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- Cher's going to star in a Lifetime movie about the Flint, Michigan water disaster.
- Cormac McCarthy, author of Blood Meridian and other classics, once helped edit his friend's piece for the Harvard Business Review. Apparently, he took out all the commas. The piece went on to become one of the most influential pieces in the journal's history.
- How do you prevent food allergies? Researchers say the trick may be to feed peanuts to kids.
- Want to know how to pull off a man-choker like Matt Lauer? Now you know.
- It was revealed that Philip F. Anschutz, head of AEG (which oversees Coachella promoter Goldenvoice), had donated to a number of anti-LGBTQ groups. Anschutz says he was unaware that the groups were discriminatory, and that he has since cut his funding to them.
- When he was 14, Kyle Cameron was the youngest vineyard manager in Sonoma County. Now 20, he's been arrested on suspicion of robbing a bank.
- The Minnesota Gophers' ice hockey team partnered with Mitsubishi for a car dealership commercial. As shown in this blooper reel, one mascot had an awful time doing it:
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