As Yahoo Answers shuts down after more than 15 years, fans are recalling the Q&A site’s more amusing moments. One questioner asked: “how is babby formed? How girl get pragnent?” Another highlight - perhaps delivered by the same person - came when someone asked: “What if the girl that thinks I’m the dad isn’t the mom?” For many, the site’s pinnacle was reached when someone asked: “If i eat myself would i become twice as big or disappear completely?”
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Lost B&B sign found 800 miles away
A bed-and-breakfast sign in Alabama that was lost during Hurricane Sally has washed up 800 miles away in Texas. After the hurricane dumped as much as 30 inches of torrential rainfall, a local resident said she and her husband “spotted something floating face down in the water”. She added: “He goes out in the water and brings it back and it’s this beautiful sign. The only thing that was wrong with it was it was covered in shells and mussels.”
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Syria’s Kurds: abandoned by their US allyTalking Point Ahmed al-Sharaa’s lightning offensive against Syrian Kurdistan belies his promise to respect the country’s ethnic minorities
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The ‘mad king’: has Trump finally lost it?Talking Point Rambling speeches, wind turbine obsession, and an ‘unhinged’ letter to Norway’s prime minister have caused concern whether the rest of his term is ‘sustainable’
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5 highly hypocritical cartoons about the Second AmendmentCartoons Artists take on Kyle Rittenhouse, the blame game, and more
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Israel retrieves final hostage’s body from GazaSpeed Read The 24-year-old police officer was killed during the initial Hamas attack
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China’s Xi targets top general in growing purgeSpeed Read Zhang Youxia is being investigated over ‘grave violations’ of the law
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Panama and Canada are negotiating over a crucial copper mineIn the Spotlight Panama is set to make a final decision on the mine this summer
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Why Greenland’s natural resources are nearly impossible to mineThe Explainer The country’s natural landscape makes the task extremely difficult
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Iran cuts internet as protests escalateSpeed Reada Government buildings across the country have been set on fire
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US nabs ‘shadow’ tanker claimed by RussiaSpeed Read The ship was one of two vessels seized by the US military
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How Bulgaria’s government fell amid mass protestsThe Explainer The country’s prime minister resigned as part of the fallout
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Femicide: Italy’s newest crimeThe Explainer Landmark law to criminalise murder of a woman as an ‘act of hatred’ or ‘subjugation’ but critics say Italy is still deeply patriarchal
