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Extra Extra: $28 Million Buys You A Ticket To Space With Jeff Bezos
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Sophia Chang
Published Jun 12, 2021
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- Another mass shooting happened Friday night in Austin’s popular Sixth Street nightlife district, where a gunman opened fire on the pedestrian drag and injured at least 13 people.
- Five years ago, a gunman murdered 49 people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando.
- Road races have returned to Central Park, with elite runner Sara Hall placing first in Saturday’s 10K with a time of 31:33.
- A Danish soccer star collapsed on the field during an European Championship game Saturday and was given chest compressions and stabilized before being taken to the hospital.
- Someone bid $28 million for a seat on the New Shepard, better known as Jeff Bezos’s space rocket.
- Michigan firefighters rescued this poor baby raccoon who had its head stuck in a sewer cover.
- Oyster farmers brace themselves for a “bonkers” year as repressed gourmands return to seafood restaurants, demanding the delicious bivalves.
- Is Lin-Manuel Miranda cheugy?
- NBC has shut down production of Ultimate Slip 'N Slide after “up to 40 crew members fell violently ill," experiencing an outbreak of "awful explosive diarrhea” likely due to an outbreak of giardiasis.
- I’m pretty sure every five-year-old noodling around on an iPad is currently playing a C-section cartoon game called Huge Kid Cesarean Birth in Hospital.
- And sally forth, young turtle:
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