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Waitress receives $1,000 tip on $60.42 meal for dream trip to Italy

A waitress who mentioned to a first-time customer that it was her dream to go to Italy was left with a surprise $1,000 tip.
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The receipt received by Tumblr blogger Casual Cynic's waitress mother, showing the $1,000 tip a first-time customer left her. (Casual Cynic/Tumblr/Screengrab)
"This man who we have never seen before tipped her 1000 dollars for a trip to Italy. Walked out, not another word," blogger Casual Cynic wrote.
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Longest python ever caught in Florida killed by local resident

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission confirmed that the snake was killed 10 days ago by local resident Jason Leon.
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A Burmese python is seen on display at the registration event and press conference for the start of the 2013 Python Challenge on January 12, 2013 in Davie, Florida.The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and its partners launched the month long 2013 Python Challenge to harvest Burmese pythons in the Florida Everglades, a species that is not native to Florida.The contest features prizes of $1,000 for catching the longest snake and $1,500 for catching the most. (Joe Raedle/AFP/Getty Images)
A Miami man has killed the longest Python ever captured in Florida.
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Cell phone thief hit by bus (VIDEO)

A man was struck by a bus after he got distracted robbing a woman.
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Man with a phone in Berlin, Germany. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
The woman he tried to rob then came to his rescue.
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Filippino boy has 300 characters in his name thanks to dad

Three children from a Filippino family have 585 characters in their names between them.
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Enrolling in school in the Philippines is a pain when your name is 300 characters long. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
A Filippino father has worked hard to complicate his children's lives by giving them very lengthy names.
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‘Crazy ants’ from Latin America invading US (VIDEO)

An invasive species of ant from Argentina and Brazil is killing off other ant species in the southern United States, University of Texas researchers say.
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A close-up of a tawny crazy ant. (University of Texas/Screengrab)
“Tawny crazy ants” – official name: Nylanderia fulva – were first spotted in a Houston suburb in 2002.
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Aimee Copeland, flesh-eating bacteria victim, receives 2 bionic hands (VIDEO)

Already she can sign her name, chop vegetables and flat iron her hair using the hands.
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Aimee Copeland (left) has had her left leg, other foot and both hands amputated in her battle against a flesh-eating bacteria she developed after a fall from a west Georgia zip line May 1. (aimeecopeland.com/Screengrab)
"It just mimics so well a natural hand that it really just reminds me of before the accident, how I would have done things," she told CNN.
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San Francisco bacon restaurant forced to close over smell (VIDEO)

The San Francisco restaurant Bacon Bacon had to close down after neighbors complained about the bacon smell.
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Bacon tacos were among items on the menu at Bacon Bacon in San Francisco. (Bacon Bacon/Facebook)
Who complains about the smell of bacon? People in San Francisco, apparently.
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Mysterious anteater birth without a mate

An anteater fell pregnant and gave birth at a US zoo despite having no contact with the only male anteater.
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A female anteater (Tamandua Mirim) carries her baby at the zoo in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on March 9, 2010. (VANDERLEI ALMEIDA/AFP/Getty Images)
Mystery conception of an anteater.
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Mars rover Opportunity breaks US off-planet driving record

NASA’s Mars rover Opportunity has broken the US record for distance driven on another planet.
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Part of the Mars panorama released by NASA that combines 817 images taken by the panoramic camera on the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. (NASA/Courtesy)
Opportunity has been rolling around the Red Planet since January 2004, and this week its odometer hit 22.220 miles, pushing past the previous distance record set by the Apollo 17 moon rover in December 1972.
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Australian politician attacked by kangaroo in Canberra

Shane Rattenbury says the kangaroo attack happened while he was on a morning jog.
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This photo taken on May 31, 2012 shows two kangaroos grazing near a house in Canberra. (AFP/Getty Images)
"I'm not sure who got the bigger shock, me or the kangaroo," Shane Rattenbury said.
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