Years from 1972 to 2022 that Republicans have controlled the presidency: 29 Years from 1972 to 2022 that Democrats have controlled the presidency: 22 Number of Supreme Court justices appointed

Number of United Nations members that have failed to ratify the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: 14 (including the United States) Member states that have failed to

  Share of U.S. adults who “lack proficiency in literacy,” reading below the sixth-grade level: 52% [1] Share of adults with the lowest literacy levels who live in poverty: 43%

Americans who completely or mostly believe the central tenets of the QAnon conspiracy theory (that the United States is run by Satanic pedophiles, a coming political storm will restore Donald Trump

Percentage of interactions with trans-related Facebook content by right-leaning sources that push anti-trans narratives, such as exaggerating the rate of de-transition: 65.7% 1 Number of Twitter “likes” on J.K. Rowling’s

How the majority of life on Earth lives under the sea, and 22 other facts about our world today.

Total cost of Social Security in 2013: $823 billion Total income of Social Security in 2013: $855 billion Current accumulated surplus reserve of Social Security: $2.8 trillion (1)

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Years it took for the human population to grow from 1 billion to 2 billion: 123. Years it took to grow from 6 billion to 7 billion: 12

Miles flown by a bar-tailed godwit in the longest nonstop bird migration ever recorded: 7,200. Miles flown in the world’s longest nonstop, non-refueled helicopter flight: 2,213.