💬 Quoted… “The settlement dwarfs any prior settlement of a defamation action by several multipliers.”

Yesterday, Fox News agreed to pay $787.5 million to settle a defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems, which had accused the news org of knowingly promoting false claims that its voting machines were connected to a plot to fraudulently steal the 2020 presidential election. 

• It represents the largest known media defamation settlement in US history, per multiple sources.

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🦖 Stat of the Day: $6.2 million = the winning bid for a 67 million-year-old composite Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton named Trinity, which was sold yesterday in the first-ever such auction in Europe.

🤯 Did You Know?... Cal Ripken Jr. holds the MLB record for most consecutive games played, with 2,632. And if you read that and thought "meh, light work" here's a bit more context: out of the 20,000+ people who have ever put on an MLB uniform, only 38 have even played in that many games, period.

📖 Worth a Read: The mysterious symbols found carved in Qatar’s desert → (CNN)