10/94Number of stories a New York City cat fell last June without sustaining serious injury: 46

    Average number of stories a cat must fall before reaching its maximum falling velocity of 60 miles per hour: 5

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2/02Minimum percentage of votes in each New York City election since 1988 not counted due to mechanical or human error: 3

    Percentage of votes by which Michael Bloomberg won the city’s mayoralty last fall: 2.3

    Number of May Day demonstrators the city prosecuted last June for “masquerading in public”: 12

8/88Chances that an adult will die after a fall from six stories: 9 in 10

4/91Number of cats the U.S. Army has shot in the head since 1983 in order to research battlefield injuries: 648

10/92Average annual salary Zabar’s delicatessen in New York City pays lox slicers with at least ten years’ experience: $60,000