A retired technician who was helping a quantum physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory went missing last year, sparking wild speculation online

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  bill_henderson

  He is simultaneously missing and not missing until someone opens the shed.

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A new survey found that nearly 90% of Americans have no idea that hot dogs are linked to cancer and heart disease.

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  reallaurenlopez

  People know it's bad for them, just like smokers know smoking is bad, but addiction is a thing.

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An airline offered passengers $1,250 in travel credit plus a $1,000 prepaid Visa card to voluntarily give up their seats on an overbooked flight

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  quickforest

  The passengers who checked bags are watching this unfold like they just witnessed a bank heist they were not invited to.

  590

Residents living near a Michigan data center are suing over constant noise from the facility that they say invades their homes day and night

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  sam1997

  They grew suspicious after they asked AI to identify the noise and suddenly for a few minutes the noise stopped.

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Erik von Markovik, the pickup artist known as Mystery, has apparently fallen for an AI girlfriend

Border agents in south Texas found $10.8 million worth of cocaine hidden inside a cabbage shipment

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  realjuliabrown

  Imagine getting cocaine and cyclospora in the same cabbage. Now you’ve got two reasons to run to the bathroom.

  841

A music producer accidentally deleted Taylor Swift's wedding invitation thinking it was spam, and now his wife is furious they missed the ceremony

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  chrisphillips10

  He thought it was spam. His wife is calling it a cruel summer.

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Astronomers have discovered a potentially habitable planet just 25 light years away that could be one of Earth's closest cosmic neighbors

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  calmforest370

  Mars is about 140 million miles away. This thing is around 147 trillion miles away. Calling it Earth's “Next-door neighbor” is a big stretch. 😂

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A Manhattan judge has ordered the Greenwich Village restaurant Babbo to hand over security footage that could identify who stabbed a union's inflatable Scabby the Rat mascot last year.

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  leocox87

  This whole case could have been solved if Scabby had been wearing Meta glasses like every other rat on the street.

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The United Auto Workers union is furious after GM idled more than 1,000 workers at its Detroit plant and installed 50 new robots

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  riley.hernandez

  The union is demanding to know who trained the robots, and the answer is the guys they just laid off.

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Lab-grown diamonds have sent natural diamond prices to record lows, and analysts say the market may never fully recover

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  ruby1974

  Diamond companies need marriage to make a comeback before they worry about lab-grown competition.

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A couple drove their truck right between a black bear and a moose calf to scare off the predator and reunite the calf with its mom

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  sunnystar923

  Now I get why bears keep breaking into pickups, they know those things can stop them for having a fresh meal.

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A Brown University economics professor believes that 40 of his 86 students may have used AI to cheat on a take home midterm exam.

An American Airlines Boeing 737 captain shared a paystub on X revealing a yearly salary of $458,000, sparking widespread surprise online

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  funkythunder

  For 458 grand I'd land the plane while narrating it like a jazz DJ too.

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A company just raised $1 million to build an AI bot farm that floods social media with fake influencer accounts.

A California HOA is suing a family for raising their fence to stop coyotes from jumping in and killing their goats

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  choward

  I am not surprised that an HOA would take the side of the coyotes, they have a lot in common.

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Prince Harry's allies are asking why Buckingham Palace couldn't spare him a single room after a $400 million renovation.

Meta says its new AI can decode brain activity into text, potentially helping people with paralysis communicate without invasive surgery

Andy Reid says Adam Sandler officiated Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's wedding and told them to kiss each other every single day.

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  hmurphy

  Great advice! I was married for 14 years and kissed my husband every single day. One day I caught him cheating and kissed him goodbye.

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Sephora is rolling out sensory friendly quiet hours at all of its U.S. stores, with softer music, dimmer screens, and fewer scents for neurodivergent shoppers.

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  ella1989

  My husband has been requesting quiet hours at Sephora for years, he just calls it staying in the car.

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Archaeologists have discovered a well preserved lost Maya city hidden deep in the Mexican jungle

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  brittany.butler

  I just want them to find a new Maya calendar so I know whether to renew my gym membership or not.

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A lucky traveler hit a three $3 million jackpot on a Wheel of Fortune slot machine at the Las Vegas airport.

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  esimmons

  He walked away with about a million dollars after taxes and blew it all on airport water a soft pretzel and a neck pillow.😢

  988

Prince Harry will not be joined by Meghan and their children on his upcoming London trip

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  mark_perez

  Rumor is that Meghan said she'd love to come but her Netflix contract has a clause against unpaid appearances.

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Adam Sandler officiated Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's wedding at Madison Square Garden and sang them an original song during the ceremony.

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  blipnova

  The bride wore white, the groom wore a tux, and Sandler wore basketball shorts and a hoodie two sizes too big.

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Bosses Are Becoming Obsessed With AI And Are Using It to Make Every Decision And Barraging Their Employees With Nonsensical ChatGPT Directives

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  wildstorm

  I love opening an email titled quick question and finding an entire Socratic dialogue between my manager and a robot.

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