Weird but true
It’s enough to rattle anyone’s cage when a house catches fire with dozens of snakes inside.
Two adults and five kids got out safely when the house in a Denver suburb burned down.
It turns out there was a reptile business being run out of the basement. Firefighters saved most of the creatures.
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What airheads dreamed up this stunt?
Officials at an Ohio air show have rethought their plans to stage a re-enactment of the World War II bombing of Hiroshima, which killed an estimated 100,000 people.
The B-29 plane Fifi — the same model as the Enola Gay, which dropped the atomic bomb on Japan on Aug. 6, 1945 — will have another role at the June 22-23 air show in Dayton.
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A female swan, beloved as the unofficial mascot of a mobile-home community in Venice, Fla., has been killed, apparently by a fox.
The death sent her mate went into a fowl funk, so residents collected $1,000 to get him a “mail-order bride.”
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Who’s your granddaddy?
In Iceland, there’s an app for that — to make sure there’s no inadvertent incest.
In the Nordic island nation of 320,000, the genealogical app enables couples to “bump’’ smartphones together to learn if there’s too close a family relationship.
The app uses an online Iceland family database that goes back 1,200 years.
Its slogan is “bump the app before you bump in bed.’’
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Burglars picked the wrong trailer to break into in Eastleigh, England — and were exposed to potentially lethal asbestos.
Now cops are looking for them — to help the unlucky thieves get medical help.
Police said the crooks forced in the doors of the locked trailer and opened sealed bags holding asbestos-contaminated clothing.
Workers at a demolition site had worn the clothing, and it was being shipped away.

