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:
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