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Girl Scouts sued over alleged heavy metals, pesticides in cookies [ [link removed] ]
Just in case you were wondering what secret ingredient makes them so tasty and slightly addictive
‘New Nostradamus’ made eerie prediction about an oil tanker explosion days before it happened [ [link removed] ]
Given everything going on in the world at the moment, I don’t think predicting a big explosion somewhere is all that impressive. Any bold predictions you’d like to make?
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BELEAGUERED STAFFERS W/ KEITH CONRAD, LAURA FINCH & SEAN MAGERS
Working in Congress may sound like a glamorous job—policy debates, historic votes, and rubbing elbows with power players. But the reality is often far less glamorous, most of the time you’re taking calls from crazy constituents, or worse, people like Keith Conrad
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SCI-FI SHORT STORIES - NARRATED BY DARREN MARLAR & PRODUCED BY KEITH CONRAD
As nurse Emily searches for a missing patient in the hospital’s abandoned west wing, she stumbles into a maze of forgotten rooms, lost souls, and eerie whispers from the past—until she realizes she might never find her way back.
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Coffee theft surges in the US as prices for the beans soar [ [link removed] ] - Pretty soon they’ll just have to put everything behind lock and key, and everyone will have a store employee that goes along with you while you’re shopping
Man found with live turtle hidden in his pants at a New Jersey airport [ [link removed] ] - The turtle was said to be anxious to get back to Master Splinter and have a pizza
Air India asks passengers to stop flushing clothes down plane toilets [ [link removed] ] - No deal. I’m actually going to fly to India specifically to fly on Air India and flush all of my clothing down the toilet
An alarming number of people are mistaking nail glue for eyedrops [ [link removed] ] - It seems like you’d recognize your mistake pretty quickly. Although you’d have to guess, since you wouldn’t actually be able to look at the bottle
Zoo Forced To Remove 5 Parrots From Public View For Swearing At Visitors [ [link removed] ] - Taking angry tweeting to strange new places
Gamer beats 'Super Mario Bros.' in 4 minutes, 54.565 seconds [ [link removed] ] - I could do that. I just choose not to
Amazon forest felled to build road for climate summit [ [link removed] ] - That seems somewhat counter productive
UK Woman on Stolen 16th-Century Painting: Sorry, It's Mine [ [link removed] ] - Her husband bought it in the 70’s. I say let her keep it
Microplastics May Contribute to Antibiotic Resistance [ [link removed] ] - That’s less than ideal
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