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- Darth Vader completed an upstate half-marathon.
- Trump was directly involved in the hunt for the person who tweeted the inauguration photo.
- Ugh, SNL invited Trump back on for Alec Baldwin’s episode earlier this year.
- Wired took a trip to the Cheyenne Mountain complex, a super-bunker which can theoretically survive a nuclear attack.
- Bombay Sapphire gin is being recalled in Canada for accidentally having twice as much alcohol as it’s supposed to.
- A Portland, Oregon pizza parlor set a world record with a 101 cheese pie.
- Radiohead left "Lift" off OK Computer because they were worried it would have been too big a hit.
- A rabbi visiting the White House tweeted selfies with Steve Bannon, and captured Bannon's infamous white board of White House plans.
- Chris Pine and Kate McKinnon had a lot of fun dancing themselves clean in the promo for this weekend's SNL.
- FiveThirtyEight thinks the Comey letter cost Hillary Clinton the election, end of story.
- A woman is facing a year in jail for laughing at Jeff Sessions during a protest.
- And finally, Otter pups are a lot cuter than I realized:
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