CHILLICOTHE, MO—Reeling in the wake of sudden, unthinkable tragedy, members of the Talbott family were reportedly left struggling to pick up the pieces Thursday night after an unexpected hard drive crash erased everything they had stored on their di...

Poet Francis Thompson lived in the house.

Police were called to a property on Stamford Street Central in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, on Thursday following reports of falling debris.

The Manchester Evening News reports officers decided to cordon off the area after it became clear the building was in imminent danger of collapse.

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A video taken by a bystander shows a contractor later trying to dislodge bricks from the exterior wall using a cherry picker.

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The incredible footage shows the builder struggling to remove the brickwork before finally breaking through with quite dramatic consequences.

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What happens when you expose tiny animals to human stress?

Um, can someone get Disney on this, stat?

Meet Wilbur (the Corgi) and Claire (the baby).

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Wilbur and baby Claire have had a special friendship since the day Claire came home from the hospital.

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Says owner (and father!) Chris Lowe, "When we first brought her home we held onto his collar and (he) gave her a good sniff, and ever since then he pretty much follows her everywhere."

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Wilbur never likes to be too far away from his friend.

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To everyone who has an avocado tree in their backyard, everyone else hates you.

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Goat Cheese & Avocado Toast

Smash some avocado on toast. Sprinkle with goat cheese and chili flakes. Recipe here.

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Avocado & Eggs Breakfast Pizza

Smush avocados on flatbread with lemon and top with egg. Recipe here.

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Weather Network meteorologists Mark Robinson and Chris Scott were broadcasting from Grand Etang, Nova Scotia as winds gusted to 105 mph.

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The meteorologists were reporting during the massive nor'easter that bought hurricane-force winds from New England's coastline to Canada.

Warning: the following may contain graphically cute images. Viewer discretion is advised.

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This poor man never stood a chance.

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According to the YouTube user that posted the insane video, the incident happened in Tampa, Florida, on March 24, 2014. Oh… Florida.

YouTube user Florida Driver uploaded video of a man tailgating her during a recent drive on State Route 41 in Tampa. "This pathetic excuse for a human being tailgated me for about three minutes," she said.

"After about a minute, and me shaking my head, I pulled out my phone and started recording."

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The driver of a Ford F-250 is then seen passing the vehicle only to step on the brakes in an apparent attempt to mess with the motorist filming the entire incident:

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As if tailgating and acting a fool wasn't bad enough, the driver of the F-250 proceeded to give the "bird" to the motorist:

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What happens next can only be defined as KARMA:

The YouTube user can be heard on the video saying, "that's what you get - all on video buddy."

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Today, I wanted to eat my last bowl of sugary cereal before starting my new diet. I fell down the stairs with the full bowl in hand. Message received, universe. FML

The rodent also tried to eat the family cat.

Erik Bengtsson-Korsås, 44, from Stockholm in Sweden, was away on business when he received a call from his wife saying there was a giant rat in their kitchen.

“I thought to myself that she was just over exaggerating and told her not to worry until I got home," he said.

When he returned he discovered his wife Signe, 39, had banned their children from the kitchen and their pet cat had been attacked by the “monster” rat.

Bengtsson-Korsås soon realised the job was too big to tackle alone and called in pest control.

And this is where the tale gets truly terrifying…

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The rat was apparently so huge that despite being caught in a spring-loaded trap, it would not die and continued to run around the kitchen with the trap around its neck.

Bengtsson-Korsås added: "They [pest control] told me that the rat was so tough it had managed to get into the kitchen by chewing through the brickwork and cement with its incisors.

“It had then decided that it like it inside and had made itself at home – chasing off the cat and my family."

Pest control eventually managed to grab the rat and kill it. Afterwards it was found to measure 40cm from nose to tail.

Afterwards, Bengtsson-Korsås said: "The kids were afraid it would come back to life as some sort of zombie rat as it had seemed so hard to kill. They didn't want to touch it."

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*Shudder*

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Shhhhh!

This calming cottage on Lower Beverly Lake in Ontario, Canada.

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This house on stilts in Bocas del Toro, Panama.

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This small town in Iceland.

In this area just north of the town, the local residents decided to light the side of the cliff at night to give it a special feel.

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This house on a mountain slope in the Kaprun ski region, Austria

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Space is so fricking cool.

Ever wondered what a thunderstorm looks like from space? Well, here you go…

NASA recently released two incredible images taken from the International Space Station (ISS).

The image above, over Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, was taken in December 2013, and the below picture, of Bolivia, was taken in January 2011.

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The space agency released the pictures to promote the new Firestation instrument recently installed on the ISS.

