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

• 🥳 The chances that an average American attended a party on any given weekend has fallen from 1/16 in 2004 to 1/25 in 2024, per federal data.
• 🐦 Twitter’s 12-foot, 560-lb bird logo—known as “Larry”—sold at auction to an unknown buyer for ~$34,400.
• 🏘️ The number of unoccupied bedrooms in homes across the US has increased ~8x since 1970.
• 🪦 Annual deaths are projected to start outpacing annual births in the US by 2033, per the Congressional Budget Office.
• 🌎 56% of all US engineers who have Ph.D.s were born abroad.