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    • Here at Trending Now, we'd be remiss if we did not bring viral videos to your attention on a regular basis. It's part of our job, and we love doing it. The latest one to capture not only our attention but that of the social media world depicts a ship launch apparently gone horribly wrong.

      In it, the NOAA ship Reuben Lasker, at Marinette shipyard in Wisconsin, glides down an inclined metal ramp into the water. It suddenly tips steeply onto its side and crashes violently into the water, sending wood planks and other debris flying into the air toward whomever is filming from behind the boat. The video then ends abruptly after about 18 seconds. It was initially uploaded to YouTube in January by user Jason Bundoff, but the ship launch took place about a year ago. It has already been viewed more than 90,000 times, and people are watching the less than 20 seconds of footage multiple times just to take it all in.

      Bundoff wrote in the description of the video, "Ship side launch goes wrong

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    • Dorothy Custer is my hero. I mean it. She's 102 years old, and she's not afraid of anything. How do I know this? Because I watched her tandem BASE-jump off an Idaho bridge to celebrate her 102 years on Earth.

      Custer, of Twin Falls, Idaho, just keeps coming up with ways to top herself. Last year, for her 101st birthday, she ziplined across Idaho's Snake River Canyon. She had planned to skydive for this year's big day, but that didn't work out. She told KMTV.com, "I was thinking of going to jump out of a plane, but then I found out it was too much. So then I said, 'Forget it! I'll just have a very calm birthday.'" Don't you just love her idea of calm? I know I do.

      Custer said she won't allow her age to limit her. "I just went on living and having a good time and doing what was necessary," she said. "I don't think of age right now."

      If you think Custer looks familiar but you can't quite place her face, here's why. She has made multiple appearances on "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno,"

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    • Thanks to Twitter, Instagram and endless entertainment blogs, it's nearly impossible to not keep up with your favorite celebrities. You can find out what restaurants they're eating at, where they're shopping and how they spend their spare time. One Instagram user figured out a way to enjoy time with the celebrities who are always trending. He fakes it.

      Instagram user Peejet has used his creative photo-editing skills to insert himself into pictures with celebrities such as Jay Z and Beyoncé, Kim Kardashian, Drake, Rihanna, Lil Wayne and even first lady Michelle Obama. All the pictures are of real situations and events, which Peejet magically happens to appear in -- seamlessly so.

      Peejet has more than 73,000 followers on Instagram, and he has posted only 101 pictures of his celebrity "encounters." He says he started the account in April 2012 in an effort to entertain his friends, and it just took off from there. He told the Daily Dot. "I choose which pics I use by whatever is trending on

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    • When it's your moment to shine, you want to do your absolute best —especially when that moment is happening publicly in front of a crowd of people. Let's just say you're performing "The Star-Spangled Banner" in a band, and your job is to play the cymbals. What happens if your instrument breaks? How do you recover from the embarrassment and keep the party going?

      In a video uploaded to YouTube, Andrew Pawelczyk of the Eisenhower Junior High School band in Illinois awaits his moment to play the cymbals, when the unthinkable happens. The cymbal in his right hand breaks and falls to the ground. At first Andrew appears shocked and unsure of how to recover. But then, brilliantly, he does not miss a beat and decides the best plan is to honor his country by saluting our nation's flag as his band mates continue to play the national anthem.

      Andrew's story was also shared on the social news site Reddit and quickly voted up by users to the front page. People were not just impressed by Andrew's

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    • It's the end of May, and to many people around the world, that signals weekends filled with graduations and weddings. People are searching for the best presents for those reaching these milestones. When it comes to weddings, one woman's gift is making waves around the Web.

      As reported by Gay Star News, 72-year-old Sherri Gray, from Nashville, Tennessee, wrote and recorded a support song as a gift to her niece Shannon and her fiancée, Lisa, for their upcoming wedding. Gray uploaded a video of her singing the song to YouTube. While playing the piano and sporting a T-shirt that reads, "Straight But Not Narrow," she belts out the tune, "What If We Are Just Like You? (Shannon and Lisa's Song)." "The world will bless the wedding of a woman to a man. While he and he and she and she are told they never can. We laugh, we cry, we die and live. We try to fit. We work. We give. We have a goal. We have a soul."

      In the description of the video, Gray wrote, "I wrote this song about equal rights not

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