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Parents arrested after doing heroin in Chuck E. Cheese parking lot
They took their young daughter to Chuck E. Cheese for a bite to eat Sunday, police say, but they never made it inside the northeast Wichita restaurant.
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Bought for $3 at yard sale, bowl sells for $2.2 million
A rare Chinese bowl bought for about $3 from a yard sale in the U.S. sold for $2.2 million at an auction in New York on Tuesday.
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What if the sun disappeared?
What would happen if the sun suddenly ceased to exist?
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Portraits of identical twins side by side for comparison
Selections from Martin Schoeller's book Identical: Portraits of Twins...
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Meet Britain's Youngest Grandparents!
This is a fantastic look into how condoms can really save your life ;)
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Airbus Is Installing Special Big Seats For Fat People — And Shrinking All Other Seats
A new way for airlines to charge extra cash.
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Woman Buys Rare Game Worth $15,000 From Goodwill Store For Only $7.99
It is not uncommon that one will stumble across a rare and valuable item during yard sales or while browsing second hand stores, and that’s just what a North Carolina woman did when she purchased one of the rarest video games in the United States while at a Goodwill store for only $7.99, a fraction of what it could potentially be worth which is a staggering $15,000.
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Bankers Explain How They Cannot Possibly Live On $1 Million Pay
Like many carbon-based lifeforms, you perhaps think that bankers are driven only by naked greed. But that is just because you don't understand them: They actually have a deep psychological need for that money.
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Pilots sleep as flight attendant turns off autopilot on Bangkok-Delhi flight
Two Air India pilots put the lives of 166 passengers on a Bangkok-Delhi flight in danger by taking a 40-minute break from the cockpit and getting two flight attendants to operate the plane in their absence.
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UCSB Student Heads to Trial for False Rape Report
Morgan Triplett is accused of hiring a man through Craigslist to beat her in exchange for sex.
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New Hampshire city suing ‘Robin Hood’ for paying parking meters of strangers
The city of Keene, N.H., is suing “Robin Hood and his Merry Men” — a group that has made a name for itself by paying people’s parking meters before they can get slapped with a ticket from local parking enforcement officers.
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Japan WWII 'comfort women' were 'necessary'
A prominent Japanese politician has described as "necessary" the system by which women were forced to become prostitutes for World War II troops.
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Butcher feeds marijuana to pigs to create true high-quality meat
There are pot brownies, pot cookies, pot muffins, pot butter. The next cannabis-laced food? Bacon.
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Courts are increasingly turning to Urban Dictionary to clarify modern slang language
Sure, the Oxford English Dictionary tries to stay on top of current trends by adding new words every year (GIF was its word of the year for 2012), but there's still a vast vocabulary of strange internet slang — that's where Urban Dictionary comes in.
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Are Apostrophes Necessary? No, Not Really.
One hundred and eighteen miles north of London, in the town of Boston, England, there lives a retired newspaperman named John Richards who is experiencing an unusually rotten spring. Richards is the founder and chairman of something called the Apostrophe Protection Society.
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Remodeler finds comic book worth over $100K in wall at Elbow Lake house
In his decade of working construction and home remodeling, David Gonzalez always dreamed of finding some hidden treasure in the demolition work. He’d even put dollar bills in new walls for folks to unearth in the future.
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False facts many people think are true
Living in a time of such dazzling science and technology, we stand firmly behind our beliefs … even if so much of what we think we know to be correct is actually wrong. Here are some of the more common misconceptions, ideas that may have started as wives' tales or that came from a faulty study that was later proven wrong. Whatever the case may be, these facts are false.
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Canadians ask Bank of Canada about maple syrup smell on new bank notes
The penny may be history, but some Canadians suspect the Bank of Canada has been circulating a new scent along with its plastic bank notes.
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'Ghost ship' goes missing in the Atlantic four months after it snapped loose from dock where it was going to be scrapped
The MV Lyubov Orlova, a rat-infested Russian cruise ship cast adrift in the Atlantic Ocean, has not been seen since March and there are fears it has sunk and is leaking toxins into the sea. It broke free in January.
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This Man Has Collected 200 Years of Beautiful, Odd, and Historic Bikes
You've never seen a bicycle collection so extensive and well-preserved as the one James MacDonald has obtained.
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