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Numbers in the News
117: NUMBER OF MONTHS that the common swift, a bird similar to the swallow, can fly without stopping, according to a recent study.
SOURCE: The New York Times
40%: PERCENTAGE of high school students in a recent study who believed a fake news story was real because a photo accompanied it (see "Fake News Fooling Millions!")
SOURCE: Stanford University
$148,000: AMOUNT recently paid at auction for a 1942 eight-line poem written by Anne Frank, who was killed by the Nazis during the Holocaust. | SOURCE: The New York Times
400: POUNDS of food that the average American throws away each year.
SOURCE: Rethinking Food Waste Through Economics & Data