Here are the stories which are true but really odd...

August 27, 2021

EPA is falsifying risk assessments for dangerous chemicals, say whistleblowers (theguardian.com) 22:10


Parents must pay $30,441 for getting rid of son's porn cache (apnews.com) 20:23


TikTok bans the 'milk crate challenge' because of injuries (edition.cnn.com) 19:14


Kenyans stranded overnight in Mombasa Road traffic jam in Nairobi (bbc.co.uk) 18:31


South Dakota Attorney General Won't Get Jail Time After Pedestrian Death (npr.org) 18:17


Alan Page, NFL legend and retired Minnesota Supreme Court justice, not 'notable' for Twitter verification (fox9.com) 17:42


Deer in Nara Park mysteriously disappear during this year's shikadamari season (soranews24.com) 14:43


Taliban pledges to tackle climate change (independent.co.uk) 14:42


More people are poisoning themselves with horse-deworming drug to thwart COVID (arstechnica.com) 14:41


Arkansas doctor under investigation for prescribing anti-parasitic drug thousands of times for Covid-19 despite FDA warning (cnn.com) 13:34


Woman wearing 'Purge' mask taken to hospital after terrifying High Ridge mother (fox2now.com) 12:36


Venomous Sea Snakes That Charge Divers May Just Be Looking for Love. A new study suggests apparent attacks are actually fleeting cases of mistaken identity (smithsonianmag.com) 12:10


12-Year-Old Earns $400,000 Selling NFTs to Idiots (futurism.com) 11:06


Man dies after using epoxy resin as DIY protection instead of condom (torontosun.com) 09:50


New Zealand police break up one-person anti-lockdown protest in Auckland (theguardian.com) 05:41


Samsung punishes Galaxy Fold 3 modders by disabling their cameras (arstechnica.com) 03:30


Mosinee woman sees cow in the backseat of a car in McDonald’s drive-thru (wsaw.com) 03:13