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  • 70-Year-Old Fruitcake Auctioned Off, Possibly Edible

    Someone paid $525 for this. A 70-year-old fruitcake, purchased in 1941 and returned to a Kroger store in 1971, was recently sold on an online auction. Kroger store manager Frank Bates, 86, kept it until recently, when his son gave it up to an estate company. Although the cake feasibly is still edible (vacuum-sealed and preserved in rum), the real gift is that the cake’s proceeds will help pay for a church outreach program in Cincinnati. (via shortformblog.tumblr.com)

    70-Year-Old Fruitcake Auctioned Off, Possibly Edible

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  • TLC Hides Reality Contestant's Death From Viewers

    Despite the fact that U.S. Army paratrooper Wesley Durden died in October of apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, fans of “Next Great Baker” did not learn about his death until after he got booted off the show.

    TLC Hides Reality Contestant's Death From Viewers

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  • New Bin Laden Clip Features Bizarre 3D Animation

    A 40-minute-long clip acquired by content curation site ProducerMatthew.com included an crude computer animation of Osama bin Laden's Abbottabad compound, in which rocket launchers destroy American tanks. The site also made a second excerpt available. Unlike the clips released by the U.S. government earlier in the day, these videos include audio. (via ShortFormBlog)

    New Bin Laden Clip Features Bizarre 3D Animation

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  • ATV + Giant Flag + Gun = One Way to Celebrate Osama's Death

    If this guy didn't fire his gun into the air while driving a tractor and waving an American flag, the terrorists would've won. (via ShortFormBlog)

  • Best Newspaper Correction Ever

    The New York Times published perhaps the greatest correction in its history on Sunday. “A series of pictures last Sunday of covers of the magazine Tiger Beat, with an article about how the original teen-girl tabloid has remained virtually unchanged since its inception in 1965, erroneously included a parody cover, produced by the satiric newspaper The Onion, that featured a picture of President Obama.” (From ShortFormBlog, via Mediaite)

    Best Newspaper Correction Ever

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