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Is an ancient charioteer the best paid sportsperson of all time?
Did a Roman charioteer really earn the equivalent of $15 billion dollars?
Is this Premier League striker a secret maths genius?
Tim Harford explains the numbers and statistics in the news and in life.
Could Europe use its financial muscle to strong-arm the US?
Europe holds trillions of dollars of US shares and bonds - but can they use them?
Can you get £71,000 on benefits?
Tim Harford investigates benefits, church attacks, saunas and marathon running
Is Greenland as big as Africa?
Tim Harford asks if Greenland is really as vast as most maps seem to suggest
How close is Greenland to the United States?
Tim Harford investigates Greenland maps, climate costs, house prices and Traitors maths
No, a study has not shown that the covid jab causes cancer
Why a study from South Korea does not show that vaccines cause cancer
Have more than 100 private schools been forced to close because of VAT?
Tim Harford investigates closing schools, X users, Covid deaths and churchgoers
Does Venezuela really have the biggest oil reserves in the world?
We investigate if there are actually 300 billion barrels of oil in Venezuela's reserves
The Stats of the Nation: Immigration, benefits and inequality
Tim Harford explores the stats on some of the UK’s most potent political debates
