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Number of [CIA|CIA] analysts who predicted the country’s [Nuclear|nuclear] test last [May|May]

: 0

Percentage by which [India|India] expects to increase the budget of its [Energy|Department of Atomic Energy] in the next year

: 59

Percentage change since [1990s|1993] in the annual number of American tourists visiting [India|India]

: +55

Number of years the U.S. trained [Pakistan|Pakistani] [Nuclear|nuclear]-research [Science|scientists] as part of the [War|“Atoms for Peace] ‚” program

: 19

Ratio of average worldwide [War|military spending per conflict] during the [1980s|1980s] to spending per conflict in the [1990s|1990s]

: 7:5

Estimated number of [Weapons|firebomb]-wielding live [Animal|bats] that the U.S. considered dropping on [Japan|Japan] in early [1940s|1944]

: 1,000,000

Truckloads of [Nuclear|nuclear] waste the [Energy|Department of Energy] plans to begin [Driving|driving] to [NewMexico|New Mexico] for storage this year

: 37,000

Estimated number of news stories published worldwide this year on [India|India’s] imminent [Nuclear|nuclear]-test plans

: 500

Chances that a [Britain|Briton] [Folly|believes] that Britain did more good than harm to its [Colonialism|colonies]

: 3 in 5

Ratio of the number of [Music|Sinatra] ‘s [Gold|gold] records to those of Kiss

: 1:1

Number of [Days|days] after [July|July] 4, [FoundingFathers|1776], that the majority of signatures were appended to the Declaration of Independence

: 29

Year in which the [Tennessee|Tennessee] legislature approved the Fifteenth Amendment, granting [Race|blacks] the [Freedom|right] to [Democracy|vote]

: 1997

Chance that a work of [Art|art] on display in the [Congress|Capitol] includes a depiction of an [Race|African American]

: 1 in 70

Ratio of the number of raises [Congress|Congress] has granted itself since [1930s|1938] to those it has granted [Wealth|minimum-wage workers]

: 21:19

Ratio of [Transportation|highway] spending [Congress|Congress] passed last [May|May] to the cost of [Gold|gold]-plating one lane of the U.S. interstate system

: 2:1

Attendance last [June|June] at [Oklahoma|Oklahoma] [HouseOfRepresentatives|Congressman] Tom Coburn’s annual [Sex|safe-sex] slide show

: 170

Acres of [Color|blue] netting with which the [WashingtonDC|Washington Monument] will be draped for renovation this [Summer|summer]

: 1.3

Acres of U.S. [Agriculture|farmland] [Economics|lost] to “development‚” between [1980s|1982] and [1990s|1992], per hour

: 50

Number of [CreditCards|credit-card] solicitations [PostalService|mailed] to Americans last year

: 3,000,000,000

Number of $530 monogrammed Louis Vuitton World Cup [Sport|soccer] balls [Business|sold] in the U.S. since last [April|April]

: 87

Percentage of Americans who have watched [Entertainment|Seinfeld] who say they will miss it “not very much‚” or “not at all‚”

: 51

Amount by which the decibel level of the scream of the new [Entertainment|Godzilla] exceeds that of a jackhammer

: 18

Factor by which the [1910s|1915] birth weight of [Music|Frank Sinatra] exceeds the average weight of a [Child|baby] born in [NewJersey|New Jersey] today

: 2

[Energy|Fuel] mileage of the [Transportation|QEII], in feet per gallon

: 29

Amount [Britain|British] [WMD|Nuclear] Fuels paid the [BoyScouts|British Scouts] last year to add its logo to their [Science|scientist] badge

: $49,776

Percentage by which the asking price was reduced a month later

: 24

Number of [Business|bids] received by the [Russia|Russian] government last [May|May] when it put its remaining national [Oil|oil] company up for sale

: 0

Estimated portion of the value of the [Money|currency] circulating in [Russia|Russia] that is in U.S. dollars

: 1/2

Factor by which [Cuba|Cuba’s] percentage [GDP|GDP] growth last year exceeded that of [Russia|Russia]

: 12

Estimated number of undocumented [Immigration|migrants] who have died since [1990s|1993] while trying to cross the U.S.-[Mexico|Mexican] border

: 1,185

Minimum price of an [Death|autopsy] from 1-800-AUTOPSY

: $2,000

Percentage of Americans who would rather vacation with [OJSimpson|O.J. Simpson] than with [Death|Jack Kevorkian]

: 16

Number of months one co-author spent [Folly|married] to the original [Comedian|Bozo the Clown]

: 18

Total number of [Marriage|marriages] experienced by the co-authors of Staying Married and Loving It

: 5

Minimum number of times per year that a [Transportation|car’s engine] should be steam-cleaned, according to [MarthaStewart|Martha Stewart]

: 1

Rank of [Detroit|Detroit], among the 20 largest U.S. cities, in municipal spending on public [Transportation|transportation]

: 20

Chance that a [Detroit|Detroit] household has no access to a [Transportation|car]

: 1 in 3

Chance that an American fell asleep at the [Transportation|wheel] last year

: 1 in 4

Number of [Driving|highway] accidents the DOE estimates these shipments will be involved in through the year 2033

: 50
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