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7/20/2022
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Numlock News: July 20, 2022 • Pret Index, Raiders, Worm Wars
By Walt Hickey Butterfly Effect The Apple Corporation will finally make right on its awful mistakes, namely the crappy butterfly keyboards they jammed into MacBooks from 2015 to 2019 that users found
7/19/2022
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Numlock News: July 19, 2022 • Superyachts, T-Pop, Super Spikes
By Walt Hickey Windsor The British Royal Family has managed to keep a precise accounting of their assets under wraps, utilizing a carve-out in British law exempting them from the standard requirement
7/18/2022
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Numlock News: July 18, 2022 • Minor League, "Lifetime" Warranty, Chickpeas
By Walt Hickey Welcome back! Thor Thor: Love and Thunder made $46 million in domestic ticket sales in its second weekend at the domestic box office, a steep 68 percent drop off its opening weekend but
7/15/2022
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Numlock News: July 15, 2022 • Lottos, ShotSpotter, Mathletes
By Walt Hickey Have a great weekend! Mathletes A single, otherwise unremarkable public high school in Florida has won 13 out of the most recent 14 National Math Championships, a staggeringly successful
7/14/2022
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Numlock News: July 13, 2022 • Terminals, Mines, Criminal Minds
By Walt Hickey Chicken With food prices increasing, many are turning to the old ways: Instead of buying pre-cut boneless, skinless chicken breasts, people are buying whole chickens and doing the dirty
7/14/2022
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Numlock News: July 14, 2022 • Comic Books, Sea Turtles, Iced Coffee
By Walt Hickey Comics Last year the total market for North American comic book sales on both print and digital download hit a breathtaking $2.075 billion, significantly more than the $1.28 billion
7/12/2022
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Numlock News: July 12, 2022 • Futures, Javelins, Robots
By Walt Hickey Tuna A US District Court judge has said that Subway will indeed have to go to court over the proposed class-action lawsuit alleging that it deceived consumers about their tuna. The
7/11/2022
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Numlock News: July 11, 2022 • Vegas, Avgas, Cheatgrass
By Walt Hickey Prayers Answered Thor: Love and Thunder, a film in which the god of hammers takes on an extremely motivated atheist, opened to $143 million domestically and another $159 million overseas
7/8/2022
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Numlock News: July 8, 2022 • Star Wars, Veterinarians, Motorcycles
By Walt Hickey Have a great weekend! Helmets At the time Star Wars began filming in Tunisia in 1976, there were only six stormtrooper helmets completed. These initial six helmets are known as the “
7/7/2022
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Numlock News: July 7, 2022 • Infotainment, Nautilus, Polysilicon
By Walt Hickey Polysilicon Plant outages at the facilities that produce polysilicon, the key component in solar panels, led to the price of the component hitting $43.50 a kilogram on Wednesday, the
7/6/2022
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Numlock News: July 6, 2022 • Wildfires, Insurance Scams, Almonds
By Walt Hickey Almonds About 7600 farms in California are responsible for 82 percent of the global supply of almonds. Because of the way the industry works, those farms don't get paid until the
7/5/2022
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Numlock News: July 5, 2022 • Pokémon Cards, Minions, Sunscreen
By Walt Hickey Welcome back! Just a heads up that many paid subscribers have an annual renewal this week because it's the fourth anniversary of the rollout of the paid tier for Numlock. Thank you
7/1/2022
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Numlock News: July 1, 2022 • Leopards, Shochu, Pandas
By Walt Hickey We're off Monday in observation of Independence Day, have an excellent weekend see you Tuesday. Cats Just two megacities — Mumbai and Los Angeles — have big cats that breed, hunt and
6/30/2022
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Numlock News: June 30, 2022 • Minions, Butter, North Korea
By Walt Hickey Saving Face Researchers attempting to track seals in Casco Bay, Maine, were able to train facial recognition tech they've termed SealNet into a seal identification system. They
6/29/2022
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Numlock News: June 29, 2022 • Pickleball, Blue Crabs, Elvis
By Walt Hickey Bushels The price of wheat, which has been incredibly volatile since Russia invaded and blockaded major wheat exporter Ukraine, has begun to settle down a bit in the US futures market.
6/28/2022
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Numlock News: June 28, 2022 • Forgeries, Private Jets, Kate Bush
By Walt Hickey Basquiat The FBI raided the Orlando Museum of Art on Friday, seizing all 25 of the paintings in an ongoing exhibition of paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat. The seizure is related to
6/27/2022
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Numlock News: June 27, 2022 • Elvis, Nuclear, Jumbo Kingdom
By Walt Hickey Welcome back! Elvis In a rare occurrence, this week the winner of the box office appears to be a tie, with Baz Luhrmann's Elvis and Top Gun: Maverick each bringing in $30.5 million
6/24/2022
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Numlock News: June 24, 2022 • Reef Fish, Heat Pumps, Haircuts
By Walt Hickey Have a great weekend! Axie Axie Infinity is a crypto system structured as a game, where players have digital monsters and get cryptocurrency tokens for doing in-game labor. This has led
6/23/2022
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Numlock News: June 23, 2022 • X-Wing, Sachets, Teens
By Walt Hickey Model A model of an X-Wing used during the filming of Star Wars sold for $2.3 million at auction, vastly more than the $500000 to $1 million that the miniature was expected to go for.
6/22/2022
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Numlock News: June 22, 2022 • Stingrays, Landmines, Rust Buckets
By Walt Hickey Sertanejo Prosecutors in five Brazilian states have investigated officials in 81 different cities around their spending on concerts amid public outcry over local political leadership