- www.theguardian.com Elusive deer spotted wearing high-vis jacket in Canada: ‘Who is responsible?’
‘Double takes’ as British Columbia mountain community tries to figure out how local animal came to don neon jacket
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Sightings of deer wearing high-vis jacket raise questions, quips and concerns in B.C. village
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My favourite part is the quote from the Conservation Officer:
>He said people should not approach wild deer — nor put clothes on them. > >"I didn't think I'd have to specify that one," he said. "Usually they're pretty quick."
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Stanford expert on 'lying and technology' accused of lying about technology
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- www.engadget.com Chemists have created the world's thinnest spaghetti
Researchers led by scientists from the University College London have done what celebrity chefs and Italian nonnas could only dream of: they've made the world's thinnest spaghetti.
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- nltimes.nl Police find 2 kilogram garden gnome made entirely of MDMA
“We know that drugs come in many shapes and sizes, but every now and again we come across something extraordinary,” the Dongemond police said about finding a garden gnome made entirely of MDMA. “The gnome himself was visibly shocked by it.”The Dongemond police found the gnome among a large batch of ...
- www.nbcnews.com Duct-taped banana sells for more than $6 million at auction
The banana has been hotly debated and made international headlines since its debut at Art Basel Miami Beach in December 2019.
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Billionaire internet company boss turns up to real-life 1v1 against CoD player angry about lag
www.dexerto.com Billionaire internet company boss turns up to real-life 1v1 against CoD player angry about lag - DexertoA billionaire businessman actually showed up to a “1v1” outside a supermarket, after a Call of Duty player called them out.
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Bear that damaged luxury cars was actually a person in a costume, insurers say
apnews.com Insurers say bear that damaged luxury cars was actually a person in a costumeCalifornia is seeing its share of bear break-ins. Now it’s seen a fake one — someone in a bear costumer rummaging through luxury cars.
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Four people arrested for staging fake bear attacks with bear costume in Lake Arrowhead
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- www.vox.com 43 lab monkeys escaped in South Carolina. They have a legal claim to freedom.
Who owns the escaped monkeys now? It’s more complicated than you might think.
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Costco forced to recall 80,000 lbs of butter – because the label fails to mention it contains milk
www.independent.co.uk Costco forced to recall 80,000 lbs of butter – because of label errorThe Food and Drug Administration has not told consumers what to do with the purchased product
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- www.independent.co.uk Tennessee woman randomly attacked by monkey as she was feeding her cats
Police are reportedly trying to figure out who owned the monkey
- insidenewshub.com Naked British Tourist Falls From Balcony In Thailand Covered In Poo
A naked British tourist had to be rescued after falling from a hotel balcony while covered in poo in Thailand’s ‘Sin City’.
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- interestingengineering.com Europe's most important rocket test almost foiled by a slice of cheese
Swiss students made history with Europe's first rocket hop test, but a slice of Gruyère almost turned it into a disaster.
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- www.nbcnews.com New York state officials seize Instagram-famous squirrel named Peanut from owner
Anonymous complaints about Peanut — also spelled P’Nut or PNUT — brought at least six officers from the state Department of Environmental Conservation to the owner's home.
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- www.independent.co.uk World’s fattest cat Crumbs dies weighing 38 pounds weeks after his stint at fat camp
‘This is a great loss for us,’ his caretaker says
- www.tomshardware.com Smuggler packs 200 pounds of meth into PC cases, gets busted — Australian Border Force foil drug smuggling plot
Had they never seen the long-running Border Security: Australia's Front Line reality show?
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Relief mixed with sadness as New Zealand bids farewell to ‘hated’ giant hand sculpture
www.theguardian.com Relief mixed with sadness as New Zealand bids farewell to ‘hated’ giant hand sculpture QuasiWellington gallery says Ronnie van Hout’s Quasi statue ‘was hated by the people but turned out to be a great tragic-romantic hero’. It heads to Australia next
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- koreajoongangdaily.joins.com 100 kg wild boar causes chaos in train station, bites man’s arm in toilet
A wild boar rampaged through a city railway station in South Gyeongsang and bit a person's arm on Tuesday.