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Early Addition: Netflix Wants To Turn Jersey Army Base Into Massive Production Facility
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James Ramsay
Published Oct 27, 2021
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- Netflix is trying to build a massive production facility at an old dilapidated Army base on the Jersey Shore.
- A charter plane executive from Georgia who bought one of Jeffrey Epstein's old Gulfstream jets is suing the Epstein estate because he says the "stigma" of flying in a private jet once owned by a rapist and human trafficker is turning away customers.
- In a forthcoming memoir, Huma Abedin writes that an unnamed U.S. senator sexually assaulted her in the mid-2000s.
- Ahead of this weekend's launch of several astronauts on a SpaceX capsule, the company is racing to fix the on-board toilets, which have had issues with leaking pee onto the vessel's equipment.
- "The science on cannabis as a mental-health treatment is in its infancy," reports the Wall Street Journal, but researchers are apparently beginning to discover that smoking weed helps some people relax, while other people get anxious and gain weight.
- Today in Sure, Why Not: Dubai just built the world's largest (by far) Ferris wheel.
- The game of asking everyone in Hollywood if they and their families shower is over—now it's all about which C-list actors put breast milk in their coffee.
- Damn, this spider really does look like Elton John wearing glasses!
- And finally, synchronized alley-jumping, absolutely beautiful:
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