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Selfie culture has doomed the world's most precious tourist sites

Selfie culture has doomed the world's most precious tourist sites

New York Post — Instagram posts of the blooming poppy fields in Lake Elsinore last March inspired thousands to flock to the small Southern California town. A total of 100,000 visited in just one day, causing so much traffic gridlock and crushed wildlife that the local government dubbed it "Poppy Apocalypse."
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Why New York harbor is the cleanest it's been in 110 years

Why New York harbor is the cleanest it's been in 110 years

New York Post — Cleaner waters have led to a boom in lots of marine life. Last summer, a construction worker at Pier 40 in downtown Manhattan stumbled upon an 8.5-inch oyster in the Hudson River, which weighed 1.3 pounds and was "the size of a small shoe," according to witnesses who helped measure it.
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How the Yankees' first and only mascot became a total embarrassment

How the Yankees' first and only mascot became a total embarrassment

New York Post — Inside the costume was Rick Ford, a 22-year-old Ithaca College grad from Greenwich, Connecticut, who had been practicing for his big moment for months, ready to wow the crowd and do for the East Coast what the San Diego Chicken had done for the West. It didn't go exactly as planned.
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What It's Like to Be a Moon Landing Conspiracist in 2019

What It's Like to Be a Moon Landing Conspiracist in 2019

Popular Mechanics — Welcome to Apollo Week, celebrating 50 years since the Apollo 11 mission, explaining what it means today, and exploring how its legacy will shape the future of space exploration. As the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission arrives this weekend, Jarrah White is ready to catch the moon landing propagandists in another lie.
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Inside the 10-year summer road trip of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford

Inside the 10-year summer road trip of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford

New York Post — In 1918, four men on a road trip across Pennsylvania encountered trouble. A bouncing rock punctured their car's radiator, breaking the cooling fan. Mechanics at a nearby garage examined the vehicle and declared it "unrepairable." But then one of the passengers took a closer look.
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Inside the hellish workday of an Amazon warehouse employee

Inside the hellish workday of an Amazon warehouse employee

New York Post — She'd been warned by her supervisors that it would be physically demanding. She'd be on her feet for 12-hour shifts, walking a total of 15 to 20 miles through a 25-acre warehouse - as long as seven New York blocks - looking for merchandise to fulfill online orders.
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The wild, outrageous and downright disgusting secrets of the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest

The wild, outrageous and downright disgusting secrets of the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest

New York Post — Joey Chestnut, the No. 1 competitive eater in the world, still isn't exactly sure how he broke his own record last summer - eating 74 hot dogs (and buns) in just 10 minutes at the annual Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest. "I just found a rhythm," Chestnut, 35, told The Post.
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Why sharks aren't as bad as 'Jaws' makes them out to be

Why sharks aren't as bad as 'Jaws' makes them out to be

New York Post — In the US, there's a 1 in 265 million chance of being killed by a shark. The risk is even lower if you live in New York state. Since 1837, there have been just 12 unprovoked shark attacks, plus 15 attacks in New Jersey.
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Why Can't We Shrink Our Kids Yet?

Why Can't We Shrink Our Kids Yet?

Popular Mechanics — This Sunday, June 23, marks the 30th anniversary of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, a quasi-horror flick (it came from the guys who made Re-Animator after all) dressed as a family-friendly comedy. It still holds up for various reasons, but mostly because of how it made shrinking technology seem so...plausible.
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How a trip with a three-legged dog helped an ex-Marine find redemption

How a trip with a three-legged dog helped an ex-Marine find redemption

New York Post — In September of 2016, Rob Kugler got some terrible news about his beloved dog, a black lab named Bella. The bone cancer that had taken her left front leg just a year earlier had spread to her lungs and mouth. Her already terminal illness was threatening to cut her short, eight-year-long life even shorter.
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Why becoming a Wienermobile driver is harder than getting into Harvard

Why becoming a Wienermobile driver is harder than getting into Harvard

New York Post — Applications from soon-to-be-college grads have jumped from 6,000 in 2018 to 7,000 this year - thanks in part, Oscar Mayer reps speculate, to an increase in the Wienermobile's social-media presence. (YouTube videos of the Wienermobile fleet, posted last summer by Oscar Mayer, have garnered almost 2 million views.)
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Meet the secret 'ghost workers' paid to keep the internet safe

Meet the secret 'ghost workers' paid to keep the internet safe

New York Post — Dozens of workers provide human services for internet and technology companies whom researchers Mary L. Gray and Siddharth Suri interviewed for their new book, "Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), out now.
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David Cone reveals vulnerable side through perfect game in new memoir

