STATS

 

On this day:

1240
Mongol invasion of Rus': Kiev under Danylo of Halych and Voivode Dmytro falls to the Mongols under Batu Khan.
1648
Colonel Pride of the New Model Army purges the Long Parliament of MPs sympathetic to King Charles I of England, in order for the King’s trial to go ahead; came to be known as “Pride’s Purge”.
1865
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, banning slavery.
1907
A coal mine explosion at Monongah, West Virginia kills 362 workers.
1917
Halifax Explosion: In Canada, a munitions explosion kills more than 1,900 people and destroys part of the City of Halifax, Nova Scotia.1941
World War II: The United Kingdom declares war on Finland in support of the Soviet Union during the Continuation War.
1957
Project Vanguard: A launchpad explosion of Vanguard TV3 thwarts the first United States attempt to launch a satellite into Earth orbit.
1969
Meredith Hunter is killed by the Hells Angels during a The Rolling Stones’s concert at the Altamont Speedway in California.
1973
The Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States House of Representatives votes 387 to 35 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States (on November 27, the Senate confirmed him 92 to 3).
1989
The École Polytechnique Massacre (or Montreal Massacre): Marc Lépine, an anti-feminist gunman, murders 14 young women at the École Polytechnique in Montreal.

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You are angry that the current administration has not brought down prices attributed to the previous administration's deficit spending and artificially high energy prices, so you're going to vote for the previous administration?

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The thesis is that politicians, especially the modern Left, campaign on providing things in unlimited supply; is affordability one of those things?

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Somehow, the forgiving and optimistic Left who see in the women-burning, subway-rider-stabbing, habitual recidivist, the flag-waving, street-demonstrating homicidal nationalist bigot, and the cold Bundy-charming CEO back-shooter an element of the divine but can discern the heart of darkness in soldiers one thousand miles away trying to fight child-killing drug entrepreneurs.

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There are more than 80--80!!--large poverty programs in the United States.

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MIT engineers have designed an aerial microrobot that can fly as fast as a bumblebee

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STATS

Every Western European country scores higher on the global ranking of freedom and democracy than the U.S. does, according to Freedom House, a U.S.-based nonprofit that ranks countries according to measures such as election process, rule of law, and individual rights.

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'Autism Centers' in Minnesota grew 700% 2018 to 2023. Funding for them increased 3000% from $6 million to $192 million.

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About 28% of oxygen on Earth comes from rainforests. The majority of it — somewhere between 50% and 85% — actually comes from marine plants, like kelp and phytoplankton in the ocean.

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NYC's budget includes $7.4 billion in federal dollars. That's 6.4% of the budget.

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The restrike rate of attacks like the one in the Caribbean is about 25%.

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China’s fertility rate has fallen to one.

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Among people 45-plus, the rates of loneliness have increased from 35% in 2018, to 40% now.

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Financial fraud has affected 29% of checking, savings or debit account holders and 24% of credit card customers in the past 12 months.

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The 2025 hurricane season is drawing to a close without a single one making landfall in the continental United States — for the first time in a decade.

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IBIT has lost $1.4 billion over five trading days—the highest total for any consecutive-day stretch in its 22-month history.IBIT manages more than $73 billion in assets, the most of any of the spot Bitcoin ETFs.

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The penalty of Bad Stats: In 1937, Olimpiy Kvitkin, a statistician, was executed by firing squad. His crime? Producing inconvenient census numbers, which showed the Soviet Union contained about 6 million fewer residents than Joseph Stalin had claimed, probably because of that little famine the country had just been through.

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The digital marketing firm Graphite recently published a study showing that more than 50% of articles on the web are being generated by artificial intelligence.

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Palidromes
If a number is not a palindrome, follow these steps to make it a palindrome:
Example: 76
Reverse the digits.
67
Add the reverse number to 76, the original number.
76+67=143
Continue to reverse and add until the sum is a palindrome. 341
143+431=484
If you follow these steps, all the numbers from 1 to 100 will eventually become palindromes, and you will find unity and peace.

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Percent of young adults who say they are likey to leave their city. (This occurs for a number of reasons, but mostly, "It's about being engaged in your city, feeling pride in your city, as well as having this growing sense of belonging," Sofia Song, 'global leader of cities research' at Gensler's Research Institute said.)

Moving out
1	Baltimore	61.6%
2	Charlotte, N.C.	58.3%
3	Miami	51.8%
4	Detroit	51.6%
5	Atlanta	50%
6	Nashville, Tenn.	49.4%
7	Portland, Ore.	48.8%
8	Houston	47.8%
9	Philadelphia	45.7%
10	Tampa, Fla.	45.2%
11	Columbus, Ohio	45%
12	San Francisco	45%
13	San Antonio	44.4%
14	New York	44.1%

Bottom half of the rankings

Rank	City	Moving out
15	Phoenix	42.6%
16	Washington, D.C.	42.2%
17	Raleigh, N.C.	41.9%
18	Los Angeles	41.4%
19	Minneapolis	41.4%
20	Dallas	41%
21	Seattle	39.8%
22	Austin, Texas	38.9%
23	Las Vegas	37.9%
24	Denver	37%
25	Chicago	36.1%
26	Boston	27.8%
27	San Diego	27.1%

'Global leader of cities research'!