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"There's about a 4% chance that your lost remote is in the fridge or freezer."
–– Reader's Digest

THIS WEEK

April 12, 2026

PREVIOUS WEEKS

April 5, 2026

"Close to half of Americans polled in a YouGov survey believe people should treat AI chatbots with respect"
- Reader's Digest

March 29, 2026

"You have a 50% chance of sharing a birthday with a friend"
- BBC Science Focus Magazine

March 22, 2026

"Einstein's brain was 15% wider than normal."
- CMU School of Computer Science

"Battery costs have gone down 99% in the last three decades, making electrified transport a reality."
- Our World in Data

March 15, 2026

March 8, 2026

"In 2024, China made up 87% of US-imported Christmas decorations."
- United States Census Bureau

March 1, 2026

"90% of the world's population lives in the Northern Hemisphere."
- TODAY.com

February 22, 2026

"Only 45% of the London Underground public transportation system is actually underground."
- Concordia University of Texas

February 15, 2026

"In the space station, more than 3 million lines of software code on the ground support more than 1.5 million lines of flight software code."
- NASA

February 8, 2026

"A watermelon is 90% water."
- TODAY.com

February 1, 2026

"27% of Americans in a conducted survey believe that a gigabyte is an insect."
- MACOOR Research

January 25, 2026

"Wind turbines kill between 10-100 thousand birds each year in the UK––painting one blade black can reduce these deaths by 70%."
- BBC Science Focus Magazine

January 18, 2026

"At standstill, you are actually traveling at 2.7 million mph through the universe."
- Perot Museum of Nature and Science

January 11, 2026

"Every day, a steady blizzard of marine snow rains about 2 million tons of carbon to the seafloor."
- College of LSA

January 4, 2026

"The average brain is believed to generate up to 50,000 thoughts per day."
- San Diego Brain Injury Foundation

December 28, 2025

"The average human is about 56% bacteria––that's over half of your composition."
- BBC Science Focus Magazine

December 21, 2025

"A single bolt of lightning could contain enough energy to cook 20,000 pieces of toast."
- Perot Museum of Nature and Science

December 14, 2025

"The hippocampus, the brain's memory center, is significantly larger in London cab drivers."
- San Diego Brain Injury Foundation

December 7, 2025

"A cloud weighs around a million tons."
- BBC Science Focus Magazine

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