200 matches

3/84Percentage increase in sales of G.I. Joe toys from 1982 to 1983: 89

5/84Percentage of American women who use deodorant: 89

    Of American men: 75

8/86Percentage of Australian business executives who say the Japanese are untrustworthy and unethical: 89

6/88Ratio of unexploded grenades, artillery shells, and land mines to sheep in the Falkland Islands: 1:4

12/90Winning distance in a guitar-throwing contest held in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, last July, in feet: 89

1/93Percentage of Super Bowl viewers who do not live in the United States: 89

8/95Number of the bombing victims whose families have retained the services of defense attorney Johnnie Cochran: 89

5/96Percentage of U.S. stock owned by the wealthiest 10 percent of Americans: 89

3/99Percentage of the 2,397 surveillance cameras monitoring public spaces in New York City that are privately owned: 89

11/04Percentage of judges nominated by George W. Bush since 2000 who have been confirmed by the Senate: 89

7/05Number of previous baseball seasons that Washington, D.C., fielded a professional team: 89

    Chances that it had a losing record: 4 in 5

3/08Percentage of male U.S. steroid users who are not involved in competitive sports: 89

2/85Percentage of the nuclear waste in the world’s oceans that was dumped by Britain: 90

9/85Percentage of refrigerators in American households that are either white or almond: 90

1/87Percentage of the parsley served in the United States that is thrown out: 90

10/87Percentage of women who wash their hands in a public restroom if someone else is present: 90

12/87Number of direct-mail solicitations sent to Henry David Thoreau at Walden Pond this year: 90

3/89Percentage of the U.S. hazardous waste shipped abroad that goes to Canada: 90

5/89Percentage of Nightline programs about terrorism, broadcast since 1985, that dealt with the Middle East: 90

    Percentage of international acts of terrorism since 1985 that took place in the Middle East: 43

7/89Acres of Alaska’s temperate rain forest cut down each day: 90

12/89Percentage of Americans who know what a Whopper is: 90

1/90Number of congressional votes dealing with Nicaragua that have taken place since 1980: 90

9/90Estimated percentage of insect species worldwide that have not yet been identified: 90

4/92Number of minutes it takes to hard-boil an ostrich egg: 90

6/93Average length of a Ross Perot speech, in minutes: 90

1/94Contributions made last year to the Sam Donaldson Hairpiece Replacement Fund: $90

2/94Percentage of Avon purchases in Patrocino, Brazil, that are paid for in gold dust: 90

4/94Percentage of editors of U.S. daily newspapers who say that an advertiser has tried to influence their content: 90

    Percentage who say the advertiser was successful: 37

    Number that are members of the InterTribal Bison Cooperative: 28

1/96Estimated percentage of all U.S. television cartoon programs that are drawn in Asia: 90

2/96Percentage of white American teenage girls who say they are dissatisfied with their bodies: 90

    Percentage of black American teenage girls who say this: 30

9/96Price a Paris boutique charges for an ounce of Yin Shen White Tea, “hand-picked by Chinese virgins: $90

4/97Number of Texas high school basketball coaches ejected from games last year for “unsporting behavior”: 90

1/99Percentage of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency’s one-page biography of Chile’s Augusto Pinochet that is classified: 90

5/99Percentage of the 125 people included in 1999’s Flemings Who’s Who in Central Banking who list no “leisure pursuits”: 90

11/99Percentage of turkeys tested by the Agriculture Department in 1996 and 1997 that were infected by campylobacteria: 90

    Rank of campylobacteria among the most common bacterial causes of diarrheal illness in the U.S.: 1

11/00Number of Native Americans sought by a Pilgrim descendants’ group this year to re-create the first Thanksgiving: 90

3/01Average number of messages to kidnapped friends and relatives broadcast each week by a Colombian radio show: 90

3/01Percentage of life that is “just holding on,” according to Bill Clinton: 90

7/01Estimated percentage of Mexico’s thirty major newspapers that would fold without government subsidies: 90

