A benefit of being old and jobless is plenty of reading time. Herewith some generally useless notes reflecting the range of junk these eyes sort through:

 

$6.16

Average benefit SNAP participant receives per day

 

110,000

Lightning strikes detected in Louisiana on July 30

400,000

Persons removed from Louisiana Medicaid rolls, for various reasons, past two years

 

61,721

Alexandria MSA employment June 30

4.6%

Rapides unemployment rate June 2025

30

LSU football bowl wins

24

Bowl losses

$423,949,195

Gross revenue “A Minecraft Movie” April 4-July 31

2122.86

Miles of state highways in Rapides

1

MLB team not to have played in World Series (Seattle)

4

NFL teams never in Super Bowl (Cleveland, Detroit, Houston Texans, Jacksonville)

44

Most Number 1 songs by a country artist (George Strait)

$645,000,000

Cost of Bill Gates hydrogen-powered super yacht

 

4,560,000,000

Estimated years of age of meteorite that recently hit a Georgia house

 

4,540,000,000

Estimated years of Earth’s age

720

Feet of depth one part of lower Congo River, world’s deepest

0

Mosquitos in Iceland

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