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The SR-71 Blackbird Retired By Flying Coast-To-Coast In One Hour


The SR-71 wasn’t like other planes. It didn’t retire like them either.

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SunChips' New 100% Compostable Bag Is Hilariously, Ear-Damagingly Loud


There’s one kinda big problem with SunChips’ new 100% compostable bag: It’s noisy as Hell. An Air Force pilot says it’s louder than the cockpit of his jet, and this video test pegs it at a potentially damaging 95 decibels.

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Five Reasons Why You Should Probably Stop Using Antibacterial Soap


As the FDA recently noted, antibacterial products are no more effective than soap and water, and could be dangerous

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Satirical site The Onion is now worth more than most of the real news outlets it mocks


SATIRICAL NEWS SITE The Onion – known for headlines like ‘World Death Rate Holding Steady at 100 Percent’ – has been valued at half a billion dollars, more than most of the news outlets it exists to mock.

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Flashback: Eminem and Elton John Join Forces at the 2001 Grammys


When the 2001 Grammys took place, controversy was swirling around Eminem.

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Pedobear ruins Nestle's Facebook party


Nestle has been forced to take down an image from its Kit Kat Facebook fan page, after it emerged that it was similar to an icon used to ward off paedophiles.

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Cheetah-Dog Friendship Isn't As Strange As It Sounds


Raising puppies and cheetah kittens together helps refocus the big cats’ nervous energy, zoos have discovered.

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'Chewy 123': FBI's most-wanted cybercriminal used cat's name as password


Once the FBI's most-wanted cybercriminal, Jeremy Hammond is serving one of the longest sentences a US hacker has received — 10 years, the maximum allowed under his plea agreement. But to this day, he's unsure how agents cracked his Mac's encryption. Perhaps it was the fact his password was his cat's name and the numbers 123.

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That Time Europe Air-Dropped Vaccine-Loaded Chicken Heads to Bait Rabid Foxes


The events that led teams of helicopter-borne vets to pelt the Swiss countryside with vaccine-impregnated chicken heads began in 1939. Two things were then sweeping through Poland: the Nazis, and an epidemic of rabies carried by red foxes.

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Man Hospitalized After Shooting 3 Men Who Broke Into His Home, Wanted To Rape His Granddaughter


A grandfather from Lumberton, North Carolina, proved himself a force to be reckoned with after he found himself face to face with three armed men who broke into his home Monday night and allegedly attempted to rape his 19-year-old granddaughter.

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