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Only three people in the world can travel anywhere legally without a passport: 1. King Charles III 🇬🇧 2. Emperor Naruhito 🇯🇵 3. Empress Masako 🇯🇵

Your friend takes you to a casino and gives you $50 to gamble with. You win $100,000. How much do you give them?

🇨🇿 Czech urologist: “We’ve already lost the fight for the birth rate.” Urologist Viktor Vik says the drop in Czech fertility comes down to two things: people starting families later, and a clear decline in sexual activity. Young men are having less sex and finding partners later. Couples coming in with fertility issues sometimes only have sex twice a month; the odds of conceiving naturally are low.

Sudoku with less than 17 clues is impossible to solve

🇹🇷 Happy Republic Day, Turkey!

The first man-made object that was send to space (above the Karman line) was German.

🇯🇵 Since its 1964 launch, Japan's Shinkansen has carried over 6.5 billion passengers with zero fatalities.

🚄 Deaths in high-speed rail accidents, by country 🇪🇸 Spain: 195+ 🇩🇪 Germany: 101 🇨🇳 China: 40 🇮🇹 Italy: 2 🇯🇵 Japan: 0 🇰🇷 South Korea: 0 🇫🇷 France: 0

88% of VC-backed founders get $0 at exit. Wharton + Zurich study of 157k startups and 248k founders (1987–2025). Not “most startups fail.” Even when the company exits, liquidation preferences and founder churn wipe people out. Top 1% take 79% of everything. The equity lottery is rigged harder than people admit.

Interest rates around the world 🇻🇪 Venezuela: 58.86% 🇹🇷 Turkey: 36% 🇦🇷 Argentina: 29% 🇳🇬 Nigeria: 23% 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan: 15.75% 🇷🇺 Russia: 14% 🇧🇷 Brazil: 13.75% 🇨🇴 Colombia: 12.25% 🇵🇰 Pakistan: 12% 🇮🇸 Iceland: 8% 🇿🇦 South Africa: 7.25% 🇲🇽 Mexico: 6.5% 🇮🇩 Indonesia: 5.75% 🇭🇺 Hungary: 5.5% 🇮🇳 India: 5.5% 🇦🇺 Australia: 4.6% 🇨🇱 Chile: 4.5% 🇳🇴 Norway: 4.5% 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia: 4.5% 🇺🇸 United States: 4% 🇦🇪 UAE: 3.9% 🇨🇿 Czechia: 3.75% 🇵🇱 Poland: 3.75% 🇬🇧 United Kingdom: 3.75% 🇮🇱 Israel: 3.25% 🇨🇷 Costa Rica: 3% 🇨🇳 China: 3% 🇰🇷 South Korea: 3% 🇳🇿 New Zealand: 2.75% 🇨🇦 Canada: 2.5% 🇸🇪 Sweden: 1.75% 🇯🇵 Japan: 1.25% 🇹🇭 Thailand: 1% 🇨🇭 Switzerland: 0% Source: Tradingeconomics

BREAKING: Odds Fed "hikes" rates this year surges ahead of FOMC meeting today 84% chance.

99% of what the British Museum owns isn’t on display.

The top three largest economies in the world: 1980: 1. 🇺🇸 USA 2. ☭ Soviet Union 3. 🇯🇵 Japan 2026: 1. 🇺🇸 USA 2. 🇨🇳 China 3. 🇩🇪 Germany 2050: (Projected by PwC) 1. 🇨🇳 China 2. 🇺🇸 USA 3. 🇮🇳 India

🇰🇿 Size of Kazakhstan compared to Europe

Countries with a lower fertility rate than Japan 🇯🇵 Japan: 1.14 children per woman 🇨🇷 Costa Rica: 1.12 🇪🇸 Spain: 1.10 🇵🇱 Poland: 1.07 🇦🇷 Argentina: 1.04 🇱🇹 Lithuania: 1.04 🇹🇭 Thailand: 1.03 🇧🇾 Belarus: 1.03 🇨🇳 China: 1.01 🇨🇴 Colombia: 1.00 🇨🇱 Chile: 0.99 🇺🇦 Ukraine: 0.99 🇲🇹 Malta: 0.98 🇸🇲 San Marino: 0.96 🇸🇬 Singapore: 0.87 🇦🇩 Andorra: 0.83 🇰🇷 South Korea: 0.80 🇹🇼 Taiwan: 0.70 Latest available data for each country. Figures for China and Ukraine are UN estimates for 2024. Source: National statistics, Eurostat, Human Fertility Database, World Bank, via Crémieux Recueil

