Post Date:
October 11, 2018 Issue Date:
October 27, 2018

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383,000

The estimated number of dead in South Sudan’s five-year civil war, whether from fighting, disease, hunger, or other causes, according to the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

3.7%

The unemployment rate in the United States in September, the lowest level in 49 years.

1,700 pounds

The weight of an extinct elephant bird, based on a new fossil analysis by Zoological Society of London researchers. That would make it the largest bird known to science.

1/2

The proportion of the world’s population now living in the middle class (earning between $11 and $110 per day), according to the World Data Lab.

52.4 million

The total bushels of Gala apples American farmers expect to harvest this year, surpassing Red Delicious apples in the United States for the first time in 50 years.