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On this day:

1066
William the Conqueror and his army set sail from the mouth of the Somme River, beginning the Norman Conquest of England.
1529
The Siege of Vienna begins when Suleiman I attacks the city.
1540
The Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) receives its charter from Pope Paul III.
1822
Jean-François Champollion announces that he has deciphered the Rosetta stone.
1854
The steamship SS Arctic sinks with 300 people on board. This marks the first great disaster in the Atlantic.

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Wiki has an interesting snapshot of AI writing.

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“When we repudiate Kant’s discriminatory statements today on the basis of his own ethics and political philosophy, we can justifiably claim to have understood Kant better than he did himself.” --Willaschek

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NPR gibberish: "And for now, most countries are sticking with their commitments to reach the goals in the Paris Agreement, even if this report shows they're not on track to do that. "

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For the first time in history, we have a pope who is eligible to be president.

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China accounts for more than 30% of global manufacturing, or more than America, Germany, Japan, and South Korea combined. 

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The lifetime costs of "American Dream," according to Investopedia:

Retirement: $1.6 million
Owning a home: $957,594
Owning a new car: $900,346
Raising two children and paying for college: $876,092
Health care: $414,208
Annual vacations: $180,621
Pets: $39,381
Wedding: $38,200

Add them up, and you have a lifetime cost of $5,043,323.

Freedom isn't free.

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Trump’s massive tax bill is expected to add $3.4 trillion to the federal deficits over the next decade.

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The Penguins  are rebuilding and want to go young, yet they remain the oldest team in the NHL. 

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The average American with a bachelor’s degree earns about $2.8 million over a career.

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Norway offers parents 12 months of shared paid leave for birth and an additional year each afterward. It also made kindergarten (similar to a U.S. day care) a statutory right for all children age 1 or older in 2009.

Yet, Norway's fertility rate has dropped drastically from 1.98 in 2009 to 1.44 in 2024, according to official figures. The rate for 2023 (1.40) was the lowest recorded fertility rate in the country.

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About 486,000 people live full-time in an RV, which appears to be more than twice as many as in 2021, according to survey data from the RV Industry Association.

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OpenAI would need an additional $40 billion for each gigawatt of capacity it plans to build.  Ultimately, it plans to build 10 gigawatts of computing power — roughly equivalent to the power needed to run 8 million homes.

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The Steelers lead the league, giving up at least 300 yards in the last 11 games.

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"The decline in birth rates has been driven primarily by fewer births to women in their teens and early 20s, and these are births that are very often unintended."-- demographer Karen Benjamin Guzzo 

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Factories in China installed nearly 300,000 new robots last year, more than the rest of the world combined. Indian factories installed 9,100 robots.