4/04Number of Danes who died from heroin or morphine in 2002 for every Dane who died from methadone that year: 1.06

Institute of Forensic Medicine (Copenhagen)

7/04Average inches by which a British man’s height fell short of an American man’s in the eighteenth century: 3.1

John Komlos, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen (Munich)

    Average inches by which an American man’s height falls short of a British man’s today: 0.4

John Komlos, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen (Munich)

6/05Percentage change since 1994 in treatment for male infertility and erectile dysfunction in Shanghai: +100

Shanghai Institute of Andrology

12/07Estimated percentage of the world’s male smokers who live in the United States and China, respectively: 3, 31

American Cancer Society (Atlanta)

    Estimated percentage of the world’s female smokers: 8, 7

American Cancer Society (Atlanta)

2/03Minimum number of neutered pets worldwide that have been implanted with fake testicles: 100,000

Neuticles (Independence, Mo.)