A zoo in Thailand used a mascot version of its most famous resident, Moo Deng, the pygmy hippo, for a drill testing zookeepers' response to an animal escape.
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An electrical engineer in rural Vermont is pitching in by fixing up old payphones and installing them in spots with no cell service.
He buys them for a few hundred bucks . . . adds a gadget that connects them to the Internet . . . and installs them outside businesses. And since they're online, you don't need a quarter. The calls are free.
The one getting used the most is outside a library. He says kids use it to call their parents for rides. Each phone costs 10 bucks a month in admin fees, but he pays for it all. And he's also the operator. If you dial zero, his cell phone rings.
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A snail named Bilbo Sluggins won the annual World Snail Racing Championships in England.
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