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Indiana judge rules tacos and burritos are, in fact, sandwiches (www.nbcnews.com)
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Thai Official Suspended After Husband Catches Her In Bed With Adopted Monk Son (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
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spoilerWhat are you doing step monk

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Inside the surreal world of $20,000 pet portraits (www.washingtonpost.com)
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Punk rock band Trophy Eyes fan left paralyzed after singer jumped on her at concert (www.independent.co.uk)
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Man who received first pig kidney transplant dies aged 62 (www.bbc.com)
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Mexican senator sacrifices rooster to Aztec rain god (in-cyprus.philenews.com)
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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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Alpaca Sex Is Even Weirder Than You Think (gizmodo.com)
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Scarborough woman wants answers after being told she is dead (www.bbc.com)
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Stowaway cat accidentally mailed to California in returned package (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Man nabbed for posing as Singapore Airlines pilot at Delhi airport (tnp.straitstimes.com)
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Japanese city loses residents’ personal data, which was on paper being transported on a windy day (soranews24.com)
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I guess their documents are in the cloud now...

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Meet Philly’s 24/7 cheese vending machine (www.inquirer.com)
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Hospital staff plead with bite victims to stop bringing snakes to emergency departments (www.abc.net.au)
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Runaway circus elephant stops traffic in Montana (www.bbc.com)
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Viola, the elephant, was startled by the sound of a nearby car and ran away while having a bath.

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Wild goose chase gets happy ending after birds stolen from Texas park found (www.mysanantonio.com)
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Florida gay adult film star, Proud Boy, Trump supporter sentenced over January 6 insurrection (www.advocate.com)
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Chechnya bans dance music that is either too fast or too slow (www.theguardian.com)
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cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/11449035

Chechnya bans dance music that is either too fast or too slow

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Polish Priest Jailed for Throwing Wild Orgy Where Male Prostitute Collapsed After Overdosing on Erectile Dysfunction Pills (www.ibtimes.sg)
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NOTE: The original title of the article says "...Where Male Prostitute Died After Overdosing..." but the article itself mentions that he only collapsed, hence the difference between the post title and the article title.

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‘Mostly felt like a speed bump’: US man on getting vasectomy amid earthquake (www.theguardian.com)
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Truck crash hurls 77,000 ‘threatened’ salmon into wrong creek (www.washingtonpost.com)
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Man Arrested For Firing A Gun In Downtown Nashville To Celebrate Divorcing His Wife (www.whiskeyriff.com)
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Watch: Man's miraculous near-miss from runaway saw blade - BBC News (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Harvard University removes human skin binding from book (www.bbc.com)
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The passages that I found important

Des Destinées de l'Ame is a meditation on the soul and life after death, written by Arsène Houssaye in the mid-1880s.

He is said to have given it to his friend, Dr Ludovic Bouland, a doctor, who then reportedly bound the book with skin from the body of an unclaimed female patient who had died of natural causes.

In its statement, Harvard said its handling of the book had not lived up to the "ethical standards" of care and that in publicising it, it had on occasion used a "sensationalistic, morbid and humorous tone" which was not appropriate.

It apologised and said it had "further objectified and compromised the dignity of the human being whose remains were used for its binding".

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Lot owner stunned to find $500K home accidentally built on her lot. Now she’s being sued (www.wpxi.com)
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