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In June 2016, Bill Gates topped the Forbes list with a fortune of $88.8 billion (roughly $123.9 billion adjusted for inflation). At the time, that was treated as a number almost too large to picture. A decade later, it wouldn't crack the world's top five. Michael Dell holds fifth place in 2026 with $234.5 billion. That is nearly double what made you the richest human alive in 2016. Jeff Bezos, in…
The 5 Largest Youtube Channels in 2014 and in 2024 Today we take a look at the 5 Largest Youtube Channels in 2014 and in 2024. YouTube has changed so much over the past decade, with its landscape shifting from individual content creators to corporate channels. 2014: The Era of Individual Creators In 2014, the biggest names on YouTube were individual content creators and entertainment channels that…
Today's post is a collaboration between StaDaFa.com and my other blog, ToHippo.com. Mick Jagger has got great-grandchildren older than his youngest child. His children range in age from 7 to 53. Other interesting facts about Mick Jagger's family: Mick Jagger has children spanning over five decades. His first child, Karis, was born in 1970, while his most recent child, Deveraux, was born in 2016.…
This week we take a look at Women's Birth Rates by Age Group. In the ever-evolving landscape of demographics and societal trends, birth rates among women have seen remarkable shifts over the years. To shed light on this topic, I've put together a graph depicting the birth rates of women across different age groups. Let's dive into the intriguing findings. The Decline in Teenage Birth Rates: In…
This week we take a look at the EU's evolving position on the global stage amidst the economic supremacy of the United States and China. During a long period in the 00', both the EU and US economies were roughly the same size, but since the global financial crisis, their GDPs have drastically diverged. The US economy standing at 25.5 trillion US dollars is now nearly 50% bigger, compared to the…
Tsutomu Yamaguchi, reportedly the "unluckiest man in the world," survived both the atomic bombing at Hiroshima and later on at Nagasaki. Yamaguchi was the only person among 70 people evacuated from Hiroshima to Nagasaki, who survived the second blast. Despite that, he lived a long life until he passed away from stomach cancer at 93 years old. One could also argue that he was in fact the luckiest…
This week we take a look at the share of university degrees going to women. Our data begins in the 1869-1870 school year when 1378 women got a Bachelor's degree , and none got either a Master's or a Doctor's degree. Things may look a bit bleak, but it must be taken into account that the numbers for men were 7,993, zero, and 1 respectively. While the numbers for women were low at the time, they…
This week we take a look at the films with the longest time gaps between original and sequel. While it is not uncommon for studios to release sequels to successful films within a few years of the original, there are some cases where the gap between the original film and its sequel is much longer. Top Gun represents one of the longest time gaps between a film and its sequel with the same lead…
That's according to a systematic review and meta-analysis of 23 studies conducted in the United States and eight other countries by a team of researchers in the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. The review found that children who were cared for by grandparents had nearly 30% higher risks for being overweight or obese. The findings don't stop there though. Children with…
This week we take a look at social class self identification in the United States. In the US, the majority of people self-identify as middle class, regardless of how much money they actually make. This is likely due to the fact that, in general, people tend to compare themselves to those around them rather than to the country as a whole. So, even if someone is making a lot of money, if most of the…
Does Wordle repeat words? Yes. As of February 2, 2026, The New York Times officially began reintroducing previously used answers into the daily rotation. While new words will still debut, past solutions can now reappear at any time. I maintain a daily-updated log of every Wordle answer in chronological order. Because of this new rule change, I’ve created this dedicated archive of every repeated…
If you are trying to solve today's puzzle and want to check words already used in Wordle , you've come to the right place! I have been keeping a log of all Wordle words so far . Recently, a user suggested I make a compact past Wordle words list organized from A to Z, without any distracting dates or puzzle numbers. So, I present to you the ultimate alphabetical list of past Wordle words . I do my…
