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The rollercoaster is called The Swarm and it's going to need a little tweaking before opening day. It seems the crash test dummies were missing some limbs after a test ride.

The attraction is called Thorpe Park in the UK. More from DailyMail UK

Meet Baard Kolstad, 17-Year-Old Street Drummer. He made it to the semi-finals on Norse Talenter, Norway's version of America's Got Talent, before he was eliminated. He's amazing at about 3 minutes in.

Paul McCartney has given his hippy roots a shake with a pledge to give up   smoking cannabis for the sake of his eight-year-old daughter Beatrice.

The former Beatle said it was finally time to give up smoking the drug due to a “sense of responsibility” in caring for his daughter. “I smoked my share. When you’re bringing up a youngster, your sense of responsibility does kick in, if you’re lucky, at some point,” he said in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine. “Enough’s enough – you just don’t seem to think it’s necessary.” More from the Telegraph

Love is never having to say ... Awesome awkard photos of love right here.

For more awkward snaps, visit AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com and AwkwardFamilyPetPhotos.com

Served on Valentine's Day. Journey's Neal Schon is being sued by his girlfriends estranged husband to the tune of $50 million. More from The Telegraph.

The Cosmopolitan Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas debuted this commercia during the Grammys Sunday night. I'm not usually a fan of timeless classics used in tv spots but using “Bohemian Rhapsody” in this way is actually entertaining.

Way more fun than dinner, roses and chocolate...

From National Geographic- More than a Hallmark holiday, Valentine's Day, like Halloween, is rooted in pagan partying.

The lovers' holiday traces its roots to raucous annual Roman festivals where men stripped naked, grabbed goat- or dog-skin whips, and spanked young maidens in hopes of increasing their fertility, said classics professor Noel Lenski of the University of Colorado at Boulder. The annual pagan celebration, called Lupercalia, was held every year on February 15 and remained wildly popular well into the fifth century A.D.—at least 150 years after Constantine made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire.

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Why watch the Grammys Sunday night? Because it'll be one to remember. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will be playing. Sir Paul McCartney will be playing too. Glen Campbell is going to give his farewell Grammy performance.  The Beach Boys are reuniting and performing with Foster the People, one of my favorite new artists. Joe Walsh has also been lined up to perform. If you have kids and watch together, this Grammy Awards might be a perfect blend of young and old.

Why watch the Grammys Sunday night? Because it'll be one to remember. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will be playing. Sir Paul McCartney will be playing too. Glen Campbell is going to give his farewell Grammy performance.  The Beach Boys are reuniting and performing with Foster the People, one of my favorite new artists. Joe Walsh has also been lined up to perform. If you have kids and watch together, this Grammy Awards might be a perfect blend of young and old.

Post Football Depression Syndrome is real. Dr Phil McGraw has some advice for us. SBS. Super Bowl Sunday. For most men, it makes their year. Unfortunately, for too many, the year ends the day after. PFDS, Post Football Depression Syndrome sets in and sets in with a vengeance.  It begins the morning of February 6 this year. Look it up. No review needed for this call. No flag on this field. Emptiness, despair, panic! What now? PFDS is an all out blitz that hits most American males the day after the Super Bowl. More from Huffington Post

If you’ve ever wondered what Joan Rivers is like high, then, well, here you go. Take it or leave it.

In last night’s episode of Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best, the 78-year-old comedienne smoked a bowl of marijuana (in a pipe named Louis the Thirteenth) and became so high that she had to call her daughter Melissa to pick her up.

CNN - Apple's ambition to improve the fidelity of music downloads has diminished since the death of founder Steve Jobs, according to singer-songwriter Neil Young. "Steve Jobs was a pioneer of digital music," Young said. "But when he went home, he listened to vinyl."

Industry-standard MP3 files have only about 5% of all the sounds that were contained in the original recording, which is called a "master." Because high-def music files are significantly larger, Young described a system that would allow the device to download it while the user is asleep. Full article here.