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U.S. State Populations

🇺🇸 California — 39,355,309
🇺🇸 Texas — 31,709,821
🇺🇸 Florida — 23,462,518
🇺🇸 New York — 20,002,427
🇺🇸 Pennsylvania — 13,059,432
🇺🇸 Illinois — 12,719,141
🇺🇸 Ohio — 11,900,510
🇺🇸 Georgia — 11,302,748
🇺🇸 North Carolina — 11,197,968
🇺🇸 Michigan — 10,127,884
🇺🇸 New Jersey — 9,548,215
🇺🇸 Virginia — 8,880,107
🇺🇸 Washington — 8,001,020
🇺🇸 Arizona — 7,623,818
🇺🇸 Tennessee — 7,315,076
🇺🇸 Massachusetts — 7,154,084
🇺🇸 Indiana — 6,973,333
🇺🇸 Missouri — 6,270,541
🇺🇸 Maryland — 6,265,347
🇺🇸 Colorado — 6,012,561
🇺🇸 Wisconsin — 5,972,787
🇺🇸 Minnesota — 5,830,405
🇺🇸 South Carolina — 5,570,274
🇺🇸 Alabama — 5,193,088
🇺🇸 Louisiana — 4,618,189
🇺🇸 Kentucky — 4,606,864
🇺🇸 Oregon — 4,273,586
🇺🇸 Oklahoma — 4,123,288
🇺🇸 Connecticut — 3,688,496
🇺🇸 Utah — 3,538,904
🇺🇸 Nevada — 3,282,188
🇺🇸 Iowa — 3,238,387
🇺🇸 Arkansas — 3,114,791
🇺🇸 Kansas — 2,977,220
🇺🇸 Mississippi — 2,954,160
🇺🇸 New Mexico — 2,125,498
🇺🇸 Idaho — 2,029,733
🇺🇸 Nebraska — 2,018,006
🇺🇸 West Virginia — 1,766,147
🇺🇸 Hawaii — 1,432,820
🇺🇸 New Hampshire — 1,415,342
🇺🇸 Maine — 1,414,874
🇺🇸 Montana — 1,144,694
🇺🇸 Rhode Island — 1,114,521
🇺🇸 Delaware — 1,059,952
🇺🇸 South Dakota — 935,094
🇺🇸 North Dakota — 799,358
🇺🇸 Alaska — 737,270
🇺🇸 Vermont — 644,663
🇺🇸 Wyoming — 588,753

Note: Estimated population of all 50 U.S. states, ranked from most to least populous.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau

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What the 2026 midterm map would look like if only one group of people had voted.

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The most common country of birth for U.S. Immigrants in Each State

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Most optimal road trip across the U.S. according to a data scientist...

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World's Oldest Countries ever:

1. Iran 🇮🇷: 3200BC
2. Egypt 🇪🇬: 3100BC
3. Vietnam 🇻🇳: 2879BC
4. Armenia 🇦🇲: 2492BC
5. North Korea 🇰🇵: 2333BC
6. China 🇨🇳: 2070BC
7. India 🇮🇳: World Population Review says 2000BC, but actually Bharat is Million Years BC
8. Georgia 🇬🇪: 1300BC

Data Based on earliest known government

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Europe in 1444

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Topographic Map of Africa.

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Population Change Greece vs Turkey