5/06Percentage alcohol content in a 300-year-old whiskey recipe being revived by a Scottish distillery: 90

7/06Percentage of Americans who believe that most Americans are too fat: 90

    Percentage who believe that they themselves are too fat: 39

12/06Cost, in one Mexican town, of a six-hour tour “full of obstacles and persecution” across a mock U.S.-Mexico border: $14

    Estimated percentage of the town’s population that has illegally crossed the real border: 90

1/07Number of LAPD officers shot by suspects between 1985 and 2005: 90

    Number shot by themselves or other officers: 68

11/07Estimated percentage of women’s college sports teams that were coached by women when Title IX was enacted in 1972: 90

9/08Estimated number of FDIC-insured banks currently in danger of failing: 90

    Number that failed during the past three years: 3

11/08Minimum number of reporters who traveled to Wasilla, Alaska, in the two weeks following Sarah Palin’s selection as VP: 90

3/84Nations where Dallas appears on television: 91

1/91Percentage of Americans who say the group with too little influence in government is people like themselves: 91

1/00Percentage of the world’s land that was claimed by centralized sovereign governments in 1500: 21

10/87Percentage of the U.S. passenger-airline business controlled by the top eight companies in 1978: 81

    Percentage controlled by the top eight companies today: 91

1/91Percentage of Iowans who don’t know what “auld lang syne” means: 91

2/91Ratio of the average CEO’s salary to that of a blue-collar worker in 1980: 25:1

8/92Percentage change, since 1990, in the number of documented cases of journalists murdered, worldwide: +91

9/93Percentage of the time that Ruth Bader Ginsberg voted with Clarence Thomas on the U.S. Court of Appeals: 91

12/99Number of countries that have not made public their assessment of the Y2K readiness of their computer systems: 91

4/00Minimum number of laws passed in Peru since 1992 that violate at least one article of the country’s constitution: 91

5/03Average number of industrial compounds and pollutants that can be found in an American’s blood and urine: 91

3/06Percentage change since 1995 in the number of U.S. fantasy books about dragons: +91

4/08Rank that next year’s giving goal of Bill Gates’s foundation would hold on the Forbes 400 if it were a person: 91

5/08Percentage of all articles about Muslims in national British newspapers last year that were negative: 91

6/84Percentage of baseball players signed to professional contracts who never appear in a major league game: 92

10/84Percentage of Geraldine Ferraro’s votes in Congress in 1983 that supported the Democratic Party leadership: 92

    Percentage of the average House Democrat’s votes that did: 76

12/84Percentage of Soviet children who believe nuclear war can be prevented: 92

    Percentage of American children who believe this: 65

12/89Number of times Al Neuharth uses the term S.O.B. in his autobiography, Confessions of an S.O.B.: 92

9/91Number of the 100 buttock implants performed in the United States last year that were done in California: 92

10/93Average amount a U.S. funeral parlor charges for makeup and hairstyling, per customer: $92

11/96Number of campaign-finance-reform bills that have been killed by the 104th Congress: 92

2/98Percentage change since 1990 in the annual number of black Americans who move to the South: +92

10/99Value of Pentagon-brokered U.S. arms sales last year to Taiwan, expressed as a percentage of such sales to Israel: 92

2/00Percentage of New Yorkers who say they have already decided which Senate candidate to vote for in November: 92

3/00Percentage of the WTO protesters arrested in Seattle last year whose charges were dropped due to a lack of evidence: 92

3/00Percentage of the residents of Northern Ireland who report being happy: 92

    Percentage of the residents of the rest of Ireland who do: 90

1/01Percentage of FDA advisory meetings since 1998 in which at least one attendee had a financial conflict of interest: 92

4/01Percentage of U.S. nuclear power plants operating in 1996 that have since broken federal safety regulations: 92

