12/84Number of American men who have surgery each year solely to improve their personal appearance: 500,000
6/86Shipments of hazardous materials made in the United States each day: 500,000
Portion of all vehicles carrying hazardous materials that are incorrectly labeled: 1/4
6/86Estimated number of Americans who have counterfeit diplomas or credentials: 500,000
1/87Price of renting the Queen Elizabeth II for an overnight “cruise to nowhere” for 600 guests: $500,000
8/87Condoms that New York City will distribute at singles bars, porn theaters, and massage parlors this year: 500,000
12/87Donation required for the opportunity to name a “grand staircase” at Carnegie Hall: $500,000
Donation required to name the service elevator there: $250,000
8/88Funds budgeted by the Republican National Committee for negative research on Michael Dukakis: $500,000
Funds budgeted by the Democratic National Committee for negative research on George Bush: $250,000
7/90Number of West Germans expected to file claims for property seized by East Germany since 1949: 500,000
4/91Amount the British Boy Scouts have earned since 1988 by selling corporate advertising space on merit badges: $500,000
4/99Settlement paid 3 female federal inmates last year after guards sold them as sex slaves to male prisoners: $500,000
6/01Annual amount spent since 1995 to maintain a former U.S. congressional nuclear shelter as a tourist site: $500,000
4/06Estimated number of North Korean‒produced counterfeit $100 “supernotes” discovered worldwide since 1989: 500,000
1/07Minimum number of South Africans who do their banking entirely by mobile phone: 500,000
Percentage of these that have been registered in any trackable fashion: 2
10/06Average salary package last year among all full-time employees of Goldman Sachs, including support staff: $521,000
2/01Number of Floridian ex-cons denied the right to vote last November because of felony convictions: 525,000
Number who moved to the South: 528,000
4/87Funds the Justice Department antitrust unit seeks for “higher than anticipated” 1988 phone rates: $528,000
8/91Number of cigarette butts collected on U.S. beaches during the 1990 National Beach Cleanup: 531,828
3/08Average compensation of the ten highest-salaried presidents of U.S. public universities: $533,000
8/85Amount the government will pay Ed Meese to cover legal expenses incurred in his Ethics Act inquiry: $472,190
7/97Amount raised for Cuban health care in Havana last February at a government auction of Cohiba premium cigars: $540,000
8/91Amount of the toxic-waste fine that the EPA levied against Disneyland in 1990: $550,000
5/99Amount Cambodia has agreed to pay a U.S. lobbying firm to “recast” Hun Sen’s government “in a favorable light”: $550,000
11/00Amount Anheuser-Busch contributed as a sponsor of the St. Louis presidential debate this year: $550,000
9/03Rank of measles among diseases that kill the most children worldwide each year and can be prevented by vaccine: 1
Cost of vaccinating the 745,000 children who died from the disease in 2001: $558,750
1/88Number of cheerleaders in the United States: 600,000
5/89Amount given to Florida State University to endow the Burt Reynolds Eminent Scholar Chair in Theater: $600,000
Number of months Charles Nelson Reilly has held the chair: 16
5/94Limit on congressional campaign spending proposed in the House campaign reform bill: $600,000
10/00Estimated tons of lead contained in the estimated 315 million computers that will be obsolete by 2004: 600,000
1/87Jobs California has gained since 1981 as a result of increases in defense spending: 607,250
1/06Number of weather futures traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange in the first nine months of last year: 612,000
Number in all of 2004: 120,000
5/00Estimated number of American men who suffer from compulsive bodybuilding: 669,000
7/96Farm subsidies received since 1985 by the Montana Freeman whose ranch became the group’s stronghold last March: $676,082
3/06Amount paid last fall for a Ford Escort driven by Pope John Paul II: $680,000
6/94Amount Random House lost on the 29 of its books included on the 1993 New York Times Notable Books list: $698,000
6/92Packs of Death brand cigarettes sold in the United States since they were introduced last spring: 700,000
10/98Estimated number of U.S. high school students enrolled in first-year Latin classes last year: 88,600
3/08Number of South Koreans who work as on-call “replacement drivers” for customers too drunk to drive home: 83,000
Estimated number of customers they serve each day: 700,000
12/03Number of new government jobs created since 2000: 721,000
12/90Price, in zlotys, of a “saddle of love” from Intersex, a newly opened sexual-novelty shop in Warsaw: 724,000
8/07Number of the five directors of a No Child Left Behind reading program who had financial ties to curricula they developed: 4
Average amount each of these directors has received from the publishers of reading materials sold to schools: $727,000
