?? Marriage, Eggs, and Lanternfish
Charlie Jones
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SINCE 2014 ?
$7.55?- ?Current price of a dozen eggs in the US. The number is?up $5 on the start of the year and three times as much as this time last year. The rise is primarily driven by the bird flu outbreak - 70 million chickens have been culled in the past 12 months.?
122 ?- ?Age of the world's oldest person when she died in 1997. Jeanne Louise Calment ate 2 lbs of chocolate a week and only gave up smoking when she was 119.
1 million ?- ?The highest number ever counted to out-loud. Jeremy Harper did it in 89 days, averaging 11,200 numbers a day.?
6.1 million ?- ?Number of marriage registrations in China last year - a 21% decrease on the year before and the lowest number since records began in 1986. Birth rates are falling in the country and 22% of the overall population is over 60 years of age. 300 million people are projected to enter retirement in the next decade.
16 gigatonnes ?- ?Biomass in the deep-sea that is made up of Lanternfish - up to 65% of all fish biomass down there. 1 gigatonne is 1 million tonnes.
159 miles ?- ?Length of the world's longest straight stretch of road. It's Highway 10 in Saudi Arabia.?(map view)
80,000 ?- ?Number of plants that produce edible fruit. Only 20 are commonly eaten.?
600,000 sq miles ?- ?Size of the Gulf of Mexico - the 9th largest body of water in the world. It was renamed for US internet users this week by Google: "Gulf of America". For the rest of the world, Google now calls it "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)".
239,411 ?- ?Number of people (at time of writing) who have signed an online petition for Denmark to buy California and set?up a Nordic state with universal healthcare thrown in for all residents. It's in response to Trump's threat to take over Greenland. 80% - ?Percentage of lift "Close Door" buttons than are non-functional.? ?
This Week in History . .
1942 - Glenn Miller and his orchestra are awarded the first-ever gold record for selling 1 million copies of "Chattanooga Choo Choo".?In December 1944 he vanished while flying from England to France during World War II. The exact circumstances surrounding his disappearance remain a mystery to this day.?
1960 -?France becomes the fourth nuclear nation by detonating its first device, a 70-kilotonne "Gerboise Bleue" atomic bomb in the Algerian Sahara Desert. France now has 290 nuclear warheads. There are 9 nuclear states at present: USA, Russia, UK, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel, and North Korea. The US has 5,044 warheads. The UK has 225.
1971 - President Richard Nixon installs the first of his secret taping systems in the White House. One of the burglars hired to break into the Watergate Government complex worked for the Committee to Re-Elect the President (incredibly, known as CREEP).
1984 - Torvill and Dean perform to "Bolero" at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics, scoring a six perfect 6.0s and six 5.9s. 24 million people in the UK watched them win the gold on TV.??
1990 - Nelson Mandela is released after 27 years imprisonment in South Africa. He was originally arrested in a chauffeur's outfit. To evade the police, he used to dress in various disguises; commonly dressing as a fieldworker and chef.??
2005 - Online video sharing site YouTube is launched. This week is the first week that viewers watched on TVs more than smart phones and tablets. The founders sold out in 2006 for $1.65 billion. It's now worth $183 billion.
Have a great weekend,
Charlie