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Early Addition: Can You Hear This Piercing Noise Or Are You Too Old?
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Published Jul 8, 2019
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- Philadelphia has installed sonic devices (which have been banned elsewhere) in parks to keep teens away during off-hours. The piercing noise can only be heard by the young—it comes on at 33-seconds in to this story.
- Following the USWNT's big Wold Cup win, Bleacher Report tweeted (and then deleted) an illustration featuring some of the team's members along with *checks illustration* Jennifer Aniston, Brad Pitt, Oprah, Taylor Swift, Captain Marvel, Beyonce, Jay Z, and many more.
- World Cup-viewing bar crowd chants "F--k Trump" during live Fox News broadcast.
- How unpredicatable is YOUR subway commute? Find out.
- "Not long after a piece of children’s artwork sold for upwards of $10,000, [school director Amy] Morgano stood up to thank the women who had made the evening possible. 'You’re good-looking, you’re rich, and who knew — you’re kind as well.'" Go behind the scenes at Grace Church School in Brooklyn Heights—a coveted pre-school of the rich and richer—if you dare.
- Here's a photo of a very crowded Penn Station in 1966. Same as it ever was.
- Billionaire coal tycoon Chris Cline was rushing his 22-year-old daughter to a hospital when their helicopter crashed, reports the NY Post. All seven people on board died.
- Some California residents are so rattled by last week's powerful earthquakes that they're sleeping outside.
- "The expectation of checking work emails on weekends and after-hours triggered anxiety and other harmful health effects among workers," says study.
- Cuomo signed a bill to allow for the release of Trump’s state tax returns.
- Your gold medal is in the mail, cat:
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