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PRICE a Utah-based company was offering recently to pay someone to downgrade to a flip phone for a week. The challenge was meant to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the first folding phone.
Source: Frontier Communications
18
AGE of Mason Andrews of Louisiana, the youngest pilot to circumnavigate the globe solo in an aircraft. He recently completed his journey, which took 76 days.
Source: Guinness World Records
8
NUMBER of teens declared co-champions of this year’s Scripps National Spelling Bee. Officials ended the competition when they ran out of challenging words.
Source: The New York Times
$1.4 million
WINNING BID this spring on a racing pigeon named Armando. Considered the best long-distance racing pigeon in the world, he’s also the most expensive bird ever sold at auction. (Pigeon racing is very popular in China, where the buyer is from.)
Source: CNN