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Albert Einstein and his handwritten note (See "$1,560,000" below)
$1,560,000
Price fetched at auction for a handwritten note by famous physicist Albert Einstein detailing his “theory of happiness.”
940,000
Amount of butter in metric tons Americans consumed in 2017—up 10 percent from 2016.
6,000
Age in years of an ancient human skull that scientists believe belonged to the earliest victim of a tsunami.
37
Age of the oldest captive panda in the world, named Basi. She died in China last September.
32
Percentage of kids who say they prefer to watch videos on a device, like a smartphone, rather than a television.