Random Factoids…

• The 100 Club of Arizona donated $10,000 to a police’s charity for the chance to tase Glendale’s mayor in June 2015.

• In 1968 the chance that a low-wage worker had attended college was 1 in 6.

• In 2015 that low-wage worker had a chance of 1 in 2.

• U.S. law schools that accepted students with LSAT scores below 147 in 2010 numbered 8. In 2014 that number was 45.

• Approximate number of Safety 1st-brand high chairs recalled in October 2015 because of child injuries: 35,000.

• The World Health Organization has evaluated 985 chemicals for their carcinogenic potential since 1971.

• The number the WHO found “probably not” carcinogenic: 1 (one).

• Dollar amount the White House plans to spend on stand up desks in the next five years: $700,000.

• Percentage of tattoo removal procedures in the United States that were performed on women: 75%

• Number of deaths daily in China attributable to air pollution: 4,400.

• Researchers have estimated Carly Fiorina’s tenure as CEO at Hewlett-Packard cost the company’s shareholders $55,200,000,000.

• 40% of Americans aged 18 to 34 identify as millennials; 8% identify as boomers; 8% as members of the greatest generation.

• Seven out of ten U.S. college freshmen rate themselves above average in academic aptitude.

• U.S. colleges raise tuition for every additional dollar of Pell Grant aid available to their students by 55 cents.

• Youngest age at which a patient may be prescribed OxyContin, according to an August FDA ruling: 11

• Percent of children aged six to eight who watch YouTube videos every day: 75

• Change in household food consumption in Greece since 2010: minus 15%

• China consumes 44% of the world’s cigarettes.

• Confirmed number of Americans aged 112 or older: 10

• The number that age listed as alive in Social Security data: 4,700,000

• Number of people fatally shot by British police in the last three years: 2

• Average number of people fatally shot by U.S. police each day in 2015 through August: 2.6

• Americans are 27 times more likely to be killed by a cow than by a shark.

• Percentage change in the number of bottlenose dolfins beached annually on the Gulf coast since the 2010 BP oil spill: +65