David Cone reveals vulnerable side through perfect game in new memoir

New York Post — Twenty years ago, Yankees pitcher David Cone did what only a handful of players had done before him: He pitched the perfect game. In a standoff with the Montreal Expos on July 18, 1999, the 36-year-old Cone - most players peak in their late 20s - needed just 88 pitches, 68 of them strikes, to stop the Expos from getting a single hit.
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A history of New York's larger-than-life felines

A history of New York's larger-than-life felines

New York Post — The history of New York is filled with inspirational figures, eccentric characters and unexpected heroes. But some are in danger of being forgotten, ones whose names rarely get mentioned in the history books. Like, for instance, the cats. No, seriously. New York has had some famous (if now obscure) cats.
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How our obsession with 'whiz kids' is harming American teens

How our obsession with 'whiz kids' is harming American teens

New York Post — As Karlgaard explains in his new book, "Late Bloomers: The Power of Patience in a World Obsessed with Early Achievement" (Currency), out now, it wasn't until his mid-30s that he felt "like I had a fully functioning brain at last ... I could think both intuitively and logically and see the difference."
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The 20 Best Movies for People Who Truly Love Porn

The 20 Best Movies for People Who Truly Love Porn

Men's Health — Everything about the adult film industry is fascinating. It's a business where people get paid to have sex with each other while being filmed so that that the footage can be watched later by people trying to masturbate.
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10 Years Ago, Forrest Fenn Hid Treasure Worth Millions in the Rockies-And People Are Still Trying...

10 Years Ago, Forrest Fenn Hid Treasure Worth Millions in the Rockies-And People Are Still Trying...

Reader's Digest — Hopeful hunters are scouring the Rockies for a chest full of gold, jewels, and artifacts reportedly worth millions. Where exactly is it?The clues lie in a mysterious poem. "Please don't say I buried it," says the email from Forrest Fenn, the 88-year-old retired antiques dealer from New Mexico who engineered one of the biggest treasure hunts of the 21st century.
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How a wheelchair-bound man traveled the world on the backs of his friends

How a wheelchair-bound man traveled the world on the backs of his friends

New York Post — Kevan Chandler was near the top of Skellig Michael, a rocky outcrop 18 miles off the Irish coast, when he began to grasp just how much danger he'd put himself in. The sixth-century Gaelic monastery built into the island is only accessible by 600 narrow and uneven steps, with no handrails for support.
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Why Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis spent her final days in an office instead of a yacht

Why Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis spent her final days in an office instead of a yacht

New York Post — When she joined Viking as a consulting editor in 1975, she was adamant that she receive no special treatment. As the fictionalized Jackie in "The Editor" explains, her office was "a regular size and stacked high with manuscripts. I get my own coffee and wait in line to use the copier, same as anyone else."
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Every Star Wars Movie-Ranked | Best Life

Every Star Wars Movie-Ranked | Best Life

Best Life — Choosing your favorite Star Wars movie can be like choosing your favorite kid. As any parent can tell you, that's not as difficult as it sounds. Some kids are inherently lovable and easy to take pride in, while other kids, well.... Star Wars movies have similar personalities.
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After 'Game of Thrones,' the Future of Sex on TV

After 'Game of Thrones,' the Future of Sex on TV

Playboy — When Game of Thrones debuts its eighth and final season on April 14, one thing will be glaringly apparent to longtime fans: There aren't nearly as many naked prostitutes in Westeros anymore. This is particularly disappointing to Samantha Bentley, who has played three different ladies of the night over several seasons of HBO's 47-time Emmy-winning series.
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Generation X's existential panic after Luke Perry death

Generation X's existential panic after Luke Perry death

New York Post — Our generational midlife crisis - the realization that time is fleeting and our friends (both real and fictional) are dying and we're maybe not going to accomplish everything we hoped when we were younger - brings what truly matters into sharper focus.
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5 get-rich tricks from a 29-year-old multimillionaire

5 get-rich tricks from a 29-year-old multimillionaire

New York Post — Self-made millionaire Nathan Latka, 29, shares his rules for getting rich in his new book, "How To Be a Capitalist Without Any Capital." Among them: Stop daydreaming about fancy vacations, ask for a raise when you least need one and always have a bunch of projects cooking.
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Kurt Russell Reveals the Bizarre Injury That Pushed Him Into Acting Full-Time

Kurt Russell Reveals the Bizarre Injury That Pushed Him Into Acting Full-Time

Men's Health — In a parallel universe, Kurt Russell the actor doesn't exist. His classic movie roles, like John "The Hangman" Ruth in The Hateful Eight and Snake Plissken in Escape From New York, never happened or were played by somebody else. All those awesome eyepatches, mullets, and shaggy mustaches never made it onto celluloid.
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