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Cadbury's Creme Eggs move down the production line at the Cadbury's Bournville production plant on Dec. 15, 2009, in Birmingham, England.

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  • Strange News

English police say they foiled an 'eggs-travagent' plot to steal Cadbury chocolates

A 32-year-old man reportedly entered guilty pleas to an attempt to seize about 200,00 Cadbury Creme Eggs in a semi truck in central England.

February 18, 2023
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
A Belorusian tractor laden with harvested sugarcane idles outside a sugar mill.

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  • Global Health

The glam makeovers of Pakistan's tractors show how much farmers cherish them

Marian Lewyeka's delightful novel, A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian spurred NPR correspondent Diaa Hadid to tell another tractor story — the history of Belarusian tractors in Pakistan.

February 11, 2023
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By:
  • Diaa Hadid and
  • Abdul Sattar
The premise of <em>The Last of Us</em> is that the cordyceps fungus turns people into creatures that do the fungus's bidding.

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  • Global Health

'The Last Of Us' made us wonder: Could a deadly fungus really cause a pandemic?

In the hit HBO show, the world has been devastated by a pandemic caused by a deadly fungus. Is that even possible? Could the next pandemic come from fungi? Turns out it's a very real question.

February 11, 2023
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By:
  • Michaeleen Doucleff
U.S. Customs and Border Protection found the skull of a young dolphin in someone's luggage in the Detroit Metropolitan Airport last week, CBP said.

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  • Strange News

A dolphin skull was found in someone's luggage in Detroit

The luggage was unaccompanied on an international flight re-entering the U.S. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is now in possession of the skull.

February 06, 2023
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
The suspected Chinese spy balloon drifts to the ocean after being shot down off the coast in Surfside Beach, S.C., on Saturday.

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  • National Security

The U.S. has downed a Chinese spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina

The suspected Chinese spy balloon was noticed in Montana and slowly crossed the U.S. China expressed its "strong dissatisfaction and protest" over the downing.

February 04, 2023
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By:
  • Giulia Heyward and
  • Jenna McLaughlin
A "mysterious" flying spiral spotted by the Subaru Telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, early on Jan. 18, could be related to a SpaceX satellite launch earlier in the day, scientists speculated.

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  • Space

A mysterious flying spiral above Hawaiian night sky likely caused by SpaceX launch

A Japanese telescope captured images of the shape on Jan. 18. It was likely caused by the sun illuminating leftover fuel expelled from the rocket of a SpaceX launch.

January 31, 2023
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By:
  • Kaitlyn Radde
A young girl's note to the police department asked to test for evidence of Santa.

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  • Strange News

Girl asks police to run DNA test on Christmas cookie for evidence of Santa Claus

A young girl wrote to a Rhode Island police department asking them to run a DNA test on a cookie and carrots left for Santa Claus and his reindeer.

January 22, 2023
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By:
  • Giulia Heyward
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  • National

A woman was arrested for killing her terminally ill husband at a Florida hospital

Police said the two had made a pact weeks beforehand. She could be charged with first-degree murder.

January 21, 2023
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By:
  • Giulia Heyward
Castaway Elvis Francois is attended by Colombian Navy members after he was rescued near the department of La Guajira, in the extreme north of Colombia. According to the Navy, the 47-year-old from Dominica said he had been adrift for 24 days in the Caribbean Sea after he was repairing a boat last December near the island of Sint-Maarten in the Netherlands Antilles.

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  • World

A sailor has been rescued after being adrift in Caribbean for 24 days

Elvis Francois, 47, told Colombian authorities that he had survived off a bottle of ketchup, garlic powder and Maggi cubes.

January 19, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
An airline worker died on Saturday after being "ingested" into the engine of American Airlines Embraer aircraft, like the kind pictured here at the Dallas/Fort Worth International airport in Dallas in June 2021.

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  • National

An airline worker died after being 'ingested into the engine' of a plane, NTSB says

The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating an incident with the Embraer 170 aircraft which killed an American Airlines worker on Saturday in Montgomery, Ala.

January 03, 2023
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By:
  • Emily Olson
A Brazil fan points to "zero" on the Budweiser cup prior to the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Group G match between Brazil and Serbia at Lusail Stadium in Lusail City, Qatar.

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  • Economy

A golden age for nonalcoholic beers, wines and spirits

There are many more drinking options this Dry January if you like the taste of alcoholic drinks but don't like the effects of alcohol.

January 03, 2023
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By:
  • Greg Rosalsky
The start of 2023 is the perfect time to revisit experts' century-old predictions about the world.

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  • History

Here's what 2023 has in store, as predicted by experts in 1923

A researcher collected century-old newspaper clippings with predictions in fields ranging from public health to beauty to transportation. Some have proven more accurate than others.

January 02, 2023
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
There's no debate about this GOAT.

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  • Strange News

An inflection point for GOATs: Please quiet quit these 'banished words' moving forward

In their annual "Banished Words" list, the faculty of Lake Superior State University also suggest removing from your vocabulary overused phrases like "does that make sense?" and "it is what it is."

January 01, 2023
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By:
  • Becky Sullivan
Gregor Johann Mendel (1822 - 1884) the priest and botanist whose work laid the foundation of the study of genetics.

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  • Science

Why scientists dug up the father of genetics, Gregor Mendel, and analyzed his DNA

The year 2022 was the 200th anniversary of the birth of Gregor Mendel. He's known as the father of genetics, so scientists exhumed Mendel's body and examined his DNA.

December 30, 2022
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By:
  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
Airline staff search through unclaimed luggage at the William P. Hobby Airport on Wednesday in Houston.

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  • National

Unclaimed luggage piles up at airports following Southwest cancellations

After Southwest Airlines canceled thousands of flights over the week, travelers are scrambling to reunite with their luggage.

December 29, 2022
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  • Giulia Heyward
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