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SINCE 2014 ?

1,500 ?- ?Number of artists paid more than $1 million in royalties by Spotify last year. In total, they paid out $10 billion.?

44 million ?- ?Number of new music files that will be uploaded to streaming services this year.?

16 ?- ?Number of runners who ran a mile in under 4 minutes in the three years after Roger Bannister first did it. No-one had done it until his record in 1954.

1 ?- ?Number of US Presidents?born after 1946.?

36%? - ?Percentage of Monaco residents who are over age 65; the highest % for a country in the world.?

30 miles ?- ?Distance you could see a candle's flame from if the Earth was flat and it was a dark night.?

￡125,000 ?- ?Amount of money that Scotland spent on a new national slogan in 2007. The winning entry was "Welcome to Scotland."

1 ?- ?Number of countries in the world that are named after a woman. It's Saint Lucia.? ?

This Week in History . .

44 BC - Julius Caesar is stabbed to death by Brutus, Cassius, and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March in Rome. The Ides of a month is the day of the Roman calendar marked as the Idus, roughly the midpoint of a month, or the 15th.?

1930 - Mahatma Gandhi begins his famous 200-mile protest march against the widely hated British salt tax. He walked from Sabarmati Ashram to Dandi on the Arabian Sea coast. Upon reaching the end, he?waded in to the sea shore and picked up a handful of salt, proclaiming that with the handful of salt he was proclaiming the end of the British Empire.?

1994 - The Church of England ordains its first 32 female priests at Bristol Cathedral. In 2007 the number of women becoming priests outnumbered men for the first time.?

2000 - NASDAQ peaks at 5,132.52 signalling the end of the dot-com boom. It went on to lose more than 75% of its price on the back of profit taking and plummeting investor sentiment. It's now at 17,466, largely on the back of AI stocks.?

2020 - COVID-19 first declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation after 121,564 cases worldwide and 4,373 deaths. By the end, 227,000 people died in the UK alone. 1,490 people died in the UK on a single day in January 2021.?

Have a great weekend!

Charlie