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File this next segment under – The Strange News Stories You May Have Missed This Week

Iconic Australian store Sanity will close all of its remaining stores by the end of April.
The company has announced all of its 50 stores, known for selling CDs and DVDs but will continue online.

Also, forecasts from the Federal Government show that Melbourne is set to overtake Sydney as the largest city in Australia by 500,000 in 2033.

More than 30,000 people are expected to leave Sydney in 2032 alone? Why?!

Prince Harry claims his brother Prince William violently assaulted him during a wild fight over Meghan Markle.

The shocking accusation against the Prince of Wales – and heir to the throne – is made in a sensational chapter of Prince Harry’s upcoming biography.

According to The Guardian, Prince Harry alleges Prince William “grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and … knocked me to the floor” leaving him with visible marks on his back.

The brothers reportedly fought at Nottingham Cottage, in Kensington Palace, when they met to discuss their spiralling relationship.

A former Colorado funeral home owner was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison on Tuesday for defrauding relatives of the dead by dissecting 560 corpses and selling body parts without permission.

Megan Hess, 46, pleaded guilty to fraud in July. She operated a funeral home, Sunset Mesa, and a body parts entity, Donor Services, from the same building in Montrose, Colorado. The 20-year term was the maximum allowed under law.

A dairy plant caught fire in central Wisconsin on Monday night, sending the melted contents of a storage room full of butter flowing through the building as it went up in flames, local authorities said. The runoff seeped into surrounding storm drains as well as a large canal adjacent to the business, which ultimately clogged the waterway despite crews’ efforts to contain the spread, CBS Chicago reported.

I guess that should really be some sort of metaphor for life with eating and our arteries and stuff like that – moving on

Denmark has recorded its first year without bank robberies, as the use of cash has dwindled in recent years, the country’s finance workers’ union said.

The increasingly cashless society had led banks to reduce their cash services, the union said on Monday, leaving little potential loot for robbers.

“It’s nothing short of amazing. Because every time it happens, it’s an extreme strain on the employees involved,” said Steen Lund Olsen, the vice-president of the union, Finansforbundet.

And finally in the weird wacky and wonderful news stories that you may have missed this week

Lake Superior State University in the US has chosen the ten words it found were most “misused, overused, and useless” in 2022 and forbidden people from using them at all for the next 12 months.

Every year since 1976, Lake Superior State University has its compilation of choices that are to be banned for the entire incoming year.

And this year, sees GOAT (the acronym for Greatest Of All Time), top the poll.

Also included were…
Inflection point
Gaslighting
Quiet quitting
Moving forward
Amazing
Absolutely
Does that make sense?
Irregardless
It is what it is

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