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			<title><![CDATA[Who's the Youngest NFL Player This Season? Both Were Born Aug. 30]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Who is the youngest NFL player this year? That distinction for the 2026-2027 season belongs to two rookies: Arvell Reese of the New York Giants and Connor Lew of the Cincinnati Bengals. Both were born Aug. 30, 2005, which makes them 20 years old as the season approaches. They'll turn 21 on Aug. 30, 2026.]]></description>
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			<dc:creator>Isla Brevant</dc:creator>			
			<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 10:06:02 -0400</pubDate>
			
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			<title><![CDATA[What Is the Hardest Job in the World? The Top 4 Are Extremely Dangerous]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[What is the hardest job in the world? There's no single answer because a difficult job can test the body, brain or emotions in completely different ways. An Alaskan crab fisherman battling 30-foot (9-meter) waves faces a different challenge from an air traffic controller responsible for keeping dozens of aircraft safely separated.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 10:06:01 -0400</pubDate>
			
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			<title><![CDATA[Third Man Syndrome Strikes at Life-Threatening Times]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Third man syndrome is the sensation that an unseen person is nearby during an extreme survival situation. The presence often seems friendly and purposeful, offering comfort, practical advice or even clear instructions at a moment when the person believes death may be close.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 10:12:01 -0400</pubDate>
			
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			<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[Third man syndrome is the sensation that an unseen person is nearby during an extreme survival situation. The presence often seems friendly and purposeful, offering comfort, practical advice or even clear instructions at a moment when the person believes death may be close.]]></media:description>
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			<title><![CDATA[What Was the Deadliest Battle in History? 8 Brutal Contenders]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Determining the deadliest battle in history depends on how historians define a battle and count casualties. Some estimates include only soldiers killed and wounded, while others count civilian casualties, prisoners and people who died from starvation or disease during prolonged sieges.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 10:06:01 -0400</pubDate>
			
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			<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[Determining the deadliest battle in history depends on how historians define a battle and count casualties. Some estimates include only soldiers killed and wounded, while others count civilian casualties, prisoners and people who died from starvation or disease during prolonged sieges.]]></media:description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Keith Sapsford: A Teen Stowaway Tragically Caught on Film]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[On Feb. 22, 1970, Keith Sapsford climbed into the wheel well of a commercial airliner at Sydney Airport. The 14-year-old Australian apparently hoped the plane would carry him on another adventure. Instead, he fell to his death shortly after takeoff.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 10:12:01 -0400</pubDate>
			
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			<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[On Feb. 22, 1970, Keith Sapsford climbed into the wheel well of a commercial airliner at Sydney Airport. The 14-year-old Australian apparently hoped the plane would carry him on another adventure. Instead, he fell to his death shortly after takeoff.]]></media:description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Sokushinbutsu Willingly Mummified Themselves Alive]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Sokushinbutsu are Buddhist monks whose bodies were preserved through an extraordinary form of religious asceticism associated mainly with northern Japan. Practitioners spent years undertaking fasting, meditation and other severe ascetic practices, but scientific examinations indicate that at least some surviving bodies were artificially mummified by other people after death.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 10:06:01 -0400</pubDate>
			
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			<title><![CDATA[The Pacific Football Fish Exhibits Extreme Sexual Dimorphism]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[The Pacific football fish (Himantolophus sagamius) is a rare deep-sea anglerfish built for a world without sunlight. Females carry a glowing lure, a huge mouth and inward-pointing teeth that help them catch scarce prey in the darkness.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 10:12:01 -0400</pubDate>
			
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			<title><![CDATA[The 10 Worst States for Education (And What Sets Them Back)]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[The worst states for education face challenges that go well beyond a single bad test score. School quality reflects graduation rates, teacher resources, academic performance, school safety and the very different needs students bring into the classroom.]]></description>
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			<dc:creator>Lena Thaywick</dc:creator>			
			<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 10:06:27 -0400</pubDate>
			
