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43% of all U. S. venture capital in 2008 went to the San Francisco Bay Area. - Time Magazine, 11/2/09

Niger (Africa) has the world's highest fertility rate - 7.1 children per mother. - Newsweek, 10/19/09

By 2040, 40% of Japan's population will be senior citizens. - Newsweek, 10/19/09

On average (in July 2009), there are six job seekers for each job opening in the United States. - Fortune, 10/26/09

Unmarried women now account for 40% of births. - Newsweek, 10/19/09

Women give birth to triplets (or higher multiples) five times more frequently than in 1972. - Time Magazine, 10/26/09

47% of all U.S. households will owe no federal income tax in 2009. - The Week Magazine, 10/16/09

Prostitutes in Chicago, Illinois are more likely to have sex with a police officer than be arrested by one. - Newsweek, 11/9/09

Having an obese spouse raises the risk of becoming obese by 37%. If a friend became obese, the risk skyrockets to 171%. - Wired Magazine, 10/09

Despite the recession, vitamin sales have risen 8% this year. - Time Magazine, 4/20/09

20% of 4 year olds in the United States are obese. - Time Magazine, 4/20/09

If you count people on parole and probation, 1 out of 26 (4%) of adults in Louisiana is under control of the Department of Corrections. - The Week Magazine, 3/13/09

A new study from the Harvard School of Public Health shows that 44% of all deaths from cancer were preventable with healthier lifestyle choices. 72% of cardiovascular deaths were also preventable the same way. - The Week Magazine, 10/10/08

25% of the world's construction cranes are currently in Dubai. - Time Magazine, 7/7/08

1% of all babies born in the United States are conceived through in-vitro fertilization. - San Diego Union, 7/1/08

55% of all deaths caused by firearms in the United States are suicides. - San Diego Union, 7/1/08

2.4% of all Americans are in the criminal justice system somehow. 7,200,000 Americans are now either behind bars, on probation, or on parole. - The Week Magazine, 6/27/08

76% of American commuters drive to work alone. - The Week Magazine, 6/6/08

Americans throw out 27% of the 350,000,000 pounds of food they buy each year. - New York Times, 5/18/08

If you are a pregnant woman, if you eat a bowl of cereal each week, it is 87% more likely that will give birth to a boy. - CBS News (Denver, CO) , 4/23/08

As of May 2008, 13% of the 100 top-grossing films of all time were made by either Steven Spielberg or George Lucas. - The Week Magazine, 5/2/08

27% of laser printers emit particulate chemicals as harmful to lungs as second hand smoke. - The Week Magazine, 12/28/07

70% of all trees cut for use as Christmas trees are whisked to departing trucks by helicopter. - The Week Magazine, 12/28/07

47% of dogs in the United States sleep in a family member's bed. - The Week Magazine, 8/10/07

2.4% of all newlyweds are over 65, says the U.S. Census Bureau. - Arizona Daily Star, 7/30/06

40% of Amsterdam commuters get to work by bicycle. - The Week Magazine, 5/18/07

60% of Japanese people will not make eye contact with another Japanese person during a conversation. 60% of Japanese people will make eye contact during conversation with a robot, however. - San Diego Union, 5/3/06

Fully 5% of England's entire population own Keane's "Hopes and Fears" CD. - The Week Magazine, 7/21/06

20% of the human genome has been patented. - Popular Science, 8/06

23% of all the psychiatrists in the country are in the New York City metro area. - The Week Magazine, 5/19/06

30% of Americans don't know what year the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington took place. - Yahoo! News, 8/9/06

90% of Internet traffic today is SPAM related. It's estimated that 100,000,000,000 unsolicited commercial messages travel the Internet each day. - The Week Magazine, 8/10/07

20% of all road accidents in Sweden involve an elk. - San Diego Union, 5/3/06

10% of states in the USA have more gun dealers than gas stations. - Time, 3/27/06

15% (estimated) of internet users don't use search engines. They just type a subject, add ".com" and hope for the best. - The Week Magazine, 1/20/06

78% of cell phone minutes Americans pay for go unused. - Money Magazine, 11/15/05

95% of the 18 billion catalogs mailed out last holiday season went unread (that's over 60 for each man, woman and child in the United States. Very few of these are made with recycled paper). - Smartmoney, 10/05

5% of the $40,700,000,000 received by states from the lawsuit against the tobacco companies has actually been spent on fighting smoking. North Carolina has used 75% of their settlement for assistance to tobacco farmers. - New York Times, 8/22/05

10% of helicopters serving as air ambulances since 2000 have crashed, killing 60 patients on the way to the hospital. If the same percentage applied to commercial aircraft, 90 passenger jets would crash each year. - USA Today, 7/17/05

33% of all music CDs that are sold around the world are pirated. In 31 countries, illegal CDs outsell legal copies. - Detroit News, 6/24/05

28% of all Medicare costs are spent in the last year of a person's life. - National Center for Policy Analysis, 8/02

20% of all fish caught commercially are dumped, dead or dying, as unwanted "bycatch". - San Diego Union, 3/8/06

19% of American households do not have a cell phone. - The Week Magazine, 2/17/06

8% of American households have four or more cell phones. - The Week Magazine, 2/17/06

32% of scientific studies may be inaccurate or misleading, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. - The Week Magazine, 7/29/05

90% of North Korea's outside phone lines have been shut down since April 2005. - News24.com, 6/10/05

2% of the land in the continental United States is covered by lawns. - US News and World Report, 5/16/05

33% of all 1,200,000,000 Marshmallow Peeps manufactured each year are bought not for eating but to be used in science experiments, arts and crafts, dioramas, and rituals. - Fortune, 3/05

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