1. The price of Gold has doubled since 2022, driven up by geopolitical uncertainty, inflation concerns and Trumpās tariffs.
2. Cambodia's Khmer language has 74 letters, making it the world's largest alphabet, but only 68 of those letters are used in modern Khmer.
3. This year, wildfires in Spain burned almost three times more land than the seasonal average.
4. New Zealand has decided to cut MÄori words from a selection of books used to teach five-year-olds, and decided not to reprint a well-loved book for young readers because it contained too many MÄori words.
5. The BBC describes Hamas as 'recognised as a terrorist organisation by the UK and other countries' every time it reports on Gaza. But of the 195 countries in the world, 186 recognise Hamas as a resistance movement and / or ONLY its military wing as terrorists.
6. Ifa and Shintoism are similar in the belief that a soul or spirit can dwell in everything, animate or inanimate.
7. In the United States, the top 10% earn 47% of all income. But South Africa takes the inequality crown ā their top 10% captures 65% of income.
8. Immigration into the UK costs the treasury Ā£5.4bn a year. Tax evasion costs the treasury up to Ā£46bn a year.
9. The tax avoiding billionaires own large sections of the press that drive anti-immigrant narratives.
10. Finland began using the swastika as its airforce symbol in 1918, years before the rise of the Nazis, and have recently decided to from it from their flags because it causes āawkward situations with foreign visitorsā.