Numbers in the News

NUMBER of tweets and Facebook posts made by members of Congress in 2019 and 2020. That means the median member of Congress produced more than 3,000 posts on the two platforms during that time.

^{Source: Pew Research Center}

AMOUNT some people have offered for a recently-discovered volcanic rock that looks like Cookie Monster inside. The gem collector who it belongs to, however, has decided not to sell.

^{Source: CNET}

AGE of Lily Wilder, a little girl who discovered a dinosaur footprint on a Welsh beach in January. It’s one of the best-preserved dino footprints in the United Kingdom.

^{Source: UPI}

YEARS it took for a Navy meteorologist’s wallet to be returned to him after he lost it in Antarctica in the late 1960s. After the wallet was found during a demolition, amateur sleuths were able to track down owner Paul Grisham, now 91, in January.

^{Source: The New York Times}