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An odd APB is out in northern Michigan: Police are on the hunt for a cabin

Feb 17, 2022
The owner of the missing cabin says it disappeared from where it stood in Coldsprings Township. Investigators note it was likely taken late last year, and was possibly put on the back of a trailer.
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World
The <em>Rye Riptides</em> pictured on board the Corwith Cramer before launching in October 2020. Nearly 18 months later, the mini boat was retrieved from an uninhabited Norwegian island with its messages and gifts intact.

A Norwegian student found a boat launched by New Hampshire middle schoolers in 2020

Feb 16, 2022
The Rye Riptides began as a science class project in New Hampshire. Some 462 days and 8,300 miles later, a sixth-grader retrieved it from an uninhabited Norwegian island, with its notes still intact.
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Seattle Mazda drivers can't change the radio dial. It's stuck on KUOW

Feb 14, 2022
Owners of Mazdas in Seattle have found their radios stuck on public radio staion KUOW. No one seems to know exactly why.
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Food
The Idaho Potation Commission is giving away a French fry-scented perfume ahead of Valentine's Day.

The French fry lover in your life may go head over peels for this perfume

Feb 13, 2022
Looking for a last-minute Valentine's Day gift? Idaho's potato commission is giving away French fry-scented perfume for Valentine's Day.
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Valentine's Day
A face only a mother could love: a Madagascar hissing cockroach (<em>Gromphadorhina portentosa</em>)

For Valentine's Day, the Bronx Zoo lets you name a roach after your sweetheart

Feb 12, 2022
The Bronx Zoo is offering an unusual way to show your undying love: its Name a Roach program. For $15, you can name a Madagascar hissing cockroach after your special someone.
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Strange News
An AirAsia flight was diverted Thursday after passengers spotted a snake in an overhead light.

An AirAsia flight was diverted after passengers spotted a snake on their plane

Feb 11, 2022
Footage of the 'Snakes on a Plane' moment has been viewed more than 2 million times on TikTok.
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Animals
Amidst the flood of football content you'll see on your social media feeds this Sunday, you might spot an owl or two.

The Superb Owl is back, and the crowd goes wild

Feb 11, 2022
This Sunday, football fans will choose sides in Super Bowl 56. But while much of the country is preoccupied with football, many others will spend the day rooting for another team: the owls.
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Sports
The Portland Pickles baseball team is asking Oregonians to be on the lookout for their mascot, Dillon T. Pickle, after he was stolen from the front porch of their office early Thursday morning.

The Portland Pickles need your help finding their stolen mascot, Dillon T. Pickle

Feb 10, 2022
After being lost in transit for days, Dillon T. Pickle was shipped to the team's office — only to be stolen off its porch. The team is offering a reward for information or a no questions asked return.
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Shots - Health News
This synthetic fish is powered by human heart cells. Scientists say that they could help lead the way toward building replacement hearts from human tissue.

Watch these robotic fish swim to the beat of human heart cells

Feb 10, 2022
Tiny, robotic fish powered by human heart cells suggest that scientists are getting closer to their goal of building replacement hearts from living tissue.
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World
Rotterdam residents appear to be up in arms over a plan to temporarily dismantle the Koningshaven lift bridge, popularly called "De Hef."

The Dutch vow to egg Jeff Bezos' yacht if a bridge is dismantled to let his boat pass

Feb 09, 2022
After early reports that Rotterdam would briefly take apart a historic bridge for the yacht's passage, thousands of people joined a Facebook event called "Throwing eggs at superyacht Jeff Bezos."
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Planet Money

Price Controls, Black Markets, And Skimpflation: The WWII Battle Against Inflation

Feb 08, 2022
To control inflation during WWII, the U.S. government resorted to wide-ranging price controls. Their unintended consequences might explain why today's policymakers are reluctant to try it again.
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Strange News

Pillow Fight Championship: South Florida's new combat sport is for slumber party pros

Feb 02, 2022
In the inaugural Pillow Fight Championship, grown adults entered what looks like a boxing ring and bludgeoned one other with specialized pillows. Two athletes emerged with $5,000 and champion belt.
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Due to a shipping container incident, every copy of 2 cookbooks were lost at sea

Jan 29, 2022
Two forthcoming cookbooks have likely sunk to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
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National
David Rush set out to break 52 Guinness World Records in 2021. So far, the organization has verified 43 of them.

