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Your support makes all the difference.Estimated number of Algerians who have died during the seven-year civil war:
70,000
Percentage of Algeria's population under 25:
75
Number of Thais living close to the Cambodian border killed or maimed by landmines in the last four years:
1,000
Amount US owes the United Nations:
$1bn
Combined worth of the 369 corporate mergers Goldman, Sachs & Company investment bank advised on last year:
$960bn
Interest rate in Zimbabwe:
55 per cent
Amount Bill Clinton owes in personal legal fees after Kenneth Starr's
investigation:
$9m
Amount Bill Clinton raised last year by direct mail towards his legal expenses: $4.6m
Amount Mike Tyson owes in tax:
$13m
Percentage of Los Angeles Police officers who live in predominantly white suburbs:
83
Number of guns inhabitants of Los Angeles County are now legally allowed
to buy per month:
1
Number of malfunctions in US government satellites caused, in a good
year, by space weather:
150
Number of pagers which were put out of action when the communications satellite Galaxy IV failed last May:
45 million
Chances that one of the known - and officially classified - forms of life is a species of beetle:
1 in 5
Length, in kilometres, of water-repellent skates humans would have to wear to emulate water striders, a type of insect living on the surface film of ponds: 18
Seconds in which Nyana Spier, a 17-month-old cheetah, ran the 100 metres, knocking over three seconds off the world record:
6.8
Percentage by which the UK population of turtle doves declined between 1971 and '95:
79
Number of people who pick 1,2,3,4,5,6 as their lottery numbers every week:
10,000
SOURCES: TIME(X2), ASIAN TIMES, THE VOICE, NEW YORKER, LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS, PRECISION MARKETING(X2), THE VOICE, BBC, NEW REPUBLIC, NEW SCIENTIST(X2), NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC(X2), NEW SCIENTIST, FRONTIER.
Compiled by Will Hobson
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