Facts & Trends

An Icelandic public broadcast station aired 24 hours of live sheep birthing, part of its “slow TV” campaign, which also featured chess, knitting, and wood-burning ...

A survey of 700 flight attendants revealed that among the items air passengers have left on planes are a live parrot, a box of dried fish, a toupee, hand-cuffs, and a glass eye ...

75%: The percentage of wages earned by full-time black and Latino retail workers relative to their white counterparts, according to a June 2 report from the NAACP and the liberal think tank Demos ...

Percentage of the average “knowledge worker’s” time that is spent reading and writing emails: 28 ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched India's first air-quality index in April, but pollution will keep growing unless India stems coal production, which Modi has pledged to double by 2020 ...

Percentage change since 2009 in the number of Americans who play football: -17 Who play rugby: +77 ...

Due to the high demand of the "dip season," a national shortage of Velveeta has shoppers hunting stores for the gooey, bright-yellow "cheese product."  People planning Super Bowl parties are calling the shortage of the dip-friendly substance a "cheesepocalypse."  One fan ...

Average number of hours a U.S. child aged 8 to 18 spends using an electronic device or watching television each day: 7.6 ...

There have been thousands of fatal shootings by police since 2005, yet only 54 officers were ever charged with a crime, according to an analysis of official records.  Of those charged, just 11 were convicted or plead guilty ...

For every deceased person who is buried, four are now cremated ...