33,286 source-backed world facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 94 of 333.
“Students at Addis Ababa University began queuing an hour before the polls opened at 0600 local time.”
“steelworkers took on Andrew Carnegie in July of 1892.”
“They were almost 1.5 feet deep and around 3.5 feet wide”
“No one in Ukraine believes this war will end in a final, neat settlement, establishing peace between Ukraine and Russia for years to come. Most Ukrainians I’ve met see themselves as having been at war with Russia since 2014 and assume they…”
“Ethiopia's electoral commission has until 21 June to declare the results.”
“There are some registered nurses - 10,000 of them - that have organized.”
“at least two cars suffered bent alloy wheels”
“$20 million. That’s—at a minimum—what Forbes estimates Swift and Kelce are spending on their blow-out nuptials.”
“Some 32 million people were registered to elect the 547 members of the lower House of Representatives, along with regional councillors who in turn choose the upper house of parliament.”
“At the same time, though, public support for unions is at the highest it's been since the '60s.”
“four to five vehicles lost balance while passing through the damaged stretch”
“Billionaire Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce will reportedly tie the knot in a 1,000-person celebration at Madison Square Garden Friday after hosting 100 of their closest friends and family for a rehearsal dinner in the arena’s Infosys Theate…”
“The European Union had 170 observers on the ground - a relatively large number which our correspondent says shows how important the EU takes his event.”
“an overloaded freighter carrying nearly four thousand people who fled the recent fighting in Liberia”
“A newly built Rs 12,000-cr expressway”
“Rumors started flying that Swift and Kelce would marry at Madison Square Garden late last week after the New York Times reported on several city permits filed for the event, including a permit to show down streets around the venue from Thu…”
“in Guatemala on Saturday”
“The leaky vessel set out from Liberia nine days ago”
“Ronaldo remains under contract with Al Nassr through the 2026-27 season.”
“The world generated approximately 62 million metric tons of electronic waste in 2022, according to the United Nations’ Global E-waste Monitor. Only 22.3 percent was documented as formally collected and recycled through environmentally soun…”
“About 150 people were killed in the storm, with 94,000 left homeless.”
“Today Ghana allowed the ship to dock”
“In the 1920s, a Berlin psychologist named Bluma Zeigarnik noticed something odd about the waiters at a local café, according to a 2020 study published in Memory & Cognition that traces the discovery back to its origin. They could, seemingl…”
“Nearly 100,000 people have been evacuated from their homes.”
“He was in Somalia in October, and photographs of his visit were the cover story in The New York Times Magazine section on December 6, 1992.”
“This is the kind of readiness that a completed task immediately loses. That readiness is what makes it possible to sit back down at a project hours or days later without paying the full cost of reconstructing where things stood. Wrapping a…”
“Each box from the charity costs £490 and contains a 10-person tent, blankets, water purification and cooking equipment, tools and a stove.”
“NACHTWEY has been awarded the Robert Capa Gold Medal three times.”
“She and her colleagues found that people working in visibly disordered rooms generated more original, less conventional ideas than people working in orderly ones, according to a 2013 study published in Psychological Science.”
“Partial results show Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's party is ahead "in all regions", says the election board.”
“NACHTWEY is only the seond photojournalist to be given the award three times.”
“Having said that, a 2019 study published in Frontiers in Psychology that attempted to replicate the finding came up empty, so it’s best read as suggestive rather than settled.”
“The governing party in Ethiopia is leading the vote count from Sunday's election, officials say.”
“A book of NACHTWEY's photographs, "Deeds of War," was published in 1989 by Thames and Hudson.”
“The orderly-room participants weren’t just more conventional, they were more generous and more likely to choose the healthy snack, too.”
“Election board head Merga Bekan said that with around three-quarters of the results declared, the EPRDF was in the lead.”
“Joseph Quinlan died this past Saturday at teh age of 71. A lawyer for the family said the cause was bone cancer.”
“The psychologist Arie Kruglanski built an entire body of research around a related trait he called the need for closure, as a 2015 review published in Advances in Experimental Social Psychology lays out: the urge to settle on an answer, an…”
“"Definitely, at this point the EPRDF has won, definitely," he said.”
“This interview originally aired April 9, 1996.”
“But almost 7 in 10 also warned of growing risks of a ‘disorderly climate transition’”
“The EPRDF is leading in the opposition heartland of Oromia region, and also in the capital Addis Ababa, where it lost in the 2005 election.”
“In 1984, he recounted this experience in his memoir "A Time of Terror"”
“The vast majority of those surveyed (8 in 10) also called for stronger and more consistent policy now to avoid higher costs of a disorderly transition”
“This time, there will be much debate as to whether the ruling party's certain victory is down to impressive efforts at developing the country or state harassment of the opposition, our reporter says. Analysts suggest the truth is a combina…”
“He is also a 1,000 kg (2,200 pound) elephant seal... His rampage through local infrastructure... has commanded an enthralled TikTok following of 1.4 million in part because he acts like kind of a jerk.”
“a 'disorderly transition' is by definition, what happens when climate action is delayed and then has to accelerate rapidly to avoid the worst climate outcomes.”
“Human Rights Watch has condemned the election as multi-party theatre staged by a single party state. The US-based group says the election was preceded by "months of repression", in which the government "pressured, intimidated and threatene…”
“There is a risk here of essentially loving Neil to death,”
“potentially across up to 26 U.S. states”
“Mr Meles - in power since 1991 - put the expected win down to an impressive track record, especially when it comes to economic growth.”
