How to keep the family happy: Put up your Christmas lights, and drive around town looking at others' displays
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Hundreds of ravenous wild monkeys terrorise Thai city in search of food after coronavirus drives tourists away
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Coronavirus conference called "Doing Business Under Coronavirus" gets canceled because of Coronavirus
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A prominent Northern California mega-church whose members believe their prayers heal the sick and raise the dead is advising the faithful to wash their hands
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One woman and thousands of Lego bricks are building much-needed wheelchair ramps for her town
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American woman's high school class ring, which was lost in Maine in 1973, has been found in a forest in Finland
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Canada’s international hair freezing competition
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Match on dating app Tinder helps rescue camper trapped in ice in northern Norway
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Billie Eilish's Grammy hit features a surprising Australian sound
Here's an article about one of the recent Grammy winners: "Billie Eilish's Grammy hit features a surprising Australian sound" The story about how Eilish and her brother sampled a pedestrian...
Here's an article about one of the recent Grammy winners: "Billie Eilish's Grammy hit features a surprising Australian sound"
The story about how Eilish and her brother sampled a pedestrian crossing signal is interesting enough - but you have to watch the embedded video, where the SMH people use the same signal to make their own backing track to an Aussie classic!
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Mansplaining convention coming to Orlando promises to 'Make Women Great Again'
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Book nooks: Take a look behind the 'small doors to imaginary spaces' within bookshelves
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Burger King Germany offers free food to those who are willing to read The Rise of Skywalker spoilers
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40,000 festive shoppers to hit Swedish superstore – shoppers travel from afar to Gekås Ullared mega-mall, an institution that has its own reality TV show
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The world's biggest gingerbread city is on display in Bergen, adding a dash of sugar and spice to Norway's Christmas celebrations
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Russia arrests conman who built fake border – the man erected mock border posts and charged four men more than $10,000 to take them to Finland
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We should absolutely find out the Queen is dead from a guy named Gibbo
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How a meteorite ruined an Alabama woman's afternoon sixty-five years ago
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Man armed with Narwhal tusk confronts terrorist on London Bridge
@theamycoop: A guy who was with us at Fishmongers Hall took a 5' narwhale tusk from the wall and went out to confront the attacker. You can see him standing over the man (with what looks like a white pole) in the video.
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Nothing to sneeze at: $2,659 bill to pluck doll's shoe from girl's nose
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Peckish pedestrians in Copenhagen will soon be able to pluck healthy snacks directly from greenery around the city
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Sunday Afternoon at Denny’s
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Opulent Christmas tree unveiled in Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen – ten-metre high tree is covered in 3,000 crystals and costs €135,000
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IKEA staff in Uppsala, Sweden turned up at work to find a fugitive sleeping in the store's bed department
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Voter fraud detected in The Guardian's Australian bird of the year poll
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Icelander livestreams ten-year-old McDonald's cheeseburger – Hjörtur Smárason bought his McDonald's meal in 2009 to see how long it would take to decompose
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In Iceland, a memorial ceremony for the Okjökull glacier suggests new ways to think about climate change
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Oslo Municipality's Water and Sewage Administration has offered a useful tip to reduce water waste – it's OK to pee in the shower
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Norwegian teen cooks and eats her own horse after it was put down
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How googly eyes solved one of today’s trickiest UX problems
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Untitled Goose Game review: The year's best video game about geese, reviewed from a goose's point of view.
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She took her amputated leg home, and you can too
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We replaced sixty-eight Tube adverts with cats
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"I like to think of bricks as brushstrokes or pixels" An interview with Will Quam, a brick enthusiast in Chicago
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Jeremy Renner’s app is shutting down because of trolls
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Aarhus on Monday introduced Viking-style traffic lights at seventeen locations in the city
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Rob Messel from the US strutted his way to success at the annual Air Guitar World Championships in Finland on Friday
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Pensioner has been savaged by a crocodile that once belonged to Cuban leader Fidel Castro at a Swedish aquarium
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A Welsh town will install anti-sex toilets that could spray users with water
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Passenger in clown suit prompted mass cruise ship brawl, say witnesses
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Santas from as far away as Japan and El Salvador are attending 62nd World Santa Claus Congress in Copenhagen
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Scientists are memorializing Iceland's first glacier lost to global warming with a poignant letter to the future
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Emails show Iowa official's Tupac fixation before his ouster
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The internet has spent three years taking care of this guy’s plants: The subreddit r/takecareofmyplant has 11,300 members, all dedicated to, well, taking care of a plant
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Finland's heavy metal knitting championship is the real purl jam
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Snowball the dancing cockatoo has wide range of killer moves, new study finds
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An eleven-year neighborhood feud involved restraining orders, spells, and jail time
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A family of four accidentally found themselves on Virgin Atlantic's 'Pride Flight' featuring drag queens, celebrity performances, and dancing in the aisles
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Meet the guy who bought a monorail for $1,000
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The restaurant owner who asked for one-star Yelp reviews
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Spotted: A Swarm Of Ladybugs So Huge, It Showed Up On National Weather Service Radar
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