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Humanity broke the sound barrier as well as mach 2, mach 3, mach 4, mach 5 and mach 6 all from the Edwards Air Force Base in California.

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🇩🇰 Novo Nordisk overtakes SAP as Europe’s most valuable company.

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🇺🇸 Population of Chicago, USA: 1950: 3,620,962 1960: 3,550,404 1970: 3,366,957 1980: 3,005,072 1990: 2,783,726 2000: 2,896,016 2010: 2,695,598 2020: 2,746,388 2024: 2,721,308

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🇧🇬 Bulgaria population 1985: 8,948,649 1992: 8,487,317 2001: 7,928,901 2011: 7,364,570 2021: 6,519,789

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There’s an 18% chance you’d be born in India.

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BREAKING: 🇮🇳 Passenger plane heading for London crashes after take-off in Ahmedabad, India. There were 169 Indian nationals on the flight, as well as 53 Britons, one Canadian national and seven Portuguese nationals, Air India says.

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Most U.S. patents received each year: 2024: Samsung 🇰🇷 2023: Samsung 🇰🇷 2022: Samsung 🇰🇷 2021: IBM 🇺🇸 2020: IBM 🇺🇸 2019: IBM 🇺🇸 2018: IBM 🇺🇸 2017: IBM 🇺🇸 2016: IBM 🇺🇸 2015: IBM 🇺🇸 2014: IBM 🇺🇸 2013: IBM 🇺🇸 2012: IBM 🇺🇸 2011: IBM 🇺🇸 2010: IBM 🇺🇸 2009: IBM 🇺🇸 2008: IBM 🇺🇸 2007: IBM 🇺🇸

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A human brain uses 12 watts to think while an AI system doing the same processing could use 2.7 billion watts. This makes our organic brains many million times more energy-efficient than current AI systems.

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🐑 Most vitamin D3 supplements are made from sheep's wool.

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🤼 Wrestling is considered the world's oldest competitive sport, with evidence dating back over 15,000 years.

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Grapefruit juice interaction with drugs can be deadly. At least 85 known drugs interact with grapefruit, 43 can have serious side-effects including sudden death, acute kidney failure, respiratory failure, gastrointestinal bleeding, and bone marrow suppression in people with weakened immune systems.

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❄️ A snowflake takes 1 hour to fall from a cloud to the ground.

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🇪🇺 European Union key indicators: Inflation rate: 2.4% GDP growth: 0.6% Unemployment rate: 5.9% House price growth: 4.9% Energy inflation rate: -2.8% Food inflation rate: 2.9% Population: 449 million (Eurostat)

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🇪🇺 Almost all the teachers in pre-primary education in the EU in 2023 were female, accounting for 95.3% of the total. Highest shares in: 🇷🇴Romania (99.7%) 🇸🇰Slovakia (99.6%) Lowest in: 🇳🇱Netherlands (87.9%) 🇫🇷France (91.5%) (Eurostat)

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The average American will spend nearly $30,000 on snacks in a lifetime

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🇵🇱 In Poland only 23.4% of new medical college students are men.

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June 10 1940 – Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom.

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Tibet is the highest region on Earth, with an average elevation of 4380 m (14k ft) and considered the "Water Tower" of Asia by supplying water to billions of people over thousands of square miles.

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BREAKING: 🇦🇹 At least 11 people have been killed in a school shooting in Austria. The attacker entered the school building in the city of Graz and opened fire.

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You spend roughly 10% of your waking hours with your eyes closed as a result of blinking

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List of people that have walked on the Moon: 🇺🇸Neil Armstrong 🪦 🇺🇸Buzz Aldrin, 95 🇺🇸Pete Conrad 🪦 🇺🇸Alan Bean 🪦 🇺🇸Alan Shepard 🪦 🇺🇸Edgar Mitchell 🪦 🇺🇸David Scott, 93 🇺🇸James Irwin 🪦 🇺🇸John Young 🪦 🇺🇸Charles Duke, 89 🇺🇸Eugene Cernan 🪦 🇺🇸Harrison Schmitt, 89

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Google gets over 3.5 billion searches daily.

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Day of the year: 160

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What's the worst country to vacation to right now?

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The most productive employees tend to work for 52 consecutive minutes, then break for 17 minutes, according to social scientists.

