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Online Scams May Be Costing Americans 7 Times More Than Reported [ [link removed] ]
That makes a lot of sense. They’re easy to fall for, but a lot of people would probably feel like a dope telling people about it. Which is a shame, because telling your story might help others avoid it
Scientists Discover the Brain Is Not Always Ready To Make Memories [ [link removed] ]
So when you ask me to do something and I completely space out, it’s not my fault, my brain just wasn’t ready to make a memory
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Tales From the Blue Line - The Photograph [ [link removed] ] - While clearing out her late mother’s house, Annabelle finds a decades-old family photo of a gathering at a house no one recognizes, presided over by a stranger who stares straight into the camera while everyone else looks away. The more relatives she consults, the more names she recovers and the less she learns about the one face that matters — until the figure in the corner becomes less a mystery to solve than a presence she can’t quite put down.
Tales From The Blue Line: Every morning at three, Mason and Ally ride the Blue Line into downtown Chicago together. The train brings out its own brand of weird, which has led to Mason and Ally trading spooky stories to help their commute pass a little faster.
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More Americans now use marijuana daily than tobacco, survey shows [ [link removed] ] - Marijuana use and betting apps pretty much became the center of the universe virtually overnight
Project Sunrise, a 22-Hour Nonstop Flight, Is Coming. What Will it Be Like? [ [link removed] ] - I’m not sure I can imagine a more torturous experience than 22 consecutive hours on an airplane. No thanks
Ancient Egyptian history rewritten as new clues reveal advanced technology used to build pyramids [ [link removed] ] - So it wasn’t the aliens, I guess. Humans just had the technology all along. This is going to make the next season of Ancient Aliens really boring
Katy Perry Gets Trapped in Giant Bottle During Performance as Fans Ignore Her Pleas To Roll Her Back [ [link removed] ] - Well that’s something you don’t see everyday
Tinder date gone wrong: The Villages man held woman’s friend at gunpoint in money dispute, deputies say [ [link removed] ] - I’d say the odds of there being a second date are probably pretty low
Popeyes responds after self service kiosk asks customers to leave a tip [ [link removed] ] - That seems a little presumptuous on the computers part
Man Fakes His Own Funeral to Escape Drunk-Driving Legal Consequences [ [link removed] ] - It seems like it would have been much easier to just face the jail time. Of course it would have been even easier to not drink and drive
Teen Killed by Lightning Strike While Trying to Protect Younger Brother, Family Says [ [link removed] ] - The competition for weirdest story of the year is officially closed
Woman spends years biting husband’s toes to help him recover from brain injury [ [link removed] ] - Maybe that’s a good way to know if your person is “The One”… would you spend years biting their toes for medical reasons?
Overdue books returned to Welsh library after 116 years [ [link removed] ] - Imagine how excited the next person on the wait list is going to be
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