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National Pizza Party Day!
Happy National Pizza Party Day, and today on Social Rundown, we HAD to celebrate!
Komodo Dragon eats shoe
Now we were not the only ones having a bite of a little something. A komodo dragon at the Memphis Zoo ingested a guest's shoe after the guest threw it over the exhibit's glass. In a Facebook post, the zoo explained how a guest threw a red shoe into the komodo dragon exhibit. Ophelia the dragon went into surgery to get the shoe removed, and she is expected to make a full recovery.
Old baby names
According to multiple baby name consultants, names of the past are back in style. For girls, names such as Eleanor, Alma, Margaret and Nora are on the list; for boys, names like Theodore, Oliver, and Jasper are popular.
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