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  柏林有十六个月时间换新的黄信封，结果两个星期就用完，该进监狱的人留在了家里 — Berlin Had Sixteen Months to Switch Envelopes. The New Ones Ran Out in Two Weeks, and People Due in Prison Stayed Home. 21.09.2026 3min

  Berlin prosecutors could not send prison-reporting summonses because they ran out of the yellow envelopes required for legally valid formal service. Germany's federal justice ministry changed the service-form spec on 31 March 2025 with old forms usable until 31 July 2026 — roughly sixteen months of notice. Berlin procured the new envelopes on time; they were exhausted after two weeks because demand far exceeded the estimate, and reordering failed on supplier shortages. Convicted people stayed home, cells sat empty, and the office never recorded how many were affected.
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  克里斯蒂安·贝尔用了二十年，盖出十二栋房子，只为让寄养的兄弟姐妹不再被分开 — Christian Bale Spent Twenty Years Building Twelve Houses So Foster Brothers and Sisters Would Stop Being Split Up 21.09.2026 2min

  Christian Bale, his wife Sibi and Dr. Eric Esrailian opened Together California in Palmdale in September 2026 — an 11,000-square-foot village of 12 furnished homes, the first of its kind in California, built specifically so foster siblings are not split between separate placements. Nearly twenty years from idea to ribbon-cutting; ground broken in 2024; nearly $9 million raised in donations; first children move in in October.
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  飓风吹倒了夏威夷的牛油果树，一个小岛用掉在地上的果子办了场比赛，救下了自己的电台 — A Hurricane Flattened Hawaii's Avocado Trees — So One Island Held a Guacamole Contest and Saved Its Own Radio Station 21.09.2026 3min

  Hurricane Lowell knocked down thousands of avocado trees on Kauaʻi at the start of avocado season, flooding the island with free fruit; the community turned it into the first Great Kauaʻi Guac-Off on Sept 17, 2026, which drew nearly 200 people and raised over $5,000 — double its goal — to keep community radio station KKCR, which had warned it was running out of diesel, on the air.
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  纽约街头的免费机器人厕所：十分钟一到，门自己打开，不管你好了没有 — New York Put Free Toilets on the Street, and the Door Slides Open by Itself After Exactly Ten Minutes — Finished or Not 21.09.2026 3min

  New York City deploys free modular public toilets from Throne Labs with a strict 10-minute limit after which the door slides open automatically; a $4M pilot of 19 units, two already live in Brooklyn and Queens, against a city with roughly 1,000 public bathrooms for 8+ million people and 10,000+ public-urination summonses last year.
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  道奇队8比2胜红人，西区五连冠 — Dodgers Clinch 5th Straight NL West Title 20.09.2026 1min

  Dodgers clinch fifth straight NL West title
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  黄石公园热泉区清出280多顶帽子 — Yellowstone Finds Over 280 Hats in Hot-Spring Areas 19.09.2026 3min

  Yellowstone hot-spring cleanup finds 280 hats
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  格陵兰安全协议还没签，主权不变 — Greenland Deal Unsigned; Sovereignty Stays 19.09.2026 1min

  Greenland security agreement expected
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  iPhone Duo 起价1999美元，10月23日开卖 — iPhone Duo Starts at $1,999; On Sale Oct 23 19.09.2026 3min

  Apple unveils iPhone Duo
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  达拉斯垃圾车给房屋打“破旧分” — Dallas Trash Trucks Give Homes AI Blight Scores 16.09.2026 4min

  Dallas trash trucks give homes AI blight scores
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  北京 HYROX 失禁事故后修改比赛规则 — HYROX Changes Rules After Beijing Bowel Accident 16.09.2026 5min

  September 2026 Beijing HYROX race hygiene incident, organizers apology, and updated safety rule
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  劳力士帕德洛尼一年只需调一次日期 — Rolex Padellone Needs One Date Fix a Year 16.09.2026 2min

  Rolex launches the Perpetual Padellone annual-calendar watch
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  一个人工智能客服顶了七百个人，平均满意度和人一样：一年后公司把人招了回来，因为平均值把最糟的那批客户藏起来了 — Klarna Rehires Humans After AI Replaces 700 Agents 12.09.2026 3min

  Klarna launched an OpenAI-powered customer service assistant globally in February 2024; in its first month it handled 2.3 million conversations, which the company said was equivalent to about 700 full-time agents, cutting average resolution time from 11 minutes to 2 and repeat inquiries by 25%, with $40m of added profit projected. By mid-2025 Klarna was rehiring human agents; founder Sebastian Siemiatkowski told Bloomberg the company had gone too far and that focusing on cost had driven down quality. Average satisfaction had looked level because the distribution was bimodal - simple queries scored near the top, complex ones near the bottom
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  他已经下到安全的楼层了，然后他转身又上去了：二十五年后，「红头巾的人」拿到了总统自由勋章 — 9/11 Red Bandana Hero Gets Medal of Freedom 12.09.2026 3min

