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$44.6 million
That is how much hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin spent for a 150 million-year-old Stegosaurus. This is apparently the new status symbol of the rich and famous. Actors such as Nicolas Cage, Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe have them in their homes.
13
That is how many counties in Oregon want to cede from the state and join Idaho. That movement has gained some momentum because Oregon State Rep. Mark Owens put forward a bill to research the impact of this happening.
45%
That is how many Democrats want their party to be “more moderate,” according to Gallup. That is up 11% from 2021 but Democratic leaders don’t seem to have got this memo.
5’5″
That is how tall Kevin Hart has said he is in interviews but fans weren’t so sure when he showed up at the NBA All-Star game.
100,000.
That is how many people in the U.K have signed a petition to change the rules for new drivers to a graduated program, much like the one that many U.S. states already have.
360
That is how old the oldest U.S. taxpayer is, according to Elon Musk’s review of the Social Security database. This data shows that millions of taxpayers are over the age of 100. Surely that can’t be right!
300 Feet
That is the size of an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that NASA says could hit the earth in 2032, although they say that the chance of a collision is “extremely low.”
500
That is how many Joann Fabrics stores will be closing in 49 states.
$4.50 to $6.25
That is how much the Chicken Big Mac cost at McDonalds when it was available for a limited time last fall. The company says that they’re bringing it back along with a “new chicken strip offering.”
230.
That is how many feet below ground the government retirement office is, according to DOGE. They say that the 700 employees who work there process federal retirements by hand, “in an old limestone mine in Pennsylvania.” They reportedly process “~10,000 applications per month, which are stored in manila envelopes and cardboard boxes. The retirement process takes multiple months.”
>200,000.
That is how many Danish people signed a petition to buy California from the U.S. in response to the idea that the U.S. could buy Greenland from Denmark. Californians may want to consider it! Denmark has a 55% tax rate, which is only a little higher than what Californians already pay only they’d get free healthcare out of the deal.
$8000
That is how many Bitcoins were on a hard drive wallet that a man in the U.K. accidentally threw away in 2013. It would now be worth over $775 million. The man wants to buy the local trash landfill to look for it after the city denied him permission to excavate the dump. He would have to search through 1.4 million tonnes of waste.
9.
That is how many people have been documented to go blind from taking Ozempic.
18.
That is how many missions U.S. spy planes have flown across the Southern Border since President Trump took office, according to CNN. They are reportedly there to increase “surveillance of Mexican drug cartels.”
$740,000.
That is the price of the gold watch that Tom Brady wore to call the Super Bowl on Sunday. It is a Jacob & Co. watch that comes covered in yellow sapphires. Brady ended his sponsorship deal with TAG Heuer in 2019.
$59.
That was the price of one cocktail called the Voodoo Magic at the Super Bowl if you went to watch it in person.
5-foot-6.
That is how tall Kendrick Lamar is. People were surprised about that from his Super Bowl Half Time performance.
$20 million
That is how much USAID paid from U.S. taxpayer dollars to make an Iraqi Sesame Street called “Sesame Street: Iraq on Ahlan Simsim,” which they said was to “promote inclusion, mutual respect, and understanding across ethnic, religious, and sectarian groups.”
30 hours
That is how long Democrats stayed in session to protest the confirmation of Russell Vought as Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) because he was associated with Project 2025. He wrote the parts of the plan that had to do with shrinking the federal government workforce, non government organizations and taking control of the budget.
53 minutes and 55 seconds
That is the length of the unedited 60 Minutes interview with Vice President Kamala Harris that was released by the FCC on Wednesday. The FCC chair under the Biden administration rejected calls for the unedited video, saying it threatened free speech. Meaning editing a video is protected speech. CBS still says that they will not apologize for the edits like this but are reportedly in talks to settle a legal dispute about it with President Trump.
$10
That is how much a hotel in Colorado is being sold for but the buyer must agree to renovate the entire building and convert it into a homeless shelter.
5,000
That is how many FBI agents the FBI says were on January 6th cases. The bureau is suing to stop a Trump administration order asking agents to disclose their previous case work.
10%
That is the credit card interest cap that was proposed in a bipartisan bill by Senators Josh Hawley and Bernie Sanders.
26.
That is the age of country music singer Alexis Wilkins, who is reportedly dating Kash Patel, the man who is under confirmation hearings to be the head of the FBI. They have reportedly been dating for two years. He is 44 years old.
£80 million.
That is how much Netflix reportedly spent to make films with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle but his first documentary called POLO is a flop and critics have called it boring. It has 3 out of 10 stars on IMDB. What is the opposite of the Midas Touch? These two have that.
97%
That is how much of USAID’s employees’ political contributions went to Democrats, according to Open Secrets. No wonder Democrats are so pissed about it being defunded.
63,000.
That is how many viewers in the desirable demographic that MSNBC averaged in January, making it their worst January on record. Even President Biden’s final interview only drew 97,000 viewers. Reruns of South park do better than that.
$11,255.
That is the fine that the NFL announced for Chiefs player Travis Kelce for taunting a player at last week’s game against the Buffalo Bills. It should have been a flag but referees don’t throw flags on the Kansas City Chiefs and you KNOW it!
£57 million.
That is how much the UK allocated to tackle violence against women. A new report shows that it didn’t work. Violence against women in the UK is up.