Best Airlines in Europe

1. 🇹🇷 Turkish Airlines
2. 🇫🇷 Air France
3. 🇨🇭 Swiss International Air Lines
4. 🇬🇧 British Airways
5. 🇩🇪 Lufthansa
6. 🇬🇧 Virgin Atlantic
7. 🇪🇸 Iberia
8. 🇳🇱 KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
9. 🇦🇹 Austrian Airlines
10. 🇫🇮 Finnair

Source: SKYTRAX, 2025

Too little sleep ages your organs. So does too much.

A Nature study of ~500,000 people mapped sleep against 23 biological aging clocks across 17 organs (proteomics, metabolomics, MRI). Same result every time: a U-shaped curve.

Fastest aging: under 6 hours or over 8.
Slowest aging: about 6.4 - 7.8 hours.

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You'd need to work 69 hours in Nigeria to earn what a Dutch worker makes in one.

Smartphone scrolling on toilet linked to higher hemorrhoid risk, raising risk of hemorrhoids by nearly 50%, from extra minutes spent sitting.

66% reported using phone on toilet.
37% stayed on toilet for more than 5 minutes.

Most common reasons were to read news (54%) and use social media (44%).

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🇯🇵 Japan’s annual births

2025: 705,809
2014: 1 million people
2004: 1.11 million people
1994: 1.23 million people
1984: 1.49 million people
1974: 2.03 million people

The United States has become the world’s largest oil producer, by far.

(Our World in Data)

Number of Registered Guns by State (U.S.)

🇺🇸 Texas: 1.1M
🇺🇸 Florida: 631.8K
🇺🇸 California: 419.0K
🇺🇸 Virginia: 479.6K
🇺🇸 Georgia: 377.8K
🇺🇸 Pennsylvania: 295.5K
🇺🇸 Arkansas: 309.0K
🇺🇸 North Carolina: 252.4K
🇺🇸 Ohio: 245.8K
🇺🇸 Alabama: 224.3K
🇺🇸 Washington: 213.6K
🇺🇸 Colorado: 196.8K
🇺🇸 Tennessee: 192.8K
🇺🇸 Nevada: 174.8K
🇺🇸 Utah: 174.8K
🇺🇸 Indiana: 226.3K
🇺🇸 South Carolina: 149.3K
🇺🇸 Michigan: 150.0K
🇺🇸 Louisiana: 150.1K
🇺🇸 Minnesota: 137.8K
🇺🇸 Missouri: 137.5K
🇺🇸 Illinois: 139.4K
🇺🇸 Oregon: 127.1K
🇺🇸 New Mexico: 121.7K
🇺🇸 Oklahoma: 123.0K
🇺🇸 New Jersey: 115.4K
🇺🇸 Wisconsin: 118.1K
🇺🇸 South Dakota: 118.8K
🇺🇸 Arizona: 106.2K
🇺🇸 New York: 93.0K
🇺🇸 Connecticut: 93.3K
🇺🇸 Idaho: 97.5K
🇺🇸 Mississippi: 98.0K
🇺🇸 District of Columbia: 101.1K
🇺🇸 Wyoming: 84.5K
🇺🇸 New Hampshire: 84.2K
🇺🇸 Kansas: 82.3K
🇺🇸 Kentucky: 131.2K
🇺🇸 Iowa: 72.4K
🇺🇸 West Virginia: 63.5K
🇺🇸 Nebraska: 54.4K
🇺🇸 Montana: 56.1K
🇺🇸 Alaska: 36.1K
🇺🇸 North Dakota: 40.1K
🇺🇸 Massachusetts: 28.8K
🇺🇸 Maine: 154.4K
🇺🇸 Maryland: 48.0K
🇺🇸 Delaware: 7.9K
🇺🇸 Rhode Island: 4.9K
🇺🇸 Vermont: 11.6K
🇺🇸 Hawaii: 9.6K

Texas led with the highest number of registered weapons at 1.1 million firearms. The entire record covers approximately 9.6 million registered weapons across 51 jurisdictions.

Gun ownership in the U.S. is protected by the 2nd Amendment of the Constitution, which allows citizens to own firearms and form a militia if necessary.

Source: Statista (May 2024)