🇪🇺 In November 2024, 75,045 first-time asylum applicants (non-EU citizens) applied for international protection in EU countries, marking a 31% decrease compared with November 2023 (108,895).

🇺🇸 Countries With the Most U.S. Troops

🇯🇵 Japan: 52,852
🇩🇪 Germany: 34,894
🇰🇷 South Korea: 23,732
🇮🇹 Italy: 12,319
🇬🇧 UK: 10,180
🇧🇭 Bahrain: 3,424
🇪🇸 Spain: 3,253
🇹🇷 Turkey: 1,683
🇧🇪 Belgium: 1,119
🇨🇺 Cuba: 572

Source: the Defense Manpower Data Center, current to March 2024.

If all the habitable land on Earth were as dense as Manhattan, you could fit 1.73 trillion people on the planet.

Chess player and Twitch streamer Anna Cramling created her own opening, "The Cow", in 2023. In 2024 she for the first time played an opponent who used the opening. Cramling lost.

🇨🇦 Electricity generation in Canada in 2024:

🌊 Hydropower: 56.9%
⚛️ Nuclear: 13.7%
🔥 Gas: 13.9%
💨 Wind: 7%
🪨 Coal: 4.4%
☀️ Solar: 1.5%
🌿 Biofuels: 1.5%
🛢️ Oil: 0.9%

Slang expression for “getting drunk” over the first half of the 20th century:

1900: lit, ginned
1901: ossified, pot-eyed
1902: saturated
1903: petrified
1905: tanked, blotto, shellacked, rosey
1906: spifflicated
1907: slopped
1908: jingled, bunned
1910: orie-eyed
1912: piped, plastered, polluted
1914: organized
1915: gassed, hooted, aped
1919: jugged
1920s: canned, juiced, fried, buried
1922: potted
1926: illuminated
1927: crocked, lubricated, stinko, wall-eyed
1928: busted
1930: flooey
1931: rum-dum
1940s: bombed, shit-faced, looped
1941: swacked
1950s: sloshed, boxed, zonked, crashed
1951: clobbered

Estimated nuclear warheads inventories:

🇷🇺 Russia: 5,889
🇺🇸 USA: 5,244
🇨🇳 China: 410
🇫🇷 France: 290
🇬🇧 UK: 225
🇵🇰 Pakistan: 170
🇮🇳 India: 164
🇮🇱 Israel: 90
🇰🇵 North Korea: 30

According to Federation of American Scientists (2023)

Population in 2100, as projected by UN Population Division.

🇮🇳 India: 1,533 million
🇨🇳 China: 771 million
🇳🇬 Nigeria: 546 million
🇵🇰 Pakistan: 487 million
🇨🇩 Congo: 431 million
🇺🇸 US: 394 million
🇪🇹 Ethiopia: 323 million
🇮🇩 Indonesia: 297 million
🇹🇿 Tanzania: 244 million
🇪🇬 Egypt: 205 million
🇧🇷 Brazil: 185 million
🇵🇭 Philippines: 180 million
🇧🇩 Bangladesh: 177 million
🇳🇪 Niger: 166 million
🇸🇩 Sudan: 142 million
🇦🇴 Angola: 133 million
🇺🇬 Uganda: 132 million
🇲🇽 Mexico: 116 million
🇰🇪 Kenya: 113 million
🇷🇺 Russia: 112 million
🇮🇶 Iraq: 111 million
🇦🇫 Afghanistan: 110 million
🇲🇿 Mozambique: 106 million
🇻🇳 Vietnam: 91 million
🇨🇮 Côte d’Ivoire: 88 million
🇨🇲 Cameroon: 87 million
🇲🇱 Mali: 87 million
🇲🇬 Madagascar: 83 million
🇹🇷 Turkey: 82 million
🇮🇷 Iran: 79 million
🇿🇦 South Africa: 74 million
🇾🇪 Yemen: 74 million
🇯🇵 Japan: 74 million
🇬🇧 UK: 70 million
🇩🇪 Germany: 68 million
🇫🇷 France: 60 million
🇨🇦 Canada: 53 million
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia: 50 million
🇦🇷 Argentina: 47 million
🇦🇺 Australia: 38 million
🇮🇹 Italy: 36 million
🇪🇸 Spain: 30 million
🇰🇷 South Korea: 24 million
🇳🇱 Netherlands: 16 million
🇦🇪 UAE: 14 million
🇸🇪 Sweden: 13 million
🇨🇭 Switzerland: 10 million
🇦🇹 Austria: 8 million
🇳🇴 Norway: 7 million

NASA lowers impact probability back to 1.9%, fortunately the Moon impact is near 1%!

