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How Much of the Population is Affected by Autism?

Autism affects about 24.8 million people in the world.

In India, a polling station is set up in a forest for a lone voter in every election since 2004.

Today's the third day of the year and our New Year resolutions are well on the way!

Here you'll find facts about January 2, as well as important events that happened on this day throughout history.

Happy New Year!

Babies have more bones than adults because as they grow up, some of the bones fuse together to form one bone.

To earn enough to buy a Big Mac, the average person in India has to work almost 6 hours.

There's US$75 trillion in the entire world. If this is distributed amongst all people on Earth, each person will have less than $11,000.

A honeybee's true surface area is the size of a piece of toast.

Zebras are actually black, with white stripes.

Apple is the largest information technology company by revenue (totaling $274.5 billion in 2020) .

India has the highest number of slaves in the world, with estimates ranging from 14 million to 18 million people.

One woman dies every hour in India because of dowry-related crimes.

Fruit flies use hairs on their head and thorax to catapult dust off of them at accelerations of up to 500 times Earth's gravity.

In West Bengal, India, cows must have a Photo ID Card.

A huge 61 per cent of school children have killer germs on their hands, study finds.