It’s simple……$100! If a man walks into a shop, sidles over to the cash register and manages to extract a $100 bill, that’s precisely what the shop owner has lost. Whatever happens after that is nothing more than a bit of “shuffling about” of that same $100. To break it down to the simplest terms: The thief walked in with $0, and walked out with $100: $70 in merchandise and $30 in change. The thief has converted his $100 haul into another form of the same $100, and that is precisely what the shop owner has lost.
June 19, 2025
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On This Day
1998 - Gateway was fined more than $400,000 for illegally shipping personal computers to 16 countries subject to U.S. export controls.
Fact of the Day
On 9/11, after both World Trade Center towers were hit, jet fighters took to the air without any live ammunition, knowing that to prevent the hijackers from striking anymore intended targets, the pilots might have to intercept and crash their fighters into the hijacked planes, ejecting at the last moment.
Nature Oddities
Researchers discovered that crows and magpies have started using spikes meant to keep them away from buildings to protect their own nests from predators.
Food and Drink
The ackee — the national fruit of Jamaica — is poisonous in all but one small portion, and that portion is only safe to eat after the fruit has naturally opened on its own.