12/95Gallons of red wine the city of Stockholm purchased this year for conversion into ethanol to fuel its public buses: 750,000
1/03Percentage of U.S. high schools receiving federal aid whose students’ contact information the army sought last fall: 100
Average amount of aid each school district stands to lose if its schools do not supply the information: $762,083
8/01Price paid at auction in May for a sculpture of Pope John Paul II being struck by a meteorite: $800,000
7/91Number of calls Levi Strauss received in 1990 from people describing what they do in their 501 jeans: 802,000
Estimated percentage of these calls that were obscene, according to Levi Strauss: 10
9/94Average cost of raising a child, through college, according to Town and Country magazine: $816,303
Number of years it would take an average working American to earn this amount: 31
3/88Annual cost to the Israeli treasury of guarding Ariel Sharon’s East Jerusalem home: $850,000
8/94Pounds of tomatoes used in the “battle” fought each August at the Festival de la Tomatina, in Buñol, Spain: 880,000
8/05Total weight, in tons, of the population of the Los Angeles metropolitan area: 883,000
8/92Campaign contributions George Bush has received from people he later appointed to ambassadorships: $900,000
7/95Maximum price of a three-year license to sell hot dogs outside New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art: $900,600
5/93Square feet of new federal office space that will be built in Manhattan this year: 921,000
11/05Years that property owners in New London, Connecticut, spent fighting the city’s seizure of their land: 5
Minimum back rent that the city, after winning in the Supreme Court, is now intending to charge them: $951,718
5/84Number of American families who say they were refused medical care for financial reasons in 1982: 1,000,000
Today: $1,000,000
9/90Reward the Colombian army offered last spring for the capture of Medellín drug lord Pablo Escobar: $400,000
Reward Escobar offered for “the head” of Colombia’s investigative-police chief: $1,000,000
10/90Estimated number of calls received each month by soap opera update telephone lines: 1,000,000
9/92Amount the Bush re-election campaign has budgeted for focus groups this year: $1,000,000
10/92Amount the Department of Defense will spend on softballs this year: $1,000,000
3/97Price of a diamond-encrusted Miracle Bra introduced by Victoria’s Secret last fall: $1,000,000
8/98Estimated number of firebomb-wielding live bats that the U.S. considered dropping on Japan in early 1944: 1,000,000
9/98Amount that Bear, Stearns’ chairman donated to a New York hospital last June to sponsor Viagra for the poor: $1,000,000
12/98Estimated average amount Americans lose to securities fraud, per hour: $1,000,000
6/99Average number of rural acres lost to “urban sprawl” in the United States each year since 1970: 1,000,000
2/00Number of Africans used to test a U.S. polio vaccine made with primate kidney cells in the 1950s: 1,000,000
Number of the 46 Africans found to be HIV-positive before 1981 who lived within 90 miles of the vaccine trials: 45
8/01Estimated amount Tiger Woods’s caddie made last year: $1,000,000
9/02Number of Jewish immigrants Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said in June that he wants to attract to Israel: 1,000,000
6/04Estimated value of a painting that the Saudi ambassador has given George W. Bush for his future presidential library: $1,000,000
Value of the solid-gold model of a Saudi fortress on display in his father’s presidential library: $1,000,000
7/05Number of free copies of Don Quixote being distributed by the Venezuelan government this year: 1,000,000
8/06Amount that a randomly chosen Arizona voter will receive after each election, if a November referendum passes: $1,000,000
9/08Death benefits that Lockheed Martin paid its current CEO in March, despite his being alive: $1,000,000
11/08Estimated number of votes that Oprah Winfrey’s endorsement swung to Barack Obama’s primary campaign: 1,015,559
11/95Number of American women who purchased their first new chain saw within the last two years: 1,037,000
10/08Amount of loose change recovered at U.S. airport-security checkpoints since 2005: $1,050,371.78
10/01Maximum reparation per survivor of Nazi slave-labor camps won in a class-action lawsuit settled last May: $7,038
Average amount in legal fees each of the winning lawyers will receive: $1,089,325
4/94Amount the government will spend this year to “upgrade” their supply: $1,100,000
3/02Annual amount that Unilever’s acquisition deal with Ben & Jerry’s requires it to donate to “social change” groups: $1,100,000
Amount of its donation last year that was given to the Ruckus Society, which trains activists in civil disobedience: $100,000
10/08Total donations that John McCain received from the oil and gas industry in June: $1,100,000
8/95Estimated number of mosquito bites required to drain all the blood from an American adult: 1,120,000
12/98Percentage change since last year in the size of the ozone hole over Antarctica: +37
