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Category Archives: Newser
{FD} Officials: World’s longest sea bridge meant to look like it’s falling apart
The construction of the world’s longest sea bridge, a nearly decade-old project already bogged down by lawsuits, money problems, and other holdups, now has another complication to contend with: Some say parts of the bridge are “floating away,” per the Guardian.
{FD} TV chef James Martin responds to annoyed customer’s tweet over bad airport burger
Martin promised to “deal with it personally.”
{FD} 29 ancient footprints may upend long-held migration theory
Twenty-nine human footprints from the end of the last Ice Age are fueling discussion about America’s first immigrants, Gizmodo reports.
{FD} Drunk sergeant stole a cargo plane in 1969. So where is it?
Sgt. Paul Meyer was so homesick in 1969 that he drunkenly stole a military cargo plane and flew it over the English Channel—the last anyone saw of him.
{FD} Starbucks opens at Yosemite National Park despite petition
It seems 25,000 signatures weren’t enough to keep a Starbucks out of Yosemite.
{FD} Palm trees in Canada? It could happen in ‘decades’
Utah, Ohio, and Canada might soon be dotted with palm trees—because welcome to climate change.
{FD} You might have cocaine in your fingerprints
Even if you don’t do drugs, there’s a surprisingly decent chance your fingerprints have traces of cocaine and even heroin.
{FD} Legendary lost Civil War gold may have been found in Pennsylvania
It’s the stuff of legend: A wagon from the Union Army supposedly lost a huge cache of gold bars while en route from Wheeling, West Virginia, to the US Mint in Philadelphia in 1863.
{FD} Scientists are bashing iguanas’ heads in Florida
Scientists are sometimes tasked with saving animals from extinction.