Numbers in the News

Guinness World Records

953: NUMBER of musicians playing a show together in Tianjin, China, in September. The event set a world record for the largest rock band performance, beating the old record of 520 musicians, set in 2013.  

SOURCE: Guinness Book of World Records

50%: PERCENTAGE of the world’s estimated 100 million refugees who are children.

SOURCE: United Nations Children’s Fund

1.1 billion: NUMBER of stars in the Milky Way, according to a recent 3-D survey of the galaxy. The most accurate measurement ever, the recent mapping discovered almost 400 million new stars.  

SOURCE: The New York Times

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$314,000: AMOUNT raised by the Smithsonian, via Kickstarter, as of Oct. 26 to restore the ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz. It took just a week to surpass the campaign’s goal of $300,000.  

SOURCE: The Washington Post

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