Love it! Thanks Katherine! Jeff and I are gonna work crafting these into sm posts. We'll follow up on this thread for the list's approval.
On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 10:13 AM, Jeff Elder jelder@wikimedia.org wrote:
I like this for social and found these that I will get in shape if you folks agree:
there are still an estimated 10–14 million extant species,[34][35] of which about 1.2 million have been documented and over 86 percent have not yet been described. -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth
According to a survey conducted by FIFA published in 2001, over 240 million people from more than 200 countries regularly play football.[ ---- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_football
Around the world, there were about 806 million cars and light trucks on the road in 2007; they burn over 260 billion US gallons (980,000,000 m3) of gasoline and diesel fuel yearly. -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car#Mass_production
The smallest known adult dog was a Yorkshire Terrier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorkshire_Terrier, that stood only 6.3 cm (2.5 in) at the shoulder, 9.5 cm (3.7 in) in length along the head-and-body, and weighed only 113 grams (4.0 oz). The largest known dog was an English Mastiff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Mastiff which weighed 155.6 kg (343 lb) and was 250 cm (98 in) from the snout to the tail. -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog
16 billion (or 19% of all brain neurons) are located in the cerebral cortex (including subcortical white matter), 69 billion (or 80% of all brain neurons) are in the cerebellum, and fewer than 1% of all brain neurons are located in the rest of the brain. -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_brain
he Dark Side of the Moon was an immediate success; it topped the Billboard Top LPs & Tapes chart for one week and remained in the charts for 741 weeks from 1973 to 1988. With an estimated 50 million copies sold, - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Side_of_the_Moon
On average, the tallest women in the world are from Bosnia-Herzegovina at 171.8 cm (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in). The shortest are from Bolivia at 142.2 cm (4 ft 8 in) -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Average_height_around_the_world
The wealthiest nation by gross domestic product per capita is Qatar with per capita gross domestic product of $106,000 (QR387,000) in 2012, - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar
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On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 9:31 AM, Katherine Maher kmaher@wikimedia.org wrote:
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