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August 4, 2022

Billionaire Mark Cuban Has Created a Company Selling Affordable Prescription Drugs

Did you know that billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban has a company that sells generic versions of medications at a fraction of the cost? If you didn’t, you’re not alone. A big part of that is because they don't advertise. In order to keep their prices as low as possible, they solely rely on word of mouth.

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August 3, 2022

Very Good Dog Is Trained To Collect Discarded Baseball Bats

A new star is lighting up the baseball stadium, and he's not a pitcher or home-run hitter.

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August 3, 2022

RIP Nichelle Nichols: Celebrating the Activist and Actress Who Played Lt. Uhura on ‘Star Trek’

Some stars shine brighter than others.

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August 3, 2022

This Butcher Shop Has a Policy To Always Offer Stray Animals Some Tasty Treats

It’s not very often that you find a stray cat in a butcher shop. And due to the notoriously wily nature of our kitty-friends, most people’s first instinct would be to chase the feral creature out. However, when a hungry feline wandered into their storefront in Manisa, Turkey, the three friendly butchers at the Yesim Meat Gallery decided to offer the cat a tasty treat instead.

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August 2, 2022

Surgeons Use Virtual Reality To Separate 3-Year-Old Conjoined Twins With Fused Brains

Conjoined twins are quite rare, but it's even rarer that they would be conjoined at the head.

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July 31, 2022

Kind Man Has Passed Out Over $13,000 in Ones and Fives To Complete Strangers Since 2014

Any single act of kindness can have a ripple effect, leading to people paying it forward in ways we couldn't...

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July 30, 2022

Jim Thorpe’s 1912 Olympic Gold Medals Are Finally Reinstated on 110th Anniversary of Wins

Embed from Getty Images On the 110th anniversary of his original Olympic victory, Jim Thorpe's gold medals are finally being reinstated. Thorpe, a member of the Sac and Fox nation and the first Native American to win an Olympic gold medal for the United States, competed in the 1912 Olympic Summer Games in Stockholm, Sweden.

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July 30, 2022

Loving Daughter Snuck Her Dad His Favorite Cocktail on His Final Day Alive

They say what's said at the end is the most important. Sometimes, though, actions speak louder than words.

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July 28, 2022

Ukrainians Are Hosting “Clean up Raves” To Restore Places Destroyed by Russian Attacks

Techno music is helping to repair a village in northern Ukraine.

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July 27, 2022

Newlyweds Adopt the Friendly Stray Dog that Crashed Their Wedding

Wedding crashers are usually unwelcome visitors; but at the ceremony of Tamiris Muzini and Douglas Vieira Robert, there was one uninvited guest who entered as a stranger and left as part of the wedding party’s family. So who was this mysterious person? It was actually a stray dog that appeared at the church in Brazil the day of the wedding and sat at the entrance, greeting the guests.

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