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- A petition calling for more racially diverse emojis has over 2,000 signatures.
- Though it won't reveal its 127-year-old recipe, Coca-Cola insists that cocaine was never an ingredient.
- A teen in Kyrgyzstan died after eating a bubonic plague-infected marmoset.
- A bomb scare in Brooklyn turned out to be an empty suitcase.
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- Alexander Skarsgard is really into soccer.
- And finally, here are some "dancing" baby ostriches:
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