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- Looking for the perfect lamp for your bedside table or swingers' retreat? Try this butt-lamp that turns on when you give it a spanking.
- A man survived a bear attack by remembering that his grandmother told him bears have bad gag reflexes, and shoving his arm down the bear's throat.
- If you haven't stopped by Clifton's Cafeteria in real life yet, here's a virtual tour.
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- David Bowie has a new song out called "Blackstar." It's for the credit sequence in the show The Last Panthers, a British crime about stolen diamonds.
- Mike Klimo is a man who spent two years writing a 20,000-word essay on how the Star Wars prequels aren't terrible.
- Chris Pratt and Anna Faris' son named a baby penguin at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle. The name he chose is that of a different bird: an eagle.
- A costume company decided to rank literature's scariest monsters. Using the monsters' looks, abilities and intentions, they determined the wicked spider-clown IT was the scariest of them all and Jules Verne's giant squid the least.
- And finally, here are some dogs taking each other on walks.
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