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U.S. State Populations

🇺🇸 California — 39,355,309
🇺🇸 Texas — 31,709,821
🇺🇸 Florida — 23,462,518
🇺🇸 New York — 20,002,427
🇺🇸 Pennsylvania — 13,059,432
🇺🇸 Illinois — 12,719,141
🇺🇸 Ohio — 11,900,510
🇺🇸 Georgia — 11,302,748
🇺🇸 North Carolina — 11,197,968
🇺🇸 Michigan — 10,127,884
🇺🇸 New Jersey — 9,548,215
🇺🇸 Virginia — 8,880,107
🇺🇸 Washington — 8,001,020
🇺🇸 Arizona — 7,623,818
🇺🇸 Tennessee — 7,315,076
🇺🇸 Massachusetts — 7,154,084
🇺🇸 Indiana — 6,973,333
🇺🇸 Missouri — 6,270,541
🇺🇸 Maryland — 6,265,347
🇺🇸 Colorado — 6,012,561
🇺🇸 Wisconsin — 5,972,787
🇺🇸 Minnesota — 5,830,405
🇺🇸 South Carolina — 5,570,274
🇺🇸 Alabama — 5,193,088
🇺🇸 Louisiana — 4,618,189
🇺🇸 Kentucky — 4,606,864
🇺🇸 Oregon — 4,273,586
🇺🇸 Oklahoma — 4,123,288
🇺🇸 Connecticut — 3,688,496
🇺🇸 Utah — 3,538,904
🇺🇸 Nevada — 3,282,188
🇺🇸 Iowa — 3,238,387
🇺🇸 Arkansas — 3,114,791
🇺🇸 Kansas — 2,977,220
🇺🇸 Mississippi — 2,954,160
🇺🇸 New Mexico — 2,125,498
🇺🇸 Idaho — 2,029,733
🇺🇸 Nebraska — 2,018,006
🇺🇸 West Virginia — 1,766,147
🇺🇸 Hawaii — 1,432,820
🇺🇸 New Hampshire — 1,415,342
🇺🇸 Maine — 1,414,874
🇺🇸 Montana — 1,144,694
🇺🇸 Rhode Island — 1,114,521
🇺🇸 Delaware — 1,059,952
🇺🇸 South Dakota — 935,094
🇺🇸 North Dakota — 799,358
🇺🇸 Alaska — 737,270
🇺🇸 Vermont — 644,663
🇺🇸 Wyoming — 588,753

Note: Estimated population of all 50 U.S. states, ranked from most to least populous.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau

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📊 2026 MIDTERMS: PREDICTION MARKETS BY THE NUMBERS

• 479 of 487 races correctly predicted.
• 98% success rate.
• 77% of close races outperformed the model average.
• 115 minutes ahead of CNN's calls in 11 key Senate races, on average.

Now, Kalshi is putting $1 MILLION toward research across up to 50 projects to explore what comes next for prediction markets.

The future of forecasting is evolving. 📈

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📊 THE HISTORY OF HEDGING

1730 — Japan's Dojima Rice Exchange formalizes rice futures trading.

1848 — Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) is founded.

1865 — Standardized futures contracts are introduced in Chicago.

1870 — New York Cotton Exchange opens, helping cotton traders hedge price risks.

1972 — Currency futures trading begins at the CME.

1973 — Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) opens.

1980s — Interest rate swaps and other financial hedging instruments expand.

2000s — Credit default swaps become major tools for managing credit risk.

2008 — Global financial crisis exposes the risks of complex derivatives.

2020s — Hedging expands across stocks, commodities, currencies, crypto and prediction markets.

From protecting crop prices to managing risks across global financial markets.

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✝️ Where Popes were Born:

🇺🇸 USA: 1
🇵🇱 Poland: 1
🇦🇷 Argentina: 1
🇳🇱 Netherlands: 1
🇩🇿 Algeria: 1
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England: 1
🇪🇸 Spain: 2
🇵🇹 Portugal: 2
🇭🇷 Croatia: 2
🇹🇳 Tunisia: 2
🇹🇷 Turkey: 2
🇮🇱 Israel: 3
🇬🇷 Greece: 4
🇸🇾 Syria: 5
🇩🇪 Germany: 6
🇫🇷 France: 16
🇮🇹 Italy: 217

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The Most Visited Countries by International Tourist Arrivals (in Millions)

1. 🇫🇷 France - 100.0
2. 🇪🇸 Spain - 85.2
3. 🇺🇸 United States - 66.5
4. 🇮🇹 Italy - 57.2
5. 🇹🇷 Turkey (Türkiye) - 55.2
6. 🇲🇽 Mexico - 42.2
7. 🇬🇧 United Kingdom - 37.2
8. ��🇪 Germany - 34.8
9. 🇬🇷 Greece - 32.7
10. 🇦🇹 Austria - 30.9
11. 🇯🇵 Japan - 25.1
12. 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates - 22.7
13. 🇵🇹 Portugal - 22.3
14. 🇲🇾 Malaysia - 20.1
15. 🇳🇱 Netherlands - 19.3
16. 🇨🇦 Canada - 18.3
17. 🇵🇱 Poland - 16.7
18. 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia - 16.6
19. 🇭🇷 Croatia - 15.3
20. 🇲🇦 Morocco - 14.5

Source: UN Tourism (UNWTO) Data (2023 Baseline)

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THE HISTORY OF ANTHROPIC'S CLAUDE MODELS

2023
• Claude 1
• Claude Instant
• Claude 2
• Claude 2.1

2024
• Claude 3 Opus
• Claude 3 Sonnet
• Claude 3 Haiku
�� Claude 3.5 Sonnet
• Claude 3.5 Haiku

