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Aug 6
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🍌 “Dancers in the Outfield” — Savannah ...

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ThredUp stock is up 600% this year
 because Frugal Friendly Finance is winning the trade war.

Palantir is named after LOTR, but is it Sauron or Frodo?
 Either way, it’s stock is #1 this year.

The Savannah Bananas’ baseball team is disrupting MLB
 by doing stuff that doesn’t scale.

Hellman’s Mayonnaise sponsored a wedding
 (we cried)


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