TheFW shares "eight/8 wacky Presidential turkey pardon moments -- As holidays go, Thanksgiving sure has its share of odd traditions. Live parades with lip-synched musical numbers! Mincemeat pies and Jell-O molds! Grandma Ruthie removing her dentures at the dinner table! Not even the President of the United States (U.S.) is spared his share of the inanity. Case in point: the presidential turkey pardon, an annual pre-Thanksgiving practice in which the POTUS makes a speech about the stuff we should all be thankful for and then poses for a photo-op with a live turkey before sending it off to live the rest of its life uneaten (by humans, anyway).

Xsleepingxgiantx's Reddit comment mentioned a dark/heavy documentary titled "102 Minutes That Changed America".

CNN shares a happy 9/11's ground zero story of a survivor, but it is not a human being. It is a plant from an office.

Neatorama shares a National Geographic article on "9 Fourth of July Myths Debunked" -- "Many time-honored patriotic tales turn out to be more fiction than fact. In anticipation of the Fourth of July, here's a look at some memorable myths from the birth of the United States (U.S.)..."

This funny ReverendFun comic strip shows standoffs in churches

VideoSift shares a six minutes and 58 seconds YouTube video showing "Greatest Marriage Proposal EVER!!!" with an unexpected surprise for the girlfriend

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Neatorama shares a simple memorization Flash game titled "Painted Eggs" on Gameonade.com for Easter time -- "Remember the pattern and then paint the plain egg with the same colours. Less time = more points."

Digg shares Mashable's infographic showing "April Fools' Day By the Numbers" -- "Social media users, you're not alone in your April Fools' Day enthusiasm.