💬 Quoted… “There is at least no shortage of children.”

• Norway saw a 6% increase in overall births last year... and Ikea Norway is trying to cash in on the boom by creating an online name bank with hundreds of suggestions for new baby names, drawing from ones the company gives to its furniture in lieu of product numbers

📱 Stats of the Day: More than ⅔ of the 1,000 most popular iPhone apps for kids are collecting and sending their personal information to advertisers, according to a new study from Pixalate. On Android, the number is 79%.

🌎 Around the World: Three captured foreigners – two men from the UK and one from Monaco – were sentenced to death by a Russia court yesterday for fighting alongside Ukrainian forces.

🤯 Did You Know?... A trio of authors and researchers have identified a handful of global “Blue zones," aka areas seeming to have an unusually high proportion of people who live longer than average.

• There are believed to be five Blue zones in the world: Okinawa (Japan), Sardinia (Italy), Nicoya (Costa Rica), Icaria (Greece), and Loma Linda (California, USA).

📖 Worth a Read: The Lucrative Economics of Expert Witnesses → (The Hustle)