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  • Robert Durst, who's now 78, has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering his old friend Susan Berman two decades ago.
  • Behind the Evergrande debacle in China is the startling fact that the country has 30 million unsold homes and 100 million more that have been purchased but aren't occupied, creating entire "ghost towns" that, altogether, could house about 260 million people, or the entire population of Brazil.
  • Vaping is not a healthy habit but it's maybe not as bad as the FDA told us it was two years ago.
  • The Oxford English Dictionary just added 26 South Korean words, the largest ever one-year addition of non-English terms.
  • Scripted TV shows are trying to work COVID-19 vaccines into their plotlines, though as one producer of an NBC medical drama admitted, "What’s left to say about the vaccine other than, 'Please for the love of God get vaccinated so we can all get out of this endless hellscape?'"
  • Now that WeWork has gotten rid of Adam Neumann and his plans to expand into the indoor wave pool business, the company is hoping to continue existing.
  • Hanna Gadsby, who'd been name-checked by the Netflix CEO regarding the Dave Chappelle transphobia controversy, posted on Instagram that Netflix "didn’t pay me nearly enough to deal with the real world consequences of the hate speech dog whistling you refuse to acknowledge."
  • The New York Times details how sneaker-purchasing bots are ruining the game for 30-something dads with subpar internet service who just want a pair of New Balances.
  • And finally, this cat is going full cat: