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US - Aug 19, 2026 - At 14, Sheri Lynch received a small grey hippo as a birthday gift. 40 years later, her collection had grown into a world-record collection of 1,086 items - Sheri Lynch has achieved Guinness World Records fame for her extraordinary hippo collection, which began with a single plush toy gifted to her in her teenage years. Over the span of more than forty years, she has gathered more than a thousand hippo-themed treasures from various corners of the globe.

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Quote of the day by John Cena: "A man's character is not judged after he celebrates a victory, but by..." - a powerful lesson about failure and responsibility

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US - Aug 19, 2026 - As US farmers reject multimillion-dollar AI data-centre offers, a Missouri farmer is doing the opposite and inviting developers to buy his land - In Missouri, a farmer has taken the unexpected step of inviting data center developers to bid on his land, despite notable local opposition and recent state restrictions. He believes that data centers could revitalize struggling rural economies by creating jobs and generating tax revenue. The farmer also addresses valid concerns about water use and electricity costs, presenting his offer as an opportunity for growth even when local prospects are dim.

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In 1992, Congress backed a plan to restore Florida's Kissimmee River after decades of flood control. 28 years later, wetlands and wildlife were returning

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US charges 17 Iranians over hacking campaign targeting 144 universities, firms

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'We'll bomb the s*** out of them': Why Trump is again threatening Oman amid Iran talks

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In 1926, Pittsburgh left a fruit merchant with a roughly six-foot-wide lot, and he responded by constructing a three-story commercial building

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In 1830, a Virginia brickmaker reportedly built a house in an alley to stop wagons from scraping his wall, creating a home just 7.5 feet wide

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Meet Gary Haase, the US collector whose Pokémon card collection is estimated to be worth $10 million

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Harvard to pay Rs 507 crore settlement after morgue manager stole, sold donated body parts

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In 2013, Utah's Tushar goat herd had grown to about 270, so helicopters relocated 53 goats to the La Sal Mountains, Mount Nebo and South Dakota

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In 1990, 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' coincided with a pet turtle boom, and unwanted red-eared sliders were later released into U.S. waters, where they competed with native turtles

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In 1943, Franklin Roosevelt gave his family home and 33 acres to the US government while retaining family rights to live there; he had expanded the estate to nearly 1,500 acres and planted over 500,000 trees

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In 1927, Japan imported about 100 Louisiana crayfish to feed farmed bullfrogs, only 20 survived and their descendants later spread to every prefecture except Hokkaido

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FBI puts Indian national Major Singh on Most Wanted list

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A polar bear destroyed almost an entire seabird colony in Alaska; scientists say changing food habits may explain why

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In 1945, a San Antonio church rejected Joske's offer: The department store later expanded around it on three sides

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In 2021, South Carolina rebuilt a vanished bird island with 660,000 cubic yards of harbor sand: More than 500 nests appeared the next year

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In 1953, a California family bought a 58-acre berry farm for $3,500; decades later they reportedly refused a $90 million offer from Disney and kept farming beside Disneyland

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Trump claims over 24,000 noncitizens voted illegally in 2020

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Oklahoma woman finds missing dog 1,100 miles away in North Carolina after nearly two weeks, and no one knows how he got there

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A Kansas couple is building a tornado-resistant home from 1,000 tyres, 16,000 cans and 1,000 cardboard boxes; construction begins this year

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In 2004, US soldiers hid a time capsule inside a barracks wall before deploying to Iraq and 19 years later contractors found it during renovations

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Trump claims '24,000 noncitizens voted in 2020 election', urges Congress to pass SAVE America Act

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Democrat Angie Nixon defeats Alexander Vindman in surprise Florida Senate primary upset

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US vs ICC row escalates: Trump administration sanctions international court president, senior lawyer

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'They knew': US states accuse Meta of hiding Instagram's impact on teenagers

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'I won': Trump renews 2020 election claim, says 24,000 noncitizens voted illegally

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In 1969, the US released a European weevil to control invasive thistles; it later fed on more than 30 native species, including at least seven rare or endangered plants

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Man claims mother-in-law's US visa got 'revoked midflight' for 2-day overstay on previous visit, was sent back from Singapore

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Pentagon UFO scientist Dr Eric Davis claims US has evidence of 4 alien species after 30 years of UAP research: 'I've seen the evidence, I've seen the records'

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British student says he was denied entry to the US despite having valid visa only because he is Muslim: 'Felt as if I was kidnapped'

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A San Francisco man was digging in his backyard when his shovel hit something hard; he unearthed a 150-pound limestone sculpture and nobody knows who made it

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In 1910, an Ohio seamstress answered an ad for "plain sewing" and ended up helping build the Wright brothers' aeroplanes

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Meet Meghana Addanki, the 17-year-old New Jersey student who turned eggshells and cotton into a tiny generator that harvests energy from movement

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Prove you won't take government benefits: US issues details of new Green Card rules coming into effect on September 18

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Trollmeister Trump takes his cartographic aggression to Hormuz

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Meet Archishman Dey, the Ohio eighth-grader who tested an air fryer, candle, humidifier, gas and incense; incense produced the most fine-particle pollution

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In 1944, a Vermont woman used money meant for a fur coat to buy a 150-acre farm; 20 years later she gave it to Audubon for wildlife conservation

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Trump tests Iran with new map; Tehran warns it will 'correct his delusion'

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Natalie Harp, Kristen Holmes and White House's 'your children will come across your disgusting question' rebuke: Here's what happened

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Lawsuit filed challenging Trump admin's final rule ending 'duration of status' for international students

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In 1912, a Black couple bought California beachfront land and built a resort; the city seized it in the 1920s, and a century later their heirs got it back and sold it for nearly $20 million

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Trump's new election guru? India

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'This right here is everything that's wrong with H-1Bs': Trump official knocks on the door of Pakistani event manager Mohammad Abbas accused of selling visas

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In 1934, an Arizona couple began married life in a roofless pueblo with snakes and scorpions. 11 years later, their story took an unexpected turn

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Meet Ishanvi Sabniveesu, the Florida 10th-grader whose AI-powered cane can describe a blind user's surroundings, work offline and make emergency calls

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Washington's suburbs spread across Maryland, but a NASA image shows green corridors still woven through the urban landscape

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Washington's 12 introduced mountain goats multiplied into more than 1,000; decades later, 325 were airlifted out beneath helicopters

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In 1948, a sculptor blasted 10 tons from a South Dakota mountain; decades later, his family continues carving his Crazy Horse Memorial

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In the 1960s, the US began displacing around 600 families for a 40-mile reservoir; in 1975 the dam was shelved and their land became a 70,000-acre national park

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Alaska's live bearcam has become a summer hit: 7.3 million views in six weeks as brown bears gather at Brooks Falls to catch salmon

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In 1980, Miles Boekeloo sold his 365-acre Michigan wilderness retreat to the National Park Service; the deal let his family keep its cabin and 5 acres for another 25 years

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'Not AI': NYC mayor Mamdani's office rejects claim over Mandarin, Bengali broadway videos

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In 1951, a New Jersey couple bought 185-acres of land as a summer retreat after which an injured owl turned their property into a wildlife refuge

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Meet Ritu Narayan: Indian-origin mom whose $1.7 billion school transportation startup is transforming the lives of American students one bus at a time

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Florida mother pours hot wax on daughters before setting kitchen fire

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A former BlackRock employee ordered 10,000 pairs of socks for $100,000 to test a business idea; her startup later raised $2 million and reached Shark Tank

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