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Detroit-area library says Chicago man can keep overdue baseball book -- 50 years later
Fifty years later, a man who grew up in suburban Detroit tried to return a very overdue baseball book to his boyhood library
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Thousands of Santas and a few Grinches hit the streets for annual SantaCon bar crawls
Santa Clauses are coming to town
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Charles Dickens' characters come alive in a Dutch town enamored with the English author
The Dutch city of Deventer has been transformed into a 19th-century English city where 950 people in costumes brought characters from Charles Dickens’ books to life
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Mysterious googly eyes go viral after appearing on public art in Oregon
Googly eyes have been appearing on sculptures around the central Oregon city of Bend
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Ho ho, oh no: Man sought by police goes down chimney and gets stuck
A Massachusetts man shimmied down the chimney
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Homeland Security shares new details of mysterious drone flights over New Jersey
A New Jersey lawmaker from part of the state where several mysterious drones have been spotted in recent week says the devices appear to avoid detection by traditional methods
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A New Zealander studied for a year to win the Spanish world Scrabble title. He doesn’t speak Spanish
A New Zealand man playing his first-ever competitive Scrabble game in Spanish, a language he doesn’t speak, has won the board game’s Spanish-language world title
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2024 in pop culture: In a bruising year, we sought out fantasy, escapism — and cute little animals
Did you have a “Brat summer” this year
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UK spy agency releases annual Christmas card puzzle to uncover future codebreakers
Britain's spy agency is celebrating the festive season with a riddle wrapped in an enigma inside a mystery
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A fugitive gains fame in New Orleans eluding dart guns and nets
For months, a fugitive dog known as Scrim has transfixed the city of New Orleans
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