Meet "Pizza Rat," an overly ambitious NYC rodent who just wanted to take a slice of pizza home that is now being hailed as the real-life version of Master Splinter from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

The new app, Sizzl, allows users to rate each other based on their pork preferences and the duration of how long they hold down a "Sizzl-meter." Reviews of the app claim that people have actually used it to meet new bacon-crazy friends.

Ahmed Mohamed was eager to show his homemade digital clock to his teacher at MacArthur High School, but when school officials saw the circuit boards inside the device, they arrested him for bringing a "hoax bomb" to campus. But every cloud has a silver lining; the attention on his story has brought the 14-year-old robotics enthusiast V.I.P invitations to all sorts of exciting places, including the White House, MIT and the headquarters of Google and Facebook, just to name a few.

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Vlogger Nicole Arbour is racking up her YouTube view counts after inciting a wave of outrage with her "Dear Fat People" monologue video, in which she openly criticizes the fat acceptance movement and encourages "fat shaming" to stigmatize obesity.