Stranger Than Fake

November 17, 2023

The world's top chess federation won't let transgender women compete until 'relevant proof' is accepted by officials ^{(fortune.com)
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From yesterday's NYT corrections column: "An article on Tuesday about the intelligence of vultures misidentified the geographic region in which black vultures snip and consume the umbilical cords of sea lions. It is South America, not Northern California." ^{(nytimes.com)
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Forget Black Friday; plumbers prepare for Brown Friday ^{(scrippsnews.com)
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Man arrested for masterbating in Iowa gas station named Kum N Go ^{(1630kcjj.com)
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Colombia starts sterilizing hippos descended from drug kingpin Pablo Escobar's pets ^{(news.sky.com)
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Video shows shark sighting on Florida interstate ^{(clickorlando.com)
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