4/92Average number of Americans who joined the Hemlock Society each month last year: 800
10/96Percentage change since 1992 in presidential campaign contributions made by the gambling industry: +800
10/05Percentage change since 2001 in the estimated value of all bribes paid to Russia ’s government officials: +800
Ratio last year of the estimated total bribes to the nation’s federal revenues: 5:2
12/06Amount a cable TV reporter paid a former Army interrogator to waterboard him in July: $800
Minutes into the waterboarding that a producer decided he had to stop it: 24
4/96Price paid for 6 vials of frozen sperm last April at a benefit auction for a Boston lesbian and gay health center: $825
Number granted for espionage investigations by the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court: 839
7/93Number of classified and restricted manuals used by the Department of Energy to specify what is to be classified: 850
9/93Average number of gun-license applications filed in South Africa each day this year: 850
6/98Number of jars of Exxon Valdez oil sludge sold by the state of Alaska since last November to help pay cleanup costs: 850
6/05Amount a Chinese online gamer made last year by selling a virtual sword he had borrowed from a friend: $850
7/86Abortions per 1,000 live births in New York City: 852
1/00Percentage change since 1990 in the number of prison beds in privately owned or managed U.S. prisons: +856
6/01Number of members of Congress or their staffers who failed to file a tax return or pay back taxes in 1999: 856
8/94Samples of sand from the world’s beaches in the collection of Gilbert Brim, of Vero Beach, Florida: 863
3/95Amount by which the average salary of a Republican House staffer last year exceeded that of a Democratic staffer: $871
7/84Number of delegates to the 1984 Democratic National Convention not chosen in a primary or caucus: 873
10/00Price in Kenya of 100 units of nevirapine, a drug that prevents mother-to-child HIV transmission: $874
12/99Percentage change in the number of joint ventures signed between Cuba and foreign companies since 1992: +886
6/98Number of cars broken into by bears last year at Yosemite National Park: 889
11/07Number of customers who have flown the Vatican’s new “pilgrim airline” to holy sites in Europe: 890
Size, in ounces, of the bottle of holy water provided to each customer on its inaugural flight in August: 3.4
1/09Number of Republican officials who have been investigated by the Justice Department since 2001: 196
Number of Democratic officials who have been: 890
11/92Price of a seven-day “all-nude” cruise to the Caribbean this winter, from Bare Necessities of Austin, Texas: $896
12/01Internal code number the British census has assigned to citizens who cited their religion as “Jedi Knight”: 896
Percentage change, since 1945, in the amount of insecticide used on U.S. crops: +900
10/93Price paid at auction in August for a set of unwashed sheets slept on by President Clinton last February: $900
2/97Hours of training required to become a licensed hair braider in New York City: 900
Hours of training required to become a New York City emergency medical technician: 117
3/97Number of recruitment letters a USC basketball coach sent Avondre Jones before he was signed: 900
5/98Percentage change since 1984 in the average price paid in the U.S. for a month’s worth of human eggs: +900
5/03Per capita GDP of the Republic of Congo: $900
1/07Percentage change since 2002 in the number of U.S. Air Force security clearances revoked due to personal debt: +900
7/89Number of stories about George Bush that aired on the evening network news during his first 100 days in office: 336
Number of stories about Jimmy Carter that aired during his first 100 days in office: 906
7/86Members of the Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence: 907
11/87Number of public officials charged with corruption by the federal government in 1986: 916
7/06Number of books that Art Garfunkel has read since June 1968, according to a comprehensive list on his website: 948
9/02Number of appearances made by corporate representatives on U.S. network nightly newscasts last year: 955
Number of appearances made by labor representatives: 31
3/89Price of equipping a car with a pair of onion-gas spray guns, from Labock Industries in Tel Aviv: $960
