No Electricity
4.0 01 About 25 percent of the world’s population, or 1.6 billion people, do not have electricity in their homes.
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Us vs. Them
0.0 00 Percentage of Americans and Chinese, respectively, who believe their government is “on the side of average citizens”: 12, 80 Who believe their government is “on the side of corporations”: 73, 17
Read moreHello, I’m Johnny Cash
0.0 00 A 60-year-old Dutch man received a brain implant to cure his obsessive-compulsive disorder, and suddenly became a fanatical Johnny Cash fan. The patient said his doctors, “kept listening simply and solely to Johnny Cash.”
Read moreShooting His Computer
0.0 00 A Colorado man was given a ticket by police this week for shooting his balky computer eight times and “killing” it. Police say Lucas Hinch, 37, had become “fed up with fighting his computer for the last several months,” so he took it outside and repeatedly blasted it with a handgun. Hinch said he didn’t realize he was […]
Read moreRussian Beliefs
0.0 00 Chance that a Russian believes the sun revolves around the earth: 1 in 3
Read moreUndocumented Immigrants
0.0 00 About 690,000 of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S.—or about 6.3 percent—have been convicted of a felony or serious misdemeanor, according to a new report from the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan research group.These immigrants, along with the 640,000 who entered the country illegally since Jan. 1, 2014, will be priorities for deportation under new Obama […]
Read moreChange In The Number Of Overweight People
0.0 00 Percentage change in the number of overweight people in the developing world since 1980: +261
Read moreThe Oldest Person In The World
0.0 00 The oldest person in the world, JeraleanTalley of Michigan, turned 116 last week. The two oldest persons ever known to science, Sarah Knauss of Pennsylvania and Jeanne Calment of France, reached 119 and 122, respectively.
Read moreIt was a bad week for . . .
0.0 00 . . . driving with kids, after police got a 911 call about a woman’s screams issuing from a Massachusetts man’s car, and surrounded him. Instead of finding a woman in distress, officers discovered several goats in the back seat, and let him go.
Read moreAlcohol Consumption By Britons
0.0 00 Percentage change in the per-capita consumption of alcohol by Britons since 1960: +102
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