8/85Cost of a week at Solair Nudist Park in Massachusetts for a family of four: $230.25
1/87Average earnings per acre of farmland in Massachusetts: $1,613
6/89Amount Du Pont contributed to the new National Plastic Museum in Leominster, Massachusetts: $50,000
9/89Price of a flame-retardant American flag from the Freedom Writer group of Great Barrington, Massachusetts: $10
10/90Number of National Guard officers assigned to monitor a Grateful Dead concert in Foxboro, Massachusetts, last July: 40
5/91Fee a Norwood, Massachusetts, bank requires from depositors before they can ask a question about their account: $1
5/91Estimated amount that Boston Red Sox pitcher Roger Clemens will earn this season, per strikeout: $20,400
10/92Asking price for a former U.S. Air Force nuclear-bomb shelter in Amherst, Massachusetts: $250,000
11/93Percentage of the world’s cranberries that are grown in Massachusetts: 42
7/93Number of beds at Massachusetts General Hospital, per billing-department employee: 3.5
3/95Rank of Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg, a Massachusetts lake, among the longest U.S. place names: 1
4/96Price paid for 6 vials of frozen sperm last April at a benefit auction for a Boston lesbian and gay health center: $825
12/98Chance that a gay Massachusetts teenager reports being threatened or injured at school in the last year: 1 in 4
1/99Number of Boston library workers who required counseling last summer after a flood soaked 50,000 cartons of books: 12
9/99Number of U.S. high schools that have hired a Massachusetts firm to test students’ hair for evidence of drug use: 80
5/00Price of a sautéed lobster gilded with 24-carat gold at Boston’s Biba restaurant last New Year’s Eve: $44
2/01Weeks that a Massachusetts school prohibited a boy from cross-dressing last fall before a judge overturned the ban: 13
1/02Number of years after being executed as witches that six Massachusetts women were exonerated last fall: 309
5/02Number of Amtrak’s 41 routes other than the Boston-Washington, D.C., Metroliner that turn a profit: 0
Percentage change in Metroliner ridership since Amtrak added a new high-speed train to the route two years ago: -9
1/03Minutes that a Massachusetts surgeon left a patient with an open incision in July while he went to deposit a check: 35
5/04Total overruns at Boston’s “Big Dig” attributed to mistakes and mismanagement by the Bechtel Corporation: $1,100,000,000
5/05Minimum age at which Massachusetts allows boys to marry, with parental permission: 14
9/05Numeral whose underlying concept has been partially understood by a Massachusetts parrot, according to scientists: 0
6/06Minimum amount that a Massachusetts special-ed teacher received in donations from 2003 to 2005 by faking cancer: $35,000
11/07Maximum number of “unsaved” players permitted per team in a Massachusetts evangelical softball league: 4