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Average shoe size globally is difficult to track because it varies with global health, nutrition, and average height. For this insight, data were gathered from retail market reports and anecdotal sources rather than from rigorous scientific studies.

🥚 The Dutch eat more eggs per person than almost anywhere in Europe. 33.1 kg a year. That's roughly 2 eggs per person every day. The reason why says a lot more about the Netherlands than just breakfast habits. Read the full breakdown dataexplained.com/maps/europe-pe…

🌾 Countries where farming IS the economy and where it barely registers. The highest: 🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau — 42% of GDP comes from agriculture 🇹🇩 Chad — 37.7% 🇰🇲 Comoros — 36.6% 🇧🇮 Burundi — 34.9% 🇪🇹 Ethiopia — 34.8% The lowest: 🇸🇬 Singapore — 0.03% 🇭🇰 Hong Kong — 0.04% 🇱🇺 Luxembourg — 0.21% 🇧🇭 Bahrain — 0.25% 🇶🇦 Qatar — 0.29% One pattern we noticed is that high-income or developed countries have low agricultural shares of GDP, while low-income/developing countries have higher ones.

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Public figures are the most commonly deepfaked, but private individuals suffer the most harm. The report tracked 1,567 verified deepfake incidents globally in 2025. This is according to new data from Resemble AI’s 2025 Deepfake Threat Report.

🇺🇸 The University of Michigan announced its final May consumer sentiment index at 44.8. This is not only a record low but also the lowest reading in 74 years of data, surpassing levels seen during the 2008 financial crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, and peak inflation in 2022. Additionally, 57% of Americans reported that rising prices are negatively impacting their personal finances.

JUST IN: U.S. consumer sentiment crashes to a record low, with 57% of consumers saying high prices are “eroding” their personal finances.

🇺🇸 The US national debt has surpassed $39 trillion once again. While that figure is hard to grasp, a more tangible detail is that the US pays $3 billion in interest daily, more than its annual spending on Medicare and Medicaid combined, just on interest. The increase from $38 trillion to $39 trillion occurred over five months, whereas climbing from $34.5 trillion to $39 trillion took two years, despite no recession, major stimulus, or war expenditures. This reflects the structural costs of how America funds itself. The CBO forecasts the debt-to-GDP ratio will reach 120% by 2036, the highest since 1946, right after WWII, when America had just won a global war. Today, the debt is simply the baseline. It’s expected to hit $40 trillion before 2026, yet nobody in Washington seems to be addressing this trajectory.

JUST IN: US national debt rises above $39 trillion ($39,000,000,000,000)

🤖 Anthropic expects to make $10.9 billion in revenue this quarter. That's more than double what it made in January through March. If it hits that number, it posts its first-ever profit of $559 million. Dario Amodei's own words this month: "We planned for 10x growth. We saw 80x." The bill for that growth: $1.25 billion every month just for computing power. First profit. Biggest compute bill ever. Same quarter.

Anthropic expects revenue to surge 130% to $10.9 billion in the June quarter and anticipates its first operating profit, per the Information

🇨🇳 Days after agreeing with Trump that the Strait of Hormuz should reopen, China quietly published new rules tightening its control over strategic minerals. Effective June 15, security reviews on all foreign investment in Chinese mining. Strategic mineral reserves must be stored at source for a minimum of five years. Dedicated reserve sites to be built faster. China controls over 60% of the mined rare earth supply and nearly 90% of global rare earth processing. The new rules don't specify which minerals are covered, creating uncertainty for Western companies relying on Chinese supply chains.

China will accelerate the buildout of strategic mineral reserves, per Bloomberg.

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According to the data, Netflix leads globally among streaming apps, with a presence in over 190 countries. Sports and regional content help streaming platforms attract and retain subscribers, as viewers tend to prefer services that reflect their interests and culture.

🇰🇷 The Samsung strike is off for now. Hours before 48,000 workers were set to walk out, South Korea's labor minister stepped in personally. A tentative deal was reached at midnight. What workers get: • 6.2% average wage increase • 50% of annual salary as a cash bonus immediately • 10.5% of the chip division's operating profit as stock bonuses • Some memory chip workers will receive total bonuses of approximately $416,000 this year Samsung's chip division aims to achieve $200 billion in profit by 2026, nearly double its target. Workers at the company, with the company crossing the $1 trillion market value, sought rewards. After government mediation, the answer is quite a lot. 89,000 workers vote on the deal from now to May 28. The 18-day strike disrupting AI chip supply is suspended, not canceled.

JUST IN: 89,000 unionized Samsung workers are set to vote on a pay deal after an 11th-hour agreement averted a threatened 18-day strike.

