The year ahead in numbers UPDATE: Read the solutions here As we say goodbye to 2025, let’s delight in its numerical charms one final time. The year was unique this century as being a square number. 442 = 1936 452 = 2025 462 = 2116 Five 9s Six 8s. Six...
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Organ-tuning books in English churches provide notes on a warming climate
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ICE agent fires shots at man after being hit by SUV
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Boys at her school shared AI-generated, nude images of her. She was the one expelled
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First wheelchair-using astronaut touches down after ride to edge of space
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