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1,415
NUMBER of students at the University of California, Irvine, who participated in a Guinness World Record-setting game of red light, green light in September.
Source: UPI
$114
FINE Florida drivers now face if they play music too loudly in their cars. Under a new state law, the tunes can’t be audible 25 feet away.
Source: NBC Miami
1.5 million years
AGE of a suspected planet recently discovered by astronomers. Scientists are still observing it, but there’s evidence that it’s the youngest planet ever found, so new that its building blocks of gas and dust are still coming together.
Source: The New York Times