Auburn Hills, MI -- The Detroit Pistons are getting wiggy with it on Friday (Mar. 19). The basketball team is giving away wigs to fans in order to make a mark in the "Guinness Book of World Records" for "Most People Wearing Wigs -- Single Venue." The current record, 5,574, was set last fall at a rugby match in New South Wales, Australia.

WINNEPEG, Manitoba -- Canadian firefighters had to bust through a potty to free an 83-year-old Winnipeg woman who somehow got stuck behind her toilet for two days. The petite woman doesn't recall how she became wedged behind the bathroom fixture, but luckily was released without any major injuries occurring, reports the "Winnipeg Sun."

SINGAPORE -- A 72-year-old man in Singapore had the pants robbed off him last weekend when three burglars accosted him in a back alley. The thugs yanked the senior's pants off and left him looking for help in his underwear, reports the "Straits Times."

BEIJING -- China's education minister is having elementary school textbooks rewritten to read that the Great Wall can't be seen from space as previously believed. The revelation came after China launched its first Chinese astronaut into space last October.

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