Square miles by which the size of the ozone hole exceeds the size of North America: 1,129,000
12/90Number of shares of stock in their own companies that oil- and gas-industry executives have sold since August: 1,130,000
2/06Number of centenarians that the U.S. census counted in 2000: 50,740
Projected number it will count in 2050: 1,149,500
8/05Estimated total number of tons by which American adults are overweight: 1,180,000
1/90Estimated amount the U.S. government paid Manuel Noriega during the 1980s: $1,200,000
10/99Gallons of untreated sewage that spilled onto L.A.’s streets last June after a sanitation plant’s Y2K test: 1,200,000
6/02Amount the U.S. Agency for International Development spent to build Bethlehem University’s Millennium Hall: $1,200,000
Months after the building’s inauguration in December that Israel used three U.S.-made missiles to destroy it: 2.5
7/05Price, from a Florida company, for an RV that protects riders from biological and chemical attack: $1,200,000
12/05Amount a German company says it can save a cargo ship in annual fuel costs by outfitting it with a giant kite: $1,200,000
4/07Cost to make the film Zyzzyx Road, which was released last year: $1,200,000
Amount it grossed at the U.S. box office: $30
1/89Federal funds budgeted to move the Reagans out of the White House: $1,250,000
9/91Estimated number of birds that are killed in collisions with TV broadcast towers each year: 1,250,000
7/84Gallons of suntan lotion and oil used by Americans last year: 1,263,000
12/00Change in the number of Russian voters registered in the three months prior to Vladimir Putin’s election: +1,298,090
9/01Amount the head researchers invested in Russian securities during this period, prompting a federal lawsuit: $1,300,000
12/97State spending to be proposed next year in Michigan on one-way out-of-state bus fare for welfare recipients: $1,372,000
8/07Average number of liters of bottled water delivered to U.S. troops in Iraq each day: 1,400,000
11/94Leftover campaign funds spent on legal fees by 11 former members of Congress between 1979 and 1993: $1,409,445
6/07Minimum number of different books sold in the U.S. last year, as tracked by Nielsen BookScan: 1,446,000
10/85Budget per episode of Miami Vice: $1,500,000
Budget of the Miami vice squad unit in 1984: $1,161,741
5/91Number of plastic garbage bags the U.S. Army has estimated will be needed to clean up Kuwait, per month: 1,500,000
11/91Total amount the U.S. government has paid informants and witnesses in its prosecution of Manuel Noriega: $1,500,000
9/94Amount for which a Pennsylvania woman is suing the state’s lottery commission because she has never won: $1,500,000
12/96Amount a London insurance firm will pay clients who can prove they were impregnated by God: $1,500,000
5/01Compensation awarded a 30-year-old Australian in February for corporal punishment he suffered in high school: $1,500,000
Number who have returned home since then: 1,500,000
Number of arrowheads they produce each year: 1,500,000
12/05Number of Cuba’s fourteen provinces that were directly hit by a Category 4 hurricane in July: 12
7/02Amount that Bush’s first 320 appointees spent on campaign contributions in the previous election cycle: $1,590,000
Amount that Bill Clinton’s first 320 appointees spent on campaign contributions in the election cycle prior to Clinton’s election: $1,040,000
2/88Tons of earth that groundhogs in New York State move each year while tunneling: 1,600,000
1/96Amount Americans spend each day on goods produced by prison labor: $1,600,000
11/06Amount that U.S. embassy staff in London owe in unpaid traffic charges: $1,600,000
4/08Total amount that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have given to the campaigns of Democratic “superdelegates”: $1,601,925
2/99Amount that Nike CEO Philip Knight was paid last year after his annual compensation was cut by 42 percent: $1,680,000
1/91Total contributions by individuals in 1989 to New York City’s Bide-a-Wee Home Association for pets: $1,700,000
Total contributions by individuals in 1989 to New York City’s Coalition for the Homeless: $622,000
3/04Estimated cost to replace Lawrence Livermore weapons laboratory’s locks after master keys were lost last year: $1,700,000
3/05Amount that Egypt owes the United States in unpaid parking tickets: $1,700,000
8/08Square footage of new jail space slated for construction at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan: 1,742,400
7/92Estimated number of baseballs, photos, and posters Texas Rangers pitcher Nolan Ryan autographed last winter: 90,000
Estimated amount he earned from this: $1,800,000
3/97Speaking fees earned last year by Book of Virtues author William Bennett: $1,800,000
7/92Highest number of immigrants that ever passed through Ellis Island in a single year: 1,285,000
Number of immigrants entering the United States in 1991: 1,827,167
9/85Pounds of frozen chicken Peru exported to the Soviet Union this year to help pay back a loan: 1,860,432
12/88Rolls of toilet paper the Pentagon has used since 1980: 1,895,040
