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2025
YEAR South Korean pop band BTS plans to reunite. The group recently announced a hiatus so that all seven members can complete their country’s mandatory military service.
Source: BBC News
$87,400
PRICE paid at auction in October for a pair of jeans from the 1880s that were found in an abandoned mine in New Mexico. One of the buyers says the pants are durable enough to still be worn.
Source: CNN
20 quadrillion (20,000,000,000,000,000)
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ESTIMATED NUMBER of ants living on Earth, according to new research from scientists at the University of Hong Kong. That’s 2.5 million ants for each person on the planet.
Source: The Washington Post