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ICYMI: Amal And George Clooney Are Having Twins

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  • George and Amal Clooney are expecting twins.
  • Following a month of discussion among editors, Wikipedia has finally laid down their verdict on the Daily Mail as a source, and it's not pretty.
  • It's National Pizza Day (we love made-up days! It's also National Bagel Day, but who's counting) and the Guardian has published a Very Important Data Investigation into how much pizza we Americans actually eat. It's a lot, and "the only factor which seems to affect pizza intake is age."
  • Speaking of Very Important Data Investigations, our friends at The Atlantic have a blurb about the exclamation-point-to-word ratios of famous authors, and it turns out that James Joyce really really liked exclamation points.
  • Los Angeles' Alliance for Community Transit (ACT-LA) has a new video (via Streetsblog LA) looking at issues of gentrification and displacement in South L.A.:

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