that state officials couldn’t take it from her.
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Saved By The Bucket In Chicago
Kyle McAleer, 20, a Chicago Cubs fan from Iowa, adopted a goofy “rally cap” idea from former Cubs player Starlin Castro, and has worn a plastic bucket to games for several years. As
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Taping Is Allowed In Court
The list of offenses was long when Franklyn Williams, 32, appeared in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Common Pleas Court on July 31 to be sentenced for aggravated robbery, kidnapping, theft, misuse of credit cards
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