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$12 billion
The estimated cost of hosting this month’s Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, according to the Public Olympic Authority of Brazil.
810
The number of attacks and acts of vandalism that took place at Christian cemeteries and worship sites in France last year, according to Lela Gilbert, an adjunct fellow at the Hudson Institute.
119,756
The number of bitcoins a computer hacker stole from the Hong Kong exchange Bitfinex. The purloined bitcoins, a type of digital currency, had been worth around $72 million.
81.4%
The percentage of Ichiro Suzuki’s approximately 3,000 hits that have been singles, leading some to call the Miami Marlins right fielder the best slap hitter in baseball.
467
The number of job applications that flooded the Dallas Police Department in the two weeks after a sniper killed five Dallas officers on July 7. It was triple the amount from a two-week period in June.
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