Whoda Thunk Files

• Number of on air minutes CNN devoted to climate change during the 2012 campaign season: 23

• Number of minutes to Joe Biden’s smile: 107

• Chance an American has been laid off at least once during current recession: 1 in 4

• Facebook’s profits in 2012: $1,100,000,000

• Facebook’s tax refund from the federal government: $429,000,000

• Change since 2001 in number of U.S. young adults who have credit card debt: -22%

• Change in the number who have student-loan debt: +54%

• The test-score gap change since 1976 between the children of America’s richest and poorest deciles: +40%

• Change since 1980 in California’s spending on public universities: -13%

• Spending in same period on prisons: +436

• U.S. population that is foreign-born: 13%

• Percent that was foreign born in 1913: 15%

• Number of reports of record high temperatures in U.S. cities in 2012: 362

• The number of reports of record lows: 0

• Estimate of debris left on the moon by NASA: 36,600 lbs.

• Canada’s rank among largest garbage producers per capita in industrialized world: 1

• Obama Administration spending on immigration enforcement in 2012: $18,000,000,000

• Justice Department spending on all law enforcement in 2012: $12,400,000,000