Here are five stats from this past week that made our team go “whoa.” Hopefully you will, too.

• 📊 Over half of Americans identify as middle class (39%) or upper-middle class (15%), while 31% consider themselves “working class,” 12% say they’re “lower class,” and 2% identify as “upper class.” (Read more)
• 🗣️ US adults use the word “please” in ~7% of their requests, with the word mostly used to overcome an inhospitable environment rather than politeness, per a new UCLA study. (Read more)
• 👶 Over 6,000 baby girls in the US were named Alexa in 2015, a year after Amazon released its voice assistant with the same name; last year, that number had fallen to 490. (Read more)
• 🤖 4% of Americans aged 14-22 say they use AI tools daily or almost daily, with 41% of that age group saying they’ve never used AI. (Read more)
• ⚽🏆 Real Madrid claimed a record 15th UEFA Champions League title on Saturday – more than double the number of titles held by second-place AC Milan (7). (Read more)