7/84Number of delegates to the 1984 Democratic National Convention not chosen in a primary or caucus: 873

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    Number of such delegates to the 1980 convention: 0

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7/84Number of countries whose armed forces are combating a revolutionary or separatist insurgency: 30

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7/84Percentage of Americans who believe foreign relations is the most important problem facing the country today: 2

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7/84Amount of aid to EI Salvador proposed by the Reagan Administration, per guerrilla: $30,000

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    Federal spending per American citizen: $3,878

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7/84Amount that a nuclear freeze would save the U.S. between now and the year 2000: $400,000,000,000

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7/84Portion of Medicare funds that go to people with less than a year to live: 1/3

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7/84American lives lost by drowning in 1983: 6,500

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7/84Number of emergency-room admissions for fireworks-related injuries in 1983: 8,278

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    Number of these injuries that resulted in the loss of fingers: 126

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7/84Medals awarded by the U.S. Army for action in Grenada: 9,754

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7/84Medals awarded by Britain for action in the Falklands: 679

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7/84Flag “desecrations” recorded by the FBI in 1983: 5

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7/84Percentage of Americans who believe that the accused are guilty until proven innocent: 50

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7/84Percentage of Americans who believe that files are being kept on them for unknown reasons: 67

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    Percentage who believed this in 1974: 44

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7/84Number of days each year that TV broadcasting is prohibited in Iceland: 79

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7/84Rank of Iceland, among the nations of Europe, in the number of bookstores per capita: 1

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7/84Number of Rolls-Royces in the Soviet Union: 10

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7/84Average speed of the winner in the men’s mile at the 1896 Olympics, in miles per hour: 14.24

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    At the 1980 Olympics: 16.97

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7/84Percentage of Americans who think science and technology may destroy the human race: 74

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7/84Cost of planting the average 25-by-50-foot American vegetable garden: $25

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    Value of the average garden’s yield of fruits and vegetables: $414

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7/84Percentage of American men earning less than $5,000 a year who say they cheat on their wives: 16

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    Percentage of men earning $60,000 or more who say they do: 70

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7/84Percentage of marital arguments that are about sex or adultery: 25

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7/84That are about money: 78

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7/84Earnings of the average U.S. female worker, expressed as a percentage of the average male’s, in 1981: 59.9

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    In 1955: 63.9

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7/84Average number of times that a man cries in a month: 1.4

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    That a woman cries: 5.3

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7/84Body fluids lost by perspiration per hour of exercise in hot weather (in ounces): 54

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7/84Percentage of the nation’s electrical output that is used for cooling purposes: 15

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7/84Grains of sand on the surface of New York’s Jones Beach: 2,230,000,000,000

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7/84Gallons of suntan lotion and oil used by Americans last year: 1,263,000

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7/84Ranking of Denmark, Italy, and the U.S. in the percentage of women who wear C- or D-cup bras: 1,2,3

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7/84Percentage of American women who consider themselves pretty: 13

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    Percentage of American men who consider themselves handsome: 28

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