Anosmia, or the loss of smell, is one of the most common manifestations of COVID-19, and one of the symptoms that differentiates it from other diseases with similar characteristics. As it is clearly evident in the graph, during the first months of the pandemic when few things about COVID-19 were known and testing was scarce, many individuals noticed the loss of smell and turned to the internet to…
According to the United States Department of Agriculture, Americans consumed on average 40.2 pounds of cheese in 2020. And yet, due to the over supply of cheese products, that barely made a dent on the huge surplus of cheese the American government is storing on various storage facilities throughout the US. From 1998 to 2021, milk consumption has fallen from 198 pounds of milk per capita to 141…
This week we take a look at living arrangements trends in the United States, for people aged 25 to 34 years old. The data collected from the US Census Bureau starts from the 1960s and reaches up to 2021. As you can clearly see, a lot has changed regarding people's housing arrangements in the United States during these past 50+ years. The percentage of married people living with their spouse has…
The vaccine against smallpox was the first vaccine to be developed against a contagious disease. In 1796, the British doctor Edward Jenner demonstrated that an infection with the relatively mild cowpox virus conferred immunity against the deadly smallpox virus. In the early 19th century, the vaccine was exported from Spain to the Americas in the arms of 22 Spanish orphan boys. Before they left for…
Wordle is a new word-game that everyone and their mother seems to talk about these days. It is a fun word game that seems like the child Mastermind had with crosswords. The goal of Wordle is to find a random five-letter word in 6 tries. You do that by guessing each time what the missing word might be. After each guess, the colour of the tiles will change to show how close your guess was to the…
This week we take a look at the number of people who use social media. For this purpose I have created two graphs: One showing the number of people who use some of the most visited western social media over time; the other showing the user growth of these social media, taking as a zero point on the X-axis the day they launched. In both cases, I've included monthly active users, i.e people that use…
This week we take a look at Horror Villains' kill count. Personally, I am not a fan of horror movies. Getting scared is not my cup of tea. From the six movies featured above, I have only seen The Silence of the Lamb and that one, not wholeheartedly. Having said that, when I came across the 15 Iconic Horror Villains Ranked By Kill Count article on ScreenRant I could not not make use of their data.…
What is ransomware? In case you haven't come across this term before, simply put, ransomware is a type of computer virus that blocks access to all your personal files, unless you pay the creator(s) of that virus a ransom. According to this aptly titled article « Try This One Weird Trick Russian Hackers Hate ry This One Weird Trick Russian Hackers Hate » from KrebsOnSecurity "Virtually all…
This week we take a look at income distribution trends in the United States. Before we start, we should make clear what an income percentile is: Percentiles divide the data into 100 equal groups. So for example if we say that a person is on the 75th income percentile (75th%), what it means is that if we gather 100 people from the general population inside a room, 75 of those will have a lower…
Women's relative earnings increase by 4.4% when their manager becomes the father of a daughter rather than a son, according to a study performed by Maddalena Ronchi and Nina Smith. The researchers used Danish registry data covering Danish firms and individuals between 1992 and 2017. They then linked individual career histories with their family structure history over time. For each manager, they…
This week we take a look at another "How long did you wait before" post. How long did you wait before saying “I love you”? When it comes to saying “I love you” to a partner for the first time, 23% of the public opened their hearts to their partners in three months, which is the most frequent answer. A staggering 29% have jumped the gun (?) and said the phrase in a month or less. How long did you…
How soon is too soon? This week we take a look at Britons' responses on this tantalising matter. More than two decades ago, the TV series Sex and the City tried to tackle this question, and established the three-dates rule. So many years later, and the norms have changed. Just 13% of men and 11% of women adhere to that rule, with most women (if we exclude those who answered "don't know") opting to…
This week we take a look at genders' preferences on pubic hair. Pubic hair, or the hair found in the genital area, has been the topic of discussion for centuries. There has even been evidence of pubic hair removal in ancient India over 6000 years ago, while in the Middle Ages, British prostitutes removed their pubes in order to combat pubic lice. And although women's pubic hair has been talked…