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Extra Extra: When you've tried everything to get rats to stop eating the wires in your car
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It's Friday afternoon in New York City, where donations are pouring in to the effort to find a missing Upper East Side dog.
Here’s what else is happening:
- Scientists have confirmed that 2023 was the hottest year ever recorded.
- The new concrete barriers meant to protect the bike lane on Park Avenue in the Bronx aren't stopping drivers from squeezing into the bike lane and parking.
- A CUNY professor who tried everything to get rats to stop eating the wires in his car finally solved the problem ... by getting a different car.
- Tweens are hanging out in Sephora after school.
- The secret flight attendant slang for a bad passenger is "Philip" — a variation of PILP, or "passenger I'd like to punch."
- Drew Barrymore rewatched "The Wedding Singer" and can confirm it's very good.
- Back in the 19th century, people used to share a bed. Kings and their buddies, relatives, strangers staying overnight at an inn — all kinds of people would sleep together in the same bed and not be weird about it.
- The yammer has been caught.
- And finally, skating on a screen:
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