12/02Minutes that service on two New York subway lines was halted this fall after a Sikh worker was seen emerging from a hatch: 92

9/07Days by which the average length of the western U.S. wildfire season since 2000 has exceeded that in the 1970s: 92

12/07Number of lap dancers whose tips and menstrual cycles were tracked by a recent University of New Mexico study: 18

    Percentage by which a dancer’s tips during fertile days exceeded those during menstruation: 92

1/09Number of U.S. cities and towns that have passed resolutions calling for the impeachment of President Bush: 92

7/85Percentage of the U.S. pencil market supplied by domestic manufacturers: 93

2/93Percentage change, since 1982, in the number of juveniles arrested for homicide in the United States: +93

2/94Number of animals a Moscow circus left on a Japanese dock in 1992 to make room on its ship for newly bought cars: 93

1/96Brands of bottled water sold at Waterwinkel, an Amsterdam boutique: 93

2/97Percentage of federal spending on entitlement programs that goes to programs for the poor: 23

    Percentage of budget cuts to entitlements made by the 104th Congress that will come from those programs: 93

11/97Average percentage of teenagers in the world’s 44 largest countries who recognize the Chicago Bulls logo: 93

2/98Percentage of the recipes in the CIA’s new cookbook whose authors are anonymous: 93

10/00Percentage of House votes cast by Dick Cheney and Al Gore on abortion between 1979 and 1984 that were the same: 93

4/03Number of pharmaceutical drugs approved by the FDA since 1998 whose names begin with V, W, X, Y, or Z: 93

2/06Percentage change since 2000 in the average amount U.S. workers spend on out-of-pocket medical expenses: +93

5/06Percentage of U.S. megachurches that “always” or “often” use electric guitar or bass in services: 93

7/08Number of Kenya’s 210 members of parliament who have been given cabinet positions in the new administration: 93

3/07Official vote percentage with which Belarus’s president was reelected last winter: 86

    Percentage he says he actually got, before he “falsified” the number to make it acceptable to Europe: 93.5

3/09Percentage of Americans who think their lives serve “an important purpose”: 94

8/95Estimated number of killings in True Lies, a film Bob Dole cited in March as among those “most friendly to the family: 94

    Amount of the $21,000 in contributions Bob Dole has received from Time Warner since 1987 that he plans to return: 0

    Minutes of airtime C-SPAN devoted in June to a National Press Club discussion of Dole by Siskel and Ebert: 64

1/97Percentage of Americans who say that they speak English “very well”: 94

8/97Letters of complaint elicited by a Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman episode in which she supports evolution: 80

    Letters of complaint the show received about an episode in which her son goes camping with Walt Whitman: 94

8/04Minimum number of developing countries whose adolescent birth rate is lower than that of Phillips County, Arkansas: 94

11/07Number of students whose pre- and post-Thanksgiving weights were measured for a 2006 University of Oklahoma study: 94

    Factor by which the average weight gain of the graduate students exceeded that of the undergraduates: 2

2/09Percentage of Americans who say they would not buy a car from an automaker in bankruptcy: 94

2/09Number of world nations that signed a treaty banning cluster bombs last December: 94

    Chances that a nation with known stockpiles of cluster bombs did: 2 in 5

2/04Percentage of lawsuits decided last year under the Americans with Disabilities Act that were won by employers: 94.5

8/88Price of an Al-Asr Prayer Watch, which indicates the direction of Mecca and five daily Muslim prayer times: $95

8/97Percentage of CIA documents regarding Iran’s 1953 coup that the agency has destroyed: 95

1/98Percentage change since 1982 in the average amount of time an American is delayed by traffic congestion: +95

5/00Percentage of all aquatic life in a Danube tributary killed last winter when a mine’s tailings dam overflowed: 95

9/01Number of U.S. schools that use E-rater, a software program that reads and grades student essays: 95

