7/94Number of Thomas Jefferson’s slaves who escaped to join the British during the American Revolution: 22

MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History (N.Y.C.)

3/95Estimated number of DNA tests conducted in the United States last year: 145,000

American Association of Blood Banks (Bethesda, Md.)

2/99Number of DON’T IMPEACH THE PRESIDENT IF IT INTERRUPTS MY SOAPS! T-shirts printed by Soap Opera Digest last fall: 250

Soap Opera Digest New Media (N.Y.C.)

7/00Percentage of Icelanders who have declined including their DNA in a private company’s national genetic database: 7

Incyte Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.)

11/98Price a Houston company charges for sending a DNA sample into outer space for possible cloning by aliens: $50

Encounter 2001 LLC (Houston)