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At this year's [International Pizza Expo,](https://pizzaexpo.pizzatoday.com/giveaway-rules-regulations/world-pizza-games/) [Scott Volpe](https://lasvegassun.com/photos/galleries/2023/mar/29/0329_sun_PizzaGames/#/0) of Fiamme Pizza Napoletana in Tucson, Arizona, won the masters division of the acrobatic dough-tossing competition.

**Dough-tossing acrobatics**

Which was a real competition in this year's World Pizza Games?

Japan's [birth rate has been falling](https://apnews.com/article/japan-declining-birthrate-reverse-plan-fd5c77386b0f85e9f4d993265070781b) for the last 15 years, with an all-time low of 799,728 children born in 2022. According to AP, Children’s Policies Minister Masanobu Ogura said the next few years are possibly “a last chance” for Japan to reverse its declining births.

**Financial aid for families**

What's included in Japan's new plan to encourage people to have kids?

Biologists in Tel Aviv recorded plants emitting different sounds when they were dehydrated or cut down, [the New York Times reports](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/30/science/plant-sounds-stress.html). The sounds most likely stem from bubbles in the plant's vascular system bursting.

**They cry**

New research reveals something unexpected that plants do when they're stressed. What is it?

“I was so confused," Juarez's fiancé Stephani Gutierrez [told BuzzFeed News](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pocharaponneammanee/dodgers-stadium-opening-day-proposal-mlb). "Of course I was going to say yes, but I didn't even get to say yes. I was yelling.”

**He was proposing to his girlfriend**

Why did Ricardo Juarez run onto the Dodger Stadium field and get tackled by security during a baseball game?

Though the suitcase theory has never been officially confirmed, a fan captured Taylor Swift [climbing out of her janitor cart](https://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/taylor-swift-janitor-cart) backstage on her tour.

**All of the above**

New video seems to support the theory that Taylor Swift moves incognito by hiding in a janitor cart. What are some other discretion tactics she's rumored to use?

An unidentified person is picking up pet cats off the street, shaving patches of their body, and releasing them. "The vast majority of attacks have been reported in the southern county of Kent, although the organization has also recorded attacks in London and as far north as Aberdeen, Scotland," [the Washington Post reports](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/03/30/cat-shaving-phantom-england-kent/).

**Shaving random parts of random cats**

Why has the "phantom cat shaver" gained notoriety across the UK?

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