    Number of these schools that are colleges or universities: 9

2/02Percentage of all U.S. prescription-drug mass-media advertising in 2000 that was accounted for by 50 drugs: 95

11/02Percentage of Argentineans who say they have “no” or “little” confidence in their nation’s political parties: 95

3/08Percentage of U.S. doctors who say they have a responsibility to report another doctor’s malpractice: 95

    Percentage of these doctors who have witnessed malpractice in the past three years and failed to report it: 46

4/84Percentage of viewers who remember seeing Wheaties in Rocky III: 96

6/84Average number of days business and government take to pay a bill in Nigeria: 96

    In Japan: 7

    In the United States: 20

2/88Percentage of first-class mail that is delivered on time, according to the U.S. Postal Service: 96

2/91Maximum speed of a hockey puck in an NHL game, in miles per hour: 96

1/92Total U.S. consumer debt in 1991, expressed as a percentage of total disposable income: 96

12/95Percentage change since 1990 in hours of counseling required by L.A. police employees and their families: +96

5/07Percentage of Egyptian women under the age of 50 who have undergone genital mutilation: 96

    Percentage of these operations that are now carried out by medical professionals: 75

3/85Percentage of all coronary-artery bypasses in the United States that are performed on whites: 97

5/01Percentage of Americans who believe that “following your own conscience” is a mark of a strong character: 97

    Percentage who believe that “obeying those in positions of authority” is: 92

6/89Percentage of all paper money in the United States that contains traces of cocaine: 97

9/92Number of people detained in South Africa this year for participating in “suspicious public gatherings”: 97

4/07Percentage of American adults held in either prisons or mental institutions in 1953 and today, respectively: 0.67, 0.68

2/08Minimum number of U.S. Boy Scout or Cub Scout troops that are sponsored by Islamic organizations: 97

5/85Percentage of funds the Pentagon has requested since 1981 that Congress has appropriated: 97.5

4/84Percentage of Americans too young to remember the Bicentennial: 25

    The launching of Sputnik: 58

    Life before television: 69

    Life without a federal income tax: 98

4/86Number of spacecraft launched by the United States in 1985: 17

12/90Percentage of all hostages held by Iraq who are from Third World countries: 98

12/92Value of the securities traded between Americans and foreigners last year, expressed as a percentage of the U.S. GNP: 98

    Value of the securities traded in 1980, expressed as a percentage of the GNP: 9

7/95Number of years Jeanne Louise Calment, France’s oldest woman, smoked cigarettes before she quit in 1993: 98

8/95Percentage of American adults who cannot identify the president of Mexico: 98

5/02Estimated percentage of matter in the universe determined this year to be invisible: 98

12/03Percentage of Baghdad’s citizens asked to participate in a Gallup poll last September who agreed to do so: 98

    Average percentage of Americans asked to participate in Gallup polls who do: 40

12/03Average price paid per metric ton last September at the first U.S. auction of carbon-emission allowances: 98¢

    Factor by which the average price paid on Europe’s open market exceeds this: 11

9/04Height in feet of a bronze September 11 memorial depicting a giant teardrop to be built in Jersey City, New Jersey: 98

9/07Projected cost to Medicare in 2030 of treating dementia, expressed as a percentage of the program’s total budget today: 98

1/09Minimum number of Bush appointees who have regulated industries they used to represent as lobbyists: 98

7/86Number of the 3,010 terrorist attacks worldwide in 1985 that involved Americans: 99

1/87Percentage of Japan’s red-pepper-sauce market held by Tabasco: 99

4/89Price of a gallon container of Canine Quencher, a bottled water for dogs: 99¢

12/91Percentage of annual U.S. economic aid to Israel that is used to pay debts to the United States: 99

8/94Percentage of Richard Nixon’s White House tapes that have not yet been made public: 99

9/95Percentage of all criminal defendants in Japan who are found guilty: 99

1/00Percentage of the 14,000 Bulgar survivors of the 1014 battle at Kleidion who were blinded by the victorious Byzantines: 99

