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ICYMI: The Number Of Millennials Having Strokes Is Soaring
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- There's no end in sight for Venezuela's currency collapse.
- From 2003 to 2012, there was a 32% spike in strokes among women ages 18 to 34, and a 15% increase for men in that same age range.
- Scott Thompson, of The Kids In The Hall fame, left L.A. when he found out he had cancer (he had to go back home to Toronto, since he didn't have health insurance out here). Now he's back.
- There's a growing admiration for Timothy McVeigh in extremist circles. Oh man.
- Here's a live reading of Bob's Burgers:
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