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  • Talking Points: Gator aid, birthday suit, just jesting

    By Talking Points | 06/13/13 06:50 PM

    What did a Pa. man do when he found a young, lost reptile? He offered the gator aid. The Philadelphia man called animal control authorities to help rescue a juvenile alligator he found near a sewer grate on his street. Police took the reptile to the city's Animal Care & Control Team who...

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    By Talking Points | 06/12/13 07:20 PM

    What was it in the bananas boxes that prompted a Danish supermarket to call the police? Workers in a produce department in Copenhagen, Denmark, were wondering why some boxes of bananas seemed unusually heavy. When they cracked open the shipment they found about 220 pounds of what police...

  • Talking Points: Bug resistance, 50-state bucket list, snoutless hero

    By Talking Points | 06/10/13 06:05 PM

    What might curb the use of genetically modified crops? The bugs themselves. Scientists have determined that five of 13 major crop pests targeted by genetic modifications to corn and cotton have evolved to where they are now resistant. The tweaks to the plants' genes enable them to make their...

  • Talking Points: Skirt racers, rich libel, Chewbacca onboard

    By Andy Brownfield | 06/09/13 06:25 PM

    But do they complement their legs? Swedish train drivers, who face temperatures in the high 90s fahrenheit during the summer, found a novel way to keep cool when their company banned the wearing of shorts -- they started wearing skirts. Arriva, operator of the Roslagsbanan line north of...

  • Talking Points: Surprise baby, beer DNA, 'creepy smile kid'

    By Talking Points | 06/06/13 05:45 PM

    What unusual medical problem cut short a marathon runner's training? A baby. Now this is not normally considered to be unusual but the mother was profoundly surprised to find out she was pregnant. She had been experiencing escalating back pain and her husband called an ambulance when it became...

  • Talking Points: Youth lotion, rancid video games, sad 'gator

    By Talking Points | 06/04/13 07:05 PM

    I hear there really is a way to stop wrinkles -- what is it?! Sunblock. Researchers in Australia confirm that the trick to younger-looking skin is to wear sunscreen every day. They followed 900 young and middle-aged adults and found that those who applied sunscreen most days had no detectable...

  • Talking Points for June 4: Meat 'copter, VERY big fridge, living with veggies

    By Talking Point: Bear copter, VERY big fridge, living with vegies | 06/03/13 06:15 PM

    How did a flooded Alaska town stave off a potential invasion of bears? Officials in Galena, Alaska, hired a helicopter to ferry meat. They were not trying to entice the bears away but keep a huge amount of spoiled meat from drawing the critters to the trash cans of residents. The remote...

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    By Michael Hedges | 05/30/13 07:25 PM

    Have police cracked the case of the mother of triplets who went missing? Just short of two years after Jacque Sue Waller vanished, prosecutors say the body of the mother of then-five year-old triplets has been found. Waller, of Southeastern Missouri, had been embroiled in an ugly divorce...

  • Talking Points: Not the write stuff, ant prank, rewiring engineers

    By Talking Points | 05/29/13 04:45 PM

    Not the write stuff, ant prank, rewiring engineers What was causing an Afghani man's headaches? A pencil. It was not a case of writer's block but a physical pencil about 4 inches long. The man had finally sought help after suffering for years from headaches, constant colds and worsening...

  • Talking Points: Chinese teen defaces temple, girl handcuffed for water splash, swimmer tows a ton of bricks

    By Talking Points | 05/28/13 05:50 PM

    What bone-headed teenage move has caused an international uproar? The entire nation of China was apparently embarrassed by 15-year-old Ding Jinhao from Nanjing who scrawled "Ding Jinhao visited here" across a carving on a temple wall in the ancient city Luxor in Egypt. The graffiti came to...


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