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Early Addition: People Who Nap On The Subway Have Superpowers
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Jake Offenhartz
Published Jun 29, 2017
Modified Jun 29, 2017
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- The president woke up this morning and decided to tweet about a female TV host "bleeding badly from a face-lift."
- Or as The Onion masterfully put it: "President Peepaw yelling nasty things at the lady on the TV again."
- Inside Alejandro Iñárritu's harrowing new virtual reality drama.
- A body washed up in South Brooklyn this morning, marking the third time in three days that human remains have been found in city waterways.
- Science explains why some people can nap for the exact length of their subway ride, while the rest of us would wake up in Canarsie if we ever tried.
- Purchasing magical healing supplements online is the glue holding this fractured country together.
- But also the NRA is essentially calling for a Civil War now.
- Here's how much coffee the Friends in 'Friends' drank.
- Researchers say we have three years to act on climate change before it's too late.
- And finally, a very good dog wanders into a live orchestra performance:
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