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The World’s Most Pawsome Mascot By 1993, Mario and Sonic were lighting up the video game world. With each new game, their stories grew deeper and their worlds began the expansion that would eventually lead to their inevitable convergence a few decades later. Certainly there was room for another friendly character?

A People Map Of The US Who's the most famous person (or at least the person with the most Wikipedia traffic) from your hometown? This extremely detailed map from The Pudding has your answer.

Here It Is: One Of The Worst Ceremonial First Pitches Ever You know a pitch is pretty darn bad when people are comparing it to 50 Cent's infamous Mets first pitch.

How Many Bones Would You Break to Get Laid? "Incels" are going under the knife to reshape their faces and dating prospects.

'It Was Like A Zoo:' Death On An Unruly, Overcrowded Everest This has been one of the deadliest climbing seasons on the world's highest peak. Veteran climbers blame increased permits for climbers, including many who are inexperienced.

A Migrant Family Takes A Greyhound Across America Entering the U.S. at a rate of more than 5,000 a day, new arrivals from Central America are departing border towns by the busload. And that bus is usually a Greyhound.

In A Town Shaped By Water, The River Is Winning Storms supercharged by climate change pose a dire threat to river towns. After two catastrophic floods, tiny Ellicott City faces a critical decision: Rebuild, or retreat?

Man Posts On Craigslist Saying He's Found A Lost Cat, Turns Out It's A Wild Bobcat Kudos to the man for being kind and to other users on Craigslist for pointing out that he had invited the wrong kind of cat into his house.

This Poor Farmer Has Literally The Shittiest Day Ever At Work Nothing to make you feel more cowed at work than being in the firing line of a cow's projectile poop.

How San Francisco Broke America’s Heart Filthy rich and dominated by a tech monoculture, it's gone from America's great romantic city to "a train wreck."

How your friends change your habits - for better and worse Our health choices are constantly influenced by our friends, both consciously or unconsciously.

Baltimore's City Services Offline Remain Offline After Ransomware Cyberattacks via Digg https://n.pr/2LZWXt2

The Adventure That Eats U.S. Thru-Hikers for Breakfast The 1,900-mile-long Greater Patagonian Trail winds through the southern Andes from Santiago to the climbing mecca of Mount Fitzroy. To complete it, adventurers need a lot more than physical stamina.

The Real Reason Fans Hate The Last Season Of Game Of Thrones It's not just bad storytelling — it's because the storytelling style-changed from sociological to psychological.

Guy Singing Evanescence's 'Bring Me to Life' Takes The Snapchat Gender Swap Filter To The Next Level Scott Hubbard does the performance of a lifetime with his phone.

Tony Robbins Is The World's Most Famous Self-help Guru. This Is The Story He Doesn't Want You To Read Behind the dazzling veneer, Robbins guards his empire with intense secrecy.

The Man Who's Been Bitten By 200 Snakes For nearly two decades, few took Tim Friede's quest to immunize himself to snakebites and offer his blood to scientists seriously. Then a gifted young immunologist stumbled upon Friede on YouTube — and became convinced that he was the key to conquering snakebites forever.

Guy Helps Sloth Across The Road, Sloth Waves Goodbye To Him ​People helping sloths cross the road is not a new genre of video. You've probably seen the "I Believe I Can Fly" clip from many years ago. But this one adds a delightful new wrinkle.

Generation X: Where Are You Now? Turns out we did sell out, invent all things woke and millennial and cause everything else that's great and awful. Enjoy — and sorry!

Holy Crap, This 4x400 Relay Comeback Is Unreal Texas high school senior Matthew Boling is not of this world.

Coin Found Off Northern Australia May Be From Pre-1400 Africa Experts believe they may have found a Kilwa coin that could change what we know about the history of global trade.

If Bitcoin Is So Safe, Why Is It A Target For Thieves? via Digg http://bit.ly/2HixJR3

Eating Someone Farmed animals have personalities, smarts, even a sense of agency. Why then do we saddle them with lives of utter despair?

California Couple That Killed 180-Year-Old Oak Ordered To Pay Nearly $600,000 For 180 years, the tree flourished undisturbed on a swath of protected land in northern California. Then, one day, backhoes and bulldozers showed up to the wooded area owned by Toni and Peter Thompson located just north of San Francisco.

Selfies Don't Kill People And no place has ever been ruined by an Instagram post, either. It's time to stop blaming social media for the world's troubles.

This Subway Busker's Cover Of James Brown's 'It's A Man's Man's Man's World' Is Unreal ​The New York City subway system is full of horrors, but it can occasionally produce something delightful.

How Patreon Has Helped And Hindered Creators, As Told By 13 Users In the wake of competitive moves by Facebook and Kickstarter and through the lead-up to the launch of the company's new creator plans, Digg spoke to Patreon users across creative disciplines and income levels to see what they think the platform's strengths and weaknesses are.

What Happened After My 13-Year-Old Son Joined the Alt-Right The problems had started when Sam was 13, barely a month into eighth grade.

What It's Like To Live In The Shadow Of The Wall "For all the thousands of people that we met living on the border, only a handful were pro construction of the wall, and that's something that is not really acknowledged."

Bike Lanes Need Physical Protection From Cars, Study Shows Drivers left bikes less room in the presence of parked cars and painted bike lanes.

Found: A 99-Million-Year-Old Millipede, Perfectly Preserved in Amber The newly described species has a five-unit compound eye and an unbristled butt.

The Many Human Errors That Brought Down The Boeing 737 Max To industry outsiders, it was a shock. What could have brought down one of Boeing's newest, most technologically sophisticated airplanes? But those closer to the airplane's development knew better: there had been warning signs from the start.

Meet The Mammoni He works all day; she does his laundry and gets dinner on the table every night. Why Italian men are happy to live with their mothers well into their 30s.