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% of respondents who used their bike for transportation twice a week or more: ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Netherlands: 53% ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ Poland: 36% ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Germany: 34% ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India: 34% ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท Brazil: 34% ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช Sweden: 30% ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ China: 26% ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France: 20% ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ USA: 16% ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท South Korea: 12% According to Statista Consumer Insights

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๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ณ Happy National Day, Brunei!

You spend 10% of your waking hours blinking.

๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท Electricity generation in Brazil in 2024: ๐ŸŒŠ Hydropower: 57.5% ๐Ÿ’จ Wind: 13.9% โ˜€๏ธ Solar: 9% ๐Ÿ”ฅ Gas: 7.1% ๐ŸŒฟ Biofuels: 6.8% โš›๏ธ Nuclear: 2.1% ๐Ÿชจ Coal: 1.9% ๐Ÿ›ข๏ธ Oil: 1.5% ๐Ÿ›ข๏ธ Unspecified fossil fuels: 0.2%

๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ Online shopping in the EU keeps growing. In 2024, 77% ย of internet users bought or ordered goods or services for personal use online in the previous 12 months, increasing from 59% in 2014.

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๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ About 3% of U.S. students were homeschooled in the 2022-23 school year.

๐ŸŒญ Share of adultโ€™s diet with ultra-processed food consumption: ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ USA: 58% ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง UK: 57% ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ Australia: 40% ๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ South Africa: 39% ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฝ Mexico: 30% ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต Japan: 28% ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Chile: 28% ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท Brazil: 22% ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท South Korea: 21% ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฉ Indonesia: 18% ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Italy: 18% Source: British Medical Journal 2023

๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ In Q4 2024, the EU exported more goods to non-EU countries than it imported, resulting in a trade surplus of โ‚ฌ27.2 billion. This marked the sixth consecutive quarter of a positive trade balance, following a period of deficits driven by soaring energy costs from late 2021 to mid-2023.

90% of letters are spam.

Warren Buffett earned over 99% of his net wealth after the age of 56.

๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฉ Electricity generation in Bangladesh in 2024: ๐Ÿ”ฅ Gas: 43.7% ๐Ÿชจ Coal: 27.9% โฌ…๏ธ Net imports: 16% ๐Ÿ›ข๏ธ Unspecified fossil fuels: 10.7% ๐ŸŒŠ Hydropower: 0.9% โ˜€๏ธ Solar: 0.9%

๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ Median age in the EU increased by 2.2 years since 2014. On 1 January 2024, the median age of the EUโ€™s population reached 44.7 years. This means that half of the people in the EU were older than 44.7 years, while the other half was younger. (Eurostat)

๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Electricity generation in New Zealand in 2024: ๐ŸŒŠ Hydropower: 52.4% ๐ŸŒ‹ Geothermal: 19.5% ๐Ÿ”ฅ Gas: 10.1% ๐Ÿ’จ Wind: 9.3% ๐Ÿชจ Coal: 6.5% ๐ŸŒฟ Biofuels: 1.5% โ˜€๏ธ Solar: 0.6%

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People per kmยฒ: ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฉ Bangladesh: 1,333 ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India: 488 ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต Japan: 339 ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ Pakistan: 326 ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฉ Indonesia: 156 ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ China: 151 ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฝ Mexico: 67 ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ USA: 38 ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท Brazil: 25 ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Russia: 9

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BREAKING NEWS: Another undersea cable damaged on Baltic Sea

๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Germany still worldโ€™s third biggest economy!

๐Ÿฆท How much do people brush their teeth per day? 0 times - 2% 1 time - 20% 2 times - 77% (Adult oral health survey 2021, published 25 January 2024 by Office for Health Improvement & Disparities)

NEWS: ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต Japan overtakes Thailand as China's most popular destination. In 2024, Japan overtook Thailand in terms of total international tourist arrivals - 36.87 million compared to 35.55 million, respectively - according to the UN Tourism,

NEWS: ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต Just 1 in 6 Japanese hold world's second-strongest passport. Only 17.5% of Japanese nationals held passports at the end of 2024, a much lower rate than in other advanced economies, amid rising costs overseas and a weakening appetite for travel among younger generations.

๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ท Average Turkish person eats 199.6 kg (440 lb) of bread per year i.e., 546 grams of bread every single day! Turkey is followed in bread consumption by ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ธ Serbia and ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ช Montenegro with 135 kg (297 lb), and ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฌ Bulgaria with 133.1 kg (293 lb).

Population in 2100, as projected by UN Population Division. ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India: 1,533 million ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ China: 771 million ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฌ Nigeria: 546 million ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ Pakistan: 487 million ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฉ Congo: 431 million ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ US: 394 million ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡น Ethiopia: 323 million ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฉ Indonesia: 297 million ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ฟ Tanzania: 244 million ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฌ Egypt: 205 million

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Electricity generation in Canada in 2024: ๐ŸŒŠ Hydropower: 56.9% โš›๏ธ Nuclear: 13.7% ๐Ÿ”ฅ Gas: 13.9% ๐Ÿ’จ Wind: 7% ๐Ÿชจ Coal: 4.4% โ˜€๏ธ Solar: 1.5% ๐ŸŒฟ Biofuels: 1.5% ๐Ÿ›ข๏ธ Oil: 0.9%

If all the habitable land on Earth were as dense as Manhattan, you could fit 1.73 trillion people on the planet.

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Countries With the Most U.S. Troops ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต Japan: 52,852 ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Germany: 34,894 ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท South Korea: 23,732 ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Italy: 12,319 ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง UK: 10,180 ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ญ Bahrain: 3,424 ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ Spain: 3,253 ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ท Turkey: 1,683 ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช Belgium: 1,119 ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡บ Cuba: 572 Source: the Defense Manpower Data Center, current to March 2024.

๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ In November 2024, 75,045 first-time asylum applicants (non-EU citizens) applied for international protection in EU countries, marking a 31% decrease compared with November 2023 (108,895).

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The PlayStation 2 was so popular, Sony continued making them until the month before the PlayStation 4 was announced.

World population projected to reach 9.8 billion in 2050, and 11.2 billion in 2100.

๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ The number of employed persons increased by 0.1% in both the euro area and the EU in the Q4 2024, compared with the previous quarter. In the Q3 2024, employment had increased by 0.2% in the euro area and had remained stable in the EU.

๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท Electricity generation in France in 2024: โš›๏ธ Nuclear: 68% ๐ŸŒŠ Hydropower: 14.4% ๐Ÿ’จ Wind: 8.7% โ˜€๏ธ Solar: 4.4% ๐Ÿ”ฅ Gas: 3.3% ๐ŸŒฟ Biofuels: 0.9% ๐Ÿ›ข๏ธ Oil: 0.3%

The smallest number of children are born on Saturdays.

๐Ÿš€ Orbital launches in 2025: ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ USA: 25 ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ China: 7 ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Russia: 1 ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India: 1 ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต Japan: 1

The most popular YouTube video is Baby Shark with 15.6B views, resulting in the video receiving an estimated $37M+ in ad revenue. Thus making Baby Shark more successful than films such as Disaster Movie (2008) and Superman IV (1987).

What country has the best cuisine? Italy ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น India ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ China ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Mexico ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฝ

๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ Australia is home to 10% of the world's reptile species, which is more than any other country.

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NASA data released Tuesday said there is now a 3.1%ย chance a "city-destroying" asteroid could smash into Earth in 2032.

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๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Electricity generation in South Africa in 2024: ๐Ÿชจ Coal: 81.4% โ˜€๏ธ Solar: 8.1% ๐Ÿ’จ Wind: 4.8% โš›๏ธ Nuclear: 3.4% ๐Ÿ›ข๏ธ Other fossil fuels: 1.7% ๐ŸŒŠ Hydropower: 0.5%

Ford is 44444 days old today!

The average inmate at Alcatraz read 75-100 books a year.

๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ The Netherlands is the third-largest exporter of agricultural goods in the world (after the US and Brazil and before China).