Wednesday, January 1, 2014

FT Numbers of 2013: Space and Culture

FT Numbers of 2013: Space and Culture

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1bn stars: Number of stars in our Milky Way galaxy to be mapped by Gaia, the European Space Agency’s sky-mapping Satellite.

1200 people: Injured by shockwaves from the meteorite that crashed into the atmosphere over central Russia in Feb.

$142.4m: Price paid at Christie’s for Francis Bacon’s “Three Studies of Lucian Freud”, the highest auction price for a work of art.

3.6m pounds: The cost of Margaret Thatcher’s Funeral.

49m Followers: Number of Katy Perry followers making her the most followed person on the social network. Barack Obama has 41m followers.

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