Post Date:
December 13, 2017 Issue Date:
December 30, 2017

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$11 million

The amount of money a 6-year-old boy named Ryan made reviewing toys—with some help from his parents—on YouTube in 2017.

1 in 20

The proportion of middle- and high-school students who said they had cyberbullied themselves, using anonymous social media accounts, according to a study in the Journal of Adolescent Health.

26.1 minutes

The average one-way commute time for American workers.

267

The number of women and girls used as suicide bombers in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, and Niger since June 2014, according to FDD’s Long War Journal. About half of the bombings took place in 2017.

7 minutes

The amount of time it took Chinese police using a government camera surveillance network in Guiyang to track down a BBC reporter walking through the city. The system uses facial recognition technology.