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4/00 Number of days a Norse woman incubated a bird’s egg between her breasts last spring before giving up: 28
5/05 Gallons of human breast milk dispensed last year by milk banks in North America: 4,438
7/88 Bounty that drug smugglers are rumored to have put on Barco, a U.S. Border Patrol drug-sniffing dog: $30,000
7/88 Number of fish per day that a Vermonter may shoot in season: 10
7/88 Number of Soviets in Petrozavodsk who were crushed to death in liquor-store lines last year: 3
5/89 Total number of black spots drawn by Disney animators for 101 Dalmatians: 6,469,952
8/03 Number of U.S. commercial sites besides Disneyland and Disney World that have been granted no-fly-zone protection: 0
8/88 Number of twelve-fingered Amish dwarfs in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania: 39
3/96 Hours Shaquille O’Neal spent snowed in at a Pennsylvania hotel in January with the cast of Sesame Street on Ice: 45

I could muddle through this for hours.
And sorry to any of you who thought I wanted to talk anime.

1/91Percentage of male college students who say that “some women look as though they’re just asking to be raped”: ]84


12/88Number of inquiries about John Dillinger’s penis received by the Smithsonian Institution each month: [URL="http://harpers.org/index?q=stat:[2.0%20TO%20*]"]2
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2/94Percentage change, since 1990, in the frequency with which the word “penis” has appeared in the New York Times: ]+100


12/05Price in South Africa next year of a latex vaginal insert that latches onto a rapist’s penis and requires surgical removal: ]35¢

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Percentage of Canadians who expect their country to become a part of the United States in the next 50 years: ]37

God Dammit Canadians, stop killing your pet polar bears.

9/07Percentage change since 1990 in greenhouse-gas emissions from Russia: –29
Percentage change from the United States and Canada, respectively: +16, +25

Percentage of Canadians who expect their country to become a part of the United States in the next 50 years: ]37

HA!

I see you're part of that 37%.

Amount Canada spent last summer to keep bears away from the G-8 summit: ]$31,427

Number of days a Quebec protester was jailed in April for allegedly catapulting three stuffed animals at police: ]17

Ratio of hockey rinks to hospitals in Canada: ]3:1

11/93 Number of hunters who have had their cremated remains loaded into a shotgun shell and shot at an animal: 40

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