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  2. US Open player compensation rises to a record $75 million ...

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    Players exiting the 128-person brackets in the first round of the main event for women’s and men’s singles get $100,000 each for the first time, up from $81,500 in 2023 and from $58,000 in 2019.

  3. D. B. Cooper - Wikipedia

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    In an experimental recreation, flying the same aircraft used in the hijacking in the same flight configuration, FBI agents pushed a 200-pound (91 kg) sled out of the open airstair and were able to reproduce the upward motion of the tail section and brief change in cabin pressure described by the flight crew at 8:13 pm. [99] [100] Initial ...

  4. Aircraft fuel system - Wikipedia

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    In some aircraft, the shut-off function is a different valve located after the fuel selector valve. Typically, after the selector valve—situated at a low point in the fuel run—there is a gascolator — a fuel filter that can be opened on the ground and drained of fuel impurities denser than petroleum, mainly water and sediment. Other ...

  5. Boston - Wikipedia

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    In 1822, [16] the citizens of Boston voted to change the official name from the "Town of Boston" to the "City of Boston", and on March 19, 1822, the people of Boston accepted the charter incorporating the city. [69] At the time Boston was chartered as a city, the population was about 46,226, while the area of the city was only 4.8 sq mi (12 km 2).

  6. Tesla Model S - Wikipedia

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    The car has earned numerous accolades, including being named one of the "Best 25 Inventions of the Year 2012" by Time and receiving the "Tech Car of the Year for 2012" award from CNET. The car has received mixed reviews: The Daily Telegraph described the Model S as a "car that changed the world", [ 7 ] but Road & Track called it "perhaps one of ...

  7. Uranium-235 - Wikipedia

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    Uranium-235 ( 235U or U-235) is an isotope of uranium making up about 0.72% of natural uranium. Unlike the predominant isotope uranium-238, it is fissile, i.e., it can sustain a nuclear chain reaction. It is the only fissile isotope that exists in nature as a primordial nuclide . Uranium-235 has a half-life of 703.8 million years.

  8. Avatar: The Way of Water - Wikipedia

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    Box office. $2.320 billion [ 4][ 5] Avatar: The Way of Water is a 2022 American epic science fiction film co-produced, co-edited, and directed by James Cameron, who co-wrote the screenplay with Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver from a story the trio wrote with Josh Friedman and Shane Salerno. Distributed by 20th Century Studios, it is the sequel to ...

  9. Click-through rate - Wikipedia

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    Click-through rate ( CTR) is the ratio of clicks on a specific link to the number of times a page, email, or advertisement is shown. It is commonly used to measure the success of an online advertising campaign for a particular website, as well as the effectiveness of email campaigns. [1] [2] Click-through rates for ad campaigns vary tremendously.