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5/24/2022
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🌊 Treasure Hunt Day 2

Happy Day 2 of the Roca Treasure Hunt. On Day 1, you treasure hunted at a pace that would've made Indiana Jones tap out. Remember, you get one... May 24, 2022 Happy Day 2 of the Roca Treasure Hunt.
5/23/2022
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🌊 Roca Treasure Hunt 🏴‍☠️

$10000, 5 clues, 1 secret location: Welcome to the first Roca Treasure Hunt. In National Treasure-like fashion, we are giving away $10000... May 23, 2022 $10000, 5 clues, 1 secret location: Welcome to
5/20/2022
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🌊 Saving Private Formula

President Biden invoked an emergency law to help alleviate the baby formula shortage. Up to 40% of formula in the US is out of stock. The country's... May 20, 2022 Roca Riders, we have an
5/19/2022
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🌊 McLawsuit

A NY man sued McDonald's and Wendy's, claiming their burgers are larger in ads than in real life. His proposed class-action lawsuit seeks $50M... May 19, 2022 Right now, sitting on a runway in
5/18/2022
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🌊 Take the Stand, ET

US Congress held its first public hearing on UFOs since 1966. US House members grilled defense officials about whether UFOs, which the government... May 18, 2022 Welcome to the thousands of new
5/17/2022
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🌊 Drug Queen Goes Down

Police in Honduras arrested Herlinda Bobadilla, the leader of one of Central America's largest gangs. The 61-yo Bobadilla led the Montes clan... May 17, 2022 83 years ago today, NBC aired the first
5/16/2022
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🌊 Junk Food's Comeback

UK PM Boris Johnson said that the government would ditch a set of policies meant to reduce obesity. One policy would have banned junk food ads... May 16, 2022 In a plot twist out of a Die Hard movie,
5/13/2022
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🌊 Kim Jong-Ill

North Korea confirmed its first Covid case. Kim Jong Un ordered “all cities and counties across the country to thoroughly lockdown their areas”... May 13, 2022 Have you ever wondered why "Friday
5/12/2022
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🌊 Incredible Plane Landing

A passenger with no flying experience landed a small plane in Florida after the pilot became ill. “I've got a serious situation here,” the man said... May 12, 2022 Happy National Limerick Day.
5/12/2022
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🌊 iPod, Meet Harambe

May 11, 2022 People forget that Grover Cleveland was on the $1000 bill. The bill, unfortunately, was discontinued in 1969 due to "lack of use." This is a real shame because there is no face I
5/10/2022
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🌊 Boaring Days in Rome

Rome is planning to implement a wild boar “slaughtering plan.”~100K+ wild boars live in Rome. They've been known to threaten residents and pets... May 10, 2022 Inflation is really getting out of
5/9/2022
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🌊 ET, You Up?

A group of scientists has proposed an update to the message NASA beams out to communicate with alien life. In 1974, an interstellar radio message... May 9, 2022 Today's newsletter stars a rare
5/6/2022
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🌊 Heavenly Ransom

A Catholic cardinal said on Thursday that Pope Francis authorized an up-to-$1.1M payment to free a kidnapped nun. The nun was kidnapped by... May 6, 2022 Roca Riders, friendly reminder that
5/5/2022
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🌊 Fee, Fee, Fee

Intuit will pay $141M over deceiving claims that its TurboTax software was free. The payment is part of a settlement Intuit reached with all the US... May 5, 2022 Well, it turns out that TurboTax's
5/4/2022
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🌊 Roe v. Wade Explained

Should abortion be a constitutionally protected right?Since Roe v. Wade in 1973, it has been; if Roe is overturned, it won't be.In 1969, Norma... May 4, 2022 Don't say it. Don't say it. Don
5/3/2022
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🌊 Grindr Location, Location, Location

Gay dating app Grindr sold data about millions of users' movements. Grindr users who opted into location-tracking — so they could meet nearby.... May 3, 2022 70 years ago today, the Kentucky Derby
5/2/2022
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🌊 Jake from S̶t̶a̶t̶e̶ ̶F̶a̶r̶m̶  FBI

The FBI may have conducted millions of illegal searches of Americans' data between Dec. 2020 and 2021, according to a new US government report... May 2, 2022 Hope you all had a great weekend — at
4/29/2022
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🌊 Not-So-Special K

Kellogg's, one of the world's largest cereal producers, is challenging anti-obesity food rules soon to take effect in the UK. The rules, meant to... April 29, 2022 We absolutely loved reading
4/28/2022
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🌊 She Was... How Old?!

The confirmed world's oldest person, Kane Tanaka, died in Japan, aged 119. Born in 1903, Tanaka spent her entire life in the city of Fukuoka... April 28, 2022 3 notable April 28 tidbits from pop
4/27/2022
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🌊 Partial Brains Work

A new study in the journal Neuropsychologia suggests people can live normally without sections of the brain. The study researched a woman who is... April 27, 2022 100 years ago, the German candy