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Extra, Extra: Cheese Is The New Crack
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Ben Yakas
Published Oct 22, 2015
Modified Oct 22, 2015
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Published Oct 22, 2015
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- Hillary Clinton's appearance at the Benghazi hearing went about as well as one could expect.
- Rolling Stone has a good piece about the battle for the soul of the Dark Web.
- One way to get over impostor syndrome? Dress like Cookie from Empire for a week.
- According to a new study, cheese really is as addictive as drugs, just like you always told yourself.
- Check out the trailer for Aziz Ansari's Netflix series, Master Of None.
- A man named his Venmo payment "iced coffee obama nsa inside job syria" and Venmo contacted him four months later w security questions.
- In search of the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster.
- The NY Post took three elderly Mets fans on a tour of Citi Field.
- In a story right out of 30 Rock, a man named "Lou Morgan" has been going around town telling people he's Tracy Morgan's son, toasting to his "dad" in clubs.
- And finally, do you think this cat Tribble has the cutest purr ever?
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