Numbers in the News

SPEED, in miles per hour, recently reached by Bugatti’s new sports car on a test track in Germany. It’s the first supercar to top 300 miles per hour.

Source: CNBC

AMOUNT OF CASH accidentally recycled in a shoebox by an Oregon man. After he contacted the sorting company, almost all the money was found at a recycling plant in California.

Source: Time

LENGTH of the world’s longest mountain water slide. (That’s more than a mile-and-a-half long.) The new attraction, located in Lishui, China, took two years to build.

Source: Guinness World Records

AMOUNT of microplastic people around the world could be ingesting every week, the equivalent of eating a credit card, according to a recent study. Small pieces of plastic often end up in our food and drinking water.

Source: University of Newcastle, Australia