Facts & Trends

Percentage of black Americans in the South who are prevented from voting because they have been convicted of a felony: 13 ...

Timeliness, after scientists unveiled an atomic clock so accurate that it won’t lose or gain a single second in 15 billion years, which is roughly as long as the universe has existed ...

Percentage increase since 1960 in the average weight of a farm-raised U.S. turkey: 72 ...

Number of U.S. States that allow the death penalty:  31 Proportion of U.S. police departments that are using body cameras: 1 in 3 ...

Percentage of marijuana-related tweets that support use of the drug: 77 ...

Rate per 100,000 people in 2012 Honduras - 90.4 Venezuela - 53.7 Colombia - 30.8 Brazil - 25.2 Mexico - 21.5 U.S. - 4.7 ...

$1.4 Billion - Projected annual revenue Mexican drug cartels stand to lose because of pot legalization in Colorado and Washington State ...

15,654 - Total known land area, in square miles (40,544 sq km), of U.S. nuclear-weapon bases and facilities 2 - Minimum number of people required to authorize a U.S. nuclear attack ...

. . . a reptile experience, after a Michigan firefighter who’d handled snakes as a teen ran into a burning home and carefully rescued a 6-foot-long python.  None of the other firefighters “wanted anything to do with it.” ...

Russia’s secret service ordered dozens of electric typewriters, saying that recent revelations about the U.S. National Security Agency’s online surveillance program made them distrust computer communications ...