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September 4, 2015
Q. Try to summarize some of summer's big numbers.
A. Struck by wanderlust, some 25 million tourists visited a foreign country in 1950; by 2012, the number had increased 40-fold, to top a billion, reports Mental Floss magazine. Each year, roughly 80 million visit France alone — Eiffel Tower or otherwise — compared with fewer than 70 million who actually live there.
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