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Government Spending

USPS Has Received Over $45 Billion from Taxpayers to Reduce the Cost of Junk Mail, Killing Billions of Trees

100 million trees and $178 billion worth of time could be saved every year by not subsidizing junk mail.

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Military

We Have Enough Nuclear Bombs to Kill EVERYONE 130 Times

A 10 kiloton nuclear weapon can kill 1.32 million people.  The 15,000 nuclear weapons globally could cause 19,500 megadeaths.

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Healthcare

Free Advanced Interpretation of Your 23andMe Raw Data

Free tools to discover important and useful clinical research about your DNA.

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Science

How much of our DNA is useless junk?

At least 75 percent of the human genome consists of non-functional, junk DNA. The functional portion of the human genome probably constitutes only about 10 to 15 percent of our overall DNA.

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Economics

US Stock Market Grew 3 Times Faster Under Obama Than Trump

U.S. stocks gained 21% for the first two years of the Trump administration. versus 71.2% in the first two years of the Obama administration.

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Drug War

What is the cause of the opioid crisis?

Deaths from opioids have increased by 753% since 1999, but deaths from cocaine and methamphetamines have increased by approximately 456% during this same time.

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Statistics

What was the population when the United States was established?

There were about 2.5 million people living in the United States’ original 13 States in 1776.

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Politics

Has political power become more decentralized over time?

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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Economics

How much money is there in the world?

In 2017, the entire world produced about $127.8 trillion of wealth (GDP). 

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Statistics

How much time do people spend consuming news?

The average American spends about 70 minutes per day consuming news.