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Photo: Rajanish Kakade/AP144 years after the invention of electric telegraphy, the last telegram service in the world will shut down. This technology is still used in India, where about 5,000 telegrams are sent down the wires daily. But on July 14, it will...stop.The BSNL board, after dilly-dallying for two years, decided to shut down the service as it was no longer commercially viable. "We were incurring losses of over $23 million a year because SMS and smartphones have rendered this service redundant," Shamim Akhtar, general manager of BSNL's telegraph services, told the Monitor. What do you think the last telegram should say?Link -via Marginal Revolution

Nelly is back and preparing a new album titled, Mo. The St. Louis rapper, who just finished taping an episode of The Voice, has linked with Pharrell and Nicki Minaj for his brand new single, “Get Like Me.” The beat is pretty catchy and I quite enjoyed Miss Minaj’s playful nods to Necole Bitchie and Lil Scrappy’s weird ass vocabulary. Listen to Nelly’s comeback below.

Theo, a part-Siamese cat in Ipswich, England, is a kleptomaniac, although he would probably describe himself as a "collector." Paul Edwards and girlfriend Rachael Drouet began noticing things around the house that they did not recognize. First it was cat toys.Mr Edwards said things "escalated" after that."We've had things like muslin cloths, fluffy pens, a USB phone charger cable, a child's piece of art which they'd obviously spent most of the morning making - a glorious thing with lots of different colour feathers and leaves stuck to it, lots of things."We've got some other neighbours who have young children and quite like the cat so [they] had encouraged him into the house."He started stealing things from them and it kind of went downhill from there."Edwards says his neighbors are mostly understanding, and has set up a Facebook page to post the stolen items and reunite them with their owners. Link -via Arbroath

Read the other Real Stuff stories and listen to Mark's interview with Dennis Eichhorn here.

The best thing about this happy Harry Potter family is that the adults told the kids they would be going as Professor McGonagall and Dumbledore only to shock the kids by showing up as two of the most evil characters in the series.Link

No surprise here, really.

"L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux" (What is essential is invisible to the eye), said de Saint-Exupéry's Little Prince in 1943. Nothing has changed. David Galbraith had me at his tagline. I don't know where exactly I happened on him, prolly Twitter. No matter. From his homepage: "I design things that are trivially simple, but they are the right trivially simple. I created the visual bookmarking concept behind Pinterest, the one-line bios used by Twitter and Facebook and co-authored the RSS standard. Originally an architect and set designer, over the last 18 years I have designed things used by nearly a billion people on the web." Worth a moment of my time and — who knows? — maybe even yours. Pictured up top, the original dust jacket of the 1943 first edition.

Elisa Strauss isn't just a baker, but a trained artist who uses food as her medium. This cake is an example of what she can do in her studio. She used fondant and gum paste and, I assume, mushrooms, cheese and beef.Link -via Cake Spy

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Navy Corpsman and redditor Tokyomaneater69 found four newborn bunnies in a hole near their dead mother. He took them back to the barracks and hand-fed them each four times a day until they started to jump out of their box, at which time they went to a wildlife shelter. The four were named Steven, Raymond, Vaughn, and James. He scheduled their feedings around his workday and luckily had no barracks inspection while the rabbits were there. See more pictures and videos linked in the reddit thread. Link