Idaho man says he completed his goal of breaking 52 world records in a single year

Jan 27, 2022
Author and speaker David Rush so far earned 43 official Guinness World Records in 2021, including fastest time to arrange a chess set and most juggling catches while on a balance board, blindfolded.
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In each week of 2021, David Rush from Idaho set a Guinness World Record

Jan 27, 2022
Rush stacked the most bars of wet soap and he's the fastest to cover a neighbor in wrapping paper. The hardest feat? Using a samurai sword to slice 62 kiwis thrown at him while balancing on a ball.
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National
Gabriel Fierro said he decided "on a whim" to play his fortune cookie numbers in last Tuesday's drawing — and ended up with the largest win in the history of Online Play in North Carolina.

A veteran won a $4 million lottery prize using the numbers from a fortune cookie

Jan 25, 2022
The North Carolina man turned his meal at an Asian restaurant into a Mega Millions jackpot when his cookies turned out to be extra fortunate.
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Planet Money

The Great Resignation? More like The Great Renegotiation

Jan 25, 2022
"The Great Resignation" looks mostly like workers negotiating for a better deal.
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Science
Bark beetle larvae grip the ground with their claws in order to build up energy to accomplish their acrobatics.

Simone Biles has a rival — a tiny bark beetle (but it can't stick the landing)

Jan 23, 2022
A team of researchers has discovered the gymnastic ability of bark beetle larvae. Scientists recently recorded the larvae performing the twisting leap for the first time.
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Food

This TikTok creator makes the recipes she finds on gravestones

Jan 22, 2022
Scott Simon talks with University of Maryland graduate student Rosie Grant about her TikTok account, ghostlyarchive, and the food she's cooked from recipes found on gravestones.
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World
Lisala Folau (wearing blue printed shirt) says he swam for more than 24 hours after getting swept to sea by Saturday's tsunami, sits with other people of Atata island in Nuku'alofa, Tonga, on Wednesday in this picture obtained from social media.

A Tongan man says he swam for more than 24 hours after a tsunami swept him out to sea

Jan 20, 2022
Lisala Folau told a local broadcaster about his swimming journey, which lasted more than a day and took him to three islands. Social media users hearing his story are calling him "real-life Aquaman."
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Animals
Jessica Gerson-Neeves and her wife have been mired in a standoff for weeks with their three cats over a Vitamix blender.

3 cats have outmaneuvered their 2 humans to hold a blender hostage for weeks

Jan 14, 2022
Jessica and Nikii Gerson-Neeves don't want to end the standoff that has brought joy to so many people. But they also want to use their blender, which has been in a box in their kitchen since December.
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Space
A lunar eclipse viewed from California's Trona Pinnacles Desert National Conservation Area. Scientists believe there may be more moons in the galaxy than planets.

Scientists think they've found a big, weird moon in a far-off star system

Jan 13, 2022
Scientists have found many planets orbiting distant stars, but so far no proof that any have moons. Now, researchers have detected signs of a large exomoon orbiting a Jupiter-like world.
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Strange News

The white stuff blanketing a neighborhood wasn't snow. It was soybean husks

Jan 12, 2022
A Canadian woman found soybean husks on her car, sidewalk and street. A soy processing plant in Hamilton, Ontario, accidentally blew the husks into the air after a factory malfunction.
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A lost letter is delivered unopened, 76 years after it was sent

Jan 10, 2022
A few months after World War II, Sgt. John Gonsalves wrote home from his posting in Germany. He assured his mother that he was fine. Last month the letter turned up in a Pittsburgh post office.
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If you drive an older Honda or Acura, take a good look at your clock

Jan 10, 2022
Drivers of the older models cars woke up on Jan. 1 to find that instead of changing for the new year, their clocks skipped back to the year 2002. A fix for the issue is in the works.
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