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A Florida woman has been charged with drowning her roommate’s tiny pet spider in a can of soda — later bragging about it online, writing: “Yes I’m an evil spider killer!!” Ilena Renae Rasmussen, 43, was arrested on July 29 after texting her roommate and “admitting to drowning [her] jumping spider in ginger ale,” the Okaloosa Sheriff’s Office wrote in an affidavit obtained by the Miami Herald. She then repeatedly referred to the accusations in a series of cruel social media posts — including a photo of her holding a can of ginger ale, just like the one she allegedly...

Julie Fletcher of Bolivar, New York, has filed a lawsuit against Canada Dry’s parent company Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, claiming the company’s ginger ale drink, which bills itself as being “made from real ginger,” hardly contains any ginger at all. In Fletcher’s class-action lawsuit filed July 10 in New York federal court, she noted “Canada Dry’s ginger flavor extract is not ‘real ginger’ as reasonable consumers understand that term,” according to the New York Post. “It is manufactured in a lab using various chemicals and extraction processes.” While the product has “some ginger compounds,” the percentage is a “minuscule” two...

It was afternoon and I was sipping my cool can of Ginger Ale, when I heard the first bellow, instantly followed by a loud grunt. Replacing the cap, I started pacing in the direction of the grunt. There was another low grunt and the sound was becoming indiscernible as I came closer. Soon I came upon two hippos facing each other, their mouths almost in contact, on the edge of a water channel. They were circling around in the water like two Sumo wrestlers performing their pre-game rituals. As it would be apparent in just a bit, this was no...