🔢 By the Numbers

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

  • 🍿 Disney is responsible for 32 of the 56 movies (57%) that have ever grossed $1+ billion globally, after Moana 2 reached that mark this weekend.
  • 📝 33% of all scientists in academia stop publishing research within five years of their first paper, while nearly 50% stop publishing within 10 years.
  • 🪙 President Trump launched a memecoin on Friday – and as of Sunday, the $TRUMP coin had grown his net worth from ~$7.2 billion to ~$64 billion (on paper), before its value fell by nearly half.
  • 🤖🏫 26% of US teens say they’ve used ChatGPT for schoolwork – double the share recorded by Pew Research in 2023.
  • 🏈 The NFC North had the highest combined winning percentage of any division since the 1970 NFL-AFL merger (.662) – but went 0-3 in the playoffs.
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