Age at which a typical person’s financial decision-making ability peaks
: 53.3Estimated number of methamphetamine labs busted in Missouri in 2011
: 2,000Chances that a U.K. diaper-changing table carries trace amounts of cocaine, according to a 2011 Guardian Media study
: 9 in 10Percentage of Americans who have been arrested by the age of twenty-three
: 30Percentage increase since 2001 in female participation in target shooting in the U.S.
: 46.5Number of contestants in an elephant beauty pageant held in Sauraha, Nepal, in December
: 5Date on which Saudi Arabia last executed a woman for sorcery
: 12/12/11Estimated amount of money Hezbollah laundered through U.S. used-car dealers between 2007 and 2011
: $329,552,000Percentage increase in anti-Muslim hate crimes in the United States in 2010
: 50Amount that each dismissal saves the federal government in annual treatment costs
: $13,890Number of U.S. servicepeople dismissed for pre-existing “personality disorders” between 2002 and 2007
: 22,656Minimum number of persons whose remains the U.S. Air Force dumped in a landfill between 2003 and 2008
: 274Number of Predator drones patrolling the U.S. border with Mexico
: 6Percentage of the world’s Christians who lived in sub-Saharan Africa in 1912
: 1Rank of D.C. among urban U.S. school districts with the widest achievement gap between black and white students
: 1Percentage increase since 2009 in investment fraud targeting adults over 50
: 100Amount in BP oil-spill recovery funds spent this winter on a prom for senior citizens in Panama City Beach, Fla.
: $166,000Number of its 1,875 streetlights the city of Highland Park, Mich., has stopped illuminating in the past year to cut costs
: 1,387Amount of Homeland Security funds spent in Michigan last year on Sno-Cone machines
: $6,279Cost of an IED-resistant “Tactical Protector Vehicle” purchased by the Fond du Lac, Wis., Sheriff’s Department
: $220,000Estimated number of parking spaces per car in the United States
: 3Width, in feet, of the narrowest home in New York City
: 9.5Cost of a 50-square-foot storage unit in the basement of the One57 building on West 57th Street in Manhattan
: $200,000Median sale price of a single-family U.S. home sold last year
: $166,200Years by which the average life span of a homeless person is shorter than the overall average
: 30Number of U.S. home sales double-counted by the National Association of Realtors between 2007 and 2010
: 2,970,000Annual savings the U.S. Mint estimates will result from aborting its efforts to circulate $1 coins
: $50,000,000Factor by which the average white resident of the District of Columbia out-earns the average black resident
: 3Factor by which a black American is more likely than a white one to use Twitter
: 2.4Percentage of bypass-machine doctors who admitted to talking on cell phones during heart surgery in a 2010 survey
: 55Amount Miami’s Miller School of Medicine pays female “professional patients” for each student breast or pelvic exam
: $40Amount it pays males for each genital or rectal exam
: $30Chances that an employed American works in the service industry
: 6 in 7Rank of the Mafia among Italy’s largest lending institutions
: 1Rank of Goldman Sachs employees among the largest funding sources for Mitt Romney’s campaign
: 1For Obama’s 2008 campaign
: 2Percentage of Americans who believe that the population of the United States exceeds one billion
: 28Who believe that Mitt Romney’s first name is “Mittens”
: 2