12/03Amount by which the number of U.S. deaths in 2000 from lack of medical insurance exceeded those from AIDS: 967
9/85Cost of a week’s tuition for two parents at Philadelphia’s Better Baby Institute: $980
11/98Number of “I Slept with Kenneth Starr” bumper stickers sold by a Little Rock gift shop since last April: 990
4/92Average combined SAT score for children in families whose annual income is more than $70,000: 997
2/87Miles of abandoned railroad tracks that have been converted to jogging trails: 1,000
8/88Amount a co-chairman of the Bush campaign’s finance committee contributed to the Dukakis campaign: $1,000
7/89Estimated number of maternity uniforms the New York City Police Department has issued its officers since 1982: 1,000
12/89Number of pets blessed at the Feast of St. Francis at New York’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine this fall: 1,000
1/90Amount of dehydrated, drug-free urine sold by Byrd Laboratories of Austin, Texas, since 1986, in reconstituted gallons: 1,000
5/90Amount of trash on display at the Trash Museum in Lyndhurst, New Jersey, in pounds: 1,000
6/90Total amount a Brazilian can withdraw from a savings account this year under President Collor’s austerity plan: $1,000
6/90Number of trees Harper & Row will plant to replace those used to publish 2 Minutes a Day for a Greener Planet: 1,000
4/91Number of participants in the All-India Conference of Eunuchs, held in Ghonsla last December: 1,000
7/91Number of Americans who have filed claims for the $1.5 billion in Iraqi assets frozen since last August: 1,000
9/92Copies of a Serbo-Croatian translation of Tocqueville’s Democracy in America that have been sold since 1990: 1,000
5/94Amount by which a California public-school teacher’s average annual salary exceeds that of a state prison guard: $1,000
12/95Number of French job-seekers whose resumes were printed on wine bottles by local vintners last spring: 1,000
1/96Estimated change since 1985 in the number of Alcoholics Anonymous groups in Poland: +1,000
5/97Number of bulletproof Bibles manufactured last year by California’s Innovative Marketing Alliance: 1,000
8/97Number of actors who auditioned last winter to be the new Captain Kangaroo: 1,000
7/98Price of Vermont’s ten-day International Summer Institute for Youth in Holocaust Studies camp: $1,000
2/99Average number of tourists who visit the South African township of Soweto each day: 1,000
2/99Number of products licensed last year by the New York entrepreneur who trademarked the sequence 01-01-00: 1,000
5/99Head of cattle that Hyundai’s founder brought from South Korea last fall on a visit to North Korea’s Kim Jong Il: 1,000
1/00Number of the world’s 6,000 living languages that are indigenous to Papua New Guinea: 1,000
1/00Number of Chinese engineers who accompanied the Mongol Khan Hulägu on his siege of Baghdad in 1257: 1,000
9/01Estimated number of sign-language signs in the vocabulary of Koko, a San Francisco gorilla: 1,000
8/02Estimated number of survivors of the 1945 U.S. atomic bomb attacks in Japan now living in the United States: 1,000
12/02Minimum percentage change since last year in Afghanistan’s opium production: +1,000
4/03Pounds of grits and other grains to be donated to fill this year’s food-budget gap at the South Carolina governor’s mansion: 1,000
5/03Number of new Indonesian islands discovered by satellite analysis in February: 1,000
6/03Estimated number of Ding Dongs manufactured per minute at St. Louis’s Interstate Brands factory: 1,000
11/04Price charged on Amazon.com this year for Lynne Cheney’s out-of-print lesbian historical novel, Sisters: $1,000
3/05Ratio of the number of computer viruses targeting Microsoft Windows‒based computers to those that target Macs: 1,000:1
10/08Estimated number of U.S. lives saved per month by $4 gasoline, through reduced driving nationwide: 1,000
8/06Price, from a Colombian manufacturer, for a custom-made bulletproof sports coat: $1,020
2/99Number of survivors of Spanish-American War soldiers who received Veterans Department benefits last year: 1,028
2/94Price paid at auction last December for an unused urine bag carried on the Soyuz 22 Soviet space flight: $1,035
1/00Number of years after Jews settled in China that they were first allowed to live in Russian territory: 1,045
1/90Number of the 1,077 toxic-waste sites the EPA Superfund targeted for cleanup in 1981 that remain hazardous: 1,047
