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Extra, Extra: Vine Users Should Probably Stop Filming Themselves Killing Cicadas
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Ben Yakas
Published May 22, 2013
Modified May 23, 2013
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Published May 22, 2013
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- Demi Moore's boyfriend has a pearl penis, or something.
- Somebody on Game Of Thrones doesn't want to get nekked anymore.
- Is a baby crying? Then Bill Murray may be nearby.
- Marc Maron and Michael Ian Black can't stop, won't stop bugging each other on Twitter.
- An 18-year-old invented a 30 second phone charger.
- Two men armed with a gun and meat cleavers killed a soldier in London today, then explained their motivation to a bystander with a cell phone camera
- People on Vine really should stop killing cicadas.
- Ridgewood ice cream truck plays “Send In The Clowns.”
- Bono traveled to Yankee Stadium today to attend his daughter Eve Hewson's NYU graduation.
- Greek yogurt might be delicious, but it also might be destroying the environment.
- Scientists are hard at work on a new drug called Lybrido, created to stoke sexual desire in women.
- And finally, here's a pug getting a massage from a cat:
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