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NOTE: The spider photo below is not to scale.

It's actually considerably bigger than that.

A face-sized tarantula has been discovered in Sri Lanka, and a photo of the eight-legged giant has since gone viral. It's ... not a small creature. Or un-scary.

The photo of the huge spider was shared by Wired on April 2, shocking readers and being shared across the Internet. And it is surprisingly real.

The newly discovered "face-sized" tarantulas were reportedly found living in trees in Sri Lanka, the only place on Earth they are known to exist.

Exhale.

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North Korea has, again, threatened to wage war on the United States.

The latest provocation? South Korea says its rogue neighbor has moved a missile with "considerable range" to its east coast, in preparation to strike.

This after a spokesman for the North Korean army warned the U.S. that it has been "cleared to wage an attack" using "smaller, lighter and diversified nuclear" weapons.

South Korea said the missile moved is not capable of hitting the U.S.

Still, someone might want to send Dennis Rodman over there ASAP to cool things down, with tensions clearly rising between the bordering nations.

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The alleged "Gate to Hell" has been discovered in modern-day Turkey.

Who would've guessed, given that you normally have to die to find it.

In all seriousness, a team of archeologists working in the ancient Phrygian city of Hierapolis in southwest Turkey claims to have located the Plutonium, or Pluto's Gate.

That's an ancient pilgrim site considered the "entryway to the underworld."

In this place, they play the Kim Kardashian sex tape on a 24-hour loop.

Kidding.

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Officials have released video of the sinkhole that killed a man in his Seffner, Fla., home in early March. Jeff Bush, 37, was swallowed into the 60-foot-deep abyss.

The Florida sinkhole can be seen below, and it is MASSIVE:

Sinkhole Bedroom Video

The sinkhole video was taken by a contractor who put a camera on the end of a pole and stuck into the bedroom window of Bush's one-story home.

The ground is still too unstable to walk on.

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Earvin Johnson III - the son of basketball legend and Los Angeles Dodgers owner Magic Johnson - went public with his same-sex relationship yesterday, strolling down the Sunset Strip while holding the hand of his boyfriend.

And the former Lakers star couldn't be more supportive of the 20-year old.

Referencing his wife, Johnson told TMZ:

"Cookie and I love EJ and support him in every way. We're very proud of him."

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An Illinois man is suing a cat owner who may or may not be his wife for $100,000 after he was house-sitting for her and and her feline went OFF on him.

William Baxter of Homer Glen, Ill., claims he was "viciously attacked, bit and clawed" by the cat, causing "significant" injuries to his ring finger and left arm.

The cat's owner, a Christine Bobak, should have known the cat was dangerous, the lawsuit alleges, since it's apparently attacked others before.

Of course, there has to be more to this story, right? Right ...

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Jessica Fingers, a 21-year-old woman, was found dead over the weekend in a Columbia University dorm room, according to The River Reporter.

The local publication says she may have died from a drug overdose.

She was reportedly found face up and unresponsive on the floor of a room in the college's East Campus dormitory, in Manhattan, on Sunday morning.

Fingers had been on a leave of absence from the school since last year.

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A classic Macy's catalog typo offered up a "Super Buy" for gold and sterling silver necklace normally priced at $1,500, advertising it for a tad bit less than that.

Like $1,453 less.

The 14-karat item was even available for purchase in the chain's stores, with a customer at a Texas Macy's in Collin Creek Mall scoring two of them.

Unfortunately, the $47 price was too good to be true for most. A few days later, Macy's has corrected the incorrect pricing and canceled new orders.

The actual price of the bargain necklace was $479 - still a big discount, but meaning the "9" was omitted by mistake - resulting in major confusion.

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A top North Korean decision-making body said Sunday that nuclear weapons are “the nation’s life” and will not be traded even for “billions of dollars.”

The comment came after North Korean leader Kim Jong-un presided over a crucial meeting of the Central Committee of the ruling Workers' Party.

North Korea Missile Video

The meeting, which set a “new strategic line” for a stronger economy and nuclear arsenal, comes amid a series of near-daily threats from Pyongyang.

Dennis Rodman's BFF and his regime vowed to launch nuclear strikes on the U.S. and declared that the Korean Peninsula is in a “state of war.”

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In an interview with CNN yesterday, former San Francisco 49ers and Oakland Raiders offensive tackle Kwame Harris came out as a homosexual.

Harris had been arrested in January for beating an ex-boyfriend and said he underwent significant stress and pressure, keeping his sexuality a secret during his playing days.

“You want to escape the despair and turmoil and your mind goes to dark places,” Harris said of keeping his sexuality secret. “I’m happy today, and I’m glad they were just ideas and I didn’t act on any of them.

“The cost was great not speak candidly open about myself in complete manner,” Harris said. “If I could have done it differently, I would have hoped I found the strength [to come out].”

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