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Marge Simpson's likeness found in ancient Egyptian coffin
www.ctvnews.ca Marge Simpson's likeness found in ancient Egyptian coffin. What does this discovery mean?Coffin lids during the New Kingdom era are known for their intricate designs, but this particular cover was remarkable for another reason from the perspective of social media users and fans of the longtime Fox animated sitcom 'The Simpsons.'
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A British man was found alive after his mother thought she’d had him cremated.
theweek.com It must be true ... I read it in the tabloidsA British man was found alive after his mother thought she’d had him cremated.
- www.nbcnews.com Alabama station in disbelief after 200-foot radio tower stolen
Radio station WJLX can no longer broadcast its AM programming since the incident.
- mynorthwest.com Sheriff's deputies corral wayward kangaroo near pool at Florida apartment complex
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A wayward kangaroo was corralled safely by sheriff's deputies Thursday after it was spotted hopping around the pool area of a Florida
- www.theguardian.com Mouse secretly filmed tidying man’s shed every night
Photographer who noticed his items were mysteriously moving around discovered an industrious rodent was organising his workbench
- kotaku.com GTA 6 Trailer Makes Tom Petty Song Explode On Spotify
A lot more people are currently streaming "Love Is a Long Road" after Rockstar's latest GTA trailer
Man, Tom Petty's estate is going to end up being $12 richer now!
- www.tmz.com Woman Threatens to Pee in Airplane Aisle, Pulls Down Pants and Squats
A woman on a Frontier Airlines flight threatened to pee in the aisle when a flight attendant blocked her from using the restroom, going so far as to pop a butt-naked squat next to horrified passengers.
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Plane turns back to JFK after horse escapes on board
www.cnn.com Plane turns back to JFK after horse escapes on board | CNNA Boeing 747 en route from New York JFK to Liege, Belgium, was forced to turn around on November 9 after a horse got loose in the cargo hold.
- apnews.com Colombia begins sterilization of hippos descended from pets of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar
Colombia has begun the sterilization of hippopotamuses, descendants of animals illegally brought to the country by late drug kingpin Pablo Escobar in the 1980s.
- spectrum.ieee.org Roombas at the Edge of the Earth
Robotic romance, ransoms, and raccoon suits at the South Pole
- arstechnica.com Ohio bans doctor after botched surgeries on TikTok threaten patients’ lives
Her TikTok persona was more important than patients' lives, medical board ruled.
- hackaday.com How Duck Tape Became Famous
If you hack things in the real world, you probably have one or more rolls of duck tape. Outside of the cute brand name, many people think that duck tape is a malapropism, but in truth it is the typ…
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'Too much': Burger King's new offering in Thailand has no meat and 20 slices of cheese
www.cnn.com 'Too much': Burger King's new offering in Thailand has no meat and 20 slices of cheese | CNN BusinessBurger King is causing a stir in Thailand with its new offering: a burger with no meat and a jaw-dropping amount of cheese.
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The ultimate swearword: an algorithm has come up with the ‘best’ expletive ever.
www.theguardian.com The ultimate swearword: an algorithm has come up with the ‘best’ expletive ever. It is certainly a surpriseWhat do you get if a code reads a list of existing swearwords and spits out its new favourite? Arguably, an anticlimax
Well, ber.
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Canadian judge rules the thumbs up emoji counts as a contract agreement
www.engadget.com Canadian judge rules the thumbs up emoji counts as a contract agreement | EngadgetA Canadian judge has ruled that the popular “thumbs-up” emoji not only can be used as a contract agreement, but is just as valid as an actual signature.
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Two People were spotted 'fighting in the middle of a Poole road over the custody of a duck'
www.bournemouthecho.co.uk Man and woman seen 'fighting in the street over a duck'POLICE called to Poole Road as a resident wrestled with a man in the middle of the road over the custody of a duck.
- www.upi.com Snail Racing World Championships make post-pandemic return - UPI.com
A snail racing event making its return this weekend in England has been awarded a Guinness World Record as the longest running humane snail-racing world championships.
- dailygazette.com Man admits smuggling pythons in his pants; Pleads guilty in Albany federal court Wednesday
ALBANY - A Queens man admitted in federal court in Albany Wednesday that he smuggled three Burmese pythons in his pants into New York State from Canada in 2018, federal prosecutors said. Calvin Bautista, 37, admitted that he smuggled the three snakes as he rode on a bus that cross the U.S.-Canada b
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TN doctor loses medical license after WTVF investigation shows he signed a Covid vaccine waiver for a dog
www.newschannel5.com TN doctor loses medical license after NC5 investigation shows he signed a Covid vaccine waiver for a dogThe Board began its own investigation after NewsChannel 5 Investigates exposed that essentially anyone could get one of these waivers, even a dog.
- www.upi.com Man robs woman at her home, then adds her on Facebook and asks her out - UPI.com
A man has been arrested for armed robbery in Indianapolis after allegedly robbing a woman at gunpoint, then adding her on Facebook and asking her out on a date.
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A restaurant in California has been ordered to pay $140,000 in back wages and damages to employees after it hired a priest to get workers’ confessions asking them if they had been late for work, etc.
www.cnn.com A restaurant must pay workers $140,000 after allegedly hiring a fake priest to extract confessions of workers' 'sins' | CNN BusinessA restaurant in California has been ordered to pay $140,000 in back wages and damages to employees after it hired a priest to extract workers’ confessions, in what federal investigators are calling “the most shameless” acts of corruption an employer has taken against its staff.