The Firestation includes photometers to measure lightning flashes, radio antennas to measure the static (to help calculate the strength of the electrical charge), and a gamma-ray electron detector.

NASA said atmospheric scientists were interested in the processes that trigger lightning within thunderstorms and what kinds of lightning produce gamma rays.

Another lightning sensor is due to be added to the ISS in the next few years.

Click here for more information on the NASA mission.

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On April 1, become the goat of your dreams.

Parents sharing photos of the playground, where a 2-year-old was injured, went viral online shortly after.

A two-year-old child in East Moline, Ill., was injured March 24 after someone glued razor blades to the playground equiptment.

The child suffered a cut to their hand but was not seriously injured, KWQC reports.

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After the boy's father treated him at home, they went with police to the park, where they removed about a dozen razor blades that were glued to the equipment.

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Photos of the playground went viral online, with a Facebook post from March 24 being shared over 50,000 times.

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Lieutenant Brian Foltz, who has been with the East Moline Police Department for almost 20 years, said he was shocked by the discovery.

"I've seen a lot of things, but not razor blades glued to equipment at a park," Foltz said.

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So powerful.

This guy has really nice hair.

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It looks distinctly similar to someone very familiar...

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NEW YORK—Claiming that there is ostensibly no rhyme or reason to the sport's frequent in-game substitutions, players from across the NHL admitted Wednesday that they have absolutely no idea how line changes work.

Thirty-two people were left with non-life-threatening injuries after the train derailed on March 24.

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LINK: 32 Injured After Train Derails At Chicago’s O’Hare Airport

It’s time to find out exactly how much you suck at knowing flags.

As firefighters battled the blaze at a Houston apartment complex, someone in a nearby building caught footage of a construction worker caught in the blaze. A close call.

Onlookers captured the video as a construction worker made a harrowing escape while flames engulfed the building.

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Chances are, if you were a child at some point in your life you dreamed of going to Space Camp. Here’s what it’s like to live that dream as an adult.

If you're like us, Space Camp is something that's always present in your life but always out of reach. In between pairs of Skechers and trips to Universal Studios, it was the ultimate prize on every game show growing up.

You dreamed of making it past that last temple guard, of climbing the Agrocrag and getting the holy grail as your prize. It was the promised land. It was a place most kids never got to go to. And now there's only one Space Camp left, located in Huntsville, Ala. (Nope, it's not in Florida!)

You are never too old for Space Camp, no matter what your parents say. Seriously, if the website says it, it's fact.

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The Huntsville Space Camp boasts a number of programs, from child programs to family programs to adult programs. For $549 per person (not including airfare), we would be spending the weekend at ADULT SPACE CAMP.

That's right. These two adults, Lauren (that's me) and Dave (that's me) would be experiencing Space Camp in all of its glory.

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There’s a marshmallow PEEP® in the middle of the donut. I repeat: full-on marshmallow PEEP®.

This is a PEEPS® donut from Dunkin' Donuts.

PEEPS® + Donuts = my mind exploding.

Stan Frankenthaler, Dunkin Donuts' executive chef and VP of "product innovation" for their brands, told BuzzFeed that the new PEEPS® donut will be available at participating stores for a limited time starting on Monday, March 31.

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The flower-shaped donut comes in two varieties: strawberry icing with green drizzle, or green icing with strawberry drizzle.

But most importantly: It’s a donut with a PEEPS® marshmallow on it.

If you need me, I'll be off drooling until March 31 comes.

One question: Can the Easter bunny start delivering these instead of the dyed eggs? Let me know, because I'm down to go on a PEEPS® donut hunt.

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Mark Zuckerberg is following up his Whatsapp buy with another big acquisition: virtual reality company Oculus VR for $2 billion in stock and cash (curiously, news of the talks may have leaked on Reddit a month ago). In a post on Facebook, Zuckerberg...

Not for the faint of heart.

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“I’d rather be reading.”

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"People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading." —Logan Pearsall Smith

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"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read." —James Baldwin

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"Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced." —Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

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Photographer  Howard Schatz studied professional boxing for six years in a bid to get under the skin of fighting champions.

Cecilio Santos - Super Featherweight.

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Awed and thoroughly inspired by [boxers'] phenomenal and boundless courage, or 'heart', I was moved to study the sport through my lens.

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Dimitry Kirilov - Super Flyweight.

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Andy Lee - Middleweight.

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He’s like the Pied Piper of cool. Pied Piper was cool wasn’t he?

He's a dreamer.

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And a socialite.

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He's trusting.

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Seriously, call Kenny Loggins.

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Drugs are terrifying.

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Breathe deeply.

Bold & Naked is a yoga studio in New York that offers naked yoga classes.

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