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It was the food combination that left the the internet aghast.

Yesterday, people were very upset with a tennis fan who was spotted dipping her chicken fingers into a tall glass of Coke on live television. Why did she do it? Now we have answers. 

Alexa Greenfield told Fox 5 NY that it was something she would do very frequently growing up, although doesn’t do it so much as an adult anymore.

“I started by saying to [my nephews], ‘Listen, guys. I’m going to do something. It’s a really big secret. Don’t tell your parents. Don’t tell any adults. Don’t tell anyone, because it’s really weird, and I’m a little embarrassed by it. It’s a secret.’ And then they caught me,” she told the TV station. Read more…

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Well this is awkward. 

A Twitter bug is making it appear as if accounts have liked tweets they haven’t — including those 240-character missives from our very own commander-in-chief. 

That’s right, your friends browsing their timelines might see your name next to an official Twitter notification saying you smashed that Like button on something you actually find repulsive. 

“[This] is a bug involving Likes that we’re working to fix,” explained a Twitter spokesperson over email. “This issue is affecting numerous accounts.”  Read more…

More about Twitter, Donald Trump, Tech, and Social Media Companies

It’s not exactly as vegetarian as Finding Nemo‘s Bruce, but this grass-eating shark could come close to taking the “fish are friends, not food” pledge.

Researchers claim they’ve identified the world’s first known omnivorous shark, which eats both underwater animals and plants. 

In a new study published by researchers at the University of California-Irvine and Florida International University, the bonnethead shark, which dwells in seagrass meadows off the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts, was found to be not solely carnivorous, as previously thought — it’s been sighted having a good nom on that seagrass on multiple occasions. Read more…

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Hollywood often requires a level suspension of disbelief from its audience, especially in TV shows like Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan re-re-re-re-reboot on Amazon. 

But the titular character’s navigation of our nation’s capital is a stretch of the imagination that just goes too far.

Local outlet DCist, whose employees are undoubtedly forced to contend with the real-life woes of getting around the city, weren’t having any of it. So they rose to the call of journalism, followed a hunch, did the research, found the evidence, and came to a damning conclusion. Read more…

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Following years of rumors that Mercedes-Benz might unleash an electric model into a high-end market that has so far been dominated by Tesla, the German auto maker finally showed a major card in its hand on Tuesday when it unveiled its plans for a zero-emission crossover SUV called the EQC.

The vehicle will be the first in its EQ lineup — “EQ” meaning “electric intelligence” — and will start production in 2019 with an expected 280-mile electric range. In a series of statements, Mercedes described the EQC as a “muscular” vehicle with a new “electro-look;” the “design idiom of Progressive Luxury.” Read more…

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The hefty metal Bendegó meteorite still sits unscathed inside the charred entrance to Brazil’s palatial National Museum, after flames spread through the 200-year-old halls Sunday night.

The iron-and-nickel space rock, weighing in at some 11,800 pounds (5.36 metric tons), withstood flames that ravaged nearly all the ancient paintings, bones, and collections housed inside the main three-story structure, the museum’s deputy director Cristiana Serejo told Brazil’s news organization G1 on Monday.

Serejo estimated that perhaps 10 percent of the museum’s collections survived, though fire investigators will scour the museum to discover exactly what ancient artifacts remain. The museum held mummies, dinosaur fossils, and a wealth of prehistoric Brazilian history. Read more…

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Pustulous Twitter politicking got you down? Look no further for a sweet escape from the 2018 news-hellscape, my friends, than Facebook’s Trending News tab.

What?! IN the news tab, you say? Isn’t that where click-hungry press organizations and ill-informed uncles thrive, symbiotically sucking each other’s teats of inflammatory information and outrage? No longer, weary travelers. No longer.

A scroll through the Facebook menu, called up by pressing the three lines button in the app, or under “Explore” in the desktop side bar, provides a gateway to a surprising island of quietude. Read more…

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This is Ode To…, a weekly column where we share the stuff we’re really into in hopes that you’ll be really into it, too.

Oh the good old days, when beans stayed in their designated corner on the microwavable plate.

Times have changed. People’s obsession with the legendary legume has gotten darker, stranger, wrong. We now have a subreddit called “Beans in Things” which posts “pictures of beans in things that beans shouldn’t be in.”

That’s it. That’s the subreddit. And it’s wonderful.

According to the subreddit’s founder Reddit user SpareLiver, the the group was inspired by an already existing bean Facebook group. Read more…

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Everyone has an opinion on dipping sauces, whether it be ketchup, mustard, or sweet and sour. But there’s one thing most of us can agree on: Soda is not a sauce.

We wish we could tell that to a bold tennis fan at the U.S. Open, who has predictably caught the attention of the internet for dipping her chicken fingers into a tall, icy glass of Coke on live television.

“That’s a new one,” the commentator can be heard saying, as the fan casually dips a whole piece of chicken into her soda.

While we can handle the odd but ultimately delicious combination of dipping your french fries into a soft serve cone, the mix of carbonation and processed chicken here is baffling, to say the least. Read more…

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When The New Yorker announced that Steve Bannon — the man who mainstreamed white nationalism as a former Donald Trump adviser — would headline its New Yorker Festival, the internet responded with a collective, “Are you kidding me?”

Then, celebrities slated to appear at the event started pulling out on Twitter. 

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