I retired from Amazon at 34 and chose to settle in Canada, where I only need $1,000 a month to live well

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Grigory Lukin retired in his early 30s and moved from the US to Canada.

Grigory Lukin

I saved $200,000 by the time I was 27, but I was miserable

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Gwen Merz started saving the majority of her income after college, but later realized how it affected her mental health.

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A crowd set fire to a Waymo taxi in San Francisco, as tensions about driverless tech grow

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A video still shows flames and a plume of smoke can be seen through a crowded nighttime street as a Waymo taxi is engulfed in flames in San Francisco on February 10, 2024.
A Waymo self-driving robo-taxi is engulfed in flames in San Francisco on Saturday.

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I invested enough money to retire at 29. I don't ever need to worry about earning a salary again.

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Daniel George traveling in Iceland.
Daniel George traveling in Iceland.

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The pilot of the Japan Airlines plane didn't know it was on fire until alerted by cabin crew: report

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A Japan Airlines plane on fire on a runway of Tokyo's Haneda Airport on January 2, 2024
A Japan Airlines plane on fire on a runway of Tokyo's Haneda Airport on January 2, 2024.

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EV owner gets fined after trying to use a toaster to warm up his car battery, sparking a house fire

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A photo of a car driving through some snowy weather in Denmark.
A Danish man was hit with a substantial fine after using a toaster to warm his EV battery. The toaster ended up catching fire and damaging the car, as well as the neighbor's home.

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Fire damaged Nikola Tesla's last remaining laboratory that crowdfounders raised over $1 million to save

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A fire-damaged building, the Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe, with a brick and metal tower still standing
Fire damaged the Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe, a former laboratory of inventor Nikola Tesla.

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Residents of a New Mexico ski town oppose a planned new Starbucks. The construction site has caught fire twice.

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Starbucks' Grande Caramel Apple Spice.

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Elon Musk once reportedly hung up on a Tesla worker inside a burning factory and said 'don't bother me'

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Elon Musk speaks at the opening of a new Tesla factory.
Elon Musk.

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A second Nikola electric semi-truck caught fire during tests to determine the cause of another blaze

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Nikola TRE battery-electric truck
Nikola's TRE electric truck.

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