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Early Addition: Google's Top Trending Topic Of 2014
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Nell Casey
Published Dec 16, 2014
Modified Dec 16, 2014
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- It's a long time 'til April, so here's five seconds from the new Game of Thrones season.
- Robin Williams was Google's top trending search in 2014.
- Mom calls C-SPAN because she just wants a peaceful Christmas from her two pundit sons.
- 145 people (and counting), mostly children, were killed in a Taliban attack on a public school in Pakistan.
- Clash singer Joe Strummer has been immortalized as a snail.
- Oh God avocado shortage EVERYBODY PANIC!!!!
- The director of Frozen basically apologized to parents for "Let It Go."
- It only costs $100,000 to clone your dog in South Korea.
- And finally, this is the most disciplined dog in the world:
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