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Aug 07

1,000

Number of years, says Mars Society’s Robert Zubrin, it would take to terraform Mars into a habitable planet. Zubrin lays out his six-step plan here.

21%

Percentage of all oil