The World in 2018 the year a sports car flew to space
3.9BInternet users
200MFortnite players
ยฃ1Loaf of bread (UK)
$2.72Gallon of gas (US)
$9.11Movie ticket (US)
$1TApple's value, a US first
$1.3BBlack Panther box office
55 kmLongest sea bridge (China)
66%Irish vote to ease abortion law
By November, Fortnite had about 200 million registered players. That is more people than live in Russia.
Life back then

This was the year TikTok went worldwide after swallowing the Musical.ly app in August. Kids everywhere did the floss dance from Fortnite. Avengers: Infinity War shocked theaters with its ending, and half the planet finally had internet access for the first time in history.
The year in 8 events
- ๐Feb 6 SpaceX launches the Falcon Heavy rocket with a red Tesla Roadster on board. The car is still orbiting the Sun.
- โท๏ธFeb 9 The Winter Olympics open in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Athletes from North and South Korea walk in together behind one flag.
- ๐ฏ๏ธFeb 14 A gunman kills 17 people at a high school in Parkland, Florida. Students who survive start a campaign, and in March hundreds of thousands join the March for Our Lives in Washington.
- ๐คApr 27 Kim Jong Un steps across the border to meet South Korea's president, the first such visit by a North Korean leader.
- ๐May 25 Europe's GDPR privacy law takes effect and floods inboxes everywhere with privacy policy emails.
- โ๏ธJul 10 Divers finish rescuing 12 boys and their soccer coach from a flooded cave in Thailand after 18 days.
- โฝJul 15 France beats Croatia 4-2 to win the World Cup in Moscow.
- ๐ฐ๏ธNov 26 NASA's InSight lander touches down on Mars to study the planet's interior.