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353,633,660 trees

Ethiopian officials say that volunteers in the country planted more than 350 million tree seedlings in 1,000 sites in just 12 hours in a day. It was a mass effort to counter deforestation and climate change. The world record for single-day tree-planting had been held by India, where 800,000 volunteers planted more than 50 million trees in 2016. [BBC]

7 frozen tiger carcasses

Speaking of single-day hauls, authorities in Vietnam seized 275 pounds of rhino horns at Hanoi’s Noi Bai Airport and seven frozen tiger carcasses from the vehicle of a wildlife trafficking suspect. While it’s illegal, some believe rhino horns have medicinal properties and they are “a status symbol in some circles.” Unrelatedly, and the horrors of poaching aside, Frozen Tiger Carcass is a pretty good band name. [Gizmodo]

52 inmates

Fifty-two inmates died in a prison riot in Brazil on Monday, according to officials there. Sixteen of them were decapitated. The deaths follow gang-related prison riots elsewhere in Brazil in May, which killed 55 people. Human rights groups say the Brazilian government has done little to prevent such violence and accuse it of “even facilitating clashes by allowing the cells to become overcrowded.” [CNN]

Your link - https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/significant-digits-for-tuesday-july-30-2019/

"Significant Digits For Tuesday, July 30, 2019 " .. Interesting stuff.