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For news articles which seem so much like satire that you're surprised they're not from The Onion.

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  2. Posts must be genuine news articles, not satire, opinion, or tabloid pieces.
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  4. Popular political, religious, or social views are not Oniony, no matter how ridiculous you may think them.

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Francophone Belgian couple caught in bureaucratic struggle to prove they speak French (www.cnn.com)
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Vietnam fines TikToker $300 for saying Angkor Wat is in Thailand (asia.nikkei.com)
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Chief executive of collapsed crypto fund HyperVerse does not appear to exist (www.theguardian.com)
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Vietnam Pledges Human Rights Reform by Year 2099 (www.newsweek.com)
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Robbers' getaway car stolen as they're robbing Colorado check chasing store, police say (www.usatoday.com)
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Paraguay official resigns after signing agreement with fictional country (www.theguardian.com)
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Man shocked to discover source of headaches for 5 months is pair of chopsticks inside his skull (www.foxnews.com)
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FDA warns chemical company not to mix brake cleaner into hand sanitizer (arstechnica.com)
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These magnificent purple and green lights aren’t auroras. This is Steve (www.cnn.com)
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Baseball great Ichiro Suzuki throws shutout against a high school girls’ team in Japan | CNN (www.cnn.com)
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Biden admin plan to release 7 grizzly bears annually near rural communities faces widespread backlash (nypost.com)
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Fights erupt outside Museum of Tolerance after screening of film on Hamas (abc7.com)
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Australian farmer Colin Deveraux survives crocodile attack by biting back (www.bbc.com)
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Tourist accidentally sparks bomb scare with wrong translation for ‘pomegranate’ (nypost.com)
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 The words for pomegranate and grenade are the same in the Russian language, however, in Portuguese they are two separate words (with romã meaning pomegranate and granada translating to grenade) - a distinction that may have been lost during the language app’s translation.

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Cardiff students’ union bans chinos and blue shirts after violence (www.theguardian.com)
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Man arrested for faking heart attack 20 times at restaurants to avoid paying bill, reports say (www.livenowfox.com)
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How not to hire a North Korean plant posing as a techie (www.theregister.com)
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Cocaine Is Set to Overtake Oil to Become Colombia’s Main Export (www.bloomberg.com)
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‘Meteorite’ crater on Dublin beach turns out to be hole dug by beachgoers during sunny spell (www.independent.ie)
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Hurricane Idalia flung flamingos across the eastern U.S. (www.npr.org)
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Chicago TV news crew robbed at gunpoint while reporting on armed robberies (chicago.suntimes.com)
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Space junk targeted for cleanup mission was hit by different space junk, making more space junk (www.theregister.com)
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Georgia Man Arrested for Stealing His Neighbors' Entire Front Porch (themessenger.com)
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Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas (www.theguardian.com)
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Quebec trucking company ordered to reinstate driver fired for drinking and driving (www.cbc.ca)
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