Chance that an [Race|African American] who is a [NewYork|New York State] resident today lives below the [Poverty|poverty] level
: 1 in 4Number of World War I battleships said to have been built from the steel donated by U.S. [Women|women] from their [Fashion|corsets]
: 2Year in which Marie Antoinette convinced [France|France’s] King Louis XVI to declare that all [Fashion|handkerchiefs] be square
: 1785Percentage of the [France|French] government’s 1788 expenditures that went to support the court at Versailles
: 6Percentage that went to finance [War|war] [Finance|debt] resulting from [France|France’s] support of the [Imperialism|colonies] in the [FoundingFathers|American Revolution]
: 50Votes by which 18th-century U.S. lawmakers rejected [Crime|outlawing] [Slavery|slavery] in all future states beyond the original thirteen
: 1Estimated number of [Slavery|anti-slavery] petitions sent to [Congress|Congress] between 1835 and 1836
: 500Factor by which the [Constitution|Constitution] allowed a state to count its [Slavery|slaves] when allocating House seats and electoral votes
: 3/5Chance that a [NewYork|New York State] resident in [FoundingFathers|1776] was a [Slavery|slave]
: 1 in 7Amount by which it had changed by the year 1700
: +$31Number of [Africa|African] languages added to the Census Bureau Language Program since [1990s|1990]
: 5Year in which [SouthAfrica|South Africa’s] Natal Law Society apologized for trying to thwart [Gandhi|Mohandas K. Gandhi’s] law practice there
: 1999Approximate year in which [Asia|Asia] had its first recorded trade [Economics|deficit] with [Europe|Europe]
: 1835Percentage change in the value of [India|India’s] cotton exports between 1815 and 1832
: ???92Percentage change in the amount of [Britain|British] cotton products [India|India] imported during the same period
: +1,500Estimated number of pairs of [Fashion|gloves] owned by [RoyalFamily|Elizabeth I]
: 2,000Estimated gross [Economics|global product per capita] in the year 1000
: $133Number of [Banking|U.S. banks] in [1920s|1921], [1930s|1933], and [1990s|1999], respectively
: 30,456, 14,207, 8,675Percentage change in the average amount of cloth required to [Fashion|clothe] a U.S. [Women|woman] between [1910s|1913] and [1920s|1928]
: ???64Estimated number of people today who live on [Poverty|less than $30 per month]
: 1,300,000,000Estimated number who are [Slavery|enslaved]
: 27,000,000Rank of the [Africa|African] king of [Mali|Mali] among 14th-century rulers most noted for their [Wealth|riches] by a [Majorca|Majorcan] mapmaker
: 1Estimated number of years by which the earliest known [Africa|African] ironwork predates [Europe|Europe’s] Iron Age
: 1,800Number of ships that sailed in the first expedition of Cheng Ho, the 15th-century [China|Chinese] explorer
: 287Minimum number of countries Cheng Ho visited over the course of his seven voyages
: 30Years by which new evidence suggests that the age of the first human migration to the [NorthAmerica|Americas] should be increased
: 20,000Percentage of the world’s land that was claimed by centralized sovereign governments in 1500
: 21Percentage today
: 91Number of years after [Religion|Jews] settled in [China|China] that they were first allowed to live in [Russia|Russian] territory
: 1,045Months after publishing _ [Labor|The Communist Manifesto] _ that [Communism|Karl Marx] became editor of a [Media|newspaper] funded by [Business|industrialists]
: 2Months’ worth of salary lost by [Entertainment|Groucho Marx] in [1920s|1929’s] stock [Business|market] crash
