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Extra Extra: Congrats Wirecutter, This Is The Most Disgusting Product Review We've Ever Seen
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Sophia Chang
Published Nov 6, 2021
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- At least eight people died and dozens injured at a Travis Scott concert at the defunct Houston amusement park Astroworld. Officials are still investigating, but witnesses said there were crowd surges amongst the 50,000 people in attendance.
- A fuel tanker collided with a truck in Freetown, Sierra Leone and the ensuing inferno killed 98 people.
- The Fifth Circuit court has temporarily blocked President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate for all large companies with more than 100 employees, and the government has until Monday to respond.
- ‘“We are all leaving,” his petition threatened, “and hope you find employees that want to work for $9.25 an hour”’: the Washington Post has an excellent look at how the employees of a Pennsylvania McDonald’s quit en masse.
- A frequently-quoted food industry nonprofit is secretly funded by anti-vaxxers, the Daily Beast found.
- “We used a bag of 15 dead rats—covered in 1,000 maggots—to test this garbage guard”: check out this Wirecutter review that really goes the extra mile.
- Ashton Kutcher was so immersed in playing Steve Jobs and following his fruitarian diet that he was hospitalized with pancreatitis after surviving off grapes.
- At last! A new most popular name for baby girls has emerged after more than a decade of Sophia dominance.
- And finally, enjoy the gentle bond between this sloth and human:
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Sophia Chang is a former WNYC and Gothamist reporter.
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