  Welles Crowther, a 24-year-old equities trader on the 104th floor of the World Trade Center South Tower, tied the red bandana his father gave him at six over his face and led survivors down the one passable stairwell above the impact zone on 11 September 2001, carrying one woman seventeen floors on his back and returning upstairs repeatedly until the tower collapsed. Survivors knew him only as the man in the red bandana; his mother identified him from a May 2002 New York Times account. He is credited with helping save about eighteen people, and was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on 8 September 2026
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  「如果明天世界完了，第二天全球的货币就是宝可梦卡」：一个手握五十万张卡的投资人是认真的，而他说错的地方比说对的地方更有意思 — Pokémon Cards as Doomsday Money 12.09.2026 4min

  Peter Levin, co-founder of Griffin Gaming Partners and a collector who owns well north of half a million Pokemon cards, told The Hollywood Reporter in September 2026 that if the world suffered an apocalypse tomorrow, the following day the global currency would be Pokemon cards, citing card prices beating the S&P 500 by 3,000 percent. The episode tests the claim against the standard three conditions for money - scarcity, portability and consensus - finds the cross-border price consensus argument genuinely strong, and then identifies the survivorship bias in the 3,000 percent figure and the fatal flaw that collectibles are priced by discretionary income, which an apocalypse destroys first
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  「一个没有科学部门的科学馆，还能叫科学馆吗？」安大略科学馆裁掉三十人，整个科学部门一个不留 — Ontario Science Centre Cuts Science 12.09.2026 3min

  On 10 September 2026 the Ontario Science Centre laid off 30 workers including its entire science department, along with the live exhibits team, business development and security. The union said the cuts eliminate over 540 combined years of service, and OPSEU Local 549 president Raluca Ellis asked how you can have an Ontario Science Centre with no science unit. The province abruptly closed the Toronto building in summer 2024 over an engineering report on roof deficiencies, and is building a $1-billion replacement at Ontario Place
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  两亿四千五百万美元，一分钱都不是抢来的：一个二十二岁的人打了两年电话，每一笔都是对方自己交出去的 — Phone Calls Stole $245 Million in Crypto 10.09.2026 3min

  A 22-year-old pleaded guilty in September 2026 to a racketeering conspiracy that stole and laundered more than $245 million in cryptocurrency between October 2023 and May 2025 - one of the largest crypto thefts in US history. The method was social engineering: members impersonated customer support from a major search company and a crypto exchange, manufactured trust and urgency, and had victims read out their own security codes. One victim lost over 4,100 bitcoin. Proceeds went on 30+ cars, a $2 million watch, mansions and private jets. He faces up to 20 years
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  两百年来第一匹：野马在哈萨克斯坦的草原上自己生下了小马，而它们的父亲没能看到 — Wild Horses Foal in Kazakhstan After 200 Years 10.09.2026 3min

  Two Przewalski's horse foals were born on the Kazakh steppe in August 2026 - the first wild births there in 200 years. The species, the only truly wild horse left, went extinct in the wild by the mid-20th century and survived only in European zoos. Since 2024 a reintroduction programme has flown 22 horses to the Altyn Dala steppe, aiming for 40 - the minimum for a self-sustaining population. The first foal was born 22 August, the second on 31 August; both are colts by the same stallion, which has since died
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  一只蜱虫咬了他，从此他不能吃牛肉：七年后，这个营养师自己养起了四百只鸵鸟 — Tick Allergy Leads Nutritionist to Raise Ostriches 10.09.2026 3min

  A Kentucky nutritionist developed alpha-gal syndrome after a tick bite and can no longer eat mammal meat - not even grill fumes or the gelatin in pill capsules. Because ostriches are birds rather than mammals, ostrich meat is safe for him while looking and tasting close to beef, so he became a partner in an ostrich farm that now runs over 400 birds and plans to reach 700
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  陪审员选她当陪审长，理由是「你上过法学院」：可她只是在《律政俏佳人》里演过律师，连大学都没念完 — Jury Mistakes Reese Witherspoon for a Real Lawyer 10.09.2026 3min

  Reese Witherspoon told The Graham Norton Show that about seven years after Legally Blonde she was called for jury duty in Beverly Hills on a two-week dog-bite case, and her fellow jurors elected her foreman because they believed she had gone to law school; she told them she had not gone to law school and had not finished college
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  《荒野大镖客二》地图上那块过不去的墨西哥，一个玩家用二十二个月自己补上了，九月十六号免费发布 — RDR2 Fan Rebuilds Mexico and Releases It Free 09.09.2026 3min

  Red Dead Redemption 2 shipped in 2018 with Mexico (Nuevo Paraiso) visible across the river but unreachable - the terrain partly built and never opened. A single player, not a Rockstar employee, began rebuilding it in April 2024 and after 22 months of largely solo work is releasing Nuevo Paraiso - The Forgotten Frontier free on PC on 16 September 2026, seamlessly joined to the existing map and fitted to the prequel timeline