5/01Factor by which the cost of China’s Three Gorges Dam is expected to exceed its original $4.5 billion budget: 16
Estimated number of people who will be displaced by the dam’s construction: 1,900,000
1/04Amount by which 2004 campaign contributions to Lyndon LaRouche had exceeded those to Wesley Clark last fall: $1,900,000
Amount the U.S. spent partially reconstructing it: $1,900,000
3/91Total salary Drexel Burnham has paid two of its financial analysts since declaring bankruptcy last May: $1,933,332.20
6/05Number of books registered at BookCrossing.com, so the books can be left in public places and found by others: 1,935,000
Number of the books left behind that have been from the Left Behind series: 2,047
4/85Estimated number of cockroaches in the Pentagon: 2,000,000
Percentage by which the average payments on these loans will increase: 25
3/86Amount South Africa spends annually for lobbyists in the United States: $2,000,000
9/89Estimated amount of grease New Orleans restaurants disposed of last year, in gallons: 2,000,000
8/90Federal funds spent on drug-rehabilitation programs for state and local prison inmates last year: $2,000,000
Federal funds budgeted for these programs this year: 0
11/90Number of sandbags the U.S. Army has shipped to Saudi Arabia since August 2: 2,000,000
Average amount spent on weapons by Croatian and Muslim forces each day since then: $2,000,000
Estimated number laid: 2,000,000
1/98Minimum price of 2000 Secure, a millennium-bug insurance policy offered by a New York City brokerage firm: $2,000,000
8/99Annual cost of containing plants and animals accidentally irradiated at Washington’s Hanford Nuclear Site: $2,000,000
1/00Estimated amount lost by Isaac Newton in South Sea stock speculation in the 1720s: $2,000,000
5/01Estimated number of Americans who listen to Oliver North’s weekly radio show: 2,000,000
2/04Number of a Texas toddler’s burned fingers amputated in 1992 after she was left in a car with her mother’s lit cigarette: 9.5
Settlement Philip Morris paid the girl’s family last May: $2,000,000
Percentage that were found to contain some degree of anti-Americanism: 35
8/05Amount that Northwest Airlines expects to save each year by eliminating free magazines on flights: $565,000
Amount by eliminating free pretzels: $2,000,000
2/06Percentage of U.S. CEO vacancies that are filled from outside the company: 40
Average amount the companies spend on each search: $2,000,000
12/08Amount a Chinese investor paid in June to have lunch with Warren Buffett: $2,110,000
2/95Amount Lyndon LaRouche has collected in contributions for his 1996 presidential campaign: $2,180,730
1/92Total presidential campaign funds raised by George Bush in his first two days of fund-raising last fall: $2,200,000
Total campaign funds raised by the six Democratic presidential candidates as of last October: $2,200,000
7/02Number of subscribers to Japanese prime minister Junichiro Koizumi’s email magazine Lionheart: 2,200,000
10/92Amount of candy corn produced in the United States each year, expressed in ears: 2,250,000
5/92Amount the city of Los Angeles spent last year on a fingerprint-reading system to catch welfare cheats: $2,282,740
Number of offenders that have been caught so far: 11
12/98Fee that an anonymous family has paid Texas A&M University to clone their pet collie mix, Missy: $2,300,000
5/97Median jury award made against a U.S. news media company last year: $2,380,000
5/88Contributions to 1986 congressional candidates that came from PACs formed by foreign companies: $2,400,000
9/94Cost of developing and growing the grass playing field used for the World Cup at Michigan’s Silverdome: $2,400,000
1/02Number of Pop-Tarts dropped on Afghanistan as part of U.S. airborne food aid in the first month of bombing: 2,400,000
6/03Number of Medicare patients dropped since 1998 by U.S. HMOs claiming inadequate reimbursement rates: 2,400,000
3/03Annual corporate pension that CSX will pay the new U.S. treasury secretary for the rest of his life: $2,470,000
10/87Names in Ronald Reagan’s contributor file in 1980: 200,000
Names in Pat Robertson’s contributor file today: 2,500,000
4/91Stud fees the Justice Department plans to earn in 1991 from a show horse seized from an alleged drug dealer: $2,500,000
1/00Number of New York City children issued Civil Defense dog tags by 1952 to identify them after a nuclear attack: 2,500,000
8/02Number of Argentines who belong to at least one of their country’s 5,000 bartering clubs: 2,500,000
4/05Estimated number of young Christians in 1995 who had pledged to wait until marriage for sex: 2,500,000
Estimated percentage who waited: 12
11/08Number of registered users on AshleyMadison.com, a site for people who “want to explore the new infidelity”: 2,540,000
9/02Projected cost per mile of the security fence Israel is building around the West Bank: $2,563,600
1/01Factor by which the mass of a black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy exceeds the mass of the sun: 2,600,000