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I love the way Kermit the Frog would emphasize the "the" in his name when reporting a Sesame Street News Flash.

Also the News Flash theme music.

Tell us a true story that proves it really is a small world after all. 
Submitted by havybeaks.

The world is only twenty-four feet six inches across!  True story!

"What are your top 10 most-played songs currently?"

itunes says:
10. The Kinks - This Is Where I Belong
9. Alison Krauss & Gillian Welch - I'll Fly Away (O Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack)
8. The Kinks - Picture Book
7. Harpoon Baptism - Larkin Grimm
6. Mamo, Snezhets Navalyalo - 3 Mustaphas 3
5. Don't You Fall - Be Good Tanyas
4. The Littlest Birds - Be Good Tanyas
3. Cinq Grimaces (Pour Sortir) - Ilkae
2. Us - Regina Spektor
1. Carbon Monoxide - Regina Spektor

...that is all

Everybody talks about the secret elephant burial ground.  But what about the cassowary ossuary?

6. Sandwiches That You Will Like.  Every week we go to a new city and try their local specialty sandwiches.  Oh wait, that's a real show.

5. Samuel L. Jackson's Snakes On Stuff

4. I Love the 1880s on VH1

3. Cylon Eye for the Straight Gaius

2. "Ayyyyyy!"  Henry Winkler judges this weekly doo-wop talent contest.

1. "You're gonna love this concept -- it's like LOST, but IN SPACE!"

Thanks to Brooke for the assignment!

China's birds of prey are carrying an unexpected cargo: record-breaking amounts of flame retardant, which seems to be accumulating in animals to a much greater degree than anyone thought.
- New Scientist, 24 Feb 07

The endangered phoenix is considered to be most at risk.

if you make a fridge magnet with hot glue and then stick it to your radiator, it falls apart.  gee!