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, 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 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:
We love data:

https://worldstatisticsday.org/

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