Early Addition: The Wide World Of Subway Bleeps And Bloops

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Published Aug 13, 2021

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Maybe inflation wouldn't seem like as big of an issue if Americans were just paid more money.
The New York Times published a fancy interactive piece about the different stand-clear-of-the-closing-door tones you hear on subways around the world.
Samsung will no longer produce the Galaxy Note, the phone that became famous for spontaneously combusting, and will instead make $1,800 (!) flip phones.
A lot of people who work for the New York Times and other elite media companies live in Montclair, New Jersey.
For three days every August, the 690-mile stretch of Route 127 from Alabama to Michigan turns into the country's largest yard sale.
Researchers in Wales are putting fitness trackers on pregnant sheep to get information preparing them for the birth.
Saturday Night Live veteran Horatio Sanz has been accused of grooming and sexually assaulting an underage teen girl back in the early 2000s.
Retired NBA star J.R. Smith, who never played college basketball, is trying to use his theoretical NCAA eligibility to play college golf.
Snooki and her husband have successfully flipped a Brick, New Jersey beach house, selling it for twice what they paid in 2015.
Here's a first look at Impeachment: American Crime Story, with Clive Owen as Bill Clinton and Beanie Feldstein as Monica Lewinsky.
A guy just drinking beer and fishin' on Cape Cod almost caught a great white shark.
And finally, a VERY high jump!:

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