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Like the selfie, the emoji has faced its fair share of derision. But as more and more people use the little icons they're finding more acceptance
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Whether you love or hate candy corn, it's probably worth knowing how it's made and where it came from
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The condition is almost always accompanied by tactile hallucinations of crawling sensations and visual hallucinations of the non-existent insects
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Archeologists in London just turned up a pristine 1,800-year old Roman statue of an eagle devouring a serpent
Beware, your brain can force you to spend a lot more time than you might think watching these
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Stock up now, the Sriracha factory is facing shutdown
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The boats are fashioned entirely by hand using simple tools, and traditionally are carved from magongo tree wood
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Two months before he died, Heaney wrote "In a Field" at the request of poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy
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Those companies have designed dark, bold packaging and bigger "man-sized" portions
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Of the 8 million tweets sent in the days following the Boston bombing, just 20% were accurate pieces of factual information
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Laws are in the works to get EpiPens into schools and restaurants
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There may never be a time when people will accurately answer surveys, but at least survey givers are getting better at tricking us into being honest
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In the 1934 movie Murder at the Vanities there's a whole musical number about the pleasures of marijuana sung by half naked women
Keelan Glass finished her recent half marathon in 2:47:30
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Sandwiches, kale, lettuce, asparagus and spinach all benefit from a bit of bacon, according to aggregate recipe ratings
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Before photo and video, illustrations were the best way for scientists to share what they saw
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If things don't change, one official fears that Japan "might eventually perish into extinction"
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There are pumpkin spice air fresheners, M&Ms, tortialla chips, whiskey, candles and beer
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A recently discovered "Yeti corpse" was likely nothing more than a poor polar bear who many years ago found itself at the wrong end of a spear or a sword
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More than 30 years after the fall of the Khmer Rouge, trials of the group's genocidal leaders are inching closer to a verdict
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