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

• 🏈 Washington Commanders rookie QB Jayden Daniels has the highest completion percentage (82.1%) of any NFL player ever through the first four games (w/ at least 75 attempts). (Read more)
• 🧓📈 Today, more than 17% of Americans are aged 65+, up from ~10% in 1970; that figure is projected to reach 25% by 2060. (Read more)
• 🏫 A single fake bomb threat at a school can cost between $25K-$40K to investigate, per Lauren Shapiro, an assoc. professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. (Read more)
• 💒 1 in 5 US adults who have gotten married since 2021 say they “almost called off their wedding” beforehand. (Read more)
• 🌀💰 In the 1980s, there were 33 US weather disasters w/ inflation-adjusted damages over $1B; since Jan. 2023, there have been at least 47 such disasters (from the NOAA via Harper’s). (Read more)