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Plus: Our latest videos, a very expensive diamond, a bounty of April Fools’ jokes, a short game, and more.View Online Rare sighting of the week: a job opening on our team. Are you both an analyst and a writer? Entrepreneurial and editorial? Can you whip up copy and pull a rabbit out of a hat? Then we want to hear…

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Plus: Big ships make big money, a new shape, “scary hour,” an informative game, and more.View Online An Australian woman survived two bites from a blue-ringed octopus — one of Earth’s most venomous creatures, with toxins 1k+ times more powerful than cyanide. So at least your morning didn’t have that going on? In today’s email: Baseball’s back in business: It’s…

📦 Amazon’s “frequently returned” items

Plus: What old sitcoms say about US housing, AI guessing games, a cookie yacht, and more.View Online The touring Museum of Failure has landed in Brooklyn. Its collection of questionable products includes Google Glass, a Colgate lasagna, several terrible Oreo flavors, and Bic’s “for her” pens. In today’s email: Flying colors: A new paint could transform air travel — and…

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What old sitcoms reveal about America’s rising cost of housing

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There has been a lot of buzz about how AI might eventually replace lower-rank workers. But why not start with the highest-paid corporate executives?

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“Mileage runs” allow hardcore travelers to maintain elite status. Are they worth it?

03 How the inventor of the troll doll missed out on a fortune

Trolls were one of the hottest toys of the 20th century — twice. But the original inventor only made a sliver of the proceeds.

04 The Manhattan high-rise that shrunk itself down

In 1986, a New York zoning activist made a startling discovery: A newly constructed building was over a dozen floors too high. What followed was one of the strangest outcomes in the history of big-city housing.
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Fractional investing is making everyone a landlord… kinda

I can’t even get my one landlord to fix my sink, and now it turns out they may actually be a 100-headed landlord Hydra? Per Wired, the hot new thing is “fractional investment,” or allowing multiple investors to buy shares of properties. Investors then do nothing except collect their share of the rental income. It’s not entirely new There have

Teletubbyland is a world of love and laughter — it’s also pretty lucrative

This week in moments that permanently alter the chemistry of our brains and understanding of the universe: learning that the original “Teletubbies” Sun Baby now works on the “administrative side” of a security company. While she reportedly doesn’t remember much from her late ’90s career — which involved working alongside dancing rainbow aliens with TVs in their abdomens and an

Walmart is rolling out a new commute

Remember learning to ride your bike in the school parking lot, or the humbling agony of a Razor scooter obliterating your ankle? Same. But dust off your helmet and hike up your tube socks, because it might be time for a new set of wheels. Walmart Inc. created a position in 2022 called the “director of workplace mobility,” per Bloomberg,

Baseball looks a little uglier but business is booming

“This is our year” will be uttered by fans of all 30 Major League Baseball teams today as a new season starts — by fall, 29 of those fan bases will discover they were terribly, terribly wrong. But those fans will have forked over a lot of money along the way. MLB set a $10.8B+ revenue record last season and

Watch: The economics of cruise ships

Ahoy there, matey! Did ye know that major cruise lines be rakin’ in more booty than Blackbeard himself? Alright, enough of that. In 2020, we estimated the average cruise ship made $291 in profit per passenger, per cruise. Major cruise lines pocket a substantial sum of their revenue thanks to tax exemptions outlined in the US tax code. By registering

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