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

• A Man Pretending to Be Dead On TikTok Gets His First Paid Role Playing Dead on CSI: Vegas → (Tech The Lead)
• Feline Sworn In As Mayor Of Italian Town → (Ananova News)
• Weird: The Al Yankovic Story Involved ‘Absolutely No Research on Al’s Actual Life,’ Director Says → (MovieMaker)
• Message in a bottle hunter uncorks a mystery → (UPI)
• Search underway in Indiana for missing pet kangaroo → (CBS Indianapolis)

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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: Paige S. from Waco, Texas

💬 The experience: I do not believe in manifesting something, BUT I think I may have the other day... I am an avid reader and I am a middle school English teacher, so I like to go to Goodwill and look for books. As I was entering the store to go to the book section (which is at the back of my store), I randomly remembered a book that my aunt recommended me months ago. I decide that I'll look for it, but it's not very popular, so I am not hopeful. Right as I arrive at the bookshelf, what is the VERY first book I see? The EXACT book I thought of before. I audibly gasped and scared two very sweet old ladies. I am still pretty much convinced that I manifested it into existence. Thanks me!

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