: 28Miles that Leif Eriksson [Transportation|sailed] from his [Fatherhood|father’s] home in [Greenland|Greenland] before “[Mendacity|discovering]‚” [NorthAmerica|North America] in 985
: 230Chances that a person who has died of [AIDS|AIDS] since then has died in sub-Saharan [Africa|Africa]
: 4 in 5Year in which the [NewYorkTimes|New York Times] first reported a “Rare [AIDS|Cancer] Seen in 41 [Homosexuality|Homosexuals]‚”
: 1981Year in which a [Medicine|medical] dictionary defined heterosexuality as an “[Sex|abnormal or perverted appetite]‚” for the opposite sex
: 1901Chance that a [Women|woman] under the age of 40 did
: 1 in 12Number of dodo heads successfully preserved since the [Bird|birds] ‘ extinction in [1600s|1638]
: 1Chance that a U.S. [Women|woman] over the age of 40 [Sex|made love] in her [Fashion|clothes] in the [1940s|1940s]
: 1 in 3Rank of “crush[ing] your enemies … and hear[ing] the lamentations of the [Women|women]‚” among [ArnoldSchwarzenegger|Conan the Barbarian’s]
: 1Rank of “shed[ding] my enemies’ blood and wring[ing] tears from their [Women|women]‚” among [Mongols|Genghis Khan’s] greatest joys
: 1Number of U.S. [Nuclear|nuclear bombs] currently on “high alert‚”
: 2,380Number of false alarms of [Nuclear|nuclear missile attacks] generated by the U.S. early warning system between [1970s|1977] and [1980s|1984]
: 20,784Number of [NewYorkCity|New York City] [Child|children] issued Civil Defense [Dog|dog] tags by [1950s|1952] to identify them after a [Nuclear|nuclear] attack
: 2,500,000[Hours|Hours] required to assemble a prefabricated [Folly|nuclear-bomb shelter], according to a [1960s|1961] Life [Magazine|magazine] cover story
: 4Chances that one of the 49 armed conflicts fought worldwide since [1990s|1990] relied exclusively on [Firearms|small arms]
: 9 in 10Chance that a 16th-century Aztec was [Death|killed] by [Smallpox|smallpox]
: 1 in 2Chance that a 14th-century [Europe|European] was [Death|killed] by [Disease|bubonic plague]
: 1 in 4Number of pharmacies in the [Cambodia|Cambodian] city of Angkor Thom in the 13th century
: 102Number of [China|Chinese] engineers who accompanied the [Mongols|Mongol] Khan Hul?gu on his siege of [Iraq|Baghdad] in 1257
: 1,000Year in which [China|China] introduced the first paper [Money|currency]
: 1022Years after [Portugal|Portuguese] adventurers brought [Gun|guns] to [Japan|Japan] in 1543 that Japan owned more [Gun|guns] than any other country
: 57Estimated number of [Japan|Japanese] peasant uprisings in the following 268 years under the Tokugawa regime
: 3,000Number of major [Europe|European] peasant revolutions begun between 1809 and 1848
: 8Number of these that were begun in the name of the [CatholicFaith|Catholic Church] or to reinstate a deposed monarch
: 7Number of [Religion|popes] stabbed, strangled, or poisoned to [Death|death] in the last three decades of the 10th century
: 5Percentage of the 14,000 [Bulgaria|Bulgar] survivors of the 1014 [War|battle at Kleidion] who were blinded by the victorious Byzantines
: 99Ratio of the number of [Army|U.S. soldiers] who died from [Disease|disease] during World War I to those who died in combat
: 1:1Chance that a [Business|soldier] who died in [War|combat] in the 20th century was American
: 1 in 72Chance that a civilian who died in a 20th-century [War|war] was American
: 1 in 62,000Estimated percentage increase since then in the number of [Buddhism|Buddhists]
: 4,275Estimated number of [Slavery|serfs] Catherine the Great gave away as gifts
: 45,000Number of Americans now [Jobs|employed] as “ [Slavery|serfs] ‚” or “[Prostitute|wenches]‚” at Medieval Times [Entertainment|entertainment] complexes in the U.S.
