Percentage of Americans aged 18 to 29 who think violence against the U.S. government is justified
: 17Average annual income of an Englishman living at the start of the Black Death, adjusted for inflation
: $1,300Of a Haitian at the start of the current cholera epidemic
: $659Number of hostages taken by pirates last year
: 1,181Years since record-keeping began in which that number has been higher
: 0Number of militias active in the United States in 2007 and in 2010, respectively
: 43, 330Number of U.S. states with budget shortfalls in those years
: 1, 48Number of U.S. states that have applied for funding under the 2010 Affordable Care Act
: 50Number that have joined a lawsuit challenging the act’s constitutionality
: 26Minimum number of U.S. states and territories in which the Army flew unmanned drones in 2010
: 21Estimated portion of registered voters in Zimbabwe who are dead
: 1/4Date on which Glenn Beck hypothesized that an attempted assassination of Sarah Palin “could bring the republic down”
: 1/10/11Percentage of Canadians who support increasing their country’s military presence in the Arctic
: 58Number of American soldiers who died in combat last year
: 455Minimum number who committed suicide
: 407Percentage of Ohio voters who think that House Speaker John Boehner’s willingness to cry is a sign of strength
: 36Average minutes more exercise per week that a heavy drinker gets than a non-drinker
: 21Percentage increase since 2000 in the number of Britons under 30 with alcohol-related liver disease
: 53Chance that a woman undergoing in-vitro fertilization in Israel becomes pregnant
: 1 in 5Chance if she is subjected, before fertilization, to “medical clowning”
: 1 in 3Amount Santa Barbara proposes to spend moving benches to discourage the homeless from panhandling on them
: $50,000Graduates of the Cattlemen’s Beef Board “Masters of Beef Advocacy” program since 2009
: 1,950Number of U.S. states that have more pigs than people
: 3Radioactive animal droppings found in 2009 near the Hanford nuclear site in Washington
: 33Percentage change since 2001 in the Alsatian great hamster population
: ???78Minimum number of birds that die from crashing into New York City windows each year
: 100,000Percentage of black kite raptors that decorate their nests with white plastic
: 82Maximum occupancy of a Madrid hotel, made entirely from garbage, that opened in January
: 10Portion of Singaporeans who live in public housing
: 4/5Chance that an American benefits from at least one government antipoverty project
: 1 in 6Chances that an American describes his or her diet as “healthy”
: 9 in 10Amount Massachusetts has allocated since 2000 to decrease class size and increase teacher pay
: $1,200,000,000Percentage of that allocation that has gone to cover rising health-care costs
: 100Chances that an American opposes any cuts to Social Security, Medicare, or education spending
: 6 in 10Minimum number of U.S. religious facilities that have been foreclosed on since 2008
: 195Percentage by which books on contemporary ethics are more likely than other books to be stolen
: 50Minimum cost of a “pleasure palace” being built for Vladimir Putin
: $1,000,000,000Number of Bentleys purchased in Russia in 2000 and in 2010, respectively
: 0, 113Rank of Communist China among the “greenest” regimes in history, based on total atmospheric carbon reduction
: 1Of Genghis Khan’s Mongol Empire
: 2