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Feds say one broker used bots to grab 18.5 million concert tickets
The DOJ alleges he spent $1.3 billion on seats for acts like Beyoncé and Post Malone, then flipped them for nearly $121 million in profit. Next time you're stuck in a waiting room at 10 a.m., remember who might have been ahead of you in line.
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Hawaii has an 8-mile hole and nobody can say what it is
It's big, it's deep, and the quoted advice is not to go alone. Honestly, the most reasonable sentence about a giant unexplained hole I've read.
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The leap second is dead. Meet the leap hour.
Since 1972 timekeepers have tacked on 27 seconds to keep clocks in step with Earth's spin, and it was always a clumsy fix. Now the fix is a much bigger unit of time, which sounds like a lot to ask of your calendar app.
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A kid found a WWI trench diary at the dump, bullet hole and blood included
Corporal Claude Nuttall's diary survived all of that, and decades of research later a museum curator has turned it into a book. Some stories just refuse to be thrown away.
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After the dinosaurs died, a giant fungus took over the forests
Meet D. rex, which is a fantastic name for a mushroom. The comeback arc nobody saw coming.
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Was this Neanderthal murdered? Researchers reopen a prehistoric cold case
Forget true crime podcasts. This one has a very, very old victim and presumably no surviving witnesses.
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Ordinary-looking ads reportedly installed mercenary spyware with zero clicks
This is likely the first confirmed case of this kind of spyware arriving through targeted ads. You didn't have to tap anything, which is the whole nightmare.
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An Egyptian tomb holds a 19-line poem mourning a man's father
The elegy was carved on a stone slab in the Bir al-Shaghala necropolis, and one scholar calls it highly literary and original. Thousands of years on, grief still reads the same.
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Scientists are trying to work out what the Liberty Bell really sounded like
They studied a 20th-century replica at Penn State Behrend using modal analysis. The original is famously cracked, so a replica is as close to a sound check as we'll get.
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A 19-year-old's 3D-printing side hustle now pulls in $808K a year
Mike Satterlee picked up 3D printers as a high school freshman and is putting his business, CruiseCup, ahead of college. Yes, it's a CNBC success story, but the number is hard to ignore.
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We now know what killed Jackie the bald eagle
The internet-famous bird died on August 10, and the final cause is out. Plenty of people grew attached to her, so this closes a sad chapter.
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The biggest US airports have terraces, huge art collections and plans to grow
Apparently some of them are less miserable than your last layover suggests. Sprawl, but make it cultural.
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What this year's MLB playoffs say about where baseball is headed
People are searching for the Dodgers payroll, which tells you what part of the future they're worried about. Read it for the argument over whether money is buying October.
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Two men accused of smuggling 21 birds in their pants through Miami airport
Customs says they found the birds hidden in the men's clothes after separate flights from Cuba. Nobody knows yet if the two cases are connected, which is its own kind of question.
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