11/97Number of people that Pope John Paul II has beatified or canonized since 1978: 1,049
8/08Number of circumcisions that Kotabaru, Indonesia, paid for this year to celebrate the city’s anniversary: 1,050
7/95Number of suburban murder-for-hire cases filed with U.S. law enforcement agencies since 1988: 1,053
1/00Estimated number of angels that can dance on the head of a pin, according to the American Institute of Physics: 1064
1/09Minimum number of laws that Bush signing statements have exempted his administration from following: 1,069
4/02Number of people charged between 1988 and 1992 in connection with the U.S. savings and loan collapse: 1,098
Ratio of the average S&L jail term awarded in those years to the average term for a federal burglary conviction: 2:3
Number introduced so far this year: 800
Number today: 15
8/05Amount that the Catholic Church spent in Britain this summer advertising for new priests on bar coasters: $1,100
1/02Number of knee bends that a 59-year-old Ukrainian woman performed last fall to protest U.S. attacks on Afghanistan: 1,101
5/98Length, in pages, of the Senate’s new report on the financing of the 1996 Democratic campaigns: 1,112
5/04Number of suspensions a Dallas-area high school handed out last fall for dress-code violations: 1,116
11/92Number of months before Hurricane Andrew struck south Florida that the RTC canceled its property insurance there: 4
Disaster relief President Bush pledged to Florida in September, per registered voter there: $1,125
4/00Percentage change in foreign direct investment in Vietnam between 1991 and 1996: +1,142
Percentage change since then: -43
12/02Number of Turkish college students detained in the last year for requesting Kurdish-language classes: 1,146
10/87Price per person of a ten-day “Baseball for Peace” tour to Nicaragua during its fall baseball season: $1,150
2/97Price paid at a Los Angeles auction last September for a drug-rehab discharge form signed by Kurt Cobain: $1,150
9/88Amount Ravalli County, Montana, fined itself after one of its truck drivers committed a loading violation: $350
1/09Number of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and North African men detained in the U.S. in the eight weeks after 9/11: 1,182
Number charged with an immigration violation: 762
8/98Estimated number of undocumented migrants who have died since 1993 while trying to cross the U.S.-Mexican border: 1,185
11/86Gallons of urine analyzed in the United States last year for evidence of illegal drug use: 1,190
2/09Minimum number of Americans since January 2008 who have purchased stem-cell therapy for their dogs: 1,196
12/86Number of public school teachers in Texas who failed the state’s literacy test twice: 1,199
5/02Estimated number of Americans who must wear Global Positioning System monitors as a condition of parole: 1,200
4/91Average number of miles an item of food consumed in the United States travels before it is eaten: 1,200
7/91Number of entries in the “Predict the Fall of Fidel” contest sponsored by the Council for Inter-American Security: 1,200
7/91Price the Bulgarian government charges for a night at the palace of its deposed communist leader: $1,200
12/95Number of Philadelphia criminal convictions overturned this year because of police misconduct: 55
Estimated number of such cases still pending: 1,200
6/97Number of Mexico’s federal law-enforcement agents fired last year for violating “ethical standards”: 1,200
3/03Estimated number of applications that the U.N. received last year for its 302 weapons-inspector positions: 1,200
Change in the number of measures passed: -198
9/00Rank of France, Italy, and Germany, respectively, among countries with the best overall health-care systems: 1,2,25
Average annual per-capita income in the three other than the United States: $1,226
9/08Total minutes of network TV coverage devoted to the war in Iraq between January and June 2008: 300
Total during the same period last year: 1,229
7/89Rank of dog, cat, snake, and U.S. president, among World Book Encyclopedia entries consulted most often: 1,2,3,4
10/02Number of corrections professionals who attended a mock riot at a former West Virginia prison in May: 1,235
3/91Percentage increase, since 1990, in the membership of the South African Communist Party: 1,250
