This week was a test of your incredulity meter. (Last week: A whole lotta Paul Rudd.)

This smog vacuum might be able to suck up Beijing’s pollution:

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Spiders took over a British school:

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Bird poop coffee is a thing now:

A winery is going to bulldoze trees to make room for … some vineyards:

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People buy more obviously fake Banksy prints than they do the real thing:

A teenager found a baby dinosaur:

Colombian women got their road fixed by withholding sex: