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Day of the year: 160

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

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

๐Ÿช™ It costs the US government 3.69 cents to make a penny. The cost to make a nickel is 13.78 cents.

๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท On the 4th June at 5pm, PornHub blocked France from accessing its website. At 5.30pm, Proton VPN registrations increased by 1000%.

NEWS: ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช Ireland added to list of countries monitored by the U.S. for currency manipulation.

๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ Polandโ€™s national anthem is the only one in the world to mention Sweden (Swedenโ€™s only mentions โ€œthe Northโ€)

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

Gamblers lose $6 billion a year at Las Vegas casinos

What is one of the worst addiction to have?

๐Ÿ‘ƒ 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.

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

๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ According to the Bank of America, Russian ruble has been the best-performing currency since the start of the year.

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

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

๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช In Sweden the 25% of highest earners have almost 3 times more kids than the 25% lowest earners (2.3 vs 0.8)

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%

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ 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

๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿป When doing a push up a person is pressing between 69-75% of their total body weight.

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

The global decline in birth rates: 1950 ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ China: 41.0 ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India: 43.8 ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฌ Nigeria: 45.6 ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ Pakistan: 43.7 ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ USA: 22.8 2021 ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ China: 7.6 ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India: 16.4 ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฌ Nigeria: 37.1 ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ Pakistan: 27.5 ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ USA: 11.1 Note: The number of live births occurring during the year, per 1,000 people. UN World Population Prospects

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.

Submarine Fleet Strength by Country: ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States: 70 ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Russia: 63 ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ China: 61 ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ท Iran: 25 ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต Japan: 24 ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท South Korea: 22 ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India: 18 ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ต North Korea: 13 ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ท Tรผrkiye: 13 ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ท Greece: 10 ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง United Kingdom: 9 ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France: 9 ๐Ÿ‡ป๐Ÿ‡ณ Vietnam: 9 ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฌ Egypt: 8 ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Italy: 8 ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ Pakistan: 8 (GlobalFirepower, 2025)

๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ป Population of Riga, Latvia 1989: 915,106 2000: 764,329 2011: 658,640 2021: 614,618 2024: 605,273 2025: 591,882

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

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.

๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ Fertility rate in India 1960: 5.92 1980: 4.78 2000: 3.35 2022: 2.01

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Top 10 deadliest animals for humans (humans killed annually): ๐ŸฆŸ Mosquitoes*: 725,000 ๐Ÿ‘ซ Humans**: 400,000 ๐Ÿ Snakes: 138,000 ๐Ÿ• Dogs*: 59,000 ๐Ÿœ Assassin Bugs*: 10,000 ๐Ÿฆ‚ Scorpions: 3,300 ๐ŸŠ Crocodiles: 1,000 ๐Ÿ˜ Elephants: 600 ๐Ÿฆ› Hippos: 500 ๐Ÿฆ Lions: 200

Miguel Indurain, 5-time Tour de France winner, had a resting heart rate of just 28 bpm.

๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Happy Republic Day, Italy!

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญ Switzerland is home to more than 370,000 nuclear bunkers โ€“ enough to shelter every member of the population.

Roughly 17% of AirPods owners say they've had sex while wearing them

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ China generated over 10,000 TWh of electricity in 2024. Thatโ€™s more than the combined output of the U.S., EU, & India - the next three biggest producers.

๐ŸŽ๏ธ Formula One 2025 team standings: 1. ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง McLaren: 362 2. ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Ferrari: 165 โฌ†๏ธโฌ†๏ธ 3. ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Mercedes: 159 โฌ‡๏ธ 4. ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡น Red Bull: 144 โฌ‡๏ธ 5. ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Williams: 54 6. ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Racing Bulls: 28 โฌ†๏ธ 7. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Haas: 26 โฌ‡๏ธ 8. ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญ Kick Sauber: 16 โฌ†๏ธโฌ†๏ธ 9. ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Aston Martin: 16 โฌ‡๏ธ 10. ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท Alpine: 11 โฌ‡๏ธ

The number of babies born in South Korea rose for the ninth straight month in March. A total of 21,041 births were recorded in March, a 6.8% increase from the 19,694 births logged in the same month last year.

๐ŸŒ World population. June 2023: 7.92 billion June 2024: 8.11 billion June 2025: 8.22 billion

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ China currently operates 69% of all High Speed Rail in existence, stretching 4600km from the far west of the country (Kashgar Prefecture) to its eastern-most city (Fuyuan). ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ The next-highest is Spain, with only 6%.

๐Ÿ›ธ Brazil has released its national UFO files ahead of schedule. The collection of UFO sightings includes 893 incident reports from 1952 to 2023, which are organized chronologically and accessible via the SIAN (National Archive Information System) plattorm.

๐Ÿšฌ Percentage of smokers: ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฌ Bulgaria: 37% ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช Sweden: 8%

โ˜ข๏ธ Number of operational nuclear power reactors: Europe - 167 Asia - 129 North America - 111 South America - 7 Africa - 2 Australia - 0 Antarctica - 0

๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ต The last nuclear explosion happened in 2017. It was performed in North Korea by an underground thermonuclear weapon. It was the countyโ€™s sixth nuclear test.

Best selling books in history: The Bible - 5 billion copies The Quran - 3.5 billion Little Red Book - 1.1 billion Harry Potter - 600 million Bhagavad Gita - 503 million Note: include copies sold and copies distributed at no charge.

2025 is 41% complete ๐Ÿซ 

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ U.S. & Chinaโ€™s combined GDP equals almost the entire rest of worldโ€™s (184 countries).

Day of the year: 150

๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡ท Happy National Day, Croatia!

๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ Snake charming was legal in India all the way up until 1972.

Strategy purchased 4,020 bitcoins between May 19-25 for $427.1 million. The firm now holds 580,250 BTC, purchased for over $40.6 billion.