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I’ll Have The Tarantula Burger
At Bull City Burger and Brewery in Durham, N.C., April is Exotic Meat Month. This year, the restaurant offered a tarantula challenge. Customers were invited to enter their name in a raffle. If they
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Driving Test Fail
A young driver in Buffalo, Minn., earned an epic fail on her driver’s test when she rammed the car into the examination station before she’d even pulled out of the parking space. The 17-year-old
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Palmerston The Victory Cat
At 10 Downing Street in London, Larry the cat is an institution, charged with chasing away mice and offering pet therapy to any willing caressers. Meanwhile, at the Foreign Office, Palmerston the cat
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Unclear On The Concept
Even before it opened last year, Apple’s spaceship building in Cupertino, Calif., presented a transparency problem: its glass walls couldn’t be distinguished from its glass doors. Since they moved in, several workers have been
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Woman Sues Over Sasquatch
Crestline, Calif., resident Claudia Ackley, 46, has teamed with Discovering Bigfoot filmmaker Todd Standing to sue the state of California, requesting that state agencies acknowledge the existence of a Sasquatch species. Ackley and her
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Get A Six-Iron Out Of My Baaaaaag
A new golf course at The Retreat & Links at Silvies Valley Ranch in Seneca, Ore., will take “the golf experience … to a new level” in 2018. This summer, golfers will be offered
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Something To Yodel About
The Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Switzerland has a new course of study: a bachelor’s or master’s in yodeling. Beginning in the 2018-19 academic year, students will be able to major
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Could I Have That Ferrari?
Levi Miles, 28, took a bold gamble when he and Chloe Rimmer, 24, approached a valet desk at the posh Vinoy Renaissance Resort and Golf Club in St. Petersburg, Fla., and demanded the keys
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Ice From Plane Lands In Bed
Claudell Curry, 82, and his wife, Odell Marie, 83, heard a loud crashing noise as they watched TV in their San Bernardino, Calif., home one evening. Imagine their surprise when a block of ice
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Oil Up Those Guns
Kirill Tereshin, 21, from Pyatigorsk in southwestern Russia, concocts a dangerous muscle-enhancing solution of olive oil, lidocaine and benzyl alcohol and injects it into his arm muscles. This gives him “bazooka” arms that doctors
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