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What did you do over the weekend?

Tuesday, August 27, 2019
By Oliver Roeder

You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/significant-digits-for-tuesday-aug-27-2019/

$572 million

In a “landmark ruling” in a lawsuit relating to the opioid crisis, an Oklahoma judge ruled that Johnson & Johnson must pay the state $572 million. The corporation, the state argued, contracted with poppy growers in Tasmania and “supplied 60 percent of the opiate ingredients that drug companies used for opioids like oxycodone.”

One of the J&J suppliers...…

A Johnson & Johnson subsidiary has also produced its own opioid pill and a fentanyl patch. [The New York Times]

$8.49 12-piece combo meal

Beginning today at a single location in Smyrna, Georgia, Kentucky Fried Chicken is testing an offering of meatless “chicken” in partnership with the “plant-based food purveyor” Beyond Meat. A 12-piece combo meal will go for $8.49, a discount from the typical $12.99 of an actual-chicken 12-piece combo meal. The main ingredient is pea protein. It’s a brave new world. [Yahoo Finance]

7 northern white rhino eggs

This weekend, scientists in Italy took frozen sperm previously removed from two of the planet’s last living male northern white rhinos (both of whom have since died) and used it to try to artificially fertilize eggs taken from the last two living females of the species. They hope to create as many as seven embryos, with a goal of creating a herd of at least five of the animals that could be returned to their natural habit. What did you do over the weekend? [Associated Press]