7/04Number of fried chocolate sandwiches served at a British hotel chain in April after their debut: 1,256
4/90Estimated average distance that a hospital nurse in New York City walks at work each year, in miles: 1,272
11/97Years it took a prisoner injured at the 1975 Attica prison riots to win a judgment against New York State last June: 26
Number of other Attica prisoners’ cases pending: 1,280
7/03Minimum number of people reported killed by militants in Congo since the beginning of the Iraq war: 1,280
12/08Number of complaints filed by corporate whistleblowers with U.S. workplace-safety officials since 2002: 1,288
Number in which the government ruled in favor of the whistleblower: 17
11/87Price of a.44 Magnum pistol issued to commemorate the Constitution’s anniversary: $1,295
8/88Number of Kiwanis Club meetings that take place each weekday: 1,300
2/95Sales of Tupperware through TuppNet since it was introduced on the Internet last March: $1,300
7/95Estimated number of concurrent “killer bee” stings that a healthy adult human can survive: 1,300
4/01Number of people protesting genetically engineered crops who occupied a Monsanto farm in Brazil on January 26: 1,300
4/08Percentage change since July in the number of U.S. newspaper articles each month using the word “recession”: +1,300
3/06Number of half-siblings who have found each other on a website for children of anonymous sperm donors: 1,316
12/07Number of separate human-trafficking task forces that the Department of Justice has set up since 2000: 42
Number of trafficked people these task forces have identified: 1,362
6/85Amount South Africa spends to educate the average white student each year (in rand): 1,385
12/95Attendance at a one-day job fair held in Newark, New Jersey, last August to fill 130 teaching positions: 1,400
1/00Number of Americans now employed as “ serfs ” or “wenches” at Medieval Times entertainment complexes in the U.S.: 1,400
12/05Date on which USAID launched an Internet campaign asking Americans to help pay for the Iraqi reconstruction: 9/9/05
11/07Number of immigration measures introduced into state legislatures so far this year: 1,404
Estimated number introduced during the previous ten years: 1,300
Number from the other permanent members of the U.N. Security Council combined: 822
Pounds of chemical additives: 9
11/06Number of corporations that are now members of the Chicago Climate Exchange, which trades pollution rights: 210
Percentage change so far this year in the total number of contracts traded: +1,425
11/99Number of Washington, D.C., police assigned to a neo-Nazi American Nationalist Party march last August: 1,426
10/93Price paid at auction last year for a beeper contract signed by Amy Fisher: $1,430
1/90Number of the 1,614 electoral votes cast in presidential elections since 1980 that have gone to Republicans: 1,440
5/91Price of a 2-week session for high school students at the National Law Camp in Miami Shores, Florida: $1,450
7/99Fine levied against a Singapore political-opposition leader last winter for publicly reading the nation’s constitution: $1,452
8/87Number of Palestinian homes in the West Bank that have been demolished or sealed by Israel since 1967: 1,500
9/90Maximum amount a Los Angeles taxi company can be fined if its drivers are found wearing anything plaid: $1,500
6/91Average number of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches an American consumes before reaching adulthood: 1,500
2/93Number of copies of Robert’s Rules of Order bought by Russia’s Congress of Deputies last fall: 1,500
6/93Percentage change, since 1991, in the number of Americans who lost uninsured savings deposited at failed banks: +1,500
8/94Price of holding a wedding at the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace, in Yorba Linda, California: $1,500
10/99Ratio of the cost of building an F-22 fighter jet to that of upgrading an F-15 to twice the F-22’s effectiveness: 1,500:1
Percentage change in the amount of British cotton products India imported during the same period: +1,500
7/00Number of donkeys used by the U.N. last year to deliver humanitarian aid to displaced families in Afghanistan: 1,500
Percentage of wells there that are dry: 60
3/02Maximum amount one Northern Alliance soldier charged families of dead Taliban soldiers for the return of their corpses: $1,500