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🪙 It costs the US government 3.69 cents to make a penny. The cost to make a nickel is 13.78 cents.

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🇫🇷 On the 4th June at 5pm, PornHub blocked France from accessing its website. At 5.30pm, Proton VPN registrations increased by 1000%.

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NEWS: 🇮🇪 Ireland added to list of countries monitored by the U.S. for currency manipulation.

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🇵🇱 Poland’s national anthem is the only one in the world to mention Sweden (Sweden’s only mentions “the North”)

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The average person will spend 26 years of their life sleeping and another 11 years watching TV

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Gamblers lose $6 billion a year at Las Vegas casinos

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What is one of the worst addiction to have?

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👃 When you breathe through your nose, you do so more from one nostril than the other and your body knows to switch to the other nostril every few hours. This nasal cycle is controlled by the autonomic nervous system which also controls things we don't think about like heart rate and breathing.

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Interviewing for a $400k job at BlackRock. How are you answering this?

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🇷🇺 According to the Bank of America, Russian ruble has been the best-performing currency since the start of the year.

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The @ sign is called "a snail" in Italian, "a puppy" in Armenian, "a little mouse" in Chinese, "a monkey" in Polish, "a duckling" in Greek, "a worm" in Hungarian, "a little dog" in Russian, "a cinnamon roll" in Swedish, "a strudel" in Hebrew and "rollmops" in Czech

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Central Park is only the 6th biggest park in New York City.

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🇸🇪 In Sweden the 25% of highest earners have almost 3 times more kids than the 25% lowest earners (2.3 vs 0.8)

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Percentage of country names containing each letter: A - 85% I - 61% N - 59% R - 47% E - 44% S - 36% T - 35% O - 34% L - 32% U - 30% M - 27% D - 25% B - 24% G - 23% C - 20% H - 16% P - 12% K - 10% Y - 10% V - 9% Z - 8% W - 6% F - 5% J - 4% Q - 2% X - 1%

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🇺🇸 Population of Detroit, Michigan 1950: 1,849,568 1960: 1,670,144 1970: 1,511,482 1980: 1,203,339 1990: 1,027,974 2000: 951,270 2010: 713,777 2020: 639,111

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💪🏻 When doing a push up a person is pressing between 69-75% of their total body weight.

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The "YKK" on your zipper stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikikaisha, the Japanese company that makes over half the world’s zippers.

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The global decline in birth rates: 1950 🇨🇳 China: 41.0 🇮🇳 India: 43.8 🇳🇬 Nigeria: 45.6 🇵🇰 Pakistan: 43.7 🇺🇸 USA: 22.8 2021 🇨🇳 China: 7.6 🇮🇳 India: 16.4 🇳🇬 Nigeria: 37.1 🇵🇰 Pakistan: 27.5 🇺🇸 USA: 11.1 Note: The number of live births occurring during the year, per 1,000 people. UN World Population Prospects

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The shopping cart debuted in 1937. Shoppers hated it. Men thought them unmanly and women found them suggestive of a baby carriage. Inventor Sylvan Goldman hired models to demonstrate it in stores. His "Basket Carriage for Self-Service Stores" soon caught on, making him a multimillionaire.

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Submarine Fleet Strength by Country: 🇺🇸 United States: 70 🇷🇺 Russia: 63 🇨🇳 China: 61 🇮🇷 Iran: 25 🇯🇵 Japan: 24 🇰🇷 South Korea: 22 🇮🇳 India: 18 🇰🇵 North Korea: 13 🇹🇷 Türkiye: 13 🇬🇷 Greece: 10 🇬🇧 United Kingdom: 9 🇫🇷 France: 9 🇻🇳 Vietnam: 9 🇪🇬 Egypt: 8 🇮🇹 Italy: 8 🇵🇰 Pakistan: 8 (GlobalFirepower, 2025)

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🇱🇻 Population of Riga, Latvia 1989: 915,106 2000: 764,329 2011: 658,640 2021: 614,618 2024: 605,273 2025: 591,882

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If you spent one night in each hotel room in Disney World, it would take you 68 years to sleep in all of them

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In 1938, an experimental Mercedes-Benz set the public-road speed record at 432 km/hr (269 mph) on the autobahn. This record would last for almost 80 years.

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🇮🇳 Fertility rate in India 1960: 5.92 1980: 4.78 2000: 3.35 2022: 2.01

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