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$28,400
Cost of the average American wedding in 2012, according to a survey of 17,500 couples by the Knot
507
Age, in years, of the world’s oldest animal, a mollusk, which was killed when researchers attempted to learn its age
18
Percentage of flights that left Beijing’s Capital International on time in June, worse than at any other airport
5,800%
Jump in Amazon sales of the Centennial Edition of George Orwell’s 1984 in the wake of revelations that the NSA collects data on millions of Americans
34,008
New daily high-temperature records set at weather stations in the U.S. in 2012, compared with 6,664 new record lows; it was the country’s hottest year ever
30 million
Number of rubella and measles vaccines that Brazil’s top biomedical center will produce for countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America
29.4 in 1,000
Record-low birthrate among U.S. teens, down from 31.3 in 1,000 two years ago
$250,000
Cost of a 30-second ad during the Breaking Bad finale, up from about $75,000 for the rest of this season
12%
Unemployment rate in the euro zone–it reached that level for the first time since the 1999 launch of the euro
$1 trillion
Total federal student debt in the U.S. as of July 17
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