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Teenage boys have a new hair style obsession: alpaca hair
Teenage boys have a new hair style obsession. Shaved on the sides, with a lot of fluff on top, it looks like the tuft of hair between an alpaca's ears.
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Campbell Soup is the latest company to change its name to adopt a new mission
The Campbell Soup Company which has been around for more than a century is changing its name to The Campbell’s Company -- dropping soup from its name. We look at company name change trends.
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Beware: It's Friday the 13th. Don't say we didn't warn you
Friday the 13th is a widespread superstition around the world. Some countries, however, have their own bad luck days.
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Popular Shanghai bookstore, closed by China, relocates to Washington, D.C.
Jifeng Bookstore in Shanghai used to be a gathering place for academics and students, but it closed in 2018 after the Chinese government declined to renew the lease on the building.
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Australia expands its list of national species
Australia has added 750 new species of plants, animals and other organisms to its official list of species living on the continent.
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Why some of the country’s wealthier people say they don’t feel especially well off
A new report from a financial services company finds that only one-third of millionaires consider themselves to be wealthy.
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Selfies taken in desirable locations makes people less likely to go there, study finds
A new study finds that seeing other people in photos at a desirable locale — especially selfies — makes people less likely to go there.
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Video game Black Myth Wukong explores traditional mythology
The new video game Black Myth: Wukong is one of the most popular video games in the world -- and yet another adaptation of the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West.
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Corn sweat is real, and it's made extreme heat in the Midwest even more uncomfortable
Corn sweat is real. Corn draws in water, then releases it into the air through evaporation. And all that moisture produced by more than 90 million acres of corn nationwide can make it more humid.
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Our quest for romance through dating apps is only making us lonlier, studies find
Tired of swiping left and right? And out of patience? You’re not alone. Our quest for romance through dating apps is only making us lonelier.