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14 of the funniest barrel scrapings that made it to the press on a slow news day

We can’t deny that we’d love a good slow news day, because almost anything would be better than the current ‘A day is a long time in politics‘ vibe.

But we’re not sure we’d like it to get as slow as it must have been for these 14 things from Reddit’s r/SlowNewsDay to make the news.

1. We hope they solved the mystery


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2. Cats in ‘hearing things’ shocker


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3. Who knew that hair could get longer?


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4. The one with Jennifer Aniston’s dog


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5. The Linekers?


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6. Marvellous


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7. Shining a light on the big stories


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8. Sofa so good


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9. Disaster averted


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10. Chilling


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11. Nobody tell Australia


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12. Is nothing sacred?


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13. Woman needs better time management


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14. We’ll try to remember not to ask him for a lift


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BONUS Stating the bleedin’ obvious – a memoir.

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