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Early Addition: New TikTok Craze Is Watching People Miss Trick Shots Over And Over And Over
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James Ramsay
Published Sep 17, 2021
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• A volunteer found about 250 dead birds outside the World Trade Center the morning after 9/11 (the ceremonial lights can cause the birds to get confused and crash into buildings), renewing calls to fix the light pollution issues that regularly kill migratory birds.
• Colorado Gov. Jared Polis married his longtime boyfriend on Wednesday, becoming the first sitting U.S. governor to be in a same-sex marriage.
• Former Yankees star and current Philadelphia Phillies shortstop Didi Gregorius blamed his elbow pain and horrible performance this season on the COVID-19 vaccine, though he also acknowledged that "when you say that, everyone looks at you like you’re stupid because the vaccine is not supposed to be like that."
• Mariah Carey is being barred from selling her Irish cream liqueur brand, Black Irish, in Ireland (or anywhere else in the EU) because of a copyright dispute.
• The Wall Street Journal has a behind-the-scenes look at how grocery delivery services in cities around the world are taking over empty storefronts to stash food so that delivery workers can get you your order absurdly fast.
• Vinyl sales outpaced CD sales last year for the first time since 1986.
• New research shows that CEOs who use pretentious and convoluted language on quarterly earnings calls are more likely to produce lower returns.
• Priyanka Chopra has apologized for agreeing to be a "judge" on The Activist, CBS's now-sort-of-canceled game show that was going to pit activists against each other to compete for a donation.
• According to more on-set pictures from the Sex and the City reboot, it appears that, all these years later, Carrie Bradshaw still smokes.
• The days of extremely impressive, slickly-edited trick shot videos are over — the new craze is long TikTok livestreams of guys repeatedly trying and failing to make trick shots.
• And finally, a peacekeeping chicken:
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