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Today's Stories

A Worm Moved Into Her Forehead, Then Headed South

A 26-year-old woman in Russia visited the doctor with what she thought was a strange bump—only for it to turn out to be a four-inch worm squirming its way across her face. The parasite, likely courtesy of her pet dog, made itself at home in her forehead for a month before crawling into her eyelid for a final performance. Doctors filmed the little traveler doing its thing under the skin before surgically evicting it. Science calls it a roundworm. The rest of us call it a hard no.

A group of 14 people in New York thought they’d cracked the code to modern theft—literally. They allegedly hacked FedEx delivery data to redirect packages full of pricey electronics to random homes, then scooped them up like high tech trick-or-treaters. Police weren’t amused and charged them with 50 felonies, including identity theft and good old-fashioned robbery. In one case, they even snatched a box from an elderly woman’s hands. It's Ocean’s Fourteen… but make it mail fraud.

Feel like humanity’s on a group project without a leader? Me too. Tap reply and tell me which story made you laugh, groan, or question your species. — Doug