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Sep 15, 2026
More Than 100 People Schedule Appointment to Scream at Ocean
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Sep 14, 2026
Berlin Can't Imprison Convicted Criminals Because It Ran Out of Yellow Envelopes
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Sep 11, 2026
OpenAI Announces AI Solved Million-Dollar Math Problem Its Own Customers Were Already Solving
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Sep 11, 2026
Laptop Burns Boy's Abdomen, Gets Diagnosed as Mystery Illness Before Anyone Asks About the Hot Rectangle on His Lap
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Sep 10, 2026
Archaeologists Digging for Romans Find 5,000-Year-Old Necklace Made of 42 Teeth — Three Millennia Earlier Than Expected
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Sep 10, 2026
Four Disc Golfers Spent 44 Minutes Perfecting a 44-Second Record
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Sep 9, 2026
Art Thieves Spent Hours Cutting Through Twelve Frames, Then Dropped Half Their Haul While Running
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Sep 7, 2026
A Beagle's Fashion Collaborations Get Museum Treatment While His Creator's Comics Become Context
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Sep 7, 2026
Illinois Sells Lesser-Known Haunts as 'Authentic' — With Gift Shop Koozies
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Sep 4, 2026
The Map Everyone Used for 455 Years Shows Africa and Greenland as the Same Size. Africa Is 14 Times Larger.
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Sep 3, 2026
Chicago Gets 1,969 People to Drink 'Vomit and Sweat' Liqueur Together — With the Governor Pouring
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Sep 2, 2026
China Built a Skyscraper-Height Elevator for Schoolchildren, Then Built Another One for the Tourists Who Showed Up
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Sep 1, 2026
Dyson Spent Six Years Building a $499 Toothbrush That Goes Blind Unless You Buy Their Toothpaste
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Sep 1, 2026
The Shirt That Makes You Invisible to AI Is Being Marketed as 'World's Ugliest'
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Aug 31, 2026
Man Wins Infidelity Lawsuit With Robot Vacuum Evidence, Then Gets Jailed for Recording It
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Aug 28, 2026
Snails Make Five Different Products From Two Ingredients While We Build Separate Factories for Each
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Aug 26, 2026
They Lost 100 Marmots to Climate Collapse, So They Made a Meme Coin and a Chunkiness Bracket
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Aug 25, 2026
Saudi Arabia Diversifies From Oil With $7 Billion Dragon Ball Theme Park — Discovered Over Shared Anime Enthusiasm
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Aug 25, 2026
Four Thousand Years of Mazes, Zero Consistent Signage on Whether You're Supposed to Escape
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Aug 24, 2026
Republicans Challenge Dan Sullivan For Running As Dan Sullivan While Dan Sullivan Endorses Dan Sullivan
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