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  2. List of countries with highest military expenditures - Wikipedia

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    Highest military expenditure, share of GDP. This first list is a list of countries by military expenditure share of GDP—more specifically, a list of the top 15 countries by percentage share in recent years—the amount spent by a nation on its military as a share of its GDP. The second list presents this as a share of the general government ...

  3. Arrow (missile family) - Wikipedia

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    Six canisters per trailer-mounted erector–launcher [7] [8] The Arrow or Hetz ( Hebrew: חֵץ, pronounced [ˈχet͡s]) is a family of anti-ballistic missiles designed to fulfill an Israeli requirement for a missile defense system that would be more effective against ballistic missiles than the MIM-104 Patriot surface-to-air missile.

  4. Michael Jackson - Wikipedia

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    Formerly of. The Jackson 5. Musical artist. Website. michaeljackson .com. Signature. Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist. Known as the " King of Pop ", he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th century.

  5. Orders of magnitude (numbers) - Wikipedia

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    Mathematics – Poker: The odds of being dealt a royal flush in poker are 649,739 to 1 against, for a probability of 1.5 × 10 −6 (0.000 15%). Mathematics – Poker: The odds of being dealt a straight flush (other than a royal flush) in poker are 72,192 to 1 against, for a probability of 1.4 × 10 −5 (0.0014%).

  6. McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle - Wikipedia

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    The McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle is an American twin-engine, all-weather tactical fighter aircraft designed by McDonnell Douglas (now part of Boeing ). Following reviews of proposals, the United States Air Force (USAF) selected McDonnell Douglas's design in 1969 to meet the service's need for a dedicated air superiority fighter.

  7. Formaldehyde - Wikipedia

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    Formaldehyde ( / fɔːrˈmældɪhaɪd / ⓘ for-MAL-di-hide, US also / fər -/ ⓘ fər-) ( systematic name methanal) is an organic compound with the chemical formula CH2O and structure H−CHO, more precisely H2C=O. The compound is a pungent, colourless gas that polymerises spontaneously into paraformaldehyde.

  8. World population - Wikipedia

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    High, medium, and low projections of the future human world population [1] In world demographics, the world population is the total number of humans currently living. It was estimated by the United Nations to have exceeded eight billion in mid-November 2022. It took around 300,000 years of human prehistory and history for the human population ...

  9. Starlink - Wikipedia

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    Status. Active since 2019; 5 years ago. ( 2019) Starlink is a satellite internet constellation operated by Starlink Services, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of American aerospace company SpaceX, [3] providing coverage to over 70 countries. It also aims to provide global mobile broadband. [4] SpaceX started launching Starlink satellites in 2019.