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Tuesday, January 29, 2019

The Writer's Life 1/29 - Stats

More than 250 private jet flights transported attendees of the World Economic Forum to Davos, Switzerland between Sunday and Tuesday. An alternative analysis from Air Charter Service estimates the number for the entire week will be closer to 1500. One of the topics is climate change, which many believe is caused by fossil fuel emissions.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said President Donald Trump’s repeated calls for other countries to increase their financial contributions have made a real impact after member nations agreed to fork out tens of billions of dollars in additional funding to their defense budgets.

29 FBI agents in 17 vehicles, two of them armored, were sent to arrest 66-year-old political consultant Roger Stone at his home. His crime? - lying, which politicians and their operatives do every day.

The previous numbers inspired a search for others. The following are from various sites.

If none of Wayne Gretzky's goals counted, his assists total would still make him the all-time leading scorer in the NHL.

More U.S. Soldiers died in the Civil War than in all other U.S. wars combined.

In America, 1700 people become millionaires every day.

Google processes 100 billion searches a month.

79% of all online U.S. adults use Facebook.

500 million Tweets are sent each day, 6000 every second.

The video for Luis Fonsi’s song Despacito has 5,929,465,715 views in two years. The word translates to "slowly." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJQP7kiw5Fk

And here is Miss Universe 2006, Zuleyka Rivera of Puerto Rico, who appears throughout the video:


My thanks to the two ladies who bought five books in Russian between them, and to Ira, who purchased a beautiful pictorial on the art collection of publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst; and to retired cabbie Alan, who donated six paperbacks; and to Herbie, who kicked in one.

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