Renewable energy capacity by country from 2000 to 2025

List of trillionaires: 1. Elon Musk

⚽ Only 2 continents have won the FIFA World Cup! Europe: 13 titles South America: 9 titles All the rest: 0 Will 2026 change that? 👀

3 men escaped Alcatraz in a raft made of raincoats. The FBI never found them.

🏀 Number of NBA championships: Boston Celtics → 18 Los Angeles Lakers → 17 Golden State Warriors → 7 Chicago Bulls → 6 San Antonio Spurs → 5 Philadelphia 76ers → 3 Detroit Pistons → 3 Miami Heat → 3 New York Knicks → 3 Houston Rockets → 2 Milwaukee Bucks → 2 Oklahoma City Thunder → 2 Cleveland Cavaliers → 1 Atlanta Hawks → 1 Washington Wizards → 1 Portland Trail Blazers → 1 Dallas Mavericks → 1 Baltimore Bullets → 1 Sacramento Kings → 1 Toronto Raptors → 1 Denver Nuggets → 1

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The day you're most likely to die on is your birthday. Statistically, the day we blow out our birthday cake candles is also the day we are most likely to die.

Male genitalia can appear to “harden” (become erect) after death due to a documented forensic phenomenon known as postmortem priapism, commonly called a “death erection”, “angel lust”, “terminal erection”, or “rigor erectus”.

🇮🇱 Israel population 1950: 1,370,100 1960: 2,150,400 1970: 3,022,100 1980: 3,921,700 1990: 4,821,700 2000: 6,369,300 2010: 7,695,100 2019: 9,098,700 2023: 9,727,000

🛢️ A barrel of oil contains 42 gallons. While the barrel as a unit of measurement for oil is 42 U.S. gallons, actual "drums" used in industry typically contain 55 U.S. gallons or 200 liters internationally.

In China in 2021 cities with less than 3 million people were banned from building skyscrapers taller than 150 m (492 ft). Bigger cities can build up to 250 m (820 ft) high. Exceptions can be applied for under certain circumstances, but there's a hard ban on buildings over 500 m (1640 ft).

🧪 Vitamin C after meals might help lower cancer risk from processed meats A new University of Waterloo mathematical model explains the “nitrate paradox”: why nitrates in spinach are harmless (thanks to natural vitamin C), but those in bacon/hot dogs can form harmful N-nitroso compounds in the stomach.  Key takeaway: Taking vitamin C supplements after nitrate-heavy meals could moderately reduce the formation of these potentially cancer-linked compounds. Pairing bacon with oranges or tomatoes? Even better.

There have only ever been 75 people that have reached the highest rank in sumo wrestling, known as yokozuna, since it was conceived in the early 1900's.

You are closer to becoming a billionaire than Elon Musk

Age when they became trillionaires: 🇺🇸 Elon Musk: 54

⛽ U.S. gasoline prices by year (average price of regular, per gallon) 🇺🇸 2000 - $1.51 2001 - $1.46 2002 - $1.36 2003 - $1.59 2004 - $1.88 2005 - $2.30 2006 - $2.59 2007 - $2.80 2008 - $3.27 2009 - $2.35 2010 - $2.78 2011 - $3.53 2012 - $3.64 2013 - $3.51 2014 - $3.36 2015 - $2.43 2016 - $2.14 2017 - $2.42 2018 - $2.72 2019 - $2.60 2020 - $2.17 2021 - $3.01 2022 - $3.95 2023 - $3.52 2024 - $3.30 2025 - $3.10 2026 - ? Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)

Global economic growth will slow to 2.5% this year, the weakest since the Covid pandemic, as inflation and borrowing costs rise, the World Bank has warned.

Time to reach a $2 trillion valuation: Alphabet: 23 years SpaceX: 24 years Amazon: 30 years NVIDIA: 31 years Broadcom: 35 years TSMC: 39 years Apple: 44 years Microsoft: 46 years Saudi Aramco: 86 years

🇵🇱 Karol Nawrocki issues record 37th veto - more than any other president in Polish history. 1. Karol Nawrocki - 37 vetoes 2. Aleksander Kwaśniewski - 35 vetoes 3. Lech Wałęsa - 27 vetoes 4. Andrzej Duda - 19 vetoes 5. Lech Kaczyński - 18 vetoes 6. Bronisław Komorowski - 4 vetoes