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Sam Jones wombat: US influencer draws backlash for taking baby wombat from mum (www.bbc.com)
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Florida woman arrested for aggravated battery with a Pringles can (www.wesh.com)
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Air India confirms Chicago plane returned due to clogged toilets (www.bbc.com)
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Octopuses are now punching fish in the face. This video shows exactly why | Discover Wildlife (www.discoverwildlife.com)
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Watch: Demolition takes down record-breaking rollercoaster (www.bbc.com)
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German Soccer Player's Child Bites Referee's Testicle Forcing Game to Be Canceled (www.latintimes.com)
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Fake captain steals $8 million fishing vessel (www.nationalfisherman.com)
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Guizhou: Chinese foodies pose as mourners to try funeral home's noodles (www.bbc.com)
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Underweight baby seal is rescued from Connecticut streets and recovering at an aquarium (www.independent.co.uk)
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Couples Exchange Bacteria During Intercourse. It Might Help Track Down Sexual Assault Perpetrators. (www.smithsonianmag.com)
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‘Cake Bandit’ opossum hospitalized after indulging in an entire Costco cake (www.aol.com)
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Ancient Egyptian mummies smell "spicy" and "sweet", study finds (www.bbc.com)
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The authors of the academic study, published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society on Thursday, had to get the smell from inside the sarcophagus without interfering with the mummy inside.

The researchers, from UCL and the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia, did so by inserting a tiny tube so they were able measure the scent without taking any physical samples.

If you want to smell the smell too

They say recreating the composition of the smells chemically will allow others to experience a mummy's whiff - and help to tell when the bodies inside may be starting to rot.

"We want to share the experience we had smelling the mummified bodies, so we're reconstructing the smell to be presented in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo," Cecilia Bembibre, one of the researchers, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

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A humpback whale briefly swallows kayaker in Chilean Patagonia — and it's all captured on camera (apnews.com)
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Over $1 million in olive oil stolen from Montreal trucking company (www.ctvnews.ca)
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First it was egg thieves, now olive oil. What's next, bacon bandits?

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Thieves stole 100,000 organic eggs off a trailer in Pennsylvania. Police are scrambling (www.cbc.ca)
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More than 100 red-bellied black snakes found in Sydney backyard (www.bbc.com)
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Key details

When his colleague arrived, he discovered 40 red-bellied black snakes - four of which gave birth to more live young once he had placed them in a removal bag.

Red-bellied black snakes are one of the most common venomous species in Australia but have not caused any human deaths on record.

The five adult and 97 baby snakes are currently under quarantine and will be released into a national park once the weather cools.

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Welsh woman fined for flatulence-fueled cyber harassment (www.theregister.com)
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Woman set home on fire using bag of Takis chips (www.live5news.com)
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Texas teenager accused of using poison to kill rival’s competition show goat (www.theguardian.com)
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Man who helped design breathalysers banned for drunk driving (www.countytimes.co.uk)
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Texas A&M alumnus accidentally joins band, says he pretended to play for 4 years (www.lonestarlive.com)
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New Zealander Wins Spanish World Scrabble Title Without Knowing Language (www.huffpost.com)
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Love-struck male humpback whale swims record-breaking 3 oceans, 8,106 miles for sex (interestingengineering.com)
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This Canadian is the new world champion of spreadsheets, and he has the belt to prove it (www.cbc.ca)
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Toronto's Michael Jarman wins 2024 Microsoft Excel World Championships in Las Vegas

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Pet crocodile dies after being tossed into Alaska snow during argument between brothers over anime, troopers say (www.wrdw.com)
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