Weird but true
Bet we can guess these twin sisters’ favorite number.
Tomorrow, on 11/11/11, Betsy and Katie Overman of Wisconsin will turn 11.
The girls have been weighing different ideas to mark the occasion — including possibly staying in school for only 11 minutes.
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You can run, but you can’t hide from a thermal imaging device.
That’s how Michigan cops looking into an alarm at a restaurant found a suspect crouching under a pile of leaves.
The guy bolted and leapt into a river — but later was nabbed at a nearby motel.
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Puzzled zoo officials in Seattle are trying to figure out how Kalisa the lioness managed to escape from her den at the Woodland Park Zoo — although she didn’t get very far.
Kalisa, 12, was in a service building when an emergency response team stopped her with a tranquilizer dart.
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Italian cops got a shock when they found a rare croc swimming in a bathtub in a Cremona apartment.
The owner, Fabio Lazelli, who allegedly hatched the 3-year-old Cuban crocodile from an egg at home, was arrested.
The 2-foot critter now lives in a reptile house at the Biopark in Rome.
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Vive le rock and roll.
The Galeries Lafayette department store in Paris is scrapping recorded Christmas carols in its holiday windows and replacing them with live rock and roll.
It’s a bid to attract crowds of shoppers, including teens.
Iggy Pop is helping to plug the event by posing for photo fliers in a red Santa hat along with his electric guitar.
Tourists and passers-by will get the gift of nightly live shows in the window by different rock and folk bands from Australia to France.

