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10%
The share of U.S. Twitter users responsible for 80 percent of all U.S.-based tweets on the social media platform, according to a Pew analysis.
20,500
The estimated number of cases of “unwanted sexual contact” in the U.S. military last year, a 38 percent increase from 2016, according to a survey of Army, Navy, Marine, and Air Force members.
27
The number of years Munira Abdulla, a woman from the United Arab Emirates who was severely injured in a car accident, spent in a minimally conscious state before she awoke last year.
$4.35
The tax levied on a pack of cigarettes in Connecticut and New York, the states with the highest cigarette tax.
35%
The share of Windows PCs that will still be operating Windows 7 when Microsoft stops supporting the software in January 2020, according to a Computerworld prediction.
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