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(Photo via assistantua / Getty Images) ‘Christmas Star’ Will Appear in the Night Sky This Weekend
The story of the Christmas star is technically backed by science—but it’s unlikely the celestial object was really a “star.”
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(Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images) California Cities Are Fighting Landlords Using AI for Rent Hikes
San Francisco became the first city in the US to ban the practice of AI rent pricing.
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(Photo by GraphicaArtis/Getty Images) We’re All Completely Wrong About What Others Find Physically Attractive
The researchers theorize that a lot of these misperceptions are based on what boils down to self-loathing.
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(Photo by Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images) Grandma May Have Been Swallowed by Sinkhole on Search for Lost Cat
Authorities found a shoe about 30 feet below the surface.
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Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto/Getty Images Challenge Accepted: Man Attempts to Shoplift in Walmart Full of Cops
One man decided to try to shoplift from his local Walmart at the worst possible time ever: during the “Shop with a Cop” event.
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(Photo via Sports Team / Instagram) UK Band Sports Team Robbed at Gunpoint ’10 Minutes’ Into US Tour
“They can take our Nintendo Switches but they can never take our ability to play rock songs about motorways.”
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(Photo by Matthew Horwood/Getty Images) Coca-Cola, One of the World’s Biggest Polluters, Reduced Its Eco Goals. Shocker.
Coca-Cola is shifting the goalposts with its eco goals.
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(Photo Illustration by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Young Singles Desperate for Love Are Turning to Facebook
On Facebook, your parents can keep up with their friends from high school and you can find love, apparently.
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Urgent: Look at These Beautiful Photos of Beautiful Italian Horses
Photographer Domenico Matera says the horses can look inside our souls—if we were them, we’d be happy just looking in the mirror.
