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As a devoted Doctor Who and Back to the Future fan, I've always wanted to own a time machine. It would be amazing to travel all through history. To see famous events from the past: like the birth of Christ, or the Gettysburg address, or Woodstock. Even more exciting is…
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A three-year-old boy has been found alive after going missing for two days. Casey Hathaway was found caught in a thorn bush in freezing temperatures on Thursday night following a two-day search of a wooded area. Hathaway, who lives in Craven County, North Carolina, was found soaking wet and calling…
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Leo Blanco is only 22 years old, but he's already had numerous cosmetic procedures, from botox to liposuction to facial reshaping. All of this is to further his goal of looking exactly like his idol, Michael Jackson. The King of Pop was himself said to have had numerous cosmetic surgeries…
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An American missionary who has visited an isolated Brazilian tribe has potentially exposed them to fatal diseases to which they have no immunity. Now a charity claims that the missionary in question could be charged with genocide if the pathogens he has exposed the indigenous people to end up wiping…
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In October 2015, a white woman in Evanston, Illinois called the police to report that a man was stealing a car. Then she followed him in her own vehicle, so she could tell dispatchers his location. However, that man was actually 25-year-old Northwestern University PhD student Lawrence Crosby, and he…
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On February 3, the Super Bowl will be broadcast, featuring incredible big-budget ads and trailers for the year's most anticipated movies. And in between all those awesome commercials, there will be some stupid football game. However, there's one ad you won't see: Acreage Holding's emotional spot touting the benefits of…
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R. Kelly’s music used to induce feelings of happiness and familiarity. Now, on the odd occasion that his music comes on in a club, bar or social situation, people can’t help but think of the seedy stories surrounding the multi-platinum singer. Beyond allegations and accusations, a video appeared in 2002…
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An Indiana school superintendent has been arrested and charged with fraud after using her own personal health insurance to help a pupil who had fallen sick. After her pupil missed school, Casey Smitherman visited the boy's house and discovered that he was in fact suffering from strep throat. For those…
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Native American activist Nathan Phillips reportedly has a criminal record that includes charges of assault, escape from prison and various alcohol-related crimes. The 64-year-old, whose confrontation with Covington Catholic High School students went viral last week, was charged "with escaping from the Nebraska Penal Complex where he was confined [on] May 3" as a…
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Petty crimes such as shoplifting rarely make it to national news, especially when the incidents aren't violent in their nature. It's even rarer for them to become known internationally. For one man in Blackpool, England, his viral fame came not so much from what he was doing - but who he…
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In October last year, 13-year-old Jayme Closs went missing from her house in Barron, Wisconsin. Her parents had been shot dead, and she had apparently been abducted late at night. For 88 days, nobody knew where she was, and a $50,000 reward was offered for anyone who could save her.…
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A video has emerged on social media, which appears to show a man wielding an axe rushing at customers and staff at a South London supermarket. The clip, which was taken from a CCTV camera, appears to show a crowd of people milling about in the entrance to a Tesco branch…
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At a school in upstate New York, one student reported a suspicious comment they heard at lunchtime. A day later, the authorities had arrested three men and a teenager, charging them with conspiracy to attack a Muslim community 200 miles away. Vincent Vetromile, 19; Brian Colaneri, 20; Andrew Crysel, 18;…
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A French student has caused travel disturbances by phoning in a faking bomb threat to an airport to stop his parents from visiting him. The plane his parents were travelling on was carrying 159 passengers and flying from Lyon to Rennes. It was forced to turn around shortly after take-off…
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Last weekend, a viral video of a confrontation between a MAGA hat-wearing teenager and a Native American elder at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. created a firestorm on social media. In the clip, the Native American elder beats his drum and sings, while the teen stands just inches from…
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Last March, 27-year-old sixth grade teacher Brittany Zamora was arrested after the parents of a 13-year-old boy found nude images and explicit material on his phone. After an investigation, police discovered that Zamora engaged in a sexual relationship with the boy, her student at Las Brisas Academy in Goodyear, Arizona.…
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Over the past few days, a group of boys from Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky have become a divisive topic of discussion across social media. The teenage students caught the world's attention on Sunday when they were filmed interacting with Nathan Phillips, a Native American elder and Vietnam war…
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A ten-year-old boy from Kentucky has allegedly taken his own life, after enduring relentless bullying over this colostomy bag. Seven Bridges’ mother Tami Charles was at the grocery store, and Donnie Bridges, his father, was at a church choir practice when the fifth-grader hanged himself at the family’s home in Louisville on…
