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Men Far More Likely to Die Stupid Deaths (Newser Daily Digest)

Men Far More Likely to Die Stupid Deaths

(Newser) - The winners of " Darwin Awards " die in a stunning variety of stupid ways, but the great majority of those killed trying to clean chimneys with grenades, ride in shopping trolleys hitched to trains, and so forth have one thing in common: They're men. A tongue-in-cheek study in... More »

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Movie Helps Sink SeaWorld Chief

(Newser) - As SeaWorld attendances drop and the share price heads toward Davy Jones' locker, the theme park company's chief executive is stepping down. CEO and President Jim Atchison will depart in January and an undisclosed number of workers will be laid off, reports the Orlando Sentinel . A company spokesman wouldn'... More »

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UPS Drivers Don't Turn Left

(Newser) - If you find yourself in traffic behind one of those big brown trucks from UPS, chances are you're not in a left-turn lane. As Mental Floss explains, the company has figured out that left turns wind up wasting a lot of time and gas as drivers sit there waiting... More »

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Best Buy in Hot Water Over Murder Joke

(Newser) - Serial, a podcast re-examining the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee, is a bona fide viral sensation. (Host Sarah Koenig was interviewed on The Colbert Report last night.) In fact, the show is so popular that Best Buy apparently forgot one crucial thing: It's about a real-life murder,... More »

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Found: Shipwreck of 'Bay Area's Titanic'

(Newser) - The City of Rio de Janeiro, a passenger ship with 210 passengers and crew aboard, was on the last leg of a journey from China to the US on Feb. 22, 1901, when fog set in and it crashed into rocks at Fort Point off San Francisco, near the Golden... More »

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N. America's Oldest Horned Dino Was Size of Bunny

(Newser) - When paleontologists on a National Geographic Society expedition dug up a 100-million-year-plus sample sticking out of the dirt in Montana in 1997, they initially thought it was a rock—until they saw it had teeth. Now, 17 years later, they've finally gotten around to naming and describing the creature,... More »

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Pot Farmer Can't Give His $14K Away

(Newser) - Randy Williams raised a boatload of money last month in Washington state's first recreational pot auction—$600,000, to be exact. But when he tried to spread the wealth locally, offering $14,000 to the Prosser School District and the Boys and Girls Club, his donation was refused, the... More »

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This $6.5M Shot Is Now World's Priciest Photo

(Newser) - Sorry, Andreas Gursky . A private buyer has set "a new benchmark for the value of Peter Lik works" with the purchase of a single photograph—for $6.5 million. "Phantom" is a black-and-white version of the Australian photographer's "Ghost," which for a time sat in... More »

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Amount of Plastic in Ocean: 700 Pieces per Human

(Newser) - Mother Earth has reached a milestone, but not the kind anyone will want to celebrate: The plastic floating in the oceans has been estimated to the tune of 5 trillion pieces in a new study. That's 250,000 tons, or some 700 pieces per person, the Washington Post reports.... More »

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Navy Ship Uses Laser Weapon for First Time

(Newser) - The US Navy has completed some pretty historic target practice, yesterday announcing that it has for the first time successfully deployed its laser weapon system from aboard a naval vessel. In a release, it calls the use of the "cutting-edge weapon" historic in more ways than one: the demonstrations,... More »

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