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In the mid-1970s, a young illustrator at a Japanese gift company sat down with a brush pen and ink and drew a simple white cat-like figure with a red bow and no mouth. According to a story that’s been passed around for years, that sketch was turned down 47 times before anyone said yes. Whether the exact number is precise or part of the lore, the larger point holds: the design that would become Hello Kitty faced real skepticism inside Sanrio before it ever reached a store shelf. Today the character sits at the center of an estimated $80...

A Birmingham businessman thought he was getting a three-bedroom house. Instead, a paperwork slip handed his company the keys to an entire primary school and its grounds.In 2013, NH Care Ltd, the care-provider company directed by Sukhjit Bains, bought a former caretaker’s cottage on Fountain Road in Edgbaston at auction from Birmingham City Council for £395,000 roughly $530,000. The house once served the neighboring George Dixon Primary School; its rear garden still backs onto the playing fields. Both properties shared the same Land Registry title number.When the transfer was prepared, the buyer’s solicitors used a TR1 form, which moves...

But here's proof of what can go wrong when a well-recognized emoji is turned around with it's two buttocks.A Google Design blog entitled 'Bringing Emoji into the Next Era of Expression' used a row of spinning shocked-face emojis to show a serious problem encountered in the transformation of simple icons to three dimensional objects. At the end of the spin, the emoji face reveals cheeky buttocks on the back of its head. The caption underneath being“Just kidding! Butt, IMAGINE!”The joke is intentional and clearly labeled. Designers were making a point about the shift from 2D to 3D.“In 2D illustration,...

A 25-year-old Alabama woman who vanished in July 2017 after fleeing a burglary emerged from dense woods nearly a month later, naked, severely underweight and covered in injuries, authorities said. Lisa Joy Theris of Louisville was spotted walking along U.S. Highway 82 outside Union Springs in Bullock County around 2 p.m. on Aug. 12 by a passing motorist, Judy Garner, a Florida caregiver who was driving home from a deer camp. Garner told NBC News she initially mistook Theris for a deer before realizing it was a person. Deputies took Theris to a local hospital, where she was treated for...