“However, about 90% of male elephant seals die before they reach a breeding age of around 10, Volzke said.”
“stream into space at up to 1,900 miles (3,000 kilometers) per second”
“Ms Condron was challenging planning permissions granted to Miller Argent for an adjacent 23-hectare site, the Cwmbargoed Disposal Point...”
“During this visit to shore, his 12th, his crimes have included picking fights with parked cars and smashing through barriers...”
“G1-G2 conditions are likely by 03-04 Jul”
“...which is three kilometres from her home.”
“If he survives to adulthood, Neil could measure up to 5 meters (16 feet) in length and weigh triple what he does now.”
“G2 to G3-class geomagnetic storms”
“She argued that the improved facility will process 1m tonnes of coal per year at a rate of 500 tonnes per hour...”
“We are used to big events, and we are incredibly excited for this one,”
“G3-class geomagnetic storm is possible”
“The New York Times reported that an event company obtained permits for a gathering of up to 1,000 people at Madison Square Garden on July 3rd”
“at least three CMEs that left the sun on July 1 could impact Earth on Sunday, July 5”
“Less than two weeks later, Swift announced their engagement on Instagram, with photos of a flower-filled backyard proposal and a massive diamond ring.”
“−5 nT or stronger”
“You would think that I had been the type of person who would have obsessed over the idea of a wedding my whole life, but I actually never thought about what I would ever do or what I would want until I met the person,”
“roughly 65 to 70 degrees north”
“The first documented example of a mortar and pestle used to grind coffee beans was on the Mayflower" in 1620”
“Given these symptoms, it is certainly a different environment for a team coming from a country with an average elevation of 180 feet.”
“The first coffeehouse in the colonies opened in 1676 in Boston”
“Fox News—the longtime dominant cable news network—reaches about 2.5 million cable viewers.”
“more than 92,000 pounds of tea owned by the British East India Company”
“Pew Research Center study published in September found 32% of respondents said they get news from podcasts either sometimes or often, a 45% increase from in 2020.”
“By 1790, half of the world's coffee was being grown in the French colony of Saint-Domingue”
“That’s the monthly increase in homeowner’s insurance for the average American, according to Harvard’s State of the Nation’s Housing report. That’s a 72% jump in six years, and for homeowners in areas susceptible to natural disasters, like …”
“The Boston Tea Party protest was targeted at the British government's passing of the Tea Act in 1773”
“Over the same six-year period, property taxes rose 31%, and rents jumped 29%.”
“"The first documented example of a mortar and pestle used to grind coffee beans was on the Mayflower" in 1620, says historian Michelle Craig McDonald, the author of Coffee Nation: How One Commodity Transformed the Early United States.”
“With home prices 54% higher than in 2020, home sales have hovered at a three-decade low since 2023.”
“Musk’s posts, which can often come at a Trump-like-pace of an average of more than 100 posts per day, according to a France 24 analysis of his posts.”
“He tweeted about race nearly daily from October to April, with 6% of his posts on that topic.”
“The season’s record slinked to 13-50,”
“Samuel Basallo is making the leap in his second crack at the Majors, hitting 12 home runs in 267 plate appearances in 2026.”
“Rice has already smashed 23 home runs in 347 plate appearances in 2026.”
“Great American Ball Park’s 115 park factor for home runs is tied for the sixth-highest mark since 2025.”
“Yankee Stadium tied for the third-highest park factor for homers (118) since 2025.”
“which will reportedly start around 5 p.m. with up to 1,000 guests in attendance after a rehearsal dinner in the arena’s Infosys Theater Thursday night”
“well past the halfway mark, at 36-50”
“20 games behind the first-place Dodgers in the National League West and 10 games in arrears of the third and last NL Wild Card spot”
“In San Diego’s case, the Padres were winning and went on to the World Series for the first time in their 56‑year history, losing to a Tigers team that was one of the best in history in five games.”
“The world generated approximately 62 million metric tons of electronic waste in 2022, according to the United Nations’ Global E-waste Monitor.”
“Only 22.3 percent was documented as formally collected and recycled through environmentally sound systems.”
“Dr. Moslener added while many firms have announced transition ambitions, comparatively few have talked about how they plan to align capital expenditure with those ambitions by systematically shifting investment away from carbon-intensive a…”
“A 2025 study published in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications found some evidence people remember unfinished work better, but confirmed a real, durable tendency to pick it back up.”
“a 2019 study published in Frontiers in Psychology that attempted to replicate the finding came up empty, so it’s best read as suggestive rather than settled.”
“The rough average audience (of downloads and views) for an episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience” in 2026 so far, according to data from Podscribe, which now edges an average nightly primetime viewership of Fox News on cable.”
“A Pew Research Center study published in September found 32% of respondents said they get news from podcasts either sometimes or often, a 45% increase from in 2020.”
“That’s the monthly increase in homeowner’s insurance for the average American, according to Harvard’s State of the Nation’s Housing report. That’s a 72% jump in six years...”
“That’s the cost of a common memory chip made by Micron, a 271.43% increase in just the past year, supply chain services company Circular Technology told the Wall Street Journal, as an increasing demand from AI data centers has siphoned awa…”
