What are the best sources for US and global statistics?

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I've become increasingly disenfranchised with mainstream and non-mainstream news' interpretation of the important narratives within the world. I'm looking for things like PPM of carbon in the atmosphere, current nuclear arsenal of the united states, car crashes per year by country, etc.

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Wolfram Alpha is pretty good for random factual queries. It will even do computation, so you can ask for the number of dietary calories in a cubic lightyear of cream cheese. https://www.wolframalpha.com/

If you are looking more for proven statistics that get suppressed for political reasons, then the now-defunct hatefact site is what you want. It featured over 700 awkward facts, with citations. Archive as one big page: http://archive.is/LRe05 Archive with 1 page per category: http://hatefacts.subvert.pw/hub.html

thanks so much

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