: 1,400Number of people who have been to [Space|space]
: 390Number of the [Space|universe’s] spatial dimensions of which [Science|physicists] now believe we are unaware
: 7Age at which [Science|Albert Einstein] spoke his first words
: 3Estimated amount lost by [Science|Isaac] Newton in South Sea [Finance|stock] speculation in the 1720s
: $2,000,000[Days|Days] of imprisonment and [Torture|torture] undergone by Niccol? Machiavelli after falling out of favor with the Medicis in 1513
: 28Number of years later that his [Literature|book] The Prince was published, with a dedication to Lorenzo de’ Medici
: 19Factor by which [Microsoft|Microsoft’s] average monthly [Democracy|campaign contribution] in [1990s|1999] exceeded its monthly contribution in 1995
: 8Number of the ten largest multinational [Business|corporations] that produce [Transportation|automobiles] or [Gasoline|gasoline]
: 9Percentage change since [1990s|1990] in the number of [Prison|prison] beds in privately owned or managed U.S. prisons
: +856Year in which the word “homesick‚” was coined
: 1798Number of years between the invention of the first [Technology|photocopier technology] in [1930s|1938] and the first commercial-copier sale
: 21Number of years after [NorthAmerica|North America’s] first library opened in [1600s|1638] that it published a subject guide
: 152Pounds of armor worn by a [War|European] knight in the 11th and 13th centuries, respectively
: 71, 90Estimated percentage increase since 1000 in the number of [Christianity|Christians], [Islam|Muslims], and [Hinduism|Hindus], respectively
: 2,450, 2,300, 1,025Percentage of [Islam|Muslims] who were Shiites in 1000 and percentage who are Shiites today, respectively
: 5, 14Portion of the [Islam|Islamic] world that was controlled by Shiites in 1000
: 1/2Percentage change in enrollment in [College|college]-level [Arab|Arabic] and [Religion|Biblical] Hebrew courses
: +44.7Percentage change in enrollment in [Education|U.S. college-level] [France|French] and [Germany|German] courses since [1990s|1995]
: ???4.5Number of the world’s 6,000 living languages that are indigenous to [PapuaNewGuinea|Papua New Guinea]
: 1,000Percentage who believe that the teaching of [Evolution|evolution] should be required
: 28Percentage of Americans who believe that [Sex|sex] [Education|education] should be a required school subject
: 60Number of pages accumulated in the [FBI|FBI’s] [Sex|Sex Deviates] file by the time the program was abandoned in [1970s|1977]
: 330,000Average annual number of copies produced per American six years later
: 52Factor by which the estimated size of the [Science|universe] has been increased since [1900s|1900]
: 1,000,000Estimated number that can [Dance|dance] in a row across a pinhead’s diameter, “Rockettes-style‚”
: 1032Estimated number of [Religion|angels] that can [Dance|dance] on the head of a pin, according to the American Institute of [Physics|Physics]
: 1064Estimated temperature of [Religion|Heaven]
: 448°F[Days|Days] of peace the emir claimed to have known in his lifetime
: 14Number of [Women|women] in his [Prostitute|harem]
: 6,300Pounds of [Cookery|meat] consumed daily by the household of the 10th-century emir of Cordova
: 13,000Estimated [GeorgeWBush|bushels] of [Economics|maize] paid annually to the Aztec rulers of the city of Tenochtitl?n by their subjects
: 210,000Inches by which today’s largest [Agriculture|corncobs] exceed the length of those grown in [Mexico|Mexico] in 1500
: 12Estimated number of non-native [Animal|species] that have entered the [NorthAmerica|North American] ecosystem since 1500
: 50,000Acres of [Marijuana|hemp] grown by “patriotic‚” U.S. [Agriculture|farmers] in [1940s|1942] at the behest of the U.S. government
: 36,000Estimated number of years that [Virginia|Virginia] used [Vice|tobacco] as a [Currency|currency]
: 200Percentage change since then in the U.S. [Death|death] rate for all [Disease|cancers] except that of the lung
: ???20Percentage change since [1930s|1930] in the annual U.S. [Death|death] rate for [Cancer|cancer]
: +11Projected rank of [Heart|heart] [Disease|disease] and severe [Sadness|depression] among the leading causes of [Death|death] and disability in 2020
: 1,2