In what was shockingly not a fake headline generated for an episode of "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me," NPR had the honor of running a story this week titled "London Knife Attacker Identified, Public Lauds Narwhal Tusk Takedown."
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Through the use of infrared imaging, scientists have discovered previously unnoticed tattoos on seven mummies from the Deir el-Medina region of Egypt. It's a big find that's changing the way researchers view the significance of getting a sleeve done.
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There is a seemingly endless panoply of animals that could absolutely kill you if they felt so inclined. And in case you thought armored slugs weren't on that list, you've got another thing coming: snails can kill you. Here's the most dangerous snail in the world.
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More than a year after his ousting from the company, John Schnatter seemed more consumed by the thought of Papa John's reputation than his health, complaining: "I've had over 40 pizzas in the last 30 days, and it's not the same pizza. It's not the same product. It just doesn't taste as good."
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What's the most you'd pay for a bird? $100,000? $200,000? How many of your mansions and thoroughbred horse ranches would you be willing to take out second and third mortgages on to get your mitts around the avian of your dreams? The most expensive bird in the world is not what you'd think.
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Not everybody has a nose for modern views on cleanliness. One of those undoubtedly sturdy noses belongs to an Iranian villager named Amou Haji, a man who not only pooh-poohs bathing but smokes animal poo, making him possibly the world's dirtiest man. What underlies Haji's extremely unclean behavior?
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Donald Trump might boast about his billionaire status, but the current president can hardly compete with his latest challenger: Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of NYC who is sitting on an unbelievable $53 billion. Just how much would Bloomberg have to spend every day to go broke?
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It's important to discipline your children at an early age. After all, what starts as a toddler's hand in the candy jar is but a step away from a veiny claw clutching a cash register -- which is why Minnesota's largest candy store just got a military-grade tank to guard its parking lot.
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Funerals are somber affairs, with lots of crying and hugging. So imagine how bad it would be if everything went horribly wrong. Though it is rare, mistakes, accidents, and disruptions can make a funeral go from bad to catastrophic. Here are the most horrifying things that happened at funerals.
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A lot of dog breeds are contenders for "world's rarest." So really, it's hard to say which one is the rarest, because the answer depends a lot on who you ask. And you're asking us which is the rarest dog breed, so we're going to tell you. This is the rarest dog breed in the world.
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Italian police have reported that a wild boar may have found and destroyed $22,000 worth of cocaine smuggled into Italy.
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Life for many people in the Western world has become increasingly devoid of meaning. But just when you might have called it quits at work, sold your car and bought a ticket to Timbuktu, something happened. A puppy... nay, a savior was born. Not just any puppy -- a unicorn puppy dog.
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Tim Burton isn't immune to weird Hollywood drama. You don't make incredible movies like Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, and Mars Attacks! without a few weird things happening. Here are some bizarre things that happened on the set of Tim Burton movies
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In what's being hailed as a moment of triumph for those of us who were going to show up stoned anyway and a virtual guarantee that nobody will have to take home any leftover bean dip, workplaces around the U.S. are hiring marijuana dispensaries to cater their holiday parties.
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One of the most important minds behind the first moon landing was a young woman named Margaret Hamilton. The world's first software engineer, Hamilton worked night and day to make Apollo 11 a success, changing the course of history.This is the untold truth of the woman who took America to the moon.
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Good news for people who love screaming in terror until they're dead: a gentleman in China was reportedly treated last month after it was discovered that the persistent earache he'd been experiencing was caused by the roughly one dozen cockroaches that were living inside his head.
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The Twitter-verse is ablaze with reports of ghost texts being sent in the middle of the night, ranging from mildly strange statements about diabetes to the downright disturbing — "Help me." Out of context, these are seriously freaky things to receive at 4 a.m., so just what the Hades is going on?
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With a drone, you can see the world from a whole new vantage point. But you may wish you hadn't. From natural phenomena seen from a brand new angle to things that are just plain weird, drones have captured footage of some very chilling stuff. Here's some spine-chilling things caught by drones.
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As noted in pop culture since time immemorial, dogs are a necessity when one is roaming the glassy wastes of the post apocalyptic deserts. Will Smith had one. Max Rockatansky had one. A Boy and His Dog seems to be a tale as old as time. Here's why doomsday preppers stockpile so much dog gear.
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The World Health Organization found that monkey bites are the second most common animal bite injuries to affect travelers. But not every monkey you see will do the same amount of damage. What's the most dangerous monkey?
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Your grandparents probably believed these really bizarre things. Don't judge too harshly, though -- wait 50 years, you'll see.
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Good news for job seekers who weren't going to lint roll their clothes anyway: the St. Regis Aspen Resort, a "five-star luxury destination nestled at the base of Aspen Mountain" in beautiful Aspen, Colorado, is hiring a dog butler.
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The winner of the world's weirdest shark competition is the goblin shark. Goblin sharks have long sword-like noses and jowls like a bulldog. It is hideous, and also terrifying because it can do something weird with its mouth. Here's the goblin shark's weird bite explained.
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A great many of shark species are capable of causing you bodily harm. Hard to believe, but it's true! And while there have been 33 different species identified in unprovoked attacks on humans, most come from just three dastardly, ornery species, which they call the "Big Three."
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In 2017, a cigar-shaped object named 'Oumuamua drifted in from another solar system. Certain people still think it was a flying saucer, others are planning missions to land on it, and the "object" itself is just drifting further away. Here's the untold truth of the interstellar object 'Oumuamua.
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The dubious honor of the world's oldest McDonald's burger goes to Australia, where a McDonald's Quarter Pounder is reportedly about to celebrate its silver jubilee. The 25-year-old burger is a leftover from 1995, when two men from Adelaide saved it for a friend.
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Bill Gates is the second richest person in the world, according to Business Insider. While anyone can have a lot of money, Gates' $103 billion fortune, according to Forbes (as of 2019), could be stacked to truly ridiculous heights. Here's how much money Bill Gates makes in a day.
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