seems I'm not getting any smarter as I age...

Not getting any smarter, probably,
but wiser, yes.

Wolves have a far superior sense of smell compared to humans, estimated to be about 100 times more sensitive.

~$70,000

Annual salaries offered to high school juniors (not a typo!) taking shop classes. Companies with skilled-worker shortages are recruiting at secondary schools. Employers say that as the skilled trades become more tech-infused, they anticipate doing more early recruitment to snag people who are comfortable programming and running computer diagnostics.

huh...NIL for shop playas

97%of people of European and African descent
have wet sticky yellow-orange ear wax , proper
name, Cerumen.

95% of Asians have dry non-sticky grey Cerumen


What's in your ears?

The shortest living man as of recent records is Afshin Esmaeil Ghaderzadeh from Iran, standing 65.24 cm (2 ft 1.6 in)

27%

The decrease in U.S. drug-overdose deaths in 2024, according to preliminary CDC data. The large drop is a promising sign amid a national fentanyl crisis that’s increased drug-related deaths in recent years. Last year’s roughly 80,000 deaths fell close to levels not seen since before the Covid-19 pandemic, which exacerbated the country’s drug-overdose crisis.


I would think that the availability and easy access to Narcan has probably also contributed to the decrease.

NBA Related:

Teams were 0 & 1,414 since 1998, when down by 9 or more points, with under a minute to go in the playoffs.

Until last night when the Pacers beat that number last night and beating the Knicks at MSG.

Luigi Mangioni and John Wilkes Booth were both born in Baltimore, and were both 26 years old when the killed their victims.

On a not unrelated note, Baltimore is also where Ray Lewis lived.

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$165 million

The 2024 compensation for Rick Smith, the co-founder and CEO of the maker of Taser stun guns, putting him at the top of the latest list of highest-paid chief executives. Overall, CEO pay set another record last year. Here’s the ranking:
https://www.wsj.com/business/rick-smith-axon-ceo-pay-package-2024-6e864a64?mod=djem10point

The top 5 highest-grossing movies in the U.S. for 1972...... mostly.

#1 The Godfather $134 million
#2 The Poseidon Adventure $93 million
#3 What's Up, Doc? $66 million
#4 Deliverance $46 million
#5 Jeremiah Johnson $44 million

Now here is where Mostly comes in.

There is another movie from this year that estimated gross between 30-50 million. Gross might be the right word. The movie.......... Deep Throat.

Godfather probably earns daily residuals since it is always on somewhere.

Winston Churchill smoked over 300,000 cigar's in his life time.😳.

I heard he was OG on this forum. Can we add his count to the "What are you smoking 1million" thread?

🤔

$36 billion

The value of hormones for popular weigh-loss drugs flown from Ireland to the U.S. this year. The shipments have propelled Ireland to the second-largest goods-trade imbalance with the U.S., trailing only China.

WSJ

The second rule of Theromdynamics is All systems work toward disorder.

$1,999

The cost of the Liberty Phone, which is assembled in the U.S. using parts from the U.S., China and other countries. The device shows it is possible to build a smartphone in the U.S. right now, but it won’t be as sleek or as powerful as an iPhone, and it will cost a lot more.

WSJ