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Your support makes all the difference.Percentage by which the US federal anti-drug budget has risen since 1970:
3,700
Number of objects that will drop from the sky each week next year, the majority burning up on impact:
12
Number of active home-made satellites in Earth's orbit:
16
Number of defunct military or commercial satellites in the Earth's orbit:
2,000
Of the 10,000 time capsules known by the International Time Capsule Society to have been buried since the war, number that have been lost:
9,000
Number of cars in Prague in 1989:
40,000
Number of cars in Prague in 1999:
300,000
Number of school governors' positions in England and Wales yet to be filled:
27,000
Number of words Japanese teenagers invent each year: 5,500
Worth of toys and games that are not played with in the average British household:
pounds 254
Estimated amount the British will be spending on toys this Christmas:
pounds 850m
Number of cats stolen per year in France, many for fur to make children's shoes:
20,000
Estimated proportion of New Zealand's cats suffering from obesity:
1 in 2
Amount Sydney's Mardi Gras generates for the Australian economy:
$64m
Likelihood a British person has not decided what to do on New Year's Eve:
3 in 5
Percentage of those who have made plans prepared to describe them as "very exciting":
7
Amount a blue door featured in the film Notting Hill fetched at auction at Christie's:
pounds 5,750
SOURCES: HARPER'S, TIMES EDUCATIONAL SUPPLEMENT, ECONOMIST, TIMES EDUCATIONAL SUPPLEMENT, BBC RADIO 4, ABBEY NATIONAL, THE GUARDIAN, THE INDEPENDENT, NEW ZEALAND NEWS UK, ECONOMIST, NOP, METRO.
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