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We bring you the most unusual, off-the-wall and occasionally laugh-out-loud headlines from this week…

• Royal beekeeper has to inform palace bees that the Queen has died in strange ritual → (Edinburgh Times)
• Japan’s new digital minister is waging war on floppy disks. Companies fear the fax machine could be next → (Fortune )
• Chinese man gets trapped aloft in hydrogen balloon for 2 days, traveling 200 miles. He was trying to collect pine nuts from a tree. → (CBS News)
• Watch: British man aims for Guinness World Record with 22-foot mobility scooter → (UPI)

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Have you ever encountered a glitch in the matrix, quirky animal behavior, or even just a hilarious first grader? Tell us about it here for a chance to be featured in next Thursday’s newsletter.

👩 Who: Eleanor B. from Mission Viejo, CA

💬 The experience: I was going to go with my mom to her office, then to my eye doctor appointment (I had just gotten glasses and contacts, and was going in for a follow up). I got up and went to my bathroom and put my contacts in, then all I remember is feeling confused and being on the floor of my room. I went back to the bathroom and finished getting ready, then later in the day went to my eye doctor appointment. He told me that I had no contacts in, even though I remembered putting them in that morning. And, when I got home, the little packages that the contacts came in (I have the type where there is one individually packaged for each day, and then when you take it out you throw it away) were in the trash empty.

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