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Estimated number of Americans who listen to [OliverNorth|Oliver North’s] weekly [Radio|radio] show

: 2,000,000

Number of pages of documents related to the [Iran|Iran-Contra] investigation that are still sealed

: 4,630,000

Minimum number of [LasVegas|Las Vegas] [Gambling|casinos] that use [Technology|face-recognition technology] to identify known card cheats

: 25

Length, in millimeters, of an I.D. microchip that [Singapore|Singapore] now implants in the necks of all imported [Dog|dogs]

: 13

Percentage of U.S. adults who have undergone [Vanity|cosmetic] [Medicine|surgery] who say this

: 70

Percentage of U.S. adults who say they are at least “somewhat satisfied” with their physical appearance

: 88

Average age at which an American believes his or her physical [Ugliness|attractiveness] peaks

: 38

Estimated percentage of [Media|Maxim] readers who live with their [Parenting|parents]

: 22

Chance that a page in this year’s [February|February]/[March|March] issue of Bride’s [Media|magazine] had editorial content on it

: 1 in 7

Percentage of [Television|TV] [Journalism|investigative reporters] and editors who say that an [Advertising|advertiser] has tried to kill one of their stories

: 60

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

: 92

Chance that a page in the [Education|middle-school] textbook _ [Science|Science Insights] _ contains a serious factual error

: 1 in 10

Average percentage by which an amateur [Finance|stock website’s] forecast was incorrect

: 21

Average percentage by which a [Finance|Wall Street] analyst’s high-tech-earnings forecast in early [1990s|1999] was incorrect

: 44

Number of search warrants filed to discover AOL subscribers’ identities in [1990s|1998] and 2000, respectively

: 171, 390

Average years of legal experience that a current state’s U.S. [Law|attorney] acquired before taking the [Jobs|job]

: 18

Years before being [Mendacity|nominated] as [SouthCarolina|South Carolina’s] U.S. [Lawyer|attorney] in [January|January] that [StromThurmond|Strom Thurmond’s] son graduated law school

: 3

Ratio of the number granted by [RonaldReagan|President Reagan] to the number granted by [DwightDEisenhower|President Eisenhower]

: 1:3

Ratio of the number of pardons granted by [BillClinton|President Clinton] to the number granted by [RonaldReagan|President Reagan]

: 1:2

Percentage of Americans who believe that “following your own conscience” is a mark of a strong character

: 97

Compensation awarded a 30-year-old [Australia|Australian] in [February|February] for corporal punishment he suffered in [Education|high school]

: $1,500,000

Fine that [Israel|Israel] imposed on a [Judaism|Jewish] settler in [January|January] for clubbing an 11-year-old [Palestine|Palestinian] [Boy|boy] to death

: $17,500

Months of community service to which he was also sentenced

: 6

Distance from [Fascism|Auschwitz], in miles, of a camp tannery in which an investor group proposed opening a [Entertainment|disco] in [1990s|1999]

: 2

Months after the plan was shelved due to protest that another was approved, allowing a disco to open there last [August|August]

: 4

Number of visitors since [1990s|1999] to a [Lithuania|Lithuanian] theme park depicting life in a [JosephStalin|Stalinist] gulag

: 100,000

Number of pairs of [Avarice|Imelda Marcos’s] [Fashion|shoes] on display in the [Philippines|Philippines] ‘ new shoe museum

: 200

Estimated number of “[Sex|crush films]” involving live [Rat|rodents] and high-heeled [Women|women] seized from a [NewYork|New York] [Men|man] in [1990s|1999]

: 70

[Hours|Hours] of community service at an [Animal|animal] shelter to which he was [Justice|sentenced] last [December|December]

: 280

[Days|Days] after a rare [Turtle|turtle] died in [Florida|Miami] last [Spring|spring] that a local aquarium staff member made it into a [Soup|soup]

: 1

Amount [Houston|Houston] reimbursed its mayor in [January|January] for a course he took in public speaking

: $2,900

Percentage of local U.S. [Policing|police] departments that maintain a SWAT team

: 77

Number of [Murder|murders] in [NewYorkCity|New York City] last year, per 100,000 residents

: 9

Number of politically motivated [Murder|murders] there last year, per 100,000 residents

: 270

Percentage of the victims of politically motivated [Murder|murders] in Barrancabermeja, [Colombia|Colombia], last year who were civilians

: 90

Estimated number of people who will be displaced by the dam’s construction

: 1,900,000

Factor by which the cost of [China|China’s] Three Gorges Dam is expected to exceed its original $4.5 billion budget

: 16

Projected percentage by which the amount of [Energy|electricity] produced by U.S. [GreenEnergy|wind turbines] will change this year

: +100

Percentage of a [Housing|U.S. home’s] [Energy|electrical] consumption accounted for by appliances that are switched off

: 5

Percentage of total U.S. [Energy|electrical] consumption accounted for by commercial lighting

: 11
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