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- The NY Post published some pretty unflattering photos of Kathy Hochul's three-bedroom condo in Buffalo, which she'll soon be leaving for the governor's mansion in Albany.
- New Zealand, which closed itself off at the start of the pandemic and basically succeeded at avoiding COVID-19, is planning to reopen to foreign travelers in 2022.
- Two European sex toy companies are merging to form the Lovehoney Group, which will be valued at $1.2 billion, making it the world's largest sexual wellness company.
- Fans of LeVar Burton, the people's champ of Jeopardy! guest hosts, are not happy that he didn't get the hosting job.
- MGM Resorts is auctioning off a Pablo Picasso painting that hung in the Picasso restaurant at the Bellagio in Vegas, saying it'll use the estimated $100 million from the sale to "deepen diversity and inclusion" in its art collection.
- Marine animal rescuers in Ireland are trying to get a pontoon boat to safely "haul out" Wally, a famous walrus that swam from the Arctic and wound up in the U.K., where he's been climbing on people's boats to sunbathe (and causing some boats to sink).
- A Canadian helicopter pilot has been charged with illegally parking his chopper in a small town in Saskatchewan after touching down not for an emergency, but rather to buy an ice cream cake from the local Dairy Queen franchise.
- Big blueberries are bad.
- And finally, a gentle cat:
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