2025
• Claude 3.7 Sonnet
• Claude Sonnet 4
• Claude Opus 4
• Claude Opus 4.1
• Claude Sonnet 4.5
• Claude Haiku 4.5
• Claude Opus 4.5

2026
• Claude Opus 4.6
• Claude Sonnet 4.6
• Claude Opus 4.7
• Claude Opus 4.8
• Claude Mythos 5
• Claude Fable 5
• Claude Sonnet 5
• Claude Opus 5
• Claude Opus 5.5
• Claude Sonnet 5.5
• Claude Haiku 5.5

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BREAKING: Anthropic launches world's most powerful Claude AI models 'Fable 5.2' and 'Mythos 5.2'

80% chance of IPO in November

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THE HISTORY OF PERPS

1980s — Early perpetual-style futures emerge in financial markets.

1993 — Robert Shiller proposes perpetual futures.

2011 — Early Bitcoin perpetual futures contracts appear.

2016 — BitMEX popularizes crypto perpetual swaps.

2019 — Binance launches USDT-margined perpetual futures.

2020 — dYdX expands decentralized perpetual trading.

2021 — Perps become a major part of crypto trading.

2022 — FTX collapse accelerates interest in decentralized exchanges.

2023 — Hyperliquid launches.

2024 — On-chain perpetual trading gains momentum.

2025 — Perpetual DEXs challenge centralized exchanges.

2026 — Perps expand into traditional markets, including stocks.

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📈 THE HISTORY OF NVIDIA (1993–2026)

1993 — NVIDIA is founded.

1999 — Launches GeForce 256, the first GPU.

2006 — Introduces CUDA.

2012 — NVIDIA GPUs power the AlexNet AI breakthrough.

2018 — Launches RTX graphics technology.

2020 — Acquires Mellanox for $7 billion.

2023 — Reaches $1 trillion market cap.

2024 — Surpasses $3 trillion.

2025 — Becomes the first company to reach $4 trillion.

2026 — Continues expanding its dominance in AI computing.

From gaming graphics to powering the AI revolution. 🚀

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BREAKING: Nvidia stock plunges nearly -5% as images of Jensen Huang and his Chinese spy lover surface

35% chance Jensen leaves as CEO before 2028

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Largest Companies in the World by Market Capitalization

1. 🇺🇸 Apple (AAPL) - $5.00 T
2. 🇺🇸 Nvidia (NVDA) - $4.50 T
3. 🇺🇸 Microsoft (MSFT) - $3.94 T
4. 🇺🇸 Alphabet (GOOGL) - $3.48 T
5. 🇺🇸 Amazon (AMZN) - $2.80 T
6. 🇹🇼 TSMC (TSM) - $1.95 T
7. 🇺🇸 SpaceX (SPCX) - $1.77 T
8. 🇸🇦 Saudi Aramco (https://t.co/3YQt9pEpKb) - $1.64 T
9. 🇺🇸 Meta Platforms (META) - $1.56 T
10. 🇺🇸 Tesla (TSLA) - $1.42 T
11. 🇺🇸 Broadcom (AVGO) - $1.40 T
12. 🇺🇸 Eli Lilly (LLY) - $1.27 T
13. 🇰🇷 Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) - $1.26 T
14. 🇺🇸 Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B) - $1.22 T
15. 🇺🇸 Walmart (WMT) - $998 B
16. 🇰🇷 SK Hynix (000660.KS) - $928 B
17. 🇺🇸 JPMorgan Chase (JPM) - $889 B
18. 🇺🇸 Visa (V) - $789 B
19. 🇺🇸 Micron Technology (MU) - $780 B
20. 🇺🇸 Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) - $733 B

Source: Global Market Data (Nov 2026)

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📉 HISTORY'S BIGGEST STOCK MARKET CRASHES

1929–1932 — Wall Street Crash: −86%

1973–1974 — Oil Crisis & Inflation: −48%

1987 — Black Monday: −34%

2000–2002 — Dot-com Bubble: −49%

2007–2009 — Global Financial Crisis: −57%

2020 — COVID-19 Crash: −34%

2022 — Inflation & Interest Rate Shock: −25%

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The 1929 crash remains one of the deepest market collapses in U.S. history.

The 2008 financial crisis caused a 57% decline, while the COVID-19 crash erased 34% in just over a month.

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BREAKING: President Trump says US stock market lost $3 trillion after the midterms

20% chance of a recession next year

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US Counties without a single African American