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Fans who stormed the court after Siouix Falls women’s basketball team seemingly won a game against Winona State with a buzzer-beating 3-pointer caused a technical foul that led to Winona State winning with mere tenths-of-a-second on the clock. [USA Today]
3 Golden Globes
Last night at the Golden Globes, “The Revenant” won awards for Best Drama, Best Actor in a Drama (Leonardo DiCaprio), and Best Director (Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu). [The Washington Post]
11 games
The NHL will look into a new way for fans to vote on the roster for the annual All-Star game after an Internet poll led to John Scott of the Arizona Coyotes to be designated a captain. Scott is a veteran enforcer — that’s the term for a hockey player who is good at punching other hockey players over other skills associated with the game — and has appeared in only 11 games this year. The Internet is great. [CBS Sports]
18 percent
Following a Wildcard playoff weekend in which every home team lost, that’s the probability that the favored Carolina Panthers win the Super Bowl according to FiveThirtyEight’s forecast, followed by Arizona winning it 16 percent of the time. [FiveThirtyEight]
34 percent
Percentage of Yahoo! employees who think the company’s prospects are improving, according to Glassdoor. One employee said she was “praying to be laid off” so she could move on with her life. [ESPN]
10 million
Reported number of paid subscribers to Apple Music, roughly half of what Spotify touted last June. [The Verge]
$1.3 billion
Despite 440 million tickets sold — a figure that mathematically gave us about a 78 percent chance of a winner — nobody won Saturday’s Powerball drawing. Wednesday’s drawing is currently estimated at $1.3 billion jackpot as an annuity, or $806 as a cash value. [Powerball]
$2.1 billion
Estimated value of an NFL team that moves to Los Angeles, according to rough projections. That’s at least a half-billion higher than the valuation of the three bidders — the Rams, Raiders and Chargers — in their current cities. [CNBC]
39 trillion
There’s an old scientific myth floating around that bacterial cells outnumber human cells in a given person 10 to 1. It turns out that is far from realistic, but the actual answer is somehow more disturbing! A man who weighs 70 kg and is 1.7 meters tall contains about 30 trillion human cells and 39 trillion bacteria, according to a new study — a ratio closer to an Arnold Palmer than 10-to-1. [Nature]
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