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100,000
Nathaniel Welch
NUMBER of 16- and 17-year-olds who have pre-registered to vote in California since a 2016 law gave young people the opportunity to sign up before they’re eligible (see Should the Voting Age Be Lowered?).
Source: CNN
45%
PERCENTAGE of teens who say they’re online “almost constantly,” according to a new survey. That’s up from 24 percent in 2015.
Source: Pew Research Center
2.4 million
NUMBER of babies James Harrison is estimated to have saved by donating blood regularly for more than 60 years. The 81-year-old Australian man’s blood contains a rare antibody that can treat Rh incompatibility, a deadly immune disorder.
Source: NPR
200,000,000,000,000,000
NUMBER of calculations (200 quadrillion) that the new U.S.-built Summit supercomputer, the world’s fastest, can complete per second.
Source: Popular Science