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Did Orange is the New Black get prisoner furloughs and compassionate release right?

Netflix’ most popular show employed several bold plot points for its just-released second season. But did it get all its facts straight? Find out how spot on its prisoner furlough subplot was, and whether compassionate release works the same way in real life.

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VIDEO Mob of Chilean soccer fans storms through World Cup media center, because World Cup

Note to readers: if you are in Brazil for the World Cup, and you find yourselves short of tickets to a preferred match, do not use these fans’ method of entry. Contrary to what you may have heard about good old-fashioned soccer madness, breaking into a venue is illegal in every country.

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America stands poised (maybe) to swoop in (potentially) and grab Qatar’s controversial World Cup bid (perhaps)

FIFA’s investigation into corruption and vote-rigging won’t be complete until July, but rumors are swirling that Qatar is on the cusp of losing the Middle East’s first-ever hosting bid (unless it isn’t), and that soccer’s world federation wants America to repeat its successful turn as host. (Or it might not.)

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Mila Kunis asks, politely and respectfully, that men stop saying “We’re pregnant”

Mila Kunis is due in September, which means she’s had to endure several months of “Oh, we’re pregnant, too” rejoinders to her own announcement. So, when Jimmy Kimmel told her that he, too, is pregnant, she had to take a stand.

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Is “You Oughta Know” really about Dave Coulier?

The subject of Alanis Morissette’s song “You Oughta Know” will probably remain a mystery forever. As Morissette herself has put it, “With all due respect to whomever may see themselves in my songs, and it happens all the time, I never really comment on it because I write these songs for myself. I don’t write them for other people.” Is it really about Full House‘s Dave Coulier, or is that decades-old rumor completely baseless?