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Slitherin' stick shifts! That's a snake!

Think rush hour is bad enough? What if a three-foot python were part of the drive home? Full story

'Help me!' Bird's cries draw police

Black bear busts secret Utah pot farm

Oddest book title? ‘Greek Rural Postmen’

Boy doles out fake $20 bills at school

Karma? Bug eviction ends with blazing temple

Drug-addicted elephant kicks heroin habit

Jumper survives crash after chute problem

Using stolen card? Sign somebody else's name

Cross-dressing thief leaves fake breast

Cops hunt speedy skateboarder

Cat takes 70-mile trip under owner's truck

Bite out of crime? Sandwich bribe alleged

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Duck! Here comes a tomato!
Aug. 29: The annual La Tomatina festival is taking place in Bunol, Spain, where thousands of people take to the streets to fling millions of tomatoes on each other.

McCain wins the roach race!

Who's the leader of the spud?

Caution: Hot beverage

Backtracking into the record books

Wonderful world

Diaper breaks fall, saves child's life

'Inconsolable' baby elephant back with mom

Puppy scares off 3 bears in back yard

Couple that won lottery twice win again

Swedish king to visit Flint, Mich.

Forgotten bifocals lead to $3 million jackpot

Beijing couples rush to wed on lucky day

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Baby born in car, named after car
Sept. 5: Bad traffic causes a Chicago woman to give birth in the front seat of her Camry, leading to name her daughter "Camryn." WMAQ's Lauren Jiggets reports.

Burning giant kicks off festival

Believe it or not- real freaks!

Rollover crash in Texas

Bear shuts down pot farm

Where's Andrea Mitchell?

Mystery light shines in Michigan

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Insights on the strangeness of all things medical from Dr. Billy Goldberg and Mark Leyner.

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Chevy shows some skin

Levi’s and those little white lies

Charlie Sheen boasts about his briefs

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Weirdest science stories
Glow-in-the-dark kittens? Research that goes backward in time? Sample the strangest stories of the past year.

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Nuclear tourism
June 26: Who would have thought that one of the world’s deadliest places would become a vacation destination? Ned Colt travels to Chernobyl, Ukraine, site of the notorious nuclear disaster, to find tourists seeking a holiday in the hotzone.

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