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Giant tumbleweed on a semi-urban Southern California highway, tweet title translates as "the mother of all tumbleweeds" (some reports give this as occurring in the Simi Valley, which is not correct; it's on Placentia Ave. at Fairview Park looking north, in Costa Mesa, Orange County)

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/24/1214974578/giant-tumbleweed-california

A giant tumbleweed roughly the size of a Volkswagen beetle was spotted hurtling its way down a four-lane road in California this week.

The jaunty brown bundle of brush was captured on video and posted on Tuesday on X, formerly known as Twitter, where it has gathered a number of fans who have compared it to a giant hairball, belly lint gone wild, and the critters from the eponymously named 1986 sci-fi horror movie.


 
Your luggage got lost. Aargh. Don't worry, nobody stole it. But where did it go? In the U.S., here.
https://www.npr.org/2023/11/24/1214841411/luggage-lost-airlines-resale-unclaimed-baggage-alabama

Planning to fly somewhere this week? You are not alone. The Transportation Security Administration expects to screen 30 million people over the Thanksgiving holiday. That's a lot of suitcases for airlines to keep track of, and unfortunately, some are bound to get lost. So where does all that lost luggage end up? In a store called Unclaimed Baggage, in Scottsboro, Ala.

Every suitcase lost by an airline in the United States (and some lost on trains and buses) eventually ends up in this little city about 150 miles northwest of Atlanta, in a 50,000-square-foot building. And it's all for sale. At a big discount.

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I can see your halo.

A ring of light was seen encircling the moon over Perkasie, Pennsylvania. This atmospherical phenomenon known as a 'lunar halo' occurs when moonlight is refracted through ice crystals.Credit: Dakota Flournoy via Storyful


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A sanctuary in Indonesia is celebrating the birth of a Sumatran rhino, the most threatened species of rhinoceros in the world.The healthy male calf is the first for his mother, Delilah, as well as his father, Harapan, a male rhino born at the Cincinnati Zoo, officials say.

 
Cargo ship runs aground in the Detroit River.
DETROIT – A massive freighter that ran aground in the Detroit River on Monday is expected to be freed Tuesday with the help of multiple tugboats, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.

A 623-foot-long freighter transporting 21,000 tons of wheat to Italy ran aground at about 7:37 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 27 just outside of Belle Isle Anchorage. The ship, which departed from Canada, had been docked at the anchorage overnight Sunday into Monday before getting stuck Monday morning.
Hope they get her free today. Never ever ever Ever Given up!</rickroll>
 
A herd of wild elephants in Malaysia trampled on a car traveling along a major highway after it struck a baby in their group, local authorities said Monday.

The car, a white Perodua Axia, was being driven by a 48-year-old man, along with his wife and son, 23, according to a statement issued by police in Gerik, in the Malay Peninsula.

The family of three were driving on a major highway from the island of Penang to the northeastern coastal state of Terengganu at around 7.35 p.m. local time on Sunday, when it crashed into the elephant calf.

It had been drizzling and foggy at that time, Gerik Police added, and the car was “negotiating a left bend on the highway” when it hit the baby elephant.

“The car slammed into the young elephant that was walking on the road with the herd,” said Zulkifli Mahmood, Chief Superintendent at Gerik District Police. The calf fell to the ground upon impact, he added.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2023
 
A family in Kentucky will celebrate their ninth Christmas together this year as a family of three after an adoption that began in the most unlikely of places.



November 30, 2023
 

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