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

• 👩‍🔬 Women accounted for 41% of all global researchers in 2022, up from 29% two decades earlier. (Read more)
• 🏟️ In the early 1990s, 7% of stadiums in US men’s major sports leagues were named after corporate sponsors; today, that figure is 87%. (Read more)
• 💰🇨🇳 The combined market valuation of Microsoft, Apple, and Nvidia ($9.2 trillion) surpassed the value of the entire Chinese stock market excluding Hong Kong (~$9.0 trillion) earlier this month. (Read more)
• 🪙🗑️ Americans throw away up to $68 million worth of US coins each year. (Read more)
• 🌭 Hot dog summer is in full swing: The US consumes ~818 hot dogs per second between Memorial Day and Labor Day each year, on average. (Read more)