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One of the most viral videos of the past few weeks: Surprised Kitty.  After spending over a month as a video unknown, the adorable little cat with his surprised paws has blown up to the count of over 11 million views.

Here's the real surprise though: It's all a scam!  Gothamist (my #1 source for cat news) reports "the kitten's surprise-while-being-tickled is a normal postural play response," meaning this kind of move can be common for kittens.

They even go on to quote veterinarian Dr. Peter Soboroff (Wait, is he a doctor or is he a veterinarian, because he certainly can't be both!?) as saying, "That Surprised Kitty is a total jerk, ripping off the work of other kittens and calling it his own.  He's like the Milli Vanilli or Coldplay of kittens.  He's terrible.  It's all B.S.!"

Alright, I totally made that quote up.  But as evidence, Dr. Soboroff did present the video above showing a cat he had taken care of doing the same thing.

Rip-off!

[via BuzzFeed]

Back in November 2001, foodie site Epicurious posted the above "recipe" for how to salt water for boiling, a common cooking technique since salt raises the boiling point of water allowing things to cook at a higher temperature (science, BITCHES!!!)

So, OK, we get it.  The recipe is a little ridiculous.  And there's something funny in the idea that you can "review" a recipe of salt and water.  (Though maybe the author is wrong.  Who knows?!  No one really knows how to cook for reals.)

Still, people have felt compelled to post sarcastic, ironic or plain inane comments… for EIGHT YEARS NOW!

Eight years this has been going on!  825 reviews as of posting time (and I'm guessing this post will cause even more people to add more dumb reviews).

Does this mean people are going to be wearing Three Wolf Moon T-shirts in 2017?!  I hope to god not!  Let's hope that awful movie 2012 is right and the end is near.  Apparently, the apocalypse is the only thing that couple stop people from reviewing Salted Water.

Or stoopid Epicurious could just turn off the reviews section.  (PLS!)