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AMOUNT the North Korean mission to the U.N. owes New York City for unpaid parking tickets, dating back to the 1990s. Because of diplomatic immunity, the mission can’t be forced to pay the fines.

Source: New York Post

LENGTH of maximum sentence for smuggling plastic bags into Rwanda, one of more than 40 countries that have banned them to protect the environment. A Rwandan official recently called the bags “worse than drugs.”

Source: The New York Times

AMOUNT paid for Albert Einstein’s theory for a happy life—scratched on a napkin—which sold at auction in October. Einstein gave the napkin
to a bellboy in Japan in lieu of a standard tip in 1922.

Source: The New York Times

NUMBER of known objects currently orbiting the Earth. They range from spacecraft and satellites —some working, most not—to discarded rocket parts and other space hardware.

Source: BBC