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11,000

That is how many views Michelle Obama’s first podcast with her brother Craig Robinson got in its first day on YouTube. That is not a lot for Michelle Obama whose books fly off the shelves. How can her name and star power alone not have sent those views into the hundreds of thousands, do you think?

$42 million

That is how much the Seattle Seahawks reportedly offered defensive end DeMarcus Lawrence for a three-year contract

2.8%

That was the inflation rate in February, which was below economists’ expectations of 2.9%. Core CP came in at 3.1%, which is the lowest reading since April 2021.

$0

That is how much Southwest Airlines charges for checked bags for now. Starting in May, the company will start charging for checked bags for the first time ever and loyalists are devastated.

 40%

That is the tax rate that Rosie O’Donnell will now pay on her worldwide income since she’s moved to Ireland to escape the U.S. until it is “safe for all citizens to have equal rights there.”

$4,550

That is how much Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is accused of paying for “dance training” with taxpayer dollars. She denies it saying it was an FEC filing but it is actually from a representational allowance which is paid with “taxpayer money.”

18,000

That is how many tonnes of Jet A-1 aviation fuel was aboard an anchored tanker that was struck by a container ship in the North Sea on Monday. It triggered a massive explosion and rescue operation for 37 people.

5,200

That is how many USAID contracts have been canceled by the State Department, according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. That represents 83%, he says.

$4 trillion

That is how much the S&P 500 dropped from its peak last month. The Trump administration calls this “short term pain.”

34

That is how many days per year Vanna White works on Wheel of Fortune. She has been on the show since 1982.

3 hours and 12 minutes

That was the length of the last Avatar movie but director James Cameron says that the next one will be even longer.

43,000. 

That is how many McDonald’s restaurants in the U.S. are going go get an AI makeover. They say that this will help them better predict when machines will fail – like the ice cream machine – and then service them before that happens.

22

That is how many Democratic Senators posted a video with the same scripted message about President Trump’s economic promises. Senator Cory Booker admitted to being the author of the stunt. We get that Democrats want to improve their messaging but does it have to be so scripted?

$5 million

That is how much money UC Davis is planning to spend on a locker room renovation project that will remove the single-sex spaces and build a “Universal Locker Room” that is “inclusive of members of all gender identities.”

$51 million

That is how much The Philadelphia Eagles will pay to re-sign Zack Baun for three years. They also re-signed Saquon Barkley for $41.2 million for two years.

31 years 

That is how long former Dallas Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson has been an NFL announcer. He just announced his retirement from Fox Sports.

5 minutes and 40 seconds

That was how long Adrien Brody’s Oscar acceptance speech lasted and some people didn’t like it.

7,000

That is how many people the Social Security Administration plans to lay off, reducing staff from 57,000 to 50,000.

45,000

That is how many locations there are of a popular fast food chain called Mixue Ice Cream and Tea, mostly in Asia and Australia. That makes it the largest fast food chain in the world, topping McDonald’s and Starbucks.

10%

That is how many more kids enrolled in architecture and construction classes in Wisconsin during the 2022-2023 school year than the year before. Trade courses are increasingly popular all over the U.S. as students seek out early vocation.

500

That is how many pushups one man did in one hour and then showed off the before-and-after pump.

62%

That is the pay raise that the union for dock workers agreed to on Tuesday.

$2 million.

That is the value of Nike sneakers that migrant thieves stole from slow-moving freight trains. There has reportedly been a string of train robberies from this group, like Jesse James times!

12 minutes. 

That is the value of Nike sneakers that migrant thieves stole from slow-moving freight trains. There has reportedly been a string of train robberies from this group, like Jesse James times!

25%

That is how much Tesla stock is down this year. Shares of the company dropped 8% on Tuesday alone.

Two

That is how many judges ruled to block the Trump administration from freezing federal aid on Tuesday. One was DC Judge Loren AliKhan and the other is Judge Amir Ali. Both were appointed by President Biden. Elon Musk has raised the issue of impeaching corrupt judges in response to this.

2.5%

 That is how much the United Kingdom will increase its defense spending, according to Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

$500 billion. 

That is how much Apple says that the company will be investing to ramp up manufacturing in the U.S. They say they want to expand their offices in Michigan, Texas, California, Arizona, Nevada, Iowa, Oregon, North Carolina, and Washington and plan a new factory in Texas.

33%.

That is how many people with a bachelor’s degree or higher say that they have at least 6 close friends, while 10% of them say that they have no friends at all and research shows that friendlessness is declining.

Two.

That is how many English bulldog puppies were stolen from a pet store in Colorado after one of them created a distraction by faking a seizure. One of the thieves was arrested but the other and the puppies have not yet been found.