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Statistical lore for everyday living.

 
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Percentage of people who say they have toxic friends whom they tolerate: 80

Number of Americans who died from terrorist acts last year: 15

From dog bites: 34

 
Number of years since Michele Bachmann, Oral Roberts University law graduate, said "What people recognize is that there’s a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline. They see the rise of China, the rise of India, the rise of the Soviet Union and our loss militarily going forward” that the Soviet Union ceased to exist: 20

 
Number of weeks into his presidential campaign before Rick Perry disavowed his nine-month-old book  Fed Up!: 1 

Obama approval rating (Gallup, Rasmussen, CNN): 42% - 45%

GOP approval rating, according to a CNN poll taken Aug. 5-7 after the debt-ceiling fiasco: 33%

At its most recent high-water mark, in September 2008: 48%

Average ratio by which Americans favor higher taxes on the affluent to restore fiscal health and close the gap between rich and poor, in 19 polls taken this year and compiled by Reagan administration veteran Bruce Bartlett: 2 to 1

Number of Hiroshimas that radioactive caesium leaks from the crippled Fukushima reactor equal: 168

Sum that honest Japanese searching through the post-earthquake rubble have found and turned in to rightful owners: $78 million

Percentage increase in Procter & Gamble's sales last year: 5

In CEO Bob McDonald's pay of $16.2 million for overseeing the Pampers and Tide maker: 23

Proceeds from Apple cofounder Ron Wayne's sale of a 10% stake in the firm in 1976: $800

Value of that stake today: $35.6 billion

Warren Buffett's one-day paper profit Thursday on his recent Bank of America investment: $357 million

Percentage of African American women who say they avoid exercise fearing it will ruin their hairdos: 33

 
Rapper draws a crowd only by getting himself arrested. (AP)

Number of people who attended the flash mob at a suburban Cleveland mall called by rapper Machine Gun Kelly, for which he was arrested on disorderly conduct charges - including MGK himself: 3

 

Comments

[Wascally Wabbit]

Michele Bachman's personal creed - doesn't matter if it's correct - it matters if it sounds good!

[LAKA]

Nice post. It's really helped me a lot in my project. I learned from it how to control behavior in worst situation and how to get well in powerful circumstances.