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The number of records being broken has not gone down if you include parts of the world that are not the USA (they exist!) The record was broken in 20 of the 50 countries in Europe …

> Please let me know what the downvote is for It's for not knowing what the word "globally" means. That is a pretty big hole in your own data. Look at the equivalent data where it …

If we are going down this road, Microsoft copied HTC, who not only had a product called "One" but also ones called "One S" and "One X" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_One_S https…

It is offered by a British university. Undergrad degrees are more specialized here than in the US, a BSc in Computer Science is a completely normal thing and is what the majority o…

The association between same-sex marriage legalization and reduction in suicide attempts was also significant for teens who identified as sexual minorities. For this subgroup, ther…

It is unused outside of the UK and Ireland where it is still the most commonly used unit for measuring the weight of a person.

"It kind of sucks, but what would actually be a better system? That people get assigned places to live by lottery, so if you happen to live in a cool place on the cheap, you were s…

> But as we all know getting bureaucracies to implement something like this will cost hundreds of millions, and will it be beneficial in the short term? Probably not. But we should…

Learning another language as I learned my first would mean hiring two native speakers to act as my parents, some more native/fluent speakers to act as my primary school teachers an…

http://www.verdantlabs.com/blog/2014/05/23/nametrix-2/ There they list the actual top 5 for some professions. Having read that, I am inclined to agree with you here. The top 6 for …

In some of those cases, it could also partly be people adapting their names after those legends. For example, a budding guitarist called Michael who loves Mick Jagger choosing to g…

That is interesting and I am sure there is a good point there but meteorologist is also a profession requiring a high education level. Yet the meteorologist list (Bill, Joe, Jim, J…