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NOTE: The original title of the article says "...Where Male Prostitute Died After Overdosing..." but the article itself mentions that he only collapsed, hence the difference between the post title and the article title.

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‘Mostly felt like a speed bump’: US man on getting vasectomy amid earthquake (www.theguardian.com)

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Truck crash hurls 77,000 ‘threatened’ salmon into wrong creek (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Man Arrested For Firing A Gun In Downtown Nashville To Celebrate Divorcing His Wife (www.whiskeyriff.com)

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Watch: Man's miraculous near-miss from runaway saw blade - BBC News (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Harvard University removes human skin binding from book (www.bbc.com)

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The passages that I found important

Des Destinées de l'Ame is a meditation on the soul and life after death, written by Arsène Houssaye in the mid-1880s.

He is said to have given it to his friend, Dr Ludovic Bouland, a doctor, who then reportedly bound the book with skin from the body of an unclaimed female patient who had died of natural causes.

In its statement, Harvard said its handling of the book had not lived up to the "ethical standards" of care and that in publicising it, it had on occasion used a "sensationalistic, morbid and humorous tone" which was not appropriate.

It apologised and said it had "further objectified and compromised the dignity of the human being whose remains were used for its binding".

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Lot owner stunned to find $500K home accidentally built on her lot. Now she’s being sued (www.wpxi.com)

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A book on psychedelics was returned to a Colorado library after taking a "long, strange trip" for about 37 years (www.upi.com)

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Mike Tyson hopes to deliver knockout blow with cannabis edible ears - in a nod to his most notorious fight (news.sky.com)

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Mike Tyson hopes to deliver knockout blow with cannabis edible ears - in a nod to his most notorious fight

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Sinkhole Unearths Rumored Moonshine Cave Underneath Frontstretch Grandstands at North Wilkesboro Speedway (www.northwilkesborospeedway.com)

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For decades, rumors have circulated that historic North Wilkesboro Speedway was the site of a secret moonshine still. Now some Wilkes County locals may have more reason to say ‘I told you so,’ as a possible moonshine cave has been discovered underneath the concrete frontstretch grandstands.