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Good Tuesday afternoon in New York City, where fast food chains now have tiny sugar spoons warning you that stuff is unhealthy.
Here's what else is happening:
- You can now watch Newsmax in the backs of yellow cabs.
- The city's sanitation department got some new salt-spreading trucks.
- The spike in gold prices has led to a spike in people trying to sell their gold jewelry to Midtown dealers.
- The Museum of Sex has a new immersive exhibition about cults and communes.
- Ja Rule launched a whiskey brand.
- Rolling Stone and Vibe merged.
- Josh Hart has cute twins.
- Victor Wembanyama grew an inch during the offseason.
- Meat temple.
- And finally, clap 'em:
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