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Man Sentenced to Four Months in Prison for Carrying a 6-Inch Master Sword in Public (www.ign.com)

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AI-Powered Ammo Vending Machine Selling Bullets at Tuscaloosa Grocery Store (tuscaloosathread.com)

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Delta flight diverts to New York after passengers are served spoiled food (www.ctvnews.ca)

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cross-posted from: https://fedia.io/m/globalnews@lemmy.zip/t/953332

A Delta flight from Detroit to Amsterdam was diverted to New York's Kennedy Airport on Wednesday after passengers were served spoiled food, airline officials said.

I stayed at a North Korean summer camp. We polished statues and played a game where we destroyed the White House. (www.businessinsider.com)

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Not quite as weird/odd as I usually post, but it does have a hamster driving a tank, so there's that.

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She exposed how the nation's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail. (www.nbcnews.com)

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72-year-old Florida man arrested after admitting he shot a Walmart delivery drone (www.techspot.com)

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RFK Jr. denies eating a dog while sidestepping sexual assault allegations in Vanity Fair article (www.cnn.com)

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Authorities in Wisconsin respond to cheese-related throwing incident, police say it’s ‘un-brie-lievable’ (www.wearegreenbay.com)

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Loaded up and truckin'...on the water? Portage co. man builds semi-truck pontoon boat (www.channel3000.com)

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'Lab-grown' meat maker hosts Miami tasting party as Florida ban goes into effect (apnews.com)

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Party of individual rights strikes again....

Parisians threaten to poop in the River Seine in Olympic protest (www.kidsnews.com.au)

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"Pepe LePew, the horny bastard, is unavailable for comment you filthy swine" (inhales)

New Jersey man trying to warn beachgoers about storm is killed by lightning strike (www.nbcnews.com)

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Damn...

Exploding Whale 50th Anniversary, Remastered! (youtu.be)

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Firefox user loses 7,470 opened tabs saved over two years after they can’t restore browsing session (www.tomshardware.com)

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cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/12299180

DC heat melts head off wax replica of Abraham Lincoln (www.bbc.com)

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Jebediah Springfield not amused

Woman in car crash arrested in Minnesota after dead body hidden in mattress found in backseat (www.nbcnews.com)

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The Aristocrats

Runner finds check blown nearly 100 miles by tornado in Wisconsin (www.wisn.com)

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Autoplay video warning

Woman arrested for calling 911 to get out of a date (www.independent.co.uk)

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Headline is misleading, of course... There's more to the story

Florida man sneezes his intestines out of his body at restaurant (www.independent.co.uk)

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Yum

38 dogs were close to drowning on a Mississippi lake. But some fishermen had quite a catch (abcnews.go.com)

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Happy ending for all

Diesel the escaped pet donkey found living with elk after five years (www.theguardian.com)

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Living his best life

Man thwarts Logan Square burglary with frying pan (wgntv.com)

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Dairy farmer, 95, is reunited with treasured watch he lost to a hungry cow 50 years ago (www.shropshirestar.com)

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A metal detectorist has reunited a farmer with his Rolex watch – 50 years after it was eaten by a cow.

To the cow's credit, it does have four stomachs....

This inmate says rat gave birth in his pants- but no suprise (www.cbc.ca)

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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/34968058

Her Majesty's Penitentiary inmate Devon Fitzpatrick says early one morning in mid-May he woke up and felt something moving in the crotch of his pants. When he reached in, he discovered a rat had given birth there.

Airline CEO Jumps On a Drinks Cart to Apologise For Having a Plane Divert to Pick Him Up (www.paddleyourownkanoo.com)

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