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NEWS OF THE WEIRD
A 28-year-old man was arrested after threatening to rob a Waffle House in Florida on Monday. He didn’t have a weapon . . . he just held up his hands in the shape of a gun. Then, he just took some napkins and walked out.
Doctors in Egypt removed a small cell phone from the stomach of a patient who swallowed it several months ago. It’s unclear what the backstory is.
A British CEO is wondering whether he should grant “PAWternity leave” to an employee who had just purchased a puppy. In a poll, 61% of people said that he should NOT grant PAWternity leave.
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The Largest Candy Corn Factory Has Been Hacked
Halloween is just around the corner, and candy corn lovers everywhere SHOULD be experiencing PEAK JOY. But that joy is under ATTACK.
A company in Chicago called Ferrara Candy makes Brach’s candy corn, which accounts for 85% of the country’s candy corn market. And earlier this month, they were HACKED.
They were hit with a malicious ransomware attack, but no other specifics have been released.
The hack DID disrupt production and the company is still working to restore everything back to 100% . . . but it doesn’t sound like there will be any candy corn shortages.
Bud Light Is Selling an Eggnog Hard Seltzer for the Holidays
This whole hard seltzer trend has officially hit the “Wait, this must be a JOKE” stage. Bud Light is selling a new EGGNOG-flavored hard seltzer for the holidays.
It’s part of a new variety 12-pack called the “Ugly Sweater Pack,” which they also did last year. But three of the four flavors are new: Seltzer Nog, Sugar Plum, and Cherry Cordial. The fourth one is Cranberry, which was also in last year’s Ugly Sweater Pack.
They’ll be available nationwide starting November 1st. This comes on the heels of the “Fall Flannel” pack they started selling in September. That one includes Pumpkin Spice, Maple Pear, Apple Crisp, and Toasted Marshmallow seltzers.
🎁 It's mid-October, which means it's obviously time to start celebrating the holidays! The Bud Light Seltzer Ugly Sweater Pack features our LOUDEST holiday flavors ever. ❄️ #UglySweaterSeltzerParty pic.twitter.com/IqqLFhYLbz
— Bud Light (@budlight) October 20, 2021
A Museum’s TikTok Is Banned for Posting Nudes, So They Launched an OnlyFans
It’s no secret that social media platforms struggle with blocking nudity. It seems like they miss all the stuff they intend on catching . . . and then flag posts that are NOT pornographic.
There’s also the issue of nudes in fine art, and whether they should also be censored. In 2018, Facebook was mocked in Europe for censoring 400-year-old nude paintings from the Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens.
Now, a group of museums in Vienna, Austria is so fed up with being censored on TikTok that they created . . . an OnlyFans account.
A spokesperson said the city’s museums had their social media accounts suspended. Quote, “Vienna and its art institutions are among the casualties of this new wave of prudishness . . . with nude statues and famous artworks blacklisted.
“We’ve had 3,000-year-old works of art be censored [on social media] . . . clearly there is something wrong here . . . that’s why we decided to put the capital’s world-famous ‘explicit’ artworks on OnlyFans.”
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Today is International Day of the Nacho. What is the name of the restaurant where nachos were first served?
ANSWER: Victory Club.
