There’s a bunch of things you’d expect to be submerged in a city harbour: Garbage, the odd shopping trolley, a car wreck or three.
But perhaps not an undetonated World War II-era bomb.
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An Australian suburb was the hottest place on Earth yesterday
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The suburb of Penrith in Sydney, Australia isn’t a hot destination for tourists, but it was a searing place — temperature wise at least — on Sunday.
Penrith hit a 80-year high with temps of 47.3 degrees Celsius (117.14 degrees Fahrenheit) at 3:25 p.m., just shy of missing the area’s record high set in 1939.
It’s a far different situation to the “stupid-level cold” the U.S. is experiencing, thanks to the bomb cyclone wreaking havoc along the country’s eastern seaboard.
#SydneyHeat: Sorry, in our earlier checks we missed a 47.8 degrees C temperature recorded at an old #Richmond station (now closed) in 1939. 47.3 today still beats the previous #Penrith record.
— Bureau of Meteorology, New South Wales (@BOM_NSW) January 7, 2018 Read more…
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Each day, kids go to school and lose things. But RagTagd, a Sydney-based company, is looking to fix that. RagTagd is a service that provides ultra-simple RFID tags in kids’ school uniforms and sensor-equipped bins to schools so that lost property can be tracked. When a kid’s lost jumper ends up in a bin at their school, the second it hits the bin a text is sent to the… Read More
Drake threatens dude who was inappropriately touching women at a concert
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Let it be known: the Six god is not here for your disrespect of women anywhere and anytime.
While in Sydney performing at a nightclub this week, Drake spotted a fan apparently groping women in the audience and put a stop to it immediately.
In the middle of an energetic performance of “Know Yourself,” Drake stopped the Australian crowd from continuing the hook of the song and called out a specific person in the audience.
“If you don’t stop touching girls, I will come out there and fuck you up,” Drake emphatically declared at the fan, his finger pointing. Read more…
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Not a joke: Sydney’s public voted to name its newest ferry, Ferry McFerryface
Boaty McBoatface’s legacy lives on.
Last year Transport NSW started a public competition last year in Sydney, Australia, to name their latest ferry. And now an official name has now been announced: Ferry McFerryface.
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Bees invade a motorbike and it’s truly unbeelievable. (Sorry.)
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These bees just found a sweet ride and it’s driving straight into our nightmares.
Castlereagh Street in Sydney, Australia was swarmed with bees after the queen bee decided to create her own beehive on a red motorbike. A cloud of bees invaded the streets and looked like a scene out of the 1978 horror flick The Swarm.
Soooo when’s the next ticket out of Sydney?
Bike absolutely swarming with bees on Elizabeth St. Madness. 🐝 pic.twitter.com/UytpD9HGNz
— Lucy Cormack (@LucyCormack) November 3, 2017
Sydney police issued a warning to people about the invasion of bees in the area on social media. They were having a bit of a sting operation, if you will. Read more…
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Smart kid sells place in the iPhone X line on Instagram
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If you’re going to line up for the iPhone X, why not make some money out of it?
Sydney kid Lee Cselko took advantage of the highly awaited smartphone’s expectedly long launch queues to save two spots in the line for Friday’s release date, reports Daily Mail.
Posting on Instagram, Cselko was selling the place next to him in the queue, spot number 25.
“Selling this spot in line for the iPhone X,” he wrote on a whiteboard, and posted to Instagram — with his phone number, a rather risky thing to post to the internet.
According to the Daily Mail, Cselko landed $500 for the spot, not bad for bringing an extra chair. Read more…
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