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1. The AFLAC Duck is Gilbert Gottfried. Wow! I had no idea. I now like those stupid ads even more.
   
   
2. Can it be true that 1 in 25 dads in the U.K. is raising someone else's kid? Or is this one of those things where it turns out someone didn't carry the two and the statistics are bad?
   
   
3. Crazy-ass mammatus clouds, strange color too. (Flickr)
   
   
4. Deep in the depths of Syria, our hero will not pause in his quest until he finds his Grail: the elusive wild hamster of Aleppo.