Students in Elkhart, Indiana, would be happy to have turkey this Thanksgiving—as long as it isn't harassing them.

For quite a while now, wild turkeys have hung out near their school, intimidating students and creating distractions with their loud gobbling. At first, students enjoyed watching the birds from indoors, but now the turkeys chase them when they're outside, block traffic around the school and just make life a pain.

Authorities aren't sure what to do about the turkeys. Police officers and animal control representatives have tried catching them with no luck. So what's the solution?

Hmmm, if only there was a flock of cranberry-sauce cans hanging around, too …

Germs are Fun!
There's nothing quite like snuggling up with bad breath to watch TV. But then again, earache is pretty cute, too. That's right, thanks to a new line of stuffed animals, disease lovers everywhere can now snuggle with their favorite germ, bacteria or illness!

The Giant Microbes look like cartoon versions of what the actual germs look like under a microscope—but only cuter (especially mono, which comes with big eyes and long eyelashes).

So now you can be perfectly happy about getting ebola from your best friend and guilt-free for giving your neighbor the common cold.

The Text Message King
If Ben Cook were your friend, you'd rarely have to wait for him to text message you back. The 18-year-old holds the Guinness Book of World Records title of fastest text messenger in the world. "I just have fast thumbs, I guess," the 18-year-old says. "I'm just always texting. My parents are always on me not to do it so much in church."

Ben set his record by typing an official Guinness test sentence of 160 characters in just 57.7 seconds. The sentence was: "The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human."

Wow. Not only is Ben fast … he's educational, too!

The Color of Champions
If your school colors include red, congratulations! Your team is going to win more at sports. Well, at least according to a recent study.

A team of British researchers studied results of the 2004 Olympics and a recent European soccer tournament and found competitors who wear red win more games than those wearing other colors. In fact, at the soccer tourney, researchers discovered individual teams won more and scored more in red jerseys than when the same teams changed into blue or white jerseys.

Scientists don't precisely know why wearing red would give anyone an advantage at sports. But red does often deliver a message of danger, which might intimidate opponents.

So what do you do if you're an athlete and red isn't one of your school colors? Well, maybe you can dye your hair bright red. But then again, maybe the only message of danger that will produce is from your parents.

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