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Hantavirus kills 3 on Dutch cruise ship; WHO says don’t panic
About 150 people, including 17 Americans, remain aboard the MV Hondius off Cape Verde, and no one has been allowed to leave the ship.
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Hershey gum sales surge as ‘Ozempic breath’ hits weight loss drug users
Ice Breakers sales rose more than 8% in the first quarter, and Hershey's CEO pointed to GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic as the reason.
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Rogue squirrel bites dean and 17 others at Indian university, and no one can catch it
For six weeks the squirrel has attacked people on the path to the Psychology Department at Mohanlal Sukhadia University in Udaipur, where it is believed to…
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Family leaves 10,000-square-foot home to spend most of the year camping at Disney World
Lauren and Adam Ewing told PEOPLE they and their two daughters spend 60% to 70% of the year in an RV at Disney's Fort Wilderness campground.
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Teens fill every glass to the brim before leaving so their server can’t clear the table
Server Parker Galen (@receipt.paper.man) posted the table on TikTok, where the video has been watched 1.5 million times.
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Traveler with no ID says he knew TSA’s process better than the agent screening him
Garret Ardolf (@garretardolf) documented his flight home from Denver to Phoenix without ID in a three-part TikTok series.
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Woman says she ended up on a free $10,000 ‘cult’ cruise, then stops sharing details
Francesca Keller (@badgalfrancesca) drew 8 million views with the claim, but has since backed away from the storytime she promised.
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Influencer faces backlash for joking about fatal hit-and-run outside her anniversary dinner
Sarah Stusek, who has 323,000 TikTok followers, kept filming at Oak Steakhouse in Alexandria, Virginia, as police investigated. She has deleted the video.
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Search for missing Mexican woman was slowed because posters used her filtered Instagram photos
Grecia Guadalupe Orantes Mendoza, 30, disappeared April 12 in Chiapas, and her family says the heavily edited images looked little like her.
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Canadian woman films a small mystery animal stealing her cake in Mexico
Rachel Anese (@rachelanese) caught the creature walking up to her restaurant table, grabbing the slice and running, and viewers can't agree on what it was.
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Georgia woman spots a distorted face in a closet during a virtual house tour
TikTok user @softlyhiddengemini called it a 'jump scare' in an otherwise empty listing, and her video has more than 600,000 views.
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Woman’s $186 Groupon mystery vacation turns out to be Orlando, after Atlanta was offered first
Rou (@roofayduh) says she turned down Atlanta because she'd already been, and picked Orlando over Fort Lauderdale.
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Friends fly to Miami to eat at Cactus Club, and are turned away for dress code
Trevor Blair (@trevor.blairrr) says one friend's outfit didn't meet the Canadian chain's rules, and the video set off a debate about its US expansion.
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Tennessee man swears off Buc-ee’s after seeing a manager berate an older worker in the bathroom
Dave Headrick (@youareunique.life) says it happened at the Sevierville location, and his video has more than 94,000 views.
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Houston ice cream shop tops its crawfish ice cream with a whole crawfish you use as a spoon
Red Circle Ice Cream in Chinatown has served the buttery, Cajun-spiced spring flavor for seven years.
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Japanese man gets 18 months in prison for posting movie and anime plot summaries
A Tokyo court found site administrator Wataru Takeuchi, 39, guilty of copyright infringement, setting off a debate over where the law ends.
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Man behind Instagram account ‘ihackedthegovernment’ sentenced for hacking federal systems
Nicholas Moore of Springfield, Tennessee, pleaded guilty to breaking into systems including the Supreme Court's electronic filing system, then posting the evidence.
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Pokémon fan finds a sealed 1999 card pack left on his chair by his unsuspecting boss
The fan says his elderly boss had no idea what the pack was worth. The X account ThePokeDads shared the find.