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• When Loretta, a 104-year-old resident of the Avon Nursing Home in Geneseo, New York, was asked what she wanted for her birthday, she replied that she'd never seen the inside of a jail.

So, WHAM-TV reports, the Livingston County Sheriff's Office obliged, inviting her to the station and giving her a good look around, then celebrating with cake and coffee.

Loretta paid back the favor by sharing some wisdom with Sheriff Thomas Dougherty: "Mind your business."

• Officials in the Czech Republic had been planning to build a dam on the Klabava River for more than six years, Yahoo! News reports, but were stymied by negotiations over land use.

Instead, some industrious beavers solved the problem for them and saved taxpayers $1.2 million.

"They built a wetland with pools and canals," said Bohumil Fiser of the Czech Nature Conservation Agency. "The area is roughly twice larger than planned. They do a brilliant job."

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