The Washington Post analyzed data going back to 2000 and found concert ticket prices have more than doubled, sports tickets are up 123%, gas is up 27% in the past year alone, and Americans are spending 53 fewer minutes per day doing things outside their homes than they were in 2019. Also: Toys R Us announced 120 new standalone US stores opening this holiday season, bringing its total to 160 — including Creator Studios where influencers will film content — eight years after closing every American location in 2018. And a nonprofit called All Kids Bike has now brought learn-to-ride curricula into nearly 2,000 US elementary schools because a growing number of children have no parent, sibling, or neighborhood where they'd otherwise learn. Plus a golden retriever greeting a burglar with toys, an ex-airline CEO starting a fire, a 132-year-late library magazine, and a humpback whale 60 miles from the ocean.
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