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Not-so-Super 7 for Montreal lottery ticket buyer

Strange | 216 hits | 8:16 AM on Wednesday | posted by WDHIII

Joel Ifergan entered at a convenience store in Montreal this past May, looking to strike it rich in a $27-million Super 7 jackpot.

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'Mail Goggles' might prevent email regrets

Strange | 159 hits | 4:12 PM on Tuesday | posted by WDHIII

SEATTLE -- Here's the scenario: It's Friday night, and what began as an innocent happy-hour margarita morphed into a few pitchers. After all, those tacos were salty.

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Dad says he was asleep during sex

Strange | 207 hits | 2:34 AM on Tuesday | posted by putz

SELKIRK, Man. -- A Manitoba man is suing the mother of his child, claiming he shouldn't have to pay child support because he was asleep when she had sex with him.

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Chinese pandas fed chicken soup for health

Strange | 79 hits | 9:47 PM on Friday | posted by Hyack

BEIJING - Everyone needs some chicken soup for the soul - even pandas

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Dead Monster Washes Ashore In Russia

Strange | 274 hits | 2:28 PM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb

In an effort to ramp up competition with the United States, Russia has produced its own version of the feared and revered Montauk Monster. It's the Moscow Monster! Its carcass washed ashore on the Eastern coast of the Motherland

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Decoys wanted: Ad drew look-alikes for Wash. thief

Strange | 119 hits | 4:33 PM on Thursday | posted by Hyack

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MONROE, Wash. - An online advertisement offered $28.50 an hour to anyone who wore a blue, long-sleeved shirt, yellow safety vest, eye protection and ventilator mask and waited near a bank.

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Windsor mother, daughter face $3.5M lottery fraud charge

Strange | 162 hits | 8:12 AM on Thursday | posted by WDHIII

The Ontario Provincial Police arrested a Windsor, Ont., woman and her daughter on Wednesday on charges of stealing her husband's winning multimillion-dollar lottery ticket.

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Searchers find wreckage possibly belonging to Fossett

Strange | 85 hits | 6:05 AM on Thursday | posted by Regina

Authorities have found the plane Steve Fossett was flying when he disappeared last year, but they have not found the millionaire adventurer's body, the Madera County, California, sheriff said Thursday

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No name, no phone number: no concert tickets?

Strange | 126 hits | 9:02 AM on Wednesday | posted by WDHIII

A would-be concert ticket buyer in Regina is concerned about the amount of personal information demanded by show venues.

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CHUM apologizes for Newfie joke

Strange | 149 hits | 8:57 AM on Wednesday | posted by WDHIII

A prominent Toronto radio station has apologized Wednesday for an on-air joke that described Newfoundlanders as inbred.

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Axe killing a 50-year mystery

Strange | 133 hits | 10:45 PM on Saturday | posted by Hyack

When: Last seen Feb. 2, 1958, leaving a bowling alley in Campbell River

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Accused of passing gas, man charged with battery

Strange | 121 hits | 8:56 AM on Thursday | posted by bootlegga

A West Virginia man who police said passed gas and fanned it toward a patrolman has been charged with battery on a police officer. Jose A. Cruz, 34, of Clarksburg, was pulled over early Tuesday for driving without headlights, police said. According to

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N.B. motorists told to keep heads up for moose in mating season

Strange | 84 hits | 8:32 AM on Thursday | posted by WDHIII

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Motorists in New Brunswick are being told to keep any eye out for moose wandering onto roadways because their mating season has begun.

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Archeologists 'solve' mystery of Stonehenge

Strange | 286 hits | 9:26 AM on Tuesday | posted by WDHIII

LONDON - The first excavation of Stonehenge in more than 40 years has uncovered evidence that the stone circle drew ailing pilgrims from around Europe for what they believed to be its healing properties, archeologists said Monday.

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Brazilian woman finds fame as McCain's old flame from 51 years ago

Strange | 144 hits | 8:38 AM on Tuesday | posted by bootlegga

former model and ballerina is making headlines across Brazil after being identified as John McCain's lover 51 years ago. The 77-year-old Maria Gracinda Teixeira says she is the woman the Republican presidential candidate fondly described - though never na

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Palin and Witch Hunters.

Strange | 92 hits | 6:57 AM on Friday | posted by LightStarr

Palin linked electoral success to prayer of Kenyan witchhunter

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Adviser says McCain helped create the BlackBerry

Strange | 150 hits | 8:46 AM on Tuesday | posted by WDHIII

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MIAMI (AP) — Move over, Al Gore. You may lay claim to the Internet, but John McCain helped create the BlackBerry.

