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0.7 percent
50 years
As of Thursday, that’s how long it’s been since the first time a person managed to float in space outside of a box designed to keep someone alive in space. On Mar. 18, 1965, cosmonaut Alexey Leonov went on the first spacewalk. [io9]
559 jokes
100,000 convictions
A batch of racially insensitive — to understate this a bit — text messages from five San Francisco police officers were released last week. As a result, about 100,000 convictions are being reviewed for bias. [Gawker]
$3 million
That’s the FBI reward for information about Russian cybercriminal Evgeniy Bogachev. It’s the first time the feds have put out a bounty on a hacker. Guys, at some point we need to really reconsider using the word “cyber.” It’s getting antiquated. [Associated Press]
$194 million
1.35 billion
$4.2 billion
Amount Blue Shield of California had in its coffers when it was stripped of its tax-exmpt status. That’s a lot of profit for a non-profit. [Los Angeles Times]
$2 trillion
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