🇯🇵 There are over 9 million vacant homes in Japan. Japan gives them away for free in some rural areas just to prevent neighbourhood collapse. They are called "akiya."

🚀 Space exploration timeline: 1903 — Tsiolkovsky publishes the rocket equation 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 — Goddard writes first paper on liquid propellants as fuel for rockets 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 — Goddard patents designs for a liquid-fueled rocket and a

FUN FACT: Earth is the only planet we know of that has wood, which makes wood far more rare than diamonds throughout the universe

🇺🇸 United States drug overdose death totals: 2008 - 36,450 2009 - 37,004 2010 - 38,329 2011 - 41,340 2012 - 41,502 2013 - 43,982 2014 - 47,055 2015 - 52,404 2016 - 63,632 2017 - 70,237 2018 - 67,367 2019 - 70,630 2020 - 91,799 2021 - 107,000 2022 - 111,029 2023 -

2025 Fertility Rate (OECD countries) 
Replacement level = 2.1 children per woman 🇰🇷 South Korea — 0.7
🇨🇱 Chile — 1.1
🇮🇹 Italy — 1.2
🇱🇹 Lithuania — 1.2
🇯🇵 Japan — 1.2
🇪🇸 Spain — 1.2
🇫🇮 Finland — 1.3
🇵🇱 Poland — 1.3
🇨🇷 Costa Rica — 1.3
🇦🇹 Austria — 1.3
🇨🇦 Canada — 1.3

@elonmusk 🚀 SpaceX launches by year: 2006: 1 2007: 1 2008: 2 2009: 1 2010: 2 2011: 0 2012: 2 2013: 3 2014: 6 2015: 7 2016: 9 2017: 18 2018: 21 2019: 13 2020: 27 2021: 33 2022: 61 2023: 98 2024: 133 2025: 167 as of December 18 Falcon + Starship successful launches

@elonmusk 🚀 SpaceX launches by year: 2006: 1 2007: 1 2008: 2 2009: 1 2010: 2 2011: 0 2012: 2 2013: 3 2014: 6 2015: 7 2016: 9 2017: 18 2018: 21 2019: 13 2020: 27 2021: 33 2022: 61 2023: 98 2024: 133 2025: 157 as of December 3 Falcon + Starship successful launches