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PETA wants Newfoundland group to build memorial to baby seals lost in hunts

Strange | 169 hits | 10:50 AM on Saturday | posted by Hyack

U. S.-based animal rights group wants a small-town Newfoundland heritage group to build a memorial to the "millions of baby seals who are bludgeoned, shot and often skinned alive in seal hunts."

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Mom back to school Impersonates 15 year old daughter

Strange | 269 hits | 6:57 AM on Saturday | posted by Alta_redneck

What would possess a 33-year-old woman to steal her daughter's identity, pose as a high school student, and join the cheerleading squad?

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city looks for time capsule that time forgot

Strange | 150 hits | 9:04 AM on Friday | posted by kitty

A city committee voted recently to open a time capsule buried in 1958, when the city was celebrating its centennial. The plan was to display the items, then add modern ones and rebury it until 2058.

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Woman finds 26 pearls in her oyster

Strange | 156 hits | 9:52 AM on Wednesday | posted by kitty

Lebanese restaurant owner Raymond Salha and his wife were having oysters for lunch when she found a cluster of 26 pearls inside an oyster on her plate.

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Fish flies out of lake, breaks Arkansas teen's jaw

Strange | 141 hits | 9:03 AM on Monday | posted by bootlegga

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It's a fishing tale that packs a wallop so strong it broke the jaw of a southeastern Arkansas teen and covered him in fish blood and guts. Seth Russell, 15, of Crossett, was cruising Lake Chicot on a large inner tube towed by a boat when a Silver Asia

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Algae-dyed polar bears puzzle Japan zoo visitors

Strange | 148 hits | 9:42 AM on Sunday | posted by Hyack

TOKYO - Green-coloured polar bears are drawing questions from puzzled visitors at a Japanese zoo.

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Woman drops off a box of bombs at sheriff's office

Strange | 143 hits | 6:37 AM on Monday | posted by TattoodGirl

If you discover your friend's son has built 32 high-explosive seal bombs, give your local sheriff's office some warning before bringing them in. Because police tend to get jumpy when you just drop them off at the front desk

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Slice of Diana wedding cake reaps £1,200 at auction

Strange | 66 hits | 8:58 AM on Thursday | posted by bootlegga

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A piece of 27-year-old cake from the wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana has been sold to an anonymous bidder at auction for 1,200 pounds.

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SLAIN COULPLE'S WEIRD WILL

Strange | 231 hits | 5:24 AM on Wednesday | posted by TattoodGirl

They were bitter to the end - and beyond.

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Researchers say it's no bull: Cows seem to know which way is north

Strange | 143 hits | 2:58 PM on Monday | posted by snookums

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Talk about animal magnetism.

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American urban legend adapted for fallen Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan

Strange | 237 hits | 9:35 AM on Saturday | posted by WDHIII

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OTTAWA- It’s a story that brings a lump to the throat and has even reduced some military families to tears.

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Second time lucky: B.C. man struck by lightning again

Strange | 145 hits | 12:15 AM on Friday | posted by Hyack

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His pulse was weak, his head ached and his joints felt downright strange.

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Ferret allowed back on Ottawa buses

Strange | 150 hits | 9:50 AM on Thursday | posted by WDHIII

An Ottawa woman will once again be allowed to ride the city's public buses with the animal she relies on to stave off her panic attacks.

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Canadians receive free Ohio dinner, 15 years later

Strange | 156 hits | 11:52 AM on Wednesday | posted by WDHIII

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A Canadian couple finally took a restaurant up on an offer that arrived 15 years ago — by balloon.

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Surprise, surprise: Bigfoot story a hoax

Strange | 140 hits | 2:28 PM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack

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The website that promoted the finding of the supposed remains of the legendary Bigfoot has confirmed what most people suspected: the body was nothing more than a rubber sasquatch costume.

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Silvio Berlusconi bans Mafia from singing in prison

Strange | 54 hits | 4:49 AM on Tuesday | posted by TattoodGirl

Silvio Berlusconi has banned Mafia bosses from singing in jails in Italy after they used songs to pass criminal messages to each other.

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Mutated fish alarms delegates at northern Alta. water gathering

Strange | 116 hits | 4:46 AM on Tuesday | posted by TattoodGirl

Days before a conference on water quality began in Fort Chipewyan, Alta., last week, residents say a strange fish with two mouths was found at the nearby lake.

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Missing Lethbridge man discovered alive in B.C.

Strange | 77 hits | 4:46 AM on Tuesday | posted by TattoodGirl

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'There's something out there,' Sasquatch expert tells Edmonton

Strange | 121 hits | 12:54 PM on Monday | posted by Hyack