4/00Percentage change between 1997 and 1998 in the number of cholera cases: +99

9/02Percentage of students in Cleveland’s six-year-old school voucher program who attend religious schools: 99

6/03Percentage “improvement” that Minnesota senator Norm Coleman claims to be over the late Paul Wellstone: 99

9/04Percentage of non-jury trials in Russia that end in conviction: 99

8/06Price, from a North Carolina company, for a charcoal-filled seat cushion that absorbs the odor of flatulence: $21.95

    Percentage of the odor that the cushion absorbs, according to an outside study: 20

    Percentage absorbed by the company’s $64.99 carbon-fiber underwear: 99

2/91Percentage of Americans who say, “I can’t tell a joke to save my life”: 99.2

7/07Number of days a Japanese arrestee can be interrogated without a lawyer: 23

    Percentage of Japanese arrestees who confess to crimes: 92

    Percentage brought to trial who are convicted: 99.9

10/84Percentage increase in the number of cop shows in prime time since last season: 100

12/84Percentage increase, from the mid-1970s to today, in the number of résumés received each year by the CIA: 100

2/85Percentage increase in joint ventures undertaken by U.S. and Japanese companies since 1980: 100

7/85Percentage increase since 1980 in political contributions by the top 20 defense contractors: 100

11/85Percentage increase, since 1980, in the number of lawyers who specialize in divorce cases: 100

2/86Percentage increase in Angolan oil exports to the United States since 1982: 100

6/86Tons of hair Poland exports annually to West Germany in exchange for barber equipment: 100

6/86Number of pornographic videocassettes released each week: 100

9/86Number of colleges and universities that offered courses in “men’s studies” in 1984: 30

12/86Average number of whites who return to Zimbabwe each month: 100

4/87Estimated number of referees at children’s sporting events who are attacked each year by parents: 100

5/87Percentage change, since 1965, in the number of Americans who have gone bird watching in the last year: +100

    In the number of Americans who have gone on a picnic: -20

8/87Price of a copy of Jim & Tammy Bakker, the authorized history of the PTL Club, in 1986: $100

9/87Proposed fine for selling or eating dog meat in Manila: $100

12/87Estimated number of privately owned cars in China: 100

2/88Percentage increase in the sales of Russian tractors in the United States in 1987: 100

3/88Estimated number of styrofoam cups an American uses each year: 100

6/89Daily wage a French company paid U.S. volunteers in 1988 to pick sprayed crops to test pesticides’ effects: $100

2/90Percentage change, since 1974, in the amount of commercial air traffic in the United States: +100

    Percentage change, since 1974, in the number of commercial airports in the United States: 0

2/90Estimated number of valentines mailed to Elvis Presley at Graceland last year: 100

5/90Maximum amount Ted Turner fines his employees for using the word foreign instead of international on company time: $100

5/90Estimated number of college coaches who are on the payroll of sneaker companies: 100

7/90Amount of trash left in New York City’s Central Park by people attending Earth Day festivities, in tons: 100

2/91Percentage increase, since 1989, in the number of alcohol-related hospitalizations of Boston College students: 100

2/91Number of Soviet Army officers in Siberia who are assigned full-time to locating deserters: 100

2/91Number of false noses used by Gerard Depardieu during the filming of Cyrano de Bergerac: 100

3/91Cash prize awarded by a St. Petersburg, Florida, bar to the winner of its weekly Fake the Big O Contest: $100

12/91Percentage change, since last year, in sales of junk bonds in the United States: +100

4/92Percentage of Japanese graduating high-school seniors who have taken at least six years of English-language classes: 100

5/92Number of days last year that Denmark’s largest newspaper ran no political coverage to protest bad government: 100

5/92Number of “Desert Storm” and “Desert Shield” commercial trademarks filed with the U.S. Patent Office last year: 100

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