In 1995 the United States had ten times more people online than any other country. It is now a distant third, and the reason is arithmetic r...
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Ivory Coast produces more cocoa than the next three countries combined. That concentration is why chocolate prices can double on weather in...
India passed China in rice production, and it exports more than the next four exporters combined. That combination gives one government unus...
Almost every story about agriculture is a growth story. Wheat is not. US output is down more than a quarter since 1990 and France is down a...
The United States led soybean production for most of the twentieth century. Brazil now grows more, and the reason has less to do with farmin...
The Beatles reached 19 number-one albums in barely six years. Taylor Swift and Drake are closing in, but the chart they are climbing works n...
One organisation has six League of Legends world titles. In Dota 2, eleven different teams have won and none has won three. The two records...
Brazil produces more coffee than the next two countries combined. That concentration is why a single cold night in Minas Gerais can move pri...
The four longest bridges ever built all carry trains, and none of them cross water. The reason is a piece of civil engineering economics mos...