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A couple from the Isle of Wight doubled their lottery winnings thanks to their dog. Jane and Alan Slater won £149,089 (around $230,000) on the EuroMillions draw on Sept. 29, and had barely got over the shock when their labrador retriever Ruby dislodged a second winning ticket from a...

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A Taiwanese woman on board a Los Angeles-bound China Airlines flight unexpectedly gave birth to a bouncing baby girl last week. The pregnant woman told the cabin crew her water had broken six hours into the 19-hour flight across the Pacific, the airline told the China Post. Crew members...

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Bambi Smyth was looking for love. She also wanted to feed her culinary and travel urge. She thought it just might be a darn good idea to combine the three. The 56-year-old (she says going on 36) Scottish-born, Australian-raised author had been writing children’s books and doing wildlife...

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Pregnant. There it was, clear as day, two blue lines staring back at me from the small pregnancy test I had just purchased. I double checked... One line = not pregnant. Two lines = pregnant. Yup, I was definitely pregnant. My heart was pounding. My head was spinning. My...

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Few breakfast items transcend the sum of their parts quite like the humble pancake. Through some magical feat of morning alchemy, the simple combination of eggs, powder, and sugar creates a steaming platter that’s both fluffy and crispy, sweet and savory, and capable of soaking up a seemingly...

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Dads, grab the scrunchies. Good Samaritan Philippe Morgese is helping hair-styling-challenged dads by hosting workshops on creating ponytails, braids and buns, so their poor daughters can stop suffering from chronic bedhead. "I'm so proud of those that showed up and tried their...

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Peeling apples is a monotonous labor of love; one that we trudge through for the pies, sauce, and pickles on the other end of the dark, blade-to-apple-after-freaking-apple tunnel. But after watching this video—and some trial and error—we’ve found that a drill moonlights...

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You might picture a woman in labor writhing in pain and screaming for ice chips. That woman is not Akilah Wooten. While in labor at the Atlanta Medical Center, Wooten decided she would not settle for the squats recommended to move the baby down. She decided she would Whip Nae Nae -- the...

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Impeccable timing has led to a drone flyer capturing stunning footage of two whales swimming next to a paddle boarder off the coast of Esperance in Western Australia. Jaimen Hudson, a local from Esperance, told Mashable Australia about the marvellous footage he managed to capture of two southern...

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Good news for all Californian cycling/beer aficionados: On Sunday, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill allowing beer bikes to operate on city streets. The bill (SB-530), was authored by Democratic California State Senator Richard Pan, and clears the hurdles that beer bike tours have...

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The Turning Point My weight gain became an issue after going off to college. The cafeteria was set up buffet style! The over-indulgence and constant partying led to a 100-plus-pound weight gain. After leaving my college town and entering the working world, in some way I became disgusted with...

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Recipes make lofty claims. Too many call themselves the best, while some take it a step further (“the world’s best”) and some are a bit more humble (“very good”). But perhaps the grandest, most far-fetched claims of all are those of “magical” two- or...

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Here's a perk of being an employee at a gaming company: You have access to the latest virtual reality gear which you can then use to ask your girlfriend's hand in marriage in the geekiest of ways. That's exactly what Valve employee Chandler Murch did: He lured his girlfriend Kelly...

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There are lots of great places to people watch: the subway, theme parks, malls. And a Southern California mountain lion has found another fun vantage point: power poles. The mountain lion was photographed Tuesday atop a utility pole in Lucerne Valley, California. It apparently climbed up the...

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Sometimes the answer is in the poo, and given the typical watery environment of the sea turtle, those suckers can be hard to collect. The answer to the problem? Turtle swimsuits, naturally. Researchers at the University of Queensland, Australia are in the midst of a three-year project to try to...