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The odds are one in two million — but it happened to one Brooklyn family who now has two so-called “Leaplings” after the birth of their daughter on Saturday. The Demchak family welcomed their daughter and second child, Scout, on Feb. 29, also known as Leap Day. Scout’s older brother, Omri, was also born on Feb. 29, four years ago….

Joslyn and Jaxon are twins that don’t share a birth date, a birth year, or even the same birth decade. Sister and brother were born separately at Indiana’s Ascension St. Vincent Carmel Hospital – one in 2019, the other in 2020.

A man who set off fireworks near a theater as his friend made a marriage proposal created panic among moviegoers who mistook the fireworks for gunshots, leading to 911 calls and an evacuation, authorities said. Howell Township police responded to the Xscape Theater around 6 p.m. Wednesday and soon learned the theater manager had confronted a man who had lighted…

The vacuum had somehow turned itself on, gotten stuck and repeatedly crashed against a wall. The couple got it as a gift and named it Harry.

A Virginia lawmaker wants to narrow the definition of milk as something that comes only from a “healthy hooved animal.” Virginia Beach Republican Del. Barry Knight is pushing legislation that would ban makers of increasingly popular products like soy milk and almond milk from marketing their products as “milk,” The Virginian Pilot reported. Knight said he’s trying to protect the...

From season’s beatings to twinkle-toe dinos, check out the most wildest, wackiest stories of 2019.

A thief stuffed a total of 30 bags of frozen shrimp down his pants in back-to-back burglaries of a Southern California grocery store, police said Wednesday. The man took the shrimp from a Vons market in the city of Riverside by entering the store three times in a span of 15 minutes on Dec. 14. Each time he went to…