STATISTICS OF THE YEAR:
Americans killed annually by
All Islamic jihadist terrorists 9
Armed toddlers 21
Lightning 31
Lawnmowers 69
Being hit by a bus 264
Falling out of bed 737
Being shot by another American 11,737
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Conrad Hackett
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Conrad Hackett
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Senior Demographer at @PewResearch
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- Workers working 60+ hours a week in one job 🇹🇷 Turkey 23% 🇰🇷 S Korea 23% 🇮🇩 Indonesia 14% 🇮🇳 India 14% 🇬🇷 Greece 11% 🇯🇵 Japan 9% 🇨🇳 China 6% 🇬🇧 UK 5% 🇫🇷 France 5% 🇧🇷 Brazil 4% 🇷🇺 Russia 4% 🇪🇸 Spain 4% 🇺🇸 US 4% 🇩🇪 Germany 3% 🇸🇪 Sweden 2%
- Check this out -- major cities in North America replaced by major cities across the Atlantic at the same latitude reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comm…
- We worry about the wrong things. Exhibit A: #SharkWeek People killed annually by Sharks 10 Elephants 100 Hippos 500 Snails 10,000 Dogs 25,000 Snakes 50,000 People 475,000 Mosquitoes 725,000
- Los Angeles county is home to more people than each of these 41 states
- TRUMP EFFECT: Change in % confident in US president from Obama to Trump Sweden 🔻83 points Germany 🔻75 S Korea 🔻71 France 🔻70 Spain 🔻68 Canada 🔻61 UK 🔻57 Australia 🔻55 Brazil 🔻49 Mexico 🔻44 Russia 🔺42 points pewglobal.org/2017/06/26/u-s…
- Trickle down: Income growth in America from 1980 to 2014 Top .001%: 616% growth Top .01%: 423% growth Top .1%: 298% growth Top 1%: 194% growth Top 10%: 113% growth Bottom 20% 4% growth washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2…
- Be sure to catch the end of this clever @NASA "climate spiral" video showing monthly global temperature changes between 1880 and 2021 climate.nasa.gov/climate_resour…
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