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OLÉ! Angels Fans Set Guinness Record of Sombrero Wearing

The Los Angeles Angels won a spectacular victory over the Seattle Mariners on Tuesday when Carlos Perez in his MLB debut hit a walk off homerun in the ninth inning. But, it was the 25,111 cheering fans wearing sombreros to celebrate Cinco de Mayo that set a new Guinness world record.

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Old Man Punches Bear in Face to Save His Chihuahua

Legend has it that Davy Crockett killed a bear when he was only three, but he never punched one in the face. Carl Moore did at the age of 73 because “The man or beast that I run from ain’t been born. And its mama’s already dead,” he said.

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Bumble Bee Worker Cooked in Tuna Oven, Two Charged

Two employees of Bumble Bee Foods were each charged with three counts of violating Occupational Safety & Health Administration rules when they inadvertently cooked a maintenance worker in a 35-foot-long industrial pressure cooker oven along with tons of tuna.

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Over 200,000 Apply to Join New Libertarian ‘Nation-State’

“Live and let live” – that’s the motto of Liberland, a new country established by Czech libertarians in a 2.7-mile patch of unclaimed territory between Serbia and Croatia. Originally created as a publicity stunt, an enormous swell of interest in the proposed nation-state has

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‘Clear’ App Purges Tweets Before they Purge your Career

Going “clear” is in this year. First as a perfect score for horse jumping; then in Alex Gibney’s Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival; and now as the new project of Ethan Czahor, who had to resign as Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of the Jeb Bush Presidential campaign over some nasty old offensive tweets. Czahor has just launched a new iOS app called “Clear” to purge offensive “stuff” you may have posted on social media.

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CA Dem Introduces Bill to Regulate Pro Sports Cheerleaders

Former high school and college cheerleader Lorena Gonzalez, now a Democratic California state assemblywoman from San Diego, is on the verge of changing the state’s labor Code to protect the rights of professional cheerleaders, according to Calwatchdog.com. On Tuesday, California’s