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More than a mile underwater, the cartoon doppelgangers were found side by side.

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  • Science

A Research Vessel Found SpongeBob Look-Alikes A Mile Under The Ocean's Surface

A photo of a real-life sponge and starfish hanging out together delighted the internet. But "the reality is a little crueler than perhaps a cartoon would suggest," says the researcher who posted it.

July 31, 2021
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  • Laurel Wamsley
Pat Garrett's Colt single action army revolver was used to gun down Billy the Kid.

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  • History

The Gun That Killed Billy The Kid Is Going Up For Auction. Starting Bid: $2 Million

An iconic piece of the Wild West goes up for sale: the gun that killed Billy the Kid.

July 22, 2021
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  • Dalia Faheid
Limited-edition macaroni and cheese ice cream is now available while supplies last.

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  • Food

Mac & Cheese Is The Ice Cream You Never Thought You'd Need And Now It's Hard To Get

Macaroni & cheese ice cream is here, and not everyone thinks it's a good idea. "We are living in the last days," comedian Josh Pray says.

July 15, 2021
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  • Josie Fischels
Large goldfish, released by pet owners into bodies of water, are contributing to poor water quality in some lakes and ponds in Minnesota.

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  • Animals

Oversize Goldfish Are Taking Over One Minnesota Lake, Causing Issues For Local Fish

Burnsville, Minn., officials have urged residents and owners of pet goldfish not to dispose of them in local lakes, warning that doing so causes major environmental impacts.

July 13, 2021
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  • Jaclyn Diaz

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  • Economy

Beware Of 'Shrinkflation,' Inflation's Devious Cousin

Products are shrinking. Only some people are noticing.

July 06, 2021
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  • Greg Rosalsky
Joseph Hardebeck, a senior Navy corpsman, is greeted by his daughters Zoey, 9, and Adalie, 7, after receiving the Purple Heart at an award ceremony at Southern California's Camp Pendleton on Thursday.

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  • National

A Navy Corpsman Receives A Purple Heart. He Didn't Think He Deserved It

About 1.8 million people have received the Purple Heart for being wounded or killed in combat. A recent recipient says many merit the award but feel their injuries were too minor to pursue it.

July 04, 2021
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  • Dustin Jones
In an image from video footage from 2015, an unexplained object is seen at center as it soars among the clouds, traveling against the wind. "There's a whole fleet of them," a naval aviator tells another, though only one indistinct object is shown.

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  • Strange News

UFO Report: No Sign Of Aliens, But 143 Mystery Objects Defy Explanation

The U.S. government report is the most substantial public effort to date to deal with decades of speculation about UFOs, and whether the government had a role in concealing information.

June 25, 2021
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  • Greg Myre
The Brooksville water tower was accidentally sold by the city to a businessman who was trying to buy a municipal building at the tower's base.

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  • Strange News

A Small Florida Town Accidentally Sold Its Water Tower For $55,000

A businessman trying to buy a municipal building at the base of the city's water tower got a lot more than he bargained for — several thousand gallons more.

June 15, 2021
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  • Josie Fischels
A humpback whale jumps in the surface of the Pacific Ocean at the Uramba Bahia Malaga National Natural Park in Colombia in 2018. Michael Packard says he was nearly swallowed by one such whale on Friday as he dove for lobsters off the coast of Provincetown

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  • Animals

A Lobster Diver In Cape Cod Says A Humpback Whale Scooped Him Up And Spat Him Out

Michael Packard says he was trapped in the whale's mouth for 30 to 40 seconds before it tossed him back in the water, bruised but otherwise unharmed. Experts tell NPR such events are extremely rare.

June 12, 2021
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  • Rachel Treisman
A Froggyland diorama shows a teacher trying to control a class in which students are hitting each other with rulers, arriving late to class and balancing pencils on their noses. Each  diorama displays anthropomorphized frogs in human scenes of the early 20th century.

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  • World

Welcome To Froggyland, The Croatian Taxidermy Museum That May Soon Come To The U.S.

The museum features the work of a Hungarian taxidermist who created anthropomorphized exhibits. It had 50,000 visitors in 2019, but numbers fell during the pandemic and the owner now plans to sell.

June 10, 2021
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  • Rob Schmitz
Trillions of cicadas are emerging in the U.S. Scientists say Brood X is one of the biggest for these bugs, which come out only once every 17 years.

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  • Strange News

A Plane Carrying Biden's Press Corps Was About To Take Off. Then The Cicadas Swarmed

A plane carrying dozens of journalists abroad to follow President Biden's trip to Europe was delayed several hours due to cicadas that filled the plane's engine.

June 09, 2021
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
Cincinnati police say a cicada is responsible for causing a driver to crash their car into a pole.

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  • Strange News

Police Say A Cicada Is Responsible For A Car Crash In Ohio

A cicada flew into a driver's face in Cincinnati Monday evening, causing them to crash and total their car, according to the Cincinnati Police Department.

June 08, 2021
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  • Josie Fischels
Former President Trump's curiously wrinkled trousers appears to have overshadowed his speech Saturday at a Republican Party state convention in North Carolina.

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  • Politics

Actually, Trump Was NOT Wearing His Pants Backward At A Weekend Rally

Trump's pants, it turns out, have legs. The unusual wrinkles in his attire raised an unlikely question: Could the former leader of the free world be wearing his suit pants backward?

June 07, 2021
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  • Bill Chappell
The word "doughnut" first appeared in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1782 but by the early 1800s, "donut" became widely used.

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  • National

Doughnut Or Donut? Discuss

Doughnut came first, but donut wasn't far behind. Now, whether it's glazed or jelly-filled experts say either spelling is equally acceptable.

June 04, 2021
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  • Vanessa Romo
A jumping spider - Evarcha arcuata - literally hangs out at nighttime - but this was a surprise, even to a jumping spider researcher.

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  • Science

Why Jumping Spiders Spend All Night Hanging Out — Literally

Little is known about the night-time habits of tiny creatures all around us. Take the jumping spider--it mysteriously can spend much of the night suspended in mid-air, hanging by a thread.

June 02, 2021
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
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