Average wake-up time:

🇿🇦 South Africa - 6:24 AM
🇨🇴 Colombia - 6:31 AM
🇨🇷 Costa Rica - 6:38 AM
🇮🇩 Indonesia - 6:55 AM
🇯🇵 Japan - 7:09 AM
🇲🇽 Mexico - 7:09 AM
🇦🇺 Australia - 7:13 AM
🇺🇸 United States - 7:20 AM
🇸🇪 Sweden - 7:21 AM
🇩🇪 Germany - 7:25 AM
🇵🇭 Philippines - 7:28 AM
🇧🇷 Brazil - 7:31 AM
🇨🇦 Canada - 7:33 AM
🇬🇧 United Kingdom - 7:33 AM
🇮🇳 India - 7:36 AM
🇰🇷 South Korea - 7:38 AM
🇲🇾 Malaysia - 7:41 AM
🇨🇳 China - 7:42 AM
🇦🇪 UAE - 7:43 AM
🇫🇷 France - 7:51 AM
🇮🇹 Italy - 7:52 AM
🇹🇷 Türkiye - 8:02 AM
🇪🇸 Spain - 8:05 AM
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia - 8:27 AM

According to World Population Review

World’s leaders approval rating:

🇸🇻 Nayib Bukele: 91%
🇷🇺 Vladimir Putin: 78%
🇮🇳 Narendra Modi: 75%
🇲🇽 Claudia Sheinbaum: 66%
🇦🇷 Javier Milei: 65%
🇺🇦 Volodymyr Zelensky: 57% (Ukrainian KIIS)
🇺🇸 Donald Trump: 52%
🇦🇺 Anthony Albanese: 46%
🇮🇹 Giorgia Meloni: 42%
🇵🇱 Donald Tusk: 42%
🇳🇱 Dick Schoof: 42%
🇸🇪 Ulf Kristersson: 38%
🇿🇦 Cyril Ramaphosa: 37%
🇧🇪 Alexander De Croo: 35%
🇹🇷 Recep Tayyip Erdogan: 33%
🇪🇸 Pedro Sánchez: 33%
🇧🇷 Lula da Silva: 33%
🇳🇴 Jonas Gahr Støre: 30%
🇬🇧 Keir Starmer: 27%
🇯🇵 Shigeru Ishiba: 25%
🇦🇹 Karl Nehammer: 24%
🇨🇦 Justin Trudeau: 22%
🇩🇪 Olaf Scholz: 20%
🇫🇷 Emmanuel Macron: 18%
🇨🇿 Petr Fiala: 16%
🇺🇦 Volodymyr Zelensky: 4% (US Intelligence)

According to Morning Consult Political Intelligence, WCIOM, Gallup, US Intelligence, KIIS. Numbers are rounded.

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NEWS: 🇺🇦 The United States has stopped the sale of weapons to Ukraine, - the head of the Defense Committee of the Rada.

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Estimated annual per capita toilet paper consumption, (in rolls):

🇺🇸 USA: 141 🧻
🇩🇪 Germany: 134
🇬🇧 UK: 127
🇯🇵 Japan: 91
🇦🇺 Australia: 88
🇪🇸 Spain: 81
🇫🇷 France: 71
🇮🇹 Italy: 70
🇨🇳 China: 49
🇧🇷 Brazil: 38

According to Statista Consumer Market Outlook

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Share of 🇮🇳 Indians with negative view of 🇨🇳 China

2015: 32%

2023: 67%

According to Pew Research