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For news articles which seem so much like satire that you're surprised they're not from The Onion.

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  4. Popular political, religious, or social views are not Oniony, no matter how ridiculous you may think them.

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Italy bans puppy yoga on animal welfare grounds (www.bbc.com)
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Pokémon Go Players Invent Fake Beaches on Real Maps to Catch Rare Wigletts (www.404media.co)
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A little girl said monsters were in her bedroom. It was 60,000 bees (www.bbc.com)
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Irish basketball teams ordered to replay final 0.3 seconds of playoff match (www.theguardian.com)
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Alan Titchmarsh’s jeans blurred by North Korean TV censors (www.theguardian.com)
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Montreal man returns from vacation, gets letter from Quebec government saying he's dead (montreal.ctvnews.ca)
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Sports betting in Missouri may cause gambling addiction spike (www.ksdk.com)
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Japan will no longer require floppy disks for submitting some official documents (www.engadget.com)
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Chicago man seeks $75 million in damages after his 'local dating life' gets called out on Facebook (www.thefocus.news)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Canadian police warn that posting videos of alleged package thieves could be ‘violation' of their privacy (www.foxnews.com)
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Poison expert indicted on murder charges in his wife's fatal poisoning (scrippsnews.com)
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Try not to let moose lick your car, Parks Canada warns, as more salt-seeking animals flock to highways (www.cbc.ca)
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TSA director arrested by US Customs and Border Protection (www.foxnews.com)
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Francophone Belgian couple caught in bureaucratic struggle to prove they speak French (www.cnn.com)
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Vietnam fines TikToker $300 for saying Angkor Wat is in Thailand (asia.nikkei.com)
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Chief executive of collapsed crypto fund HyperVerse does not appear to exist (www.theguardian.com)
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Vietnam Pledges Human Rights Reform by Year 2099 (www.newsweek.com)
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Robbers' getaway car stolen as they're robbing Colorado check chasing store, police say (www.usatoday.com)
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Paraguay official resigns after signing agreement with fictional country (www.theguardian.com)
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Man shocked to discover source of headaches for 5 months is pair of chopsticks inside his skull (www.foxnews.com)
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FDA warns chemical company not to mix brake cleaner into hand sanitizer (arstechnica.com)
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These magnificent purple and green lights aren’t auroras. This is Steve (www.cnn.com)
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Baseball great Ichiro Suzuki throws shutout against a high school girls’ team in Japan | CNN (www.cnn.com)
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Biden admin plan to release 7 grizzly bears annually near rural communities faces widespread backlash (nypost.com)
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Fights erupt outside Museum of Tolerance after screening of film on Hamas (abc7.com)
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