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Health:

• Can You All of a Sudden Be Allergic to Nuts?
• Coffee leads US caffeine intake as tea declines
• The Dark Truth About Diet Coke
• Here's Why You Keep Waking Up With a Headache

Happiness:

• Pierced by Cupid’s Sedan, Woman Forgives and Marries Motorist Who Accidentally Ran Her Over
• Colorado Woman Donates Kidney to Save Pennsylvania Man 35 Years After They Went to Prom Together

Tales from Rideshare/Toast and Jam:

Higher Consciousness:

• Kratom to be tested for addiction risk in clinical trial
• Woody Harrelson Wishes He Could Invite Bob Marley To His Marijuana Dispensary—But Fears The Reggae Legend Would Out-Smoke Him

Lotus Tech Tips:

• A Disney Worker Downloaded an AI Tool. It Led to a Hack That Ruined His Life
• Amnesty Finds Cellebrite's Zero-Day Used to Unlock Serbian Activist's Android Phone

The Junk Drawer:

• Rogan calls their cookies 'toxic' on his podcast
• Oh My: Dead Body Placed Next To Couple On Qatar Airways Flight

Last Call:

• iPhones are replacing 'Trump' with 'racist' during dictation – but Apple is fixing the problem
• Grace Slick recalls her wildest moments, from sleeping with Jim Morrison to plotting to dose Nixon
• I-40 BETWEEN TENN. AND NORTH C. TO REOPEN TO RESTRICTED TRAFFIC THIS SATURDAY
• This Is The Very Definition Of F**k Around And Find Out

Images:

Credits:

• RevCyberTrucker for the Cavalcade of Stupidity!
• cottongin
• Mama T

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