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  Toronto runner ‘wins’ Strava with routes that produce insane stop-motion effect

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  We thought we’d seen it all. But this? Strava being used… for fun?! And not purely for the purpose of letting the bros know how awesome and fast and …

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  John Prescott’s magnificent takedown of Michael Heseltine has just gone wildly viral all these years later and it’s just magnificent

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  More and more tributes are coming in for John Prescott, the former Labour deputy PM who has died aged 86. One video that has gone viral on Twitter/X …

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  This interview with the stars of ‘Wicked’ is going viral because nobody has a clue what anyone is talking about

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  The promotion for the new movie version of the musical Wicked over the last few weeks has been a lot. But this one clip of an interviewer talking to the …

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  Sausage-quaffing gurus and trails of diarrhoea: Meet Reddit’s worst ever hotel guests

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  A perennial preoccupation of filmmakers, storytellers and visual artists, hotel lobbies are fascinating places. Weird, wonderful and, apparently, …

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  23 extremely British ways to give something a glowing review

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  How can you tell if a British person really, really loves something? They’ll say it’s “quite good”. Always ones for understatement, Brits have endless …

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  Marjorie Taylor Greeen’s tipped to join Trump’s cabinet of clowns and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s comeback was one for the history books

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  As Donald Trump looks to put together a cabinet of all the clowns when he returns to the White House in January, it was only a matter of time before …