We don’t take kindly to rustlers around these parts: With almonds selling for record prices, growers in Australia are fighting a shortage of bees to pollinate their almond trees, and some have fallen prey to bee rustlers stealing hives.
Farmers are looking for ways to combat the thefts, but it’s tough to find branding irons small enough for the bees.
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OK, but where do I put my magnetic hide-a-key, now: Ford took a risk by increasing the amount of aluminum in its 2017 F-Series Super Duty pickups, switching from a steel body to one made of the lightweight metal.
Ford wasn’t concerned about the truck’s durability, only that some owners might be tempted to try and crush the pickups against their foreheads like a beer can.
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Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1690, one of the earliest American’s newspapers, Publick Occurrences, published its first — and only — edition in Boston.
The paper’s one-day run meant that it was unable to print its first letter to the editor: “Sirs, Do you not know how to spell ‘public’? Cancel my subscription.”
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