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Extra Extra: Adolescence actually lasts until you're 32, scientists say
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Good Tuesday afternoon in New York City, where the "Fan Man" pleaded guilty to soaring.
Here's what else is happening:
- Inflation rebate check update: Gov. Kathy Hochul said almost all of them have now been mailed out.
- Alex Vitale, a Brooklyn College sociology professor and the author of "The End of Policing," has been named as a community safety adviser for Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's transition team.
- The owner of an Irish pub on Long Island blamed a faulty ID scanner after about 200 underage drinkers made it in there last Saturday night.
- The cousins who co-own the Nom Wah Tea Parlor empire are in a legal feud.
- Scientists at Cambridge University have discovered that adolescence lasts until you're 32.
- Gramma the tortoise has died at the age of 141.
- Domino's has fired the executive who thought it'd be a good idea to add fried chicken to the menu.
- Jiffy has (obviously) not fired the executive who decided to keep selling corn muffin mix for $1.
- And finally, a real one:
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