This is one of those "facts" that will be repeated ad infinitum since it's now part of AI. I just asked Copilot and it gave me the 500 million figure, citing t

This is one of those "facts" that will be repeated ad infinitum since it's now part of AI. I just asked Copilot and it gave me the 500 million figure, citing two news articles from 2020 and 2025, both of which are after this NPR article was published in 2018.