💬 Quoted… “An economic danger to the public.”
Justin Costello, a former fugitive accused of posing as a billionaire, a Harvard MBA, and an Iraq War vet to scam people out of ~$35 million, was denied bail pending trial yesterday by a federal judge.
🦠 Stats of the Day: People with mild/moderate Covid cases who took ivermectin recovered within an average of 12 days, while people with mild/moderate Covid cases who didn’t take the drug recovered in 13 days. That’s per a new study published in JAMA examining data from ~1,600 patients, which ultimately concluded ivermectin doesn’t meaningfully improve Covid recovery time.
🤯 Did You Know?... Just 5% of all plastic waste generated in the US last year was recycled, down from a peak of 10% in 2014, per new research from Greenpeace.
📖 Worth a Read: ‘Deepfakes’ of Celebrities Have Begun Appearing in Ads, With or Without Their Permission → (WSJ)
🔥 American Airlines is eliminating first-class on international flights, married couples have a huge financial leg-up over single people (on average), and the most successful predator in the entire animal kingdom.
🔥 Boris drops out of race for new UK PM, MLB pitchers are throwing harder than ever (and hitters are suffering), and the island where cats outnumber people.
🔥 The human toll of Qatar's World Cup, more than half of American workers are considering a second job, and the country with the most favorable view of the US in the world.
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