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NBA championships won by LeBron James after 17 seasons:
4 [1]
WNBA championships won by Sue Bird after 17 seasons:
4 [2]
Olympic gold medals won by James:
2 [3]
Olympic gold medals won by Bird:
4
Salary earned by James during the 2020 NBA season:
$39.2 million [4]
Salary earned by Bird during the 2020 WNBA season:
$215,000
Years a coal seam has been burning since it caught fire in the mines beneath Centralia, Pennsylvania:
59 [5]
Estimated years until the fire burns out:
Up to 240 [6]
Cost of mid-1980s relocation effort of more than 1,000 Centralia residents:
More than $42 million [7]
Current number of Centralia residents:
5
Underground coal fires currently burning in the United States alone:
More than 100 [8]
Women nominated for Best Director at the 2020 Academy Awards (Chlo茅 Zhao and Emerald Fennell):
2 [9]
Previous record for number of women nominated in the category in one year:
1
Total women who have now been nominated in the category:
7
Categories for which Zhao was nominated in 2020, the most ever for a woman:
4
Combined nominations for Zhao鈥檚 Nomadland and Fennell鈥檚 Promising Young Woman:
7
Participants in the guaranteed universal basic income pilot launched in Stockton, California, in February 2019:
125 [10]
Amount of free money given to participants every month for two years:
$500
Participants who had full-time jobs in February 2019:
28%
Participants who had full-time jobs in February 2020:
40%
Money used to buy alcohol and tobacco:
Less than 1%
Signers of the Declaration of Independence pictured in John Trumbull鈥檚 famous 1818 painting of the event:
47 [11]
Those pictured known to have owned slaves:
34
U.S. population that identifies as LGBT:
5.6% [12]
Extrapolated to the entire U.S. population, estimated number of LGBT people in the United States:
18.4 million
Members of U.S. Congress who identify as LGBT:
11 [13]
Total Congresspeople this represents:
2%
Sources: [1] Basketball-Reference.com. [2] WNBA. [3] USA Basketball. [4] Spotrac.com. [5] The History Channel. [6] Smithsonian magazine. [7] Roadtrippers Magazine. [8] Earth Magazine. [9] Hollywood Reporter. [10] The Associated Press. [11] Politifact. [12] Gallup. [13] NBC News.
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Miles Schneiderman
is a freelance writer, podcaster, fact-checker, and media producer. His work can be found on www.mjschneiderman.com
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