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A Brazilian man has shocked his family by showing up at his own funeral. Family members had incorrectly identified Ademir Jorge Goncalves as a car crash victim Sunday night. (06 November 2009)

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A chihuahua tossed out by its owner, perhaps because of the way she was born, is looking for a new home and extra TLC to help with the unusual obstacles that lay ahead for her. (Nov. 5)

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A Minnesota police chief fears the city will lose a big chunk of revenue after it was forced to repost the sale of an infamous motorized recliner on eBay. The chair was confiscated from a man accused of driving it drunk. (Nov. 4)

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A bandit in Florida loses his firearm to a hotel desk clerk and flees the scene.

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Three female spectacled bears in a zoo in eastern German have suddenly lost nearly all their fur. The senior curator at Leipzig Zoo said the three bears were suffering from some sort of disease, as yet to be identified. (Nov. 4)

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Age is just a number to these older citizens who hit the hard court.

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Officials at Lock Haven University in central Pennsylvania made a huge bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich that stretched more than 200 feet and used 225 pounds of bacon, 200 pounds of lettuce and 16 gallons of mayo. (Nov. 4)

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Wisconsin H.S. soccer player scores team's only goal 80 yards away from goal.

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Restaurant customers in one Texas town are praising a new type of door handle that makes a trip to the restroom a bit more sanitary. Rich Matthews has the story. (Nov. 3)

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Russian vodka warehouse catastrophe

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A high school goalie in Wisconsin netted his team's lone goal when he punted from his end of the field all the way to the other side and over his counterpart's head. (Nov. 3)

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A woman calls 911 to report a drunken driver, later saying she's the driver.

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The Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper has apologized to readers for mistakenly running an ad congratulating the Philadelphia Phillies on winning back-to-back World Series titles. (Nov. 2)

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Thailand hosts annual competition

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A Minnesota man's motorized chair is put on eBay following his DWI arrest.

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The world's fastest man adopted the animal kingdom's fastest sprinter Monday, as Usain Bolt welcomed a new baby cheetah named 'Lightning Bolt' into his life. (Nov. 2)

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Manu Ginobili hits the flying mammal during a Halloween game in San Antonio.

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From sculptures to costumes, everything at this New York festival is a tasty treat. That's because it's all made out of chocolate. (Oct. 30)

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A motorized La-Z-Boy that was used in a drunk driving accident in Minnesota has been put up for auction. But the original owner and alleged drunk driver is angry. (Oct. 30)

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Haunted house lets you face your fears

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A North Carolina cat lover leaves his entire estate to local feline charities.

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Ilya, a wayward manatee facing death in frigid New Jersey waters, made it safely back to his native Miami this afternoon. Ilya was flown to the Miami Seaquarium, where he plunged into 81-degree water. (Oct. 29)

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A Fla. man spent almost five years wrapping and linking and stretching about 730,000 rubber bands of various sizes into this ball. Ripley's Believe it or Not will put it on display at Ripley's museum in Orlando.

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New sport takes off in Paris

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Gorillas and polar bears gorge on gourds at the Ridgefield Zoo in Illinois.

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The small town of Manitou Springs, Colorado held it's 15th Annual Coffin Races last weekend. There was a parade of hearses, coffins and costumed characters along the town's Main Street. (Oct. 29)

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A London cemetery is urging strangers to share double-decker graves, to ease a space crisis. But the practice may run up against a British cultural aversion. (29 October 2009)

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Meet "spiderbot," a cable-suspended-robot inspired by the Marvel Comics superhero. Israeli developers hope the robot can be used to handle cargo and maybe in rescue work in the future. (OCt 29)

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Man tapes pythons under shirt

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Pablo the Clown is ordered by Miami police to take his act off the road.

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Two men make off with an ATM machine before colliding into another car.

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Florida firefighters rescue a cat that was wedged in a car engine.

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An Illinois couple decides to take in this reptilian oddity.

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An 88-year-old woman has walked 10-thousand miles in memory of her late husband. He died from Alzheimer's disease 11 years ago. (Oct. 28)

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New creation worth 3 million

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A man was has been arrested in Norway for trying to smuggle two dozen snakes and geckos into the country by hiding them in bags under his clothes. (Oct. 27)

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An Indiana spends 15 years building a stagecoach made of toothpicks.

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An Indiana man known as 'Mr. Toothpick' spends years piecing together slivers of wood to create a stagecoach. (Oct. 27)

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Officials in Norway bust a man who had pythons taped to his abdomen.

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Children in Minneapolis give their gourds a push at annual pumpkin derby.