These businessmen refuse to be anyone’s doormat.
The owners of Advanced Metal Technologies in Spokane, Wash., are angry because someone made off with their $20 mat — and are offering a $1,000 reward to catch the thief.
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This jailbird’s singing a sad song.
Sony Dong, 46, who smuggled 14 Asian songbirds into Los Angeles by hiding them under his pants legs during a flight from Vietnam, has been sentenced to four months in the slammer.
Dong, who had pleaded guilty to illegally importing wildlife, also has to pay $4,000 toward the care of the birds.
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A Massachusetts fourth-grade teacher sorting out schoolbooks got a history lesson when she found a document dating back to April 1792 among some old texts.
The stunningly intact sheet apparently recorded payment of a debt by Jonathan Bates, a Vermont man who served in the Continental Army in 1780 and died in 1808 at age 63.
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Talk about super-sizing!
A café in Sydney, Australia, is claiming the record for the world’s largest hamburger — a 178-pound patty that took four guys to flip.
Factor in the tomatoes, lettuce, 150 slices of cheese and a giant sesame bun and the burger beauty weighs 198 pounds — which its creators said totally grills away the old burger record of a mere 185 pounds in Michigan.
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It’s a body of scientific work.
The Galileo Museum in Florence, Italy, is displaying a thumb, finger and tooth cut from the renowned astronomer’s corpse during a burial ceremony almost 100 years after his death in 1642.
The body parts were found by a collector last year and determined to be genuine.