Which type of supporting detail does the underlined sentence contain?

Thomas Edison patented, or received the rights to, more inventions in his lifetime than any other American. He received his first patent when he was just twenty-one years old. Two of his most well-known inventions are the light bulb and the phonograph. He had obtained 1,093 patents by the time he died.

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statistic

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example

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fact