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The observable universe is roughly 93 billion light-years across despite being only 13.8 billion years old, because space kept expanding while the oldest light was travelling toward us
In 1989, a seventeen-year-old Elon Musk left South Africa alone in part to avoid compulsory military service — he had claimed Canadian citizenship through his mother, and after landing in Montreal he bussed across the country to a second cousin in Waldeck, Saskatchewan, before shovelling grain bins, cleaning the boiler room of a British Columbia lumber mill and enrolling at Queen's University around 1990, transferring to Penn in 1992
The Hubble Space Telescope reached orbit with a mirror ground to the wrong shape by a fraction of a human hair, and astronauts repaired the billion-dollar mistake by effectively giving it glasses
In 2025, South Korea's fertility rate was just 0.8 births per woman — up from the record-low 0.72 it recorded in 2023, the lowest ever registered for any country — and that modest rebound came only after hundreds of trillions of won in state incentives aimed at reversing the slide
