?? Wind, Defibs, and Falling Asleep

SINCE 2014 ?

34%? - ?Percentage fall in overall cancer mortality rate in the US since 1991.?

10%? - ?Percentage of global money that exists in coins and banknotes.?

5 ?- ?Number of new trillionaires expected to emerge in the next ten years. Billionaires added $2 Trillion to their collective wealth in 2024.

22 million ?- ?Number of millionaires in America. There are 3 million in the UK.

7 minutes ?- ?Average time it takes a person to fall asleep.

114 mph ?- ?Strongest wind ever recorded in Ireland. The reading was taken this morning. The strongest wind ever in the UK was recorded in the Scottish Highlands in 1989 - it was 173 mph.

90%? - ?Percentage of people who suffer an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest that die. Hospitals aside, Heathrow airport is the safest place to have a heart attack in the UK: passengers are never more than 2 minutes from a defibrillator (there are 180 of them); over 100 front line managers are CPR trained; and there is a team of specialist bike-riding paramedics on stand-by. Overall, you're 6 times more likely to survive than an average street, home or workplace.

5 x ?- ?Reduction in cardiovascular disease death rate in the UK since 1950.?

10%? - ?Percentage of the ocean's creatures that we have discovered so far. ?

This Week in History . .

1793 - Louis XVI of France is executed by guillotine in Paris for "high treason". He married Marie Antoinette when he was 16 and she was just 14. She was executed a few months after he was; aged 38.?

1945 - FDR is sworn-in for an unprecedented (and never to be repeated) 4th term as US President. Even though Trump's terms are non-consecutive (only the second President to ever do this (Grover Cleveland was the other in the late 1800s)) he can't run again and will be out in 2028. Current VP JD Vance is the current favourite to win next time round.?

1984 - Apple Computers Inc, unveils the Macintosh personal computer in a Super Bowl TV ad directed by Ridley Scott. By 1995 they'd sold 25 million Apple PCs. In the same time IBM sold 208 million.?

2008 - "Breaking Bad" first premieres on TV.?Four major TV networks originally passed up on the chance to back it. Writer Vince Gilligan said,?“That happened at HBO. Like the worst meeting I ever had … The woman we [were] pitching to could not have been less interested—not even in my story, but about whether I actually lived or died.”

2020 - China locks down the city of Wuhan in a bid to control the city's COVID-19 outbreak. It didn't go very well.

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