Pokémon theme park requires a fitness test for entry
Plus: The ShamWow Guy is running for congress.
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When the Pokémon theme park opens in February, it’ll require a fitness test to enter a specific forest-themed section.
The “ShamWow Guy” of 2000s-era infomercial fame is running for Congress in Texas.
A woman is warning people not to drink from glass straws in an upsetting video she recorded in the emergency room.
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“Sorry Timmy”: Tokyo theme park to open a Pokémon area—but one section requires a fitness test
Yomiuriland in Tokyo is opening its Pokémon theme park Poképark Kanto in February, but not every area will be accessible to everyone. According to the official website, the Pokémon Forest nature trail will be off limits to children under five years old, and everyone else has to prove they can handle the long hike.
While some rather unempathetic fans celebrated what they assumed to be a “no fatties” policy, others lamented that many disabled people and seniors would be excluded from part of the park.
The “ShamWow guy” is running for Congress in Texas with a goal to destroy wokism
The man behind one of the 2000s’s most recognizable infomercials stepped into Texas politics last week. Offer Vince Shlomi, known commonly as the ShamWow guy, filed paperwork to run for Congress as a Republican, according to state election records. His campaign will target Texas’s 31st Congressional District, a conservative seat in the northern Austin suburbs.
“New fear unlocked”: Woman’s glass straw shatters. Then, she burps up blood and ends up in the ER
A TikTok creator is warning people to ditch their glass straws after she was hospitalized for accidentally swallowing a shard of broken glass.
The mom and TikTok creator could barely talk as she warned, “Don’t use glass straws,” from the emergency room, explaining that a glass straw she was drinking from had chipped, sending a piece of it into her stomach without her realizing.
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