By The Numbers

[Sidney Crosby's Hat]

Originally Posted by Dion

"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

I think it's a tie. What about Desegregated?

[jolinar of malkshor]

17,000 Number of square miles covered in the search for adventurer Steve Fossett using up-to-date Google Earth satellite images of Nevada

6 Number of previously unknown airplane wrecks, some decades old, discovered by Nevada's Civil Air Patrol during its desert search

$8.98 Price of a venti mocha at the new Starbucks near Moscow--the megachain's first shop in Russia; one costs $4.71 in New York City

61% Percentage of Americans who said they'd be less likely to vote for a presidential candidate who does not believe in God, according to a new Pew Research Center survey

1,804 Average number of hours worked by the typical U.S. employee in 2006, compared with 1,407 in Norway and 1,564 in France

90 Number of guns in the U.S. for every 100 citizens, according to the 2007 Small Arms Survey, making it the most heavily armed country in the world. India has the second largest civilian gun-arsenal tally, with just 4 guns per 100 people

4.5 million Number of new guns purchased in the U.S. each year, more than half of the 8 million produced worldwide

[jolinar of malkshor]

27,000 Number of sexual assaults reported in 2006 in one province in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The U.N. says sexual violence in this war-ravaged country is the worst in the world

60% Percentage of combatants in the Congo who are believed to be infected with HIV/AIDS

65% Percentage decrease in the rate of fatal accidents on U.S. flights over the past decade; the rate is now 1 per 4.5 million flights

7 Number of crashes worldwide this year--none in the U.S.--that have killed more than 20 people

3 Number of hours of dead airtime broadcast on Nickelodeon on Sept. 29 as part of an effort to encourage kids to exercise. The average American child watches four hours of TV a day

9 million Number of U.S. children older than 6 who are obese, a measure that has tripled among 6-to-11-year-olds over the past 30 years

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1,500 Number of tigers in India's reserves and jungles, which reflects a 40% drop in the past five years. The Indian government says it plans to recruit soldiers to patrol tiger sanctuaries

$12,500 Price a tiger pelt can fetch in China

78% Percentage of Americans age 50 or older with a household income of at least $75,000 who say they believe in heaven

90% Percentage who make less than $25,000 annually who believe in heaven

3,000 Approximate number of parents in China who named their baby after the Beijing Olympic Games. Most of the 3,491 children given the name Aoyun, or Olympics, were born around 2000, when Beijing was bidding to host the event. Others were named after the Five Friendlies, the mascots of the Games

87% Percentage of the 1.3 billion people in China with one of the 129 most common surnames

[jammies]

The one I find most amazing is the lady that is 114 years old in Japan, meaning she was born in 1893. So she

- Was twelve during the Russo-Japanese war of 1905, back when over 2/3 of the world was ruled from Europe, Britain was the world's most powerful nation, and Alberta (!!!!) became a province.

- Was twenty-one when World War One began.

- Was a pensioner back in 1958.

Further, when she was born, there were no airplanes, very few cars (especially in Japan), and not only was there no computers and no television, they had not even invented even RADIO (1895) or MOVIES (again, 1895) yet.

If you think about how many hours you spend in your car, on your computer, watching tv, listening to the radio and watching movies - and how much all these activities influence our culture - it should absolutely blow your mind to consider that.

[Five-hole]

A great deal of these statistics have to do with how completely f***ed the United States is becoming.

[notoepik]

Originally Posted by Five-hole

A great deal of these statistics have to do with how completely f***ed the United States is becoming.

Seems to be that more of these statistics have to do with the world rather than just a completely f****ed US.

India, China, Congo, Russia.

1,804 Average number of hours worked by the typical U.S. employee in 2006, compared with 1,407 in Norway and 1,564 in France

I agree, that is an awful statistics about US workers.

[Burninator]

Originally Posted by notoepik

I agree, that is an awful statistics about US workers.

I am sure we are not very far behind them.

[HOOT]

Originally Posted by notoepik

I agree, that is an awful statistics about US workers.

36hrs/week (50 week work year)...I don't work that much but that seems about average for anyone doesn't it?

[jolinar of malkshor]

1,269 Number of successful suicide jumps off San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge since 1937. Although opponents worry that a barrier would mar the bridge's appearance, the city is considering various safety options, including a higher fence or netting to catch jumpers

90% Percentage of people who were prevented from jumping off the Golden Gate who either are still alive or eventually died from natural causes

124,000 Number of roses an Iranian court has ordered a man to pay his wife for her dowry. The couple have been married 10 years, but Iranian law holds that a wife can claim her dowry at any point in the marriage. The court has seized the man's home until he pays up

$2 Cost of one long-stemmed rose in Tehran, making the dowry worth an estimated $248,000

48% Percentage of U.S. teenagers who did not buy a single CD last year, up from 38% in 2006

29 million Number of Americans buying music legally online, a 21% increase from 2006

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9% Percentage of U.S. adults who believe they have driven while over the legal blood-alcohol limit in the past month

52% Percentage of traffic fatalities in Hawaii in 2006 that involved alcohol, the highest of any state

1% Percentage of refugees living in Greece who have been granted asylum. The country has been criticized by the U.N. for failing to provide interpreters and legal aid for the remaining 99%

50% Percentage of refugees living in Sweden who have been granted asylum, the highest rate in Europe

220 million Number of Chinese who were using the Internet as of February. For the first time, China's total surpassed the U.S.'s, which in 2007 was 216 million

17% Percentage of people in China who use the Internet, compared with 71% in the U.S.

1,435 Number of calories in a McDonald's Big Mac meal, which includes a burger, fries and soda

130,000 Number of New Yorkers, according to the state health department, who would avoid obesity if chains like McDonald's published calorie counts on their menus, as required by a recently upheld New York City law