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			<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[The worst states for education face challenges that go well beyond a single bad test score. School quality reflects graduation rates, teacher resources, academic performance, school safety and the very different needs students bring into the classroom.]]></media:description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Noway's King Harald V Dies at 89; Who Will Rule Now?]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Norway has a new monarch following the death of King Harald V, whose 35-year reign helped transform the royal family into a more accessible and inclusive national institution.]]></description>
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			<dc:creator>Wren Corvayne</dc:creator>			
			<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 10:54:10 -0400</pubDate>
			
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			<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[Norway has a new monarch following the death of King Harald V, whose 35-year reign helped transform the royal family into a more accessible and inclusive national institution.]]></media:description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Joseph Ducreux: An 18th-Century Painter Making 21st-Century Selfies]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Long before reaction GIFs and image macros, Joseph Ducreux was painting himself with the kind of facial expressions that seem tailor-made for the internet. One self-portrait catches him yawning with his mouth wide open. In another, he points at the viewer with a knowing grin.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 10:12:01 -0400</pubDate>
			
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			<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[Long before reaction GIFs and image macros, Joseph Ducreux was painting himself with the kind of facial expressions that seem tailor-made for the internet. One self-portrait catches him yawning with his mouth wide open. In another, he points at the viewer with a knowing grin.]]></media:description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Black Diamond Apple Trees Grow at 10,000 Feet of Elevation]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[The Black Diamond apple sounds like a fruit invented for a fairy tale: glossy, nearly black skin wrapped around crisp white flesh. It really exists, although "black" is stretching things a bit. The fruit typically develops a deep purple or burgundy color.]]></description>
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			<dc:creator>Elena Tralwyn</dc:creator>			
			<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 10:06:01 -0400</pubDate>
			
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			<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[The Black Diamond apple sounds like a fruit invented for a fairy tale: glossy, nearly black skin wrapped around crisp white flesh. It really exists, although "black" is stretching things a bit. The fruit typically develops a deep purple or burgundy color.]]></media:description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Wild Devils Hole Pupfish Only Live in This Death Valley Thermal Pool]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[The Devils Hole pupfish lives in one of the smallest natural ranges of any vertebrate species on Earth. Its entire wild population occupies a single water-filled limestone cavern in the Nevada desert, where hot water, low oxygen and a tiny feeding area make survival an everyday challenge.]]></description>
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			<dc:creator>Nico Avelle</dc:creator>			
			<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 10:12:01 -0400</pubDate>
			
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			<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[The Devils Hole pupfish lives in one of the smallest natural ranges of any vertebrate species on Earth. Its entire wild population occupies a single water-filled limestone cavern in the Nevada desert, where hot water, low oxygen and a tiny feeding area make survival an everyday challenge.]]></media:description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Chess Boxing Sprang From a Comic Trilogy and Has Gone Global]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Chess boxing is a hybrid sport that asks competitors to do two very different things: outthink an opponent at a chess board and outfight that same opponent in a boxing ring. A typical chess boxing match alternates rounds of chess and boxing, so a competitor might be calculating a checkmate one minute and defending against punches the next.]]></description>
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			<dc:creator>Isla Brevant</dc:creator>			
			<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 10:06:16 -0400</pubDate>
			
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			<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[Chess boxing is a hybrid sport that asks competitors to do two very different things: outthink an opponent at a chess board and outfight that same opponent in a boxing ring. A typical chess boxing match alternates rounds of chess and boxing, so a competitor might be calculating a checkmate one minute and defending against punches the next.]]></media:description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Nepal Flash Floods Kill at Least 95 as Hundreds Remain Missing]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[A wall of mud, rock and water tore through northern Nepal on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2026, sweeping away homes, roads, bridges and hydropower projects near the country’s border with Tibet.]]></description>
			<link>https://science.howstuffworks.com/nature/natural-disasters/nepal-flash-floods.htm</link>
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			<dc:creator>Grant Virellan</dc:creator>			
			<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 11:09:20 -0400</pubDate>
			
