4/30: Mayor Bloomberg wants to ban the use of food stamps for soda.
4/29: Hundreds of Tunisians are allowing Libyan refugees to stay in their homes.
4/28: Armadillos can transmit leprosy to humans.
4/27: One third of the central business district in Christchurch, New Zealand, was destroyed in the February earthquake.
4/26: To comply with the Title IX law, universities have been padding their women's teams with fake players.
4/25: The Travel Channel is investing $7.5 million in Oyster.com.
4/24: NASA requires that astronaut candidates be able to swim three lengths of a pool in a flight suit and tennis shoes.
4/23: A Nigerian preacher named Sunday Adelaja has a huge following in Ukraine.
4/22: HBO plans to make Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad into a series.
4/21: Trojan, Durex, and LifeStyles have all started making vibrators.
4/20: Prescription drug addiction is now killing more people than crack cocaine in the 1980s and heroin in the 1970s combined.
4/19: A Republican official in Orange County, Calif., emailed around a photo of President Obama's face Photoshopped onto a baby chimpanzee's body.
4/18: Rabbinical experts can't agree on whether quinoa is kosher for Passover.
4/17: A perfume called Boyfriend is being marketed under actress Kate Walsh's name.
4/16: New York City is getting a new area code (929).
4/15: Professional golfer Kevin Na needed a record 16 strokes to finish a par-4 hole during tournament play.
4/14: The president of the Czech Republic was caught on video surreptitiously pocketing the gem-encrusted pen he used to sign a treaty in Chile.
4/13: The U.S. government has warned against formaldehyde levels in a hair treatment called the Brazilian Blowout.
4/12: Amazon will sell a cheaper Kindle that serves advertising.
4/11: Google is running print ads with the slogan "A Google a Day."
4/10: John Steinbeck's Travels With Charley isn't actually non-fiction.
4/9: Maxwell House's free version of the Haggadah, the text read at Passover, might be the world's most popular.
4/8: A jumper is a type of sleeveless dress.
4/7: France bans surrogate parenting.
4/6: The man who invented the Pringles can had his ashes buried in Pringles one.
4/5: Two art-film theaters will open at Lincoln Center in June.
4/4: Michelle Bachmann's Congressional office has had five chiefs of staff in the last four years.
4/3: The Vietnamese government has been arresting people who publicly challenge it.
4/2: There were zero ads in the Sports and Business sections of the Times.
4/1: GoDaddy's CEO shot an elephant while on vacation in Zimbabwe.
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