Extra Extra: The Tragic Story Of A Misidentified Jar Of Olive Oil

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Published Jan 8, 2020

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are...resigning from the royal family? Taking some time off to "become financially independent"? British people are crazy, man.
Here's a story about how a misidentified jar of olive oil may have led to the death of a longtime State Education Department employee.
The Nanny is getting turned into a Broadway musical, with music from Fountains of Wayne Adam Schlesinger and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend‘s Rachel Bloom, and a story from series creators Fran Drescher and Peter Marc Jacobson.
Some adorable fruit bats will appear on the backs of new quarters.
Here's an interesting look at the development of dog parks and how they've changed cities.
The live music events company Sofar Sounds will pay $460,357.50 to 654 unpaid volunteer workers (known internally as “ambassadors”) as part of a settlement with the New York State Department of Labor.
Elizabeth Warren supporters at her rally in Brooklyn last night think they know why she's lost some steam: sexism.
ABC's next live primetime musical will be...Young Frankenstein.
Here's how NY's bagel union fought a mafia takeover, but also here's how the NY Times described a bagel in 1960: "an unsweetened doughnut with rigor mortis."
It's that time of year again: here's how they count all the squirrels in Central Park.
About 100 CollegeHumor employees in New York and Los Angeles have lost their jobs.
Mel Magazine gets it: "‘PENIS MAN’ IS THE BANKSY OF THE 2020s."
And finally, this is the same face I make anytime anyone has pizza around me too:

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