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			<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[A wall of mud, rock and water tore through northern Nepal on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2026, sweeping away homes, roads, bridges and hydropower projects near the country’s border with Tibet.]]></media:description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Texas Drag Show Ban Blocked Again After Federal Judge Rules It Unconstitutional]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[A federal judge has again ruled that Texas’ controversial restrictions on drag performances violate the First Amendment and has barred enforcement against the remaining plaintiffs.]]></description>
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			<dc:creator>Lena Thaywick</dc:creator>			
			<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 11:08:59 -0400</pubDate>
			
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			<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[A federal judge has again ruled that Texas’ controversial restrictions on drag performances violate the First Amendment and has barred enforcement against the remaining plaintiffs.]]></media:description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Secret Service Places 3 Officials on Leave Amid Misconduct Investigation]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Three U.S. Secret Service officials have been placed on administrative leave while the agency investigates allegations of potential misconduct.]]></description>
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			<dc:creator>Wren Corvayne</dc:creator>			
			<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 11:08:38 -0400</pubDate>
			
			<media:title type="html"><![CDATA[Secret Service Places 3 Officials on Leave Amid Misconduct Investigation]]></media:title>
			<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[Three U.S. Secret Service officials have been placed on administrative leave while the agency investigates allegations of potential misconduct.]]></media:description>
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			<title><![CDATA[How Anatoli Bugorski Survived a Radioactive Beam to the Face]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[On July 13, 1978, Soviet physicist Anatoli Bugorski experienced the kind of particle accelerator accident that sounds impossible to survive. A high-energy proton beam passed straight through his head while he was working at the U-70 synchrotron in Protvino, Soviet Union.]]></description>
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			<dc:creator>Grant Virellan</dc:creator>			
			<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 10:12:01 -0400</pubDate>
			
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			<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[On July 13, 1978, Soviet physicist Anatoli Bugorski experienced the kind of particle accelerator accident that sounds impossible to survive. A high-energy proton beam passed straight through his head while he was working at the U-70 synchrotron in Protvino, Soviet Union.]]></media:description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Sister Rosetta Tharpe Blended Blues and Gospel to Pioneer Rock 'n' Roll]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Before Chuck Berry duck-walked across a stage and before Elvis Presley became a rock 'n' roll phenomenon, Rosetta Tharpe was already singing gospel music while attacking an electric guitar with distortion, rhythmic drive and unmistakable showmanship.]]></description>
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			<dc:creator>Isla Brevant</dc:creator>			
			<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 10:06:29 -0400</pubDate>
			
			<media:title type="html"><![CDATA[Sister Rosetta Tharpe Blended Blues and Gospel to Pioneer Rock 'n' Roll]]></media:title>
			<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[Before Chuck Berry duck-walked across a stage and before Elvis Presley became a rock 'n' roll phenomenon, Rosetta Tharpe was already singing gospel music while attacking an electric guitar with distortion, rhythmic drive and unmistakable showmanship.]]></media:description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Dolly Parton, Country Music Icon and Philanthropist, Dies at 80]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Dolly Parton, the singer, songwriter, actor and businesswoman who rose from poverty in the Great Smoky Mountains to become one of the most beloved figures in American entertainment, died Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2026. She was 80.]]></description>
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			<dc:creator>Isla Brevant</dc:creator>			
			<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 14:37:56 -0400</pubDate>
			
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			<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[Dolly Parton, the singer, songwriter, actor and businesswoman who rose from poverty in the Great Smoky Mountains to become one of the most beloved figures in American entertainment, died Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2026. She was 80.]]></media:description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Why Are People Climbing Out of New York City Manholes?]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[New York City’s underground has always inspired stories about hidden tunnels, abandoned stations and even sewer-dwelling alligators. But in 2026, some of the people emerging from below the streets have been very real.]]></description>
			<link>https://people.howstuffworks.com/people-climbing-out-of-nyc-manholes.htm</link>
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			<dc:creator>Lena Thaywick</dc:creator>			
			<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 11:39:38 -0400</pubDate>
			
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			<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[New York City’s underground has always inspired stories about hidden tunnels, abandoned stations and even sewer-dwelling alligators. But in 2026, some of the people emerging from below the streets have been very real.]]></media:description>
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