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A young girl's note to the police department asked to test for evidence of Santa. Cumberland Police Department/Screenshot by NPR hide caption
Castaway Elvis Francois is attended by Colombian Navy members after he was rescued near the department of La Guajira, in the extreme north of Colombia. According to the Navy, the 47-year-old from Dominica said he had been adrift for 24 days in the Caribbean Sea after he was repairing a boat last December near the island of Sint-Maarten in the Netherlands Antilles. Colombian Navy press office via AP hide caption
An airline worker died on Saturday after being "ingested" into the engine of American Airlines Embraer aircraft, like the kind pictured here at the Dallas/Fort Worth International airport in Dallas in June 2021. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A Brazil fan points to "zero" on the Budweiser cup prior to the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Group G match between Brazil and Serbia at Lusail Stadium in Lusail City, Qatar. Justin Setterfield/Getty Images hide caption
The start of 2023 is the perfect time to revisit experts' century-old predictions about the world. Yuri Cortez/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
There's no debate about this GOAT. Christopher Furlong/Getty Images hide caption
Gregor Johann Mendel (1822 - 1884) the priest and botanist whose work laid the foundation of the study of genetics. Hulton Archive/Getty Images/ Max Posner/NPR hide caption
Players from the West Region team from Honolulu celebrate winning the Little League World Series championship game in August. Joshua Bessex/Getty Images hide caption
Far from the Earth, time gets extremely weird. Black holes can cause it to stretch and even break down entirely. NASA/JPL-Caltech hide caption
Researchers say time is an illusion. So why are we all obsessed with it?
Revellers gather in Times Square for the start SantaCon in New York City on Saturday. Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Los Angeles County Animal Care and Control posted photos to Instagram of the toy unicorn and custom tag they plan to give to a local first-grader who requested permission to keep one in her yard. Los Angeles County Animal Care and Control via AP hide caption
A girl asked if she could keep a unicorn in her yard. LA County gave her a license
Illustration of DART, from behind the NEXT–C ion engine NASA/Johns Hopkins APL hide caption
A cosplayer dressed as the Green Goblin poses for a photograph on arrival to attend the MCM Comic Con at the ExCeL exhibition center in London on Oct. 28. Isabel Infantes/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
The small plane, pictured, can be seen trapped among the power lines as passengers remain stranded roughly 100 feet in the air. Pete Piringer hide caption
A Carnival cruise ship docked in San Francisco, California. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption
Spam Figgy Pudding is a thing that exists now. Reviews have been mixed. Hormel Foods LLC/The SPAM® Brand hide caption
Anjelica Huston as Morticia Addams and Raul Julia as Gomez Addams in Addams Family Values. Paramount Pictures/Cinematic Collection/Alamy Stock Photo hide caption
Steve Jobs' sandals sold for $218,750 at auction. Their present odor is unknown. Julien's Auctions hide caption
Black and white motion sensor camera capture of Sonoran Desert Toad staring into your soul at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona. National Park Service hide caption