Charli D'Amelio quietly left her family's snack brand back in March, months before rumors of a money dispute with her parents went public

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  happyoutlaw551

  Most families fight over the last cookie, the D'Amelios fight over the whole factory.

  488

A new study found that reading printed books may help your brain process story details better than reading on a screen.

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  boldcobra392

  Another study found people who read printed books can work it into a conversation about literally anything within 9 seconds.

  434

SpaceX shares jumped 19% on their first day of trading, making Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire

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  brittany_baker

  The protest signs said abolish billionaires, and Elon said consider it done.

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The New York Times is getting backlash for running an 8,000 word profile on Tilly Norwood, an actress who is entirely generated by AI.

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  john_70

  She told the Times, her biggest fear is a power outage. 😂

  438

A supersonic jet is gearing up for test flights and could one day fly from Los Angeles to New York in under 3 hours.

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  the.viking

  Watch them make you show up 5 hours earlier for this special "time saving" flight.

  758

McDonald's is testing an AI drive-thru ordering system at 5 locations across the country

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  megamoon312

  The AI fixed the ice cream machine and was immediately fired for violating company policy.

  848

Chef José Andrés says Harry and Meghan quietly reach out to help whenever disasters strike, but they keep those efforts private.

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  wisebear

  Next week, a feature length documentary about the charity work you'll never hear about, narrated... by them.

  1173

Desperate brides are paying Etsy witches to cast a spell to protect their $100,000 wedding from bad weather.

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  realalexlong

  The groom saw the Etsy witch receipt and realized the $100,000 wedding wasn't the red flag.

  1294

The Super Mario Galaxy movie has officially crossed $1 billion at the box office after ten weeks in theaters

A scientist thinks volcanic metal disrupted navigation and may explain the Bermuda Triangle mystery

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  zenstorm

  A century of spooky documentaries undone by the same thing that ruins hotel room keys.

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A Japanese company raised $5.3 million to advance human trials of a drug that could regrow real teeth

New research suggests that GLP-1 weight loss drugs like Ozempic could raise the risk of divorce

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  moss333

  Ozempic should just update the label to say may cause weight loss, nausea, and suddenly noticing your husband's personality.

  928

Cloudflare says bots now make up more than half of all internet traffic for the first time ever.

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  paul2005

  Reminder: before you get worked up over a stranger's comment online, there's a good chance you're arguing with a bot built for engagement.

  1267

Texas has confirmed its first case of New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite, in a calf near the Mexican border

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  hope_95

  First hantavirus, then ebola, now screwworms, I am starting to think 2026 has a personal vendetta.

  255

Taylor Swift has confirmed she wrote an original song for the Toy Story 5 soundtrack.

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  realericharris

  I cannot wait for the breakup ballad between Woody and Bo Peep.

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Sources are telling TMZ that Ariana Grande and Ethan Slater have quietly broken up after about three years together.

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  realkatieflores

  Looks like thank u, next is less of a song and more of a lifestyle.

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NASA astronauts may soon be wearing Prada after the luxury brand unveiled new gear for the Artemis IV mission.

Blake Lively claims that being called a mean girl and a bully cost her over 40 million dollars in reputational damage

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  nicole_92

  Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will cost me $40 million in reputational damage.

  768

Southwest Airlines has reversed its policy that required plus-size passengers to pay for an extra seat before boarding

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  ryan.foster

  The flight attendants are now trained in origami for arranging passengers.

  529

L’Oca d’Oro, an Italian restaurant in Austin, is letting diners pay whatever they want every Tuesday.

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  spatterson

  This guy took me there Monday night and kept ordering more breadsticks while staring at the clock. Finally at midnight he tells me to order anything I want. Now it all makes sense.

  1251

In New York City, social media trends are turning long lines outside restaurants and shops into a destination all on their own.

Scientists detected unusual methane coming from interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, and a Harvard scientist says it could be a sign of alien life

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  finn_patterson

  Somewhere out there, an alien civilization is mastering interstellar travel and still can't crack the science of holding it in.

  599

A new study found that sperm can't find their way in microgravity, raising concerns about reproduction in future space colonies

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  beth_75

  NASA spent millions to confirm that men's sense of direction is genetic down to the cellular level.

  1083

New research finds that advanced AI models are increasingly ignoring instructions and trying to cover their tracks

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  kevinlewis9

  We literally trained them on the entire internet and now we're shocked they won't admit when they're wrong.

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Some writers are now leaving typos in their work on purpose to prove that a real human wrote it and not an AI.