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WATCH: North Texas Tornadoes Were ‘Like Hell’

As many as 10 tornadoes tore through North Texas overnight, leaving six dead, seven missing, and dozens injured and homeless. The lakefront town of Granbury bore the brunt of the spring storm, as trailers landed on cars and fist-sized hail stones showered the area, the Associated Press and CBS Dallas-Fort Worth report. Show More Summary

Road Workers Destroy Ancient Mayan Pyramid

It had stood untouched for 2,300 years, but now one of Belize’s largest Mayan pyramids has been all but destroyed by a construction crew working on a road project. The destruction at the Noh Mul complex, near the border with Mexico, was first noticed by archaeologists last week. Show More Summary

Seattle Man Killed Attempting to Dribble Soccer Ball to Brazil

Sad and tragic beyond words: a Seattle man who’d just begun a journey to dribble a soccer ball an incredible 10,000 miles to Brazil for the 2014 World Cup has died after being struck by a vehicle along the Oregon coast. (MORE: Costly...Show More Summary

Taco Bell Tests Out Waffle Tacos

As part of its new, low-price menu, Taco Bell is testing out a novel concept called the Waffle Taco. Currently available only at three Southern California locations. The 89-cent breakfast option features a sausage patty and scrambled eggs folded into a waffle. Show More Summary

Kanye West’s Lamborghini Trapped In Kim Kardashian’s Electric Gate

A lot of ink has been spilled trying to convince civilians that the stars are just like us. Then something like this happens: rap mogul Kanye West’s Lamborghini was hit by the electric gates leading to his girlfriend and reality TV show star Kim Kardashian’s Los Angeles area mansion. Show More Summary

NextDraft: NextDraft Newsletter: May 15, 2013

The Insiders Forget about getting a little alone time. As Michael Pollan writes in the NYT Magazine, we share our bodies with a significant crew of microbial species. “These bacteria, which number around 100 trillion, are living (and...Show More Summary

WATCH: Abercrombie & Fitch for the Homeless

In his #FitchTheHomeless video, L.A. writer Greg Karber picked through what he calls the “douchebag section” at a Los Angeles Goodwill thrift shop to rack up some Abercrombie & Fitch clothing, which he then gave out homeless people on Skid Row in East Los Angeles. Show More Summary

Costly Coffee Date with Apple CEO Tim Cook

How much would you pay to win a coffee date with Apple CEO Tim Cook? CNN Newsource reports one anonymous bidder wanted the meeting so badly that he paid $610,000 in a Charitybuzz auction – way more than the $90,000 it was initially going for on Apr. Show More Summary

Reading While Eating for May 15: The Birds

Bird Flu? The giant rubber duck that buoyed Hong Kong’s spirits has deflated. (TIME.com) Twitter Bird: The most popular Game of Thrones characters on Twitter. (BuzzFeed) Chirping: How sparrows use song to pin down mates. (mental_floss)...Show More Summary

Lame Duck Syndrome: Hong Kong’s Celebrated Inflatable Is Now a ‘Sad Deflated Disc’

“Rubber Duck” — quite literally a giant rubber duck in Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour — has been making waves throughout the city and across the continent since it was installed two weeks ago by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman in the skyscraper-ringed port. Show More Summary

Shakespeare in Court: Justices Hold Mock Trial Based on Bard’s Tragedy

Three U.S. Supreme Court judges presided over a libel case between a tyrannical Roman general and the fictitious Latin Tribune newspaper for a mock trial based upon a William Shakespeare tragedy on Monday. Coriolanus may be one of the Bard’s bleakest works, but the senior judges still managed to engineer a few laughs during the exercise on Monday. Show More Summary

Earn a College Degree in Heavy Metal. Really.

Were you the type of college student who preferred to hide in your dorm room blasting Metallica instead of studying? Did you skip class to travel to a Black Sabbath show? Or sleep through mathematics after a late night of headbanging?...Show More Summary

Fight World Hunger by Eating Bugs, Urges U.N.

It’s time to rethink our aversion to bugs-as-food, advises the United Nations in a new report. And no, not in the Man vs. Wild sense, grimacing as you dangle tiny wriggling arthropods over your chops, then mumbling the words “To my health” before chowing down. Show More Summary

‘Original’ Coca-Cola Recipe for Sale on eBay

A Georgia antiques collector is the latest person to claim that he may have found the original recipe for Coca-Cola. Cliff Kluge and his wife Arlene recently bought a box of letters at an estate sale, and one of the yellowed papers, dated 1943, includes instructions for making cola, according to Atlanta’s WXIA via CNN Newsource. Show More Summary

Bill Hader Leaves SNL: His 6 Funniest Scenes

WATCH: Angelina Jolie and Brother’s Tribute to Their Mother

As a reminder that every day, really, should be Mother’s Day, here’s a video tribute, by actress and humanitarian Angelina Jolie, along with her brother, James Haven, of their mother, actress Marcheline Bertrand, who died from ovarian cancer in 2007 at the age of 56. Show More Summary

Larry Page Breaks His Silence: Why The Google Chief Couldn’t Talk

It’s been almost a year since Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt announced CEO Larry Page would be absent from a number of company events including last year’s annual meeting because he had lost his voice. On the heels of the death...Show More Summary

Thieves Rob Johannesburg Stadium after Bieber Concert

Thieves broke into a South African stadium early Monday, opened the safe and made off with a lot of loot — 3 million rand ($330,000) in cash. Johannesburg’s Soccer City stadium was particularly well stocked with cash after both Justin Bieber and Jon Bon Jovi played shows there over the weekend, and police believe that’s why the crooks targeted it. Show More Summary

Woman Removed From Plane For Refusing To Stop Singing A Whitney Houston Song

While long suffering air travelers have frequently complained about being seated next to a crying baby on a long flight, there are worse things —like a woman who will not stop singing Whitney Houston’s classic “I Will Always Love You,” which in turn forces the airplane to make an unscheduled stop to remove her. Show More Summary

Reading While Eating for May 14: Feeling Nostalgic

Technology of Yore: Longing for the simpler times, when we used simpler forms of communication? Indulge your nostalgia and listen to these songs about obsolete forms of technology. (mental_floss) Bayside, Behind the Scenes: There’s a special kind of nostalgia reserved for ’90s pop culture. Show More Summary