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Interspecies cooperation, after three kangaroos escaped from a German zoo with the help of a fox and a wild boar. The ’roos got free of their pen through a hole dug by the fox, then breached the zoo’s exterior fence through a hole dug by the wild boar.

Conspiracy theorists, after the first photos of the Martian landscape sent back by NASA’s Curiosity rover looked a lot like Nevada and Utah. “You would really be forgiven for thinking that NASA was trying to pull a fast one on you,” said a project scientist.

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Strip clubs in Tampa, which are gearing up for a surge in business during the upcoming Republican convention. Club owner Don Kleinhans says he’s been told to expect “two to three times what a Super Bowl would be,” while Scarlett’s in Ybor City invited conventioneers to come “party like a liberal.”

Bad week for:

Phoenix, which was broiled in a record-setting, skin-searing heat wave that saw nine straight daily highs over 110 degrees, including highs of 114 and 116.

Mississippi, after recent data showed that the state is the fattest in the U.S. for the sixth year in a row. Louisiana and West Virginia were close behind, while Colorado rated as the skinniest state.

The dead man’s float, after a passerby spotted a body face-up in Pennsylvania’s Susquehanna River. As a police forensic team approached, the body startled them by sitting up in the water. “I didn’t mean to worry anyone,” said Joseph DeAngelo, who’d been wearing a life jacket and enjoying a “nice, quiet” float.