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Here’s your fun factoid of the day: The most widely-read magazine in the world is the hand-distributed, Brooklyn-based monthly publication of Jehovah’s Witness, The Watchtower.<\/font><\/p>\n Newsmax magazine\u00a0writes about The Watchtower in its October issue, although its report is\u00a0sourced to a piece from May in The New York Review of Magazines, which is produced each spring by students at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism. Which means this is kind of old news, but we’re all for giving the hard work of journalism students a second wind, so here you go:<\/font><\/p>\n Every month, nearly 40 million copies of\u00a0The Watchtower<\/em>\u00a0are printed in more than 180 languages and sent to 236 countries. There are no subscriptions and you won\u2019t find it on newsstands, but it\u2019s still hard to miss. Thanks to the efforts of Witnesses like the Tavolaccis,\u00a0The Watchtower<\/em>\u00a0is the most widely distributed magazine in the world, with a circulation of more than 25 million. Last year, the world\u2019s 7.3 million-strong Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses spent 1.5 billion hours knocking on doors and \u201cstreet Witnessing\u201d \u2014 stopping folks in parks and on streets \u2014 to preach the \u201cgood news\u201d with a copy of\u00a0The Watchtower<\/em>. Its closest competitors are\u00a0AARP The Magazine<\/em>\u00a0(circulation 24.3 million) and\u00a0Better Homes and Gardens<\/em>(7.6 million). It doesn\u2019t hurt that\u00a0The Watchtower<\/em>\u00a0has been free since 1990, with the option of a small donation.<\/font><\/p>\n UPDATE<\/strong>\u00a0– Per reader comments, we’ve changed the headline to suggest The Watchtower is the most “widely circulated” magazine in the world. The title of the NYRM piece is “The Most Widely Read Magazine in the World.”<\/font><\/p>\n <\/p>\n