Most & Least common day to be born Most Common: 1. Sept 9 2. Sept 19 3. Sept 12 4. Sept 17 5. Sept 10 6. July 7 7. Sept 20 8. Sept 15 9. Sept 16 10. Sept 18 Least Common: 356. Oct 31 357. Nov 25 358. Nov 23 359. Nov 27 360. Dec 26 361. Jan 2 362. July 4 363. Dec 24 364. Jan 1 365. Dec 25 366. Feb 29 September completely dominates! Babies love to be born in the fall. According to U.S. National Center for Health Statistics (1994-2003) and U.S. Social Security Administration (2004-2014)

🇰🇷 In South Korea, 54.3% of respondents said they had favorable views of Japan. 🇯🇵 In Japan, 35.3% said they had favorable views of South Korea. Source: The International House of Japan and South Korea's East Asia Institute

Famous left-handed people: 🇺🇲 Barack Obama 🇦🇷 Diego Maradona 🇬🇧 Paul McCartney 🇺🇲 Oprah Winfrey 🇺🇲 Bill Gates 🇺🇲 Jimi Hendrix 🇺🇲 Angelina Jolie 🇨🇦 Keanu Reeves 🇮🇳 Amitabh Bachchan 🇺🇲 Tom Cruise 🇺🇲 Kurt Cobain 🇮🇳 Sachin Tendulkar 🇮🇱 Benjamin Netanyahu 🇬🇧 David Bowie 🇮🇹 Leonardo da Vinci 🇮🇳 Ratan Tata 🇬🇧 David Cameron 🇺🇲 Morgan Freeman 🇺🇲 Babe Ruth 🇪🇸 Rafael Nadal 🇺🇲 Judy Garland 🇬🇧 Gordon Ramsay 🇬🇧 Spike Lee 🇮🇹 Michelangelo 🇺🇲 Matt Groening 🇨🇿 Martina Navratilova 🇺🇲 Steve Jobs 🇵🇱 Marie Curie 🇦🇹 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 🇫🇷 Jean Paul Gaultier

The most turbulent flight routes on each continent: 🇦🇷 Mendoza → 🇨🇱 Santiago 🇳🇵 Kathmandu → 🇨🇳 Lhasa 🇺🇸 Albuquerque → 🇺🇸 Denver 🇫🇷 Nice → 🇨🇭 Geneva 🇿🇦 Durban → 🇿🇦 Johannesburg 🇳🇿 Christchurch → 🇳🇿 Wellington

Child Poverty Rate in OECD Share of population aged 0-17 living in poverty: 1. 🇨🇷 Costa Rica: 29.6% 2. 🇮🇱 Israel: 23.2% 3. 🇪🇸 Spain: 21.5% 4. 🇺🇸 United States: 21.1% 5. 🇧🇬 Bulgaria: 19.1% 6. 🇷🇴 Romania: 17.7% 7. 🇬🇧 UK: 15.8% 8. 🇮🇹 Italy: 14.5% 9. 🇨🇦 Canada: 14.0% 10. 🇱🇺 Luxembourg: 13.5% 11. 🇱🇹 Lithuania: 12.8% 12. 🇸🇰 Slovakia: 12.8% 13. 🇵🇹 Portugal: 12.5% 14. 🇭🇷 Croatia: 12.3% 15. 🇬🇷 Greece: 12.3% 16. 🇫🇷 France: 12.0% 17. 🇭🇺 Hungary: 11.3% 18. 🇱🇻 Latvia: 10.0% 19. 🇦🇹 Austria: 9.8% 20. 🇩🇪 Germany: 9.1% 21. 🇨🇭 Switzerland: 9.1% 22. 🇨🇿 Czechia: 8.8% 23. 🇰🇷 South Korea: 8.5% 24. 🇸🇪 Sweden: 8.4% 25. 🇳🇱 Netherlands: 8.4% 26. 🇪🇪 Estonia: 8.2% 27. 🇧🇪 Belgium: 7.9% 28. 🇵🇱 Poland: 7.8% 29. 🇳🇴 Norway: 6.9% 30. 🇮🇪 Ireland: 6.8% 31. 🇸🇮 Slovenia: 6.2% 32. 🇫🇮 Finland: 4.6% Source: OECD Income Distribution Database. 2023 data, the latest available as of August 2026

The World’s Biggest Mineral Fuel Producers in Million Metric Tons: 1. 🇨🇳 China: 4,812.6 2. 🇺🇸 United States: 2,277.2 3. 🇷🇺 Russia: 1,459.0 4. 🇮🇳 India: 1,142.8 5. 🇮🇩 Indonesia: 921.4 6. 🇦🇺 Australia: 614.6 7. 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia: 594.2 8. 🇨🇦 Canada: 489.9 9. 🇮🇷 Iran: 457.1 10. 🇿🇦 South Africa: 234.0 11. 🇦🇪 UAE: 228.9 12. 🇮🇶 Iraq: 225.2 13. 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan: 224.2 14. 🇶🇦 Qatar: 211.8 15. 🇧🇷 Brazil: 196.6 16. 🇳🇴 Norway: 196.0 17. 🇰🇼 Kuwait: 154.8 18. 🇩🇿 Algeria: 146.8 19. 🇲🇽 Mexico: 119.2 20. 🇳🇬 Nigeria: 114.8 21. 🇨🇴 Colombia: 107.0 22. 🇲🇳 Mongolia: 104.4 23. 🇩🇪 Germany: 97.5 24. 🇵🇱 Poland: 89.3 25. 🇲🇾 Malaysia: 89.3 Mineral fuel: Steam coal, coking coal, lignite, petroleum, gas, uranium. Source: Austrian Ministry of Finance, mineral fuel production by country in 2024

Countries With The Highest Percentage Of Working-Age Population 🇶🇦 Qatar: 83.3% 🇦🇪 U.A.E: 82% 🇰🇼 Kuwait: 78.4% 🇧🇭 Bahrain: 77.4% 🇲🇻 Maldives: 75.6% 🇸🇬 Singapore: 75.2% 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia: 73.1% 🇯🇲 Jamaica: 73% 🇧🇳 Brunei Darussalam: 72.5% 🇧🇹 Bhutan: 72.2% 🇴🇲 Oman: 72.1% 🇰🇷 South Korea: 70.7% 🇲🇾 Malaysia: 70.3% 🇹🇭 Thailand: 70.2% 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan: 69.7% Source: Worldostats (2025)

In April 2022, the Taliban banned opium cultivation in Afghanistan. Opium production there collapsed by 95%. The world did not become safer. It became more dangerous. Myanmar filled the gap - growing from 420 tons of opium in 2021 to over 1,000 tons in 2025. Myanmar now accounts for nearly half of all global opium supply. And because the Afghan supply dried up, traffickers are increasingly shifting to synthetic opioids - fentanyl, nitazenes - which are far more potent and far more deadly. The Taliban accidentally made the opioid crisis worse.

US drug overdose deaths fell to approximately 69,973 in 2025. A 14% decline from 2024. The third consecutive annual drop. That sounds like progress. But 69,973 deaths means 192 Americans dying from overdose every single day. For context: that is more than die from guns (120/day) and car crashes (115/day) combined. And 80% of people who need substance use treatment in the US still do not receive it. The crisis is improving. It is still a crisis.

🇺🇸 In US politics, Republicans have been consistently “red” and Democrats “blue” only since the 2000 election. The New York Times made the choice because "red begins with r, Republican begins with r".