Barbie has been out for 3 weeks and has taken US$1 billion in box office revenue. Warner Bros called the “Barbillion” marker a “watershed moment”. It makes director Greta Gerwig the first solo female director to hit the milestone.

On the topic of big numbers, scientists have determined there are trillions (aka 1,000,000,000,000s) of free-floating planets in our Milky Way galaxy. By ‘free-floating’, they mean planets not orbiting around a host star, like Earth does the sun. Perhaps to make them sound less lonely, the official name for these bandit planets is “rogues”.

Roaming untethered around the cargo hold of a passenger flight was a bear, which “escaped the crate specified for its shipment”. The bear was legally on the flight between Baghdad and Dubai and had to be sedated upon arrival. Didn’t it see the seatbelt sign?