12/92Price of a box of pina colada-flavored candy canes from the Spangler Candy Company of Bryan, Ohio: $1.89
6/92Number of days a Hamilton, Ohio, high school girl was suspended in March for accepting two Tylenol from a classmate: 5
7/92Days after the Kent State killings in 1970 that Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young released their song “Ohio”: 31
6/93Price of a necktie made from whitewall tires, from One Song Enterprises of Willoughby, Ohio: $15.50
Length of its limited warranty, in years: 500
7/94Number of women asked to leave an exhibit of Rubens nudes in Toledo, Ohio, last winter because they were breast-feeding: 1
3/95Number of people who attended the return of the buzzards to Hinckley, Ohio, on Buzzard’s Sunday last March: 5,000
5/95Damages paid by the Kellogg Company this year after an Ohio man claimed a flaming Pop-Tart ignited his kitchen: $2,400
11/96Number of checks from tobacco lobbyists that Ohio Rep. John Boehner handed out on the House floor last year: 6
12/96Days an Ohio public school suspended a 11-year-old girl last October for giving a Midol tablet to her classmate: 80
5/97Average number of hours per week of public service performed last year by each Ohio prisoner who volunteered for it: 4.3
11/00Number of felons enlisted from an Ohio halfway house last July as extras in the Cincinnati Opera’s production of Aida: 21
12/01Estimated amount Cleveland has spent in the last two years fulfilling Y2K-protection contracts: $11,000,000
8/02Amount an Ohio power company agreed to pay in April to purchase a town affected by its plant’s pollution: $20,000,000
3/03Months after Ohio’s Flesh Public Library installed Internet filters in 2000 that the filters blocked its own website: 12
5/03Pounds of steel discovered to have been eaten away from the head of an Ohio nuclear reactor in February 2002: 70
Thickness in inches of the warped stainless steel that remained to prevent the reactor from rupturing into the air: 3/8
10/04Total amount Ohio’s crime-victims compensation fund has paid the survivors of one U.S. soldier killed in Iraq: $5,656.77
10/04Number of Ohio election boards being sued over erroneously informing parolees that they may not vote: 21
5/04Number of Holsteins disqualified from the Ohio State Fair last August because they were wearing a hair piece: 2
6/04Chances that God exists, according to a British physicist working as a risk analyst in Ohio: 2 in 3
2/05Number of U.K. Guardian readers who signed up last fall to write pro-Kerry letters to voters in Clark County, Ohio: 14,000
Number of Ohio counties besides Clark that switched from backing Al Gore in 2000 to backing President Bush in 2004: 0
9/05Average amount an Ohio man paid children to berate him for being obese, until he was arrested in April: $30
4/08Number of Ohio’s five voting-machine systems that had “critical security failures” in a state-commissioned study: 5
Number of the systems that have been removed from operation: 0