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Amount US spends per day per prisoner: $70
Amount Russia spends per day per prisoner: $1
Russian prisoners not suffering from malnutrition:
0
Length in years of laojiao (labour camp) sentence given to Peter Xu Yongze for running the New Birth Church network, an "underground" Protestant church in China:
10
Conservative estimate of numbers attending Catholic and Protestant worship, legal and illegal, in China - more than Western Europe: 40 million
Estimated number of 100-year-olds who will be alive next year, worldwide: 100,000
Number of bottles of champagne sold in the UK in 1997: 22 million
Estimated value of annual maggot sales for medical purposes in the UK, by the Welsh company, Surgical Materials Testing Lab: $1.64 million
Number of queen ants in the Formica Yessensis colony on 2.7 sq km of the Ishikari coast, Japan: 1 million
Number of nests in the colony, housing the queens and 306 million workers: 45,000
People who went to Giggleswick, South Yorkshire, June 1927 to witness the last total solar eclipse over Britain: 3 million
Number of eclipse-chasers Cornwall can take in before roads are gridlocked: 1.5 million
Number of times, from the 18th century, planet Uranus was identified as a star: 22
Club 2000 prize - http://www.randi.org - to anyone proving the existence of psychic or occult phenomena: $1.2 million
Subscription to the Journal of Comparative Neurology: $13,900
Estimated languages spoken in the world: 6,500
Chance that one of them is spoken in Micronesia, Melanesia or Polynesia: 1 in 6
SOURCES: New Yorker (4), Religion, State & Society, TLS, Untold, Time, IoS, Guardian (2), The Times, James Randi Educational Foundation, New York Review of Books, New Yorker
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