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6 Sep. 2019

Climbing: Polish climber Dzienski pips lift in man vs. machine race

It may not match the feeling of winning a world championship but Polish climber Marcin Dzienski’s feat of racing and defeating an elevator up 23 meters will certainly have given him a lift.

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3 Mar. 2020

Change from sandwich purchase leads to $500,000 lottery jackpot

A Michigan man bought a sandwich for lunch and decided to spend his change on a lottery ticket that earned him $500,000.

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2 Sep. 2019

UK PM Johnson to the rescue: girlfriend adopts a rescue puppy

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his girlfriend, Carrie Symonds, revealed on Monday that they had adopted a rescued Jack Russell puppy.

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12 Sep. 2019

Cockpit coffee spill forces commercial jet to make emergency landing

A commercial flight with 326 people on board was forced to make an emergency landing when hot coffee was accidentally spilled over the cockpit control panel over the Atlantic ocean, according to a report on Thursday.

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14 Sep. 2019

Thieves steal $5 million gold toilet from Britain’s Blenheim Palace

Burglars have stolen a fully-functional 18-carat gold toilet from Britain’s Blenheim Palace, where it had been installed as an art exhibit, police said on Saturday.

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19 Sep. 2019

Philippines’ Duterte pestered again as gecko stalls speech

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte just keeps getting bugged during his public speeches.

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4 Mar. 2020

Checkout clerk’s advice earns Maryland woman $100,000

A Maryland woman said heeding a checkout clerk’s advice paid off when she scored a $100,000 lottery jackpot.

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2 Mar. 2020

Look: RSPCA officer uses dish soap to free deer from metal gate

An animal rescuer in Britain said she used dish washing liquid to help a deer that found itself wedged between the metal railings of a gate.

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6 Mar. 2020

Jackpot-winning lottery ticket was on man’s table for a month

A Saskatchewan man said he found a lottery ticket on his table that had already been scratched off and it turned out to be worth $744,845.

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6 Oct. 2019

A 70-year-old biking grandmother conquers Bolivia’s ‘Death Road’

Bolivia´s “Death Road” might seem an odd place for a septuagenarian grandmother on two wheels.

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10 Mar. 2020

Farm fire caused by pedometer-eating pigs

Firefighters in Britain said crews responding to a fire at a farm discovered the flames were caused by pigs eating a pedometer.

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17 Sep. 2019

Rugby: Tattooed Samoans don skin suits to avoid offending Japanese hosts

Samoan players will wear their hearts on their sleeves – but keep traditional Pacific islander tattoos under wraps with skin suits during the World Cup in Japan to avoid offending their hosts.

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