A Canadian man nearly blew off his own head while trying to kill a mouse with a rifle. Dale Whitmell, 40, tried to crush the scampering rodent with the butt of his rifle, but when he slammed the weapon on the ground, it discharged. The bullet grazed his forehead but did not badly wound him. After being released from a […]
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47%: Share of U.S. jobs that are at high risk of becoming automated in the next 20 years, according to Oxford University research.
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Percentage of the world’s population that could fit in Texas by living with the population density of New York City: 100
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Minimum percentage of Arctic warming that has been caused by commercial airline emissions: 10
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$6 trillion – Upper estimate of the cost to the U.S. of conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan
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Toxic air pollution in the Indian capital of Delhi has given some 2.2 million children irreversible lung damage, according to a 2010 study from the Kolkata-based Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute that surfaced this month. The report has raised fresh concerns in a country where carbon emissions are forecast to increase for decades.
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Percentage of U.S. stock owned by the wealthiest 10 percent of Americans: 89
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About 25 percent of the world’s population, or 1.6 billion people, do not have electricity in their homes.
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Nearly 10,000 desperate refugees were rescued from overcrowded boats in the Mediterranean this week, a record high, but another 400 are believed to have drowned when one of the boats sank, also a record. Most of the migrants were from Syria or sub-Saharan Africa, fleeing war and poverty. European Union officials said some half-million people are massed in Libyan ports […]
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For every deceased person who is buried, four are now cremated.
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