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Other Uninvited Visitors Score Breakfast with Obama; Charles Dicken’s Toothpick Sells for $9,150

• Weeks before the Salahi’s crashed a private party, a Virginia couple who showed up a day too early for their White House tour ended up being invited to breakfast with President Obama and the First Lady. [Yahoo! News/AP]

• A gold and ivory toothpick owned by Charles Dickens was sold for $9,150 yesterday at a Bonham’s auction in New York City. [Yahoo! News]

• Two perfectly preserved sticks of century-old butter were discovered in the Cape Evans, Antarctica, hut of doomed British explorer Robert Falcon Scott. [Yahoo! News]

• Bentley, a 50-pound dog, hit the gearshift in his owner’s running van and drove it straight into Cool Beanz coffee house in St. James, New York. [KTLA]

• McDonald’s plans free wireless access at its stores in mid-January. [MSNBC]

• The U.S. dairy industry is agreeing to proposals that would have farmers capture the methane gas produced by their cows so it can’t negatively impact the atmosphere. [MSNBC]

• Buying less meat and also caving in to the messages from animal activists, consumption of horse meat in France has fallen twelve percent in the last two years. [Yahoo! News]

• Four U.S. agencies are proposing limits on junk food advertisements to children.[Yahoo! News/Reuters]

• In an effort to address rampant alcoholism, Russia is forbidding the sale of Vodka for less than 89 rubles ($2.95) per liter half-liter starting in 2010. [Bloomberg]

• 26,500 U.S. school cafeterias are not getting required inspections, leading to an uptick of norovirus, which has symptoms similar to stomach flu. [USA Today]

Other Uninvited Visitors Score Breakfast with Obama; Charles Dicken’s Toothpick