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Published May 8, 2021
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- The latest conspiracy theory surrounding the presidential election is that 40,000 ballots were smuggled in from southeast Asia to Arizona, which can be proven by the presence of...bamboo...in the paper ballots.
- Tawny Kitaen, who starred in many 80s rock videos and alongside Tom Hanks in the movie “Bachelor Party,” died Friday at the age of 59.
- Police are investigating whether a woman in Mexico, who posted a Tik Tok video saying she had been kidnapped and asking for her family to rescue her, is the same person as Sofia Juarez, who was abducted from her Washington state home a day before her fifth birthday in 2003.
- Hundreds of baby diamondback terrapin turtles have been rescued from storm drains along the Jersey Shore, where they were likely “hiding from the cold temperatures over the winter and surviving off yolk sacks,” ABC7 reported.
- Robert De Niro, Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez and Venus Williams are among the celebs shilling for a real estate firm that’s promising COVID-19 safety standards.
- Bo, the Portuguese water dog adopted by the Obama family for Sasha and Malia after the 2008 presidential campaign, while they were living in the White House, has died. Former First Lady Michelle Obama wrote on Instagram that Bo was happy in his final days: “This past year, with everyone back home during the pandemic, no one was happier than Bo. All his people were under one roof again—just like the day we got him.”
- Take a listen to how cacophonous the Brood X cicadas can be and jam along with them if you please.
- Elon Musk hosts Saturday Night Live tonight — consider whether his appearance is not for entertainment, but rather for a cultural moment (and think despairingly about what that might mean for the state of culture right now).
- Read what happens when a pair of red-tailed hawks build a nest on a fire escape high above Broadway in West Harlem.
- A Utah woman who unexpectedly gave birth to a baby boy on a flight to Hawaii was lucky that a trio of NICU nurses and a physician were also aboard the airplane.
- And finally, Iggy Pop’s bird is a real wild one:
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Sophia Chang is a former WNYC and Gothamist reporter.
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