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beautifully meaningless correlations

US coal production

correlates with

New LEGO sets released worldwide

r = -0.90691% · 2002-2022
US coal productionNew LEGO sets released worldwide

These two datasets have a 91% correlation over 2002-2022. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

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Data Sources

US coal productioneia.gov ↗
New LEGO sets released worldwidebrickset.com ↗
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