There were about 2.5 million people living in the United States’ original 13 States in 1776.
Over the last 60 years, the number of democracies has doubled and the number of autocracies has been cut in half.
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How much money is there in the world?
In 2017, the entire world produced about $127.8 trillion of wealth (GDP).
The average American spends about 70 minutes per day consuming news.
0% of economists expressed support for tariffs in a recent poll.
3,222 Americans have been killed in terrorist attacks from 9/11/2001 through 12/31/2016, including perpetrators and excluding deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq. 3,081 of these deaths occurred on American soil. 2,902 of these deaths occurred during the attacks on September 11, 2001. This is an average of 214 deaths per year. As of August 2016, the […]
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How many people have Alzheimer’s disease?
Worldwide, nearly 44 million people have Alzheimer’s or related dementia. An estimated 5.8 million Americans of all ages are living with Alzheimer’s disease in 2018. The NIH spent $1.9 billion on Alzheimer’s research in 2018. This comes out to $327 per victim.
Military Spending By Country Over Time
Prioritize Your To-Do List By Converting Costs and Benefits To Present Value There is an infinite number of ways you can spend your most valuable resource, time. How can you decide what the most cost-effective way to spend your time is? By converting the returns of each activity to its present value and picking the activity […]
Research has also found that autistic children often experience chronic gastrointestinal problems a lot more frequently than children without autism. This has led scientists to explore whether microbiota transfer therapy (MTT) — can help solve gastrointestinal issues and affect other autism markers. MTT involves collecting, processing, and freezing the fecal material of healthy people, and […]