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Utility officials in Washington urge residents to be careful with mylar balloons during their New Year's festivities, a Virginia zoo seeks help naming its newborn pygmy hippo and a Polish city plunges residents into ice baths to attempt a world record on today's UPI Odd News Minute.

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