🍽️ What time people eat dinner: 🇳🇴 Norwegian: 17:03 🇸🇪 Swedish: 18:27 🇩🇰 Danish: 18:30 🇹🇷 Turkish: 18:40 🇳🇱 Dutch: 18:41 🇱🇹 Lithuanian: 18:44 🇸🇰 Slovak: 18:50 🇫🇮 Finnish: 18:51 🇭🇺 Hungarian: 18:54 🇩🇪 German: 19:00 🇨🇿 Czech: 19:01 🇵🇱 Polish: 19:08 🇭🇷 Croatian: 19:12 🇹🇭 Thai: 19:19 🇸🇮 Slovenian: 19:20 🇷🇴 Romanian: 19:34 🇺🇦 Ukrainian: 19:45 🇫🇷 French: 19:48 🇧🇬 Bulgarian: 19:55 🇮🇱 Hebrew: 20:03 🇬🇷 Greek: 20:14 🇮🇹 Italian: 20:23 Median local time at which users of the Kaloria food-tracking app log their dinner, by app language. Based on 602,863 anonymous food logs, January–October 2026. Covers 22 languages spoken mainly in one time zone. Source: Kaloria Food Atlas 2026

🇪🇺 Government debt as a share of GDP in the EU (Q2 2026) 1. 🇬🇷 Greece: 140.8% 2. 🇮🇹 Italy: 139.9% 3. 🇫🇷 France: 119.1% 4. 🇧🇪 Belgium: 110.2% 5. 🇪🇸 Spain: 101.4% 6. 🇵🇹 Portugal: 92.5% 7. 🇫🇮 Finland: 90.2% 8. 🇦🇹 Austria: 83.6% 9. 🇭🇺 Hungary: 75.6% 10. 🇸🇮 Slovenia: 64.7% 11. 🇵🇱 Poland: 64.5% 12. 🇩🇪 Germany: 63.4% 13. 🇸🇰 Slovakia: 60.6% 14. 🇷🇴 Romania: 59.4% 15. 🇭🇷 Croatia: 56.2% 16. 🇨🇾 Cyprus: 48.5% 17. 🇱🇻 Latvia: 48.1% 18. 🇲🇹 Malta: 47.0% 19. 🇨🇿 Czechia: 43.8% 20. 🇱🇹 Lithuania: 43.8% 21. 🇳🇱 Netherlands: 43.7% 22. 🇮🇪 Ireland: 35.3% 23. 🇸🇪 Sweden: 35.3% 24. 🇧🇬 Bulgaria: 28.7% 25. 🇱🇺 Luxembourg: 28.2% 26. 🇩🇰 Denmark: 27.1% 27. 🇪🇪 Estonia: 26.1% 🇪🇺 EU: 82.9% General government gross debt at face value, as a percentage of GDP. Source: Eurostat

🇨🇳 Chinese carmakers just overtook Japanese brands in Europe for the first time. In Q3 2026 (July–September), Chinese brands took 12.7% of European new-car registrations, ahead of Japanese brands (Toyota, Nissan, Honda and others) at 11.9%, according to Dataforce. Five years ago Chinese brands held about 1%.

Daily supplementation with 2,000 IU of vitamin D₃ significantly reduced both the incidence and duration of acute respiratory infections among adults with suboptimal vitamin D levels, study finds.

In 2024, the EU’s total fertility rate was 1.34 live births per woman, the lowest level recorded since the time series began in 2001.

🛒 Share of consumer spending that goes to food 🔴 Highest 1. 🇳🇬 Nigeria: 56% 2. 🇲🇲 Myanmar: 55% 3. 🇱🇦 Laos: 54% 4. 🇰🇪 Kenya: 49% 5. 🇹🇲 Turkmenistan: 46% 6. 🇹🇿 Tanzania: 46% 7. 🇺🇿 Uzbekistan: 45% 8. 🇨🇲 Cameroon: 43% 9. 🇨🇮 Côte d'Ivoire: 43% 10. 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan: 42% 🟢 Among the lowest 🇺🇸 United States: 6% 🇸🇬 Singapore: 6% 🇬🇧 United Kingdom: 8% 🇮🇪 Ireland: 8% 🇨🇦 Canada: 10% 🇦🇺 Australia: 10% 🇦🇪 UAE: 11% 🇩🇪 Germany: 12% 🇳🇴 Norway: 12% 🇧🇷 Brazil: 12% Covers food bought for home consumption only. Food eaten away from home, alcohol and tobacco are excluded. Figures are rounded. Source: USDA Economic Research Service, 2025

🇲🇻 Maldives is the only country where Friday is the first day of the week