7/90Sales of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles merchandise since the film was released in April: $500,000,000
Sales of tickets to the film: $110,000,000
4/93Percentage of Americans who favor prenatal genetic manipulation to improve intelligence: 42
11/98Price a Houston company charges for sending a DNA sample into outer space for possible cloning by aliens: $50
2/99Weeks after DNA testing confirmed Bill Clinton’s adultery last fall that such testing confirmed Thomas Jefferson’s as well: 7
8/99Number of days last year that a British art museum exhibited a mound of dung from Dolly, the world’s first cloned sheep: 51
6/00Years after becoming a priest that Gregor Mendel completed the work that would earn him the title father of genetics: 16
7/00Percentage of Icelanders who have declined including their DNA in a private company’s national genetic database: 7
6/03Number of different strains of tuberculosis whose DNA has been catalogued by a New Jersey microbiologist: 17,000
7/04Years after symptoms of his deranging genetic disorder appeared that King George III held the throne in England: 56
10/05Minimum number of centuries in prison served by U.S. convicts for crimes of which DNA evidence later exonerated them: 19
9/06Factor by which the combined genetic content of bacteria in a human digestive tract exceeds that of the human genome: 100
Percentage who had been mistakenly identified by eyewitnesses: 77