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AVERAGE TIME teens spend using screens each day—not including academic screen time.
Source: Common Sense Media
25
TOTAL NUMBER of world championship medals earned by U.S. gymnast Simone Biles. The 22-year-old is now the most decorated gymnast in world championship history.
Source: NPR
$26.8 million
PRICE at auction of a 13th- century painting that had been hanging in a French kitchen for years. It was eventually recognized as a work by Italian medieval artist Cimabue.
Source: The New York Times
40 million
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POUNDS of uneaten bacon sitting in refrigerated warehouses in the U.S. as of this past September. It’s the nation’s biggest stockpile of bacon in 48 years.
Source: Bloomberg