Here are a few of the stranger stories from last week:

1. A man's best friend: a new study is proving that might be truer than you’re realizing

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2. A nine-year-old Minnesota boy who reportedly ran away from home was somehow able to hop on a Delta Airlines flight from Minneapolis to Las Vegas without any adult supervision.

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3. A 19-year-old waitress at a Red Lobster in Tennessee got the tip of a lifetime one month after she found a racial slur in the tip section of a receipt.

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4. The assault of a helpless blind man in Philadelphia — captured on video.

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5. Eccentric Argentine painter Leandro Granato creates paintings from watercolor paints, but it's his technique the fetches thousands of dollars for his art.

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