AP Top Strange News at 1:01 a.m. EDT

A book found bricked in a fireplace is returned to an Australian library, 150 years overdueTSA finds stolen Civil War-era cannonballs in a passenger's suitcase at an Alabama airportRotten fish sauce that has long stunk up a small Canadian town is finally being removedMontana man hikes out of the mountains to get help after he was impaled by a trekking poleFrench student pleads guilty and is fined for a straw-licking stunt in SingaporePrague zoo keeps polar bears cool with ice cubes as European summer heatwave hitsNew York school pauses plan to deploy humanlike AI robot teacher after backlashCircus performer accidentally shot in neck with arrow at New York county fairSeattle police are searching for two men who parachuted from the Space NeedleJapan's monkey sensation Punch gets thousands of