This is what the Iran war looks like in a farmer's field. Since January 1: • ⚗️ Sulfur: +106% • 🌱 Urea fertilizer: +70-80% • 🌾 Wheat: +27% • 🍚 Rice: +35% Most know the Strait of Hormuz as an oil route, but it's also the world's fertilizer highway, holding 50% of global sulfur and 34% of urea shipments. When the strait closed, shipments stopped. The World Bank predicts fertilizer prices will rise 31% in 2026, with a 60% jump in urea, making fertilizer less affordable than it has been since 2022. This slow crisis causes farmers who can't afford fertilizer to produce lower yields, leading to higher food prices in 2027, well after the war ends. The oil shock impacts fuel in weeks, but the food shock affects the plate in months, with the Iran war's biggest hidden consequence still unfolding.

Price increase since 1st of January, 2026. Sulfur: +106% Lithium: +50% Bitumen: +46% Urea: +40% Rice: +35% Canola: +28% Wheat: +27% Rubber: +22% Wool: +22% Cotton: +21% Aluminium: +21% Tea: +20% Milk: +11% Palm oil: +11%

🇺🇸🇹🇼 The US just paused a $14 billion arms sale to Taiwan. The Navy Secretary told the Senate yesterday that the pause is to conserve munitions for the war in Iran. The US has burned through most of its long-range cruise missiles, Tomahawks, and Patriot interceptors since February 28. Trump told Fox News last week: It's a negotiating chip with China. The Iran war started as a Middle East conflict. It has now paused a $14 billion arms deal, drained US missile stockpiles, and shifted the balance of signals Washington is sending across the Pacific.

BREAKING: The U.S. has paused a planned $14 billion arms sale to Taiwan, per Navy Secretary Hung.

Countries with The Most Extreme Weather: Top Risk 2025 dataexplained.com/maps/countries…

⛽ Last Memorial Day: gas cost $3.08 per gallon. This Memorial Day: $4.56. Americans will spend an extra $3.5 billion on gasoline this weekend alone. Airfares up 20.7%. Hotels up 4.3%. Eating out is up 3.6%. Families are swapping Disney World for local hiking trails and long road trips for nearby beaches. If Hormuz stays closed through summer, GasBuddy projects the national average will hit $4.80, potentially touching the all-time record of $5.02

Americans are cutting back this Memorial Day after gas prices topped $4.50 a gallon for the first time in nearly four years bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

In 2018, for the first time in history, there were more people over 65 than children under 5. Traditionally, societies had more young people due to high birth rates and shorter life expectancies. This shift was groundbreaking; by 2080, seniors will outnumber those under 18, and by the 2030s, those over 80 will outnumber newborns. The world has never faced such demographics before. Existing pension, healthcare, and economic systems were designed for a younger population, but now they are being used on a demographic they weren't built for.

2018 was the first year in which the number of people over the age of 65 exceeded the number of people under the age of 5.

Between 2022 and 2025, almost every source of human joy declined. Almost every single one. Family time: 66% to 53% Travel: 50% to 47% Friends: 47% to 42% Dining out: 46% to 39% Work bringing joy: 20% to 15% 19,000 people from around the world were asked what makes them happy. Three years later, they asked again. The list has been shortened. One number was consistent: 22% of us still went out to bars and clubs. It turns out that when everything else gets harder, people still find a way to show up for a drink with someone. What's currently bringing you joy, and is it on this list?

Jensen Huang flew to Alaska to board Air Force One. He flew to Beijing with Trump to negotiate Al chip access to China. While he was still in the country, China quietly banned one of his chips. The RTX 5090D V2 was built specifically for China engineered to comply with US export controls while still serving Chinese buyers. Ilt was being used by Chinese Al developers to access Nvidia's Blackwell architecture through the back door. China noticed. And banned it. On Friday. While Huang was in the room next door. Jensen Huang told Bloomberg TV this week: "My sense is that over time, the market will open." Those words now sit in a diferent light. China doesn't need to negotiate with Nvidia. It's building its own chips. Huawei. Cambricon. DeepSeek running on domestic hardware. The ban wasn't a mistake or a miscommunication. It was a message The question for Nvidia: how long can a $5.4 trillion company afford to lose China?

FT Exclusive: China banned an Nvidia gaming chip while CEO Jensen Huang visited the country with Donald Trump last week. The move highlights Beijing’s determination to keep out Nvidia’s chips and support domestic chipmakers such as Huawei and Cambricon ft.trib.al/5aCOYJz

NYC hotel housekeepers just negotiated $100,000 a year in total compensation. 27,000 workers. 250 hotels. An 8-year deal. Pay rising from $40/hour to $61/hour by 2034, a 50%+ increase. Full healthcare for workers and their families with zero co-pays. The timing: the World Cup comes to New York this summer. Hotels needed workers. Workers knew it. Here's the data point that makes this genuinely interesting. Earlier this session we posted that 43% of US college graduates are working jobs that don't require a degree. The median 30-year-old has $39,000 in net worth. A hotel housekeeper in New York City just negotiated $100,000. A college graduate in the US earns a median starting salary of $60,000. The labour market is sending a signal that most people aren't ready to hear. Is this the future of labor or a New York City anomaly that will never travel

JUST IN: NYC hotel housekeepers will earn more than $100,000 a year under a new union contract.