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)

The State of Democracy Across the World

In a room with 23 people, there's a 50/50 chance of at least two people having the same birthday

In a room with 75 people, there's a 99.9% chance

It is estimated that 8-12% of children worldwide were born to related consanguineous parents.

Consanguineous parents are couples who are biologically related by blood, typically as second cousins or closer, and share a common ancestor.

3 countries with the highest % of consanguineous marriages:

1. Pakistan: 61.2%
2. Kuwait: 54.3%
3. Qatar: 54.0%

iPhone Users Are as Loyal as They Come

According to Statista Consumer Insights, Apple beats smartphone competitors in terms of brand loyalty, with more than 90% of iPhone users in the U.S. saying that they’ll likely stick with Apple when it’s time to upgrade.

Number of military personnel:

🇨🇳 China: 2.035 million
🇮🇳 India: 1.5 m
🇺🇸 USA: 1.34 m
🇰🇵 North Korea: 1.28 m
🇷🇺 Russia: 1.26 m
🇺🇦 Ukraine: 677 k
🇵🇰 Pakistan: 660 k
🇮🇷 Iran: 610 k
🇰🇷 South Korea: 450 k
🇻🇳 Vietnam: 450 k
🇪🇬 Egypt: 438 k
🇧🇷 Brazil: 374 k
🇹🇷 Turkey: 355 k
🇲🇽 Mexico: 301 k
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia: 257 k
🇯🇵 Japan: 247 k
🇫🇷 France: 204 k
🇩🇪 Germany: 179 k
🇵🇱 Poland: 173 k
🇦🇫 Afghanistan: 172 k
🇮🇱 Israel: 169 k
🇮🇹 Italy: 160 k
🇬🇧 UK: 141 k
🇪🇸 Spain: 122 k
🇦🇷 Argentina: 83 k
🇨🇦 Canada: 62 k
🇸🇬 Singapore: 51 k
🇨🇿 Czechia: 26 k
🇦🇹 Austria: 22 k
🇳🇮 Nicaragua: 12 k
🇮🇪 Ireland: 9.5 k
🇪🇪 Estonia: 7.1 k
🇱🇻 Latvia: 6.6 k
🇬🇾 Guyana: 3.4 k
🇸🇻 El Salvador: 2.6 k

Active duty only, number of members

According to International Institute for Strategic Studies

⏰ HOW LONG DOES IT STAY IN YOUR BODY?

1. Caffeine = 6–8 hrs
2. Alcohol = 12–24 hrs
3. Nicotine = 1–3 days
4. Sugar = 2–4 hrs (spike & crash)
5. THC = Up to 30 days
6. Antibiotics = Hours to days (type matters)
7. Vitamin C = Around 24 hrs
8. Vitamin B12 = Lasts for months
9. Water = 2–4 hrs
10. Protein meal = 3–6 hrs to digest

It’s Getting Crowded up in Space

Almost 36,000 space objects of the size of a softball or above are currently known to exist in orbit.

Is the most-visited city in each European country it's capital?

75% of the world’s food is generated from only 12 plants and 5 animal species.

How Common Are AI Tells in Online Content?

AI Tells are certain types of phrases, words and punctuation that AI tools tend to use much more frequently than human writers.

Since the release of ChatGPT, all of these AI Tells have started showing up more and more often in online content.

🇮🇳 Life expectancy in India

1950: 41.7
1955: 43.4
1960: 45.2
1965: 45.0
1970: 48.2
1975: 50.8
1980: 53.6
1985: 56.3
1990: 58.7
1995: 60.6
2000: 62.7
2005: 65.0
2010: 66.9
2015: 69.6
2020: 70.1