Cheat sheet
The bestselling song in UK chart history has only been played live once
‘Goodbye yellow brick road’ | P016
In 2022, Luxembourg became only the sixth individual country to complete a successful mission to the moon
‘Fly me to the moon’ | P026
Parts of Indonesia’s capital Jakarta are sinking by more than 25 centimetres a year
‘Metropolis now’ | P028
In the lead-up to Japan’s release of treated radioactive water from the Fukushima power plant, South Koreans started hoarding sea salt, anchovies and seaweed
‘Almanac’ | P052
The Hawaii wildfires that ravaged the town of Lahaina spread at an estimated speed of a mile a minute
‘Moment that mattered’ | P058
A group of longevity enthusiasts are planning to establish a city-state where unregulated treatments for ageing can be carried out
‘Who wants to live forever?’ | P068
You can create the eight most popular cocktails in the world with just 23 ingredients
‘Almanac’ | P095
The number of farm animals killed and injured by wolves annually in Germany rose from fewer than 500 in 2014 to more than 4,000 in 2022
‘A wolf at the door’ | P096
An estimated 99.95% of Nagorno-Karabakh’s ethnic Armenian population left the region in the space of a month
‘Moment that mattered’ | P116
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