
Weird but true
An armored car crashed on I-95 in Florida when it swerved trying to avoid hitting a mother duck and her ducklings waddling across the highway.
Tragically, mama duck lost her life, but the babies — and the drivers — were unhurt. The ducklings were taken to a farm.
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Highway officials in lawless Venezuela have done something they’d never done before: suspend the license of a driver.
The country, which has no speed limits or highway law enforcement, took the unprecedented measure against bus driver Ramon Parra after they caught him speeding his vehicle that was overloaded with passengers and missing a wheel.
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This probably isn’t the best way for an army to unleash the dogs of war.
Officials in charge of the Russian military are in hot water after they were found to have been feeding their troops dog food for years.
“It’s embarrassing,” said one Russian bigwig. “It was fed to them in a stew.”
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Here’s a bride who probably really enjoyed her wedding cake.
A formerly 308-pound British woman was so zealously determined to look good on her wedding day that she stubbornly bought a size-12 dress, then worked real hard to lose enough weight to wear it.
Beth Wheeler’s crash diet resulted in her losing 140 pounds in a little over a year, dropping 18 dress sizes.
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The airport in Manila, Philippines, was shut down due to some low-flying objects — bees.
The insects swarmed through some of the pedestrian causeways, making it impossible for people to reach the gates without getting stung.
It took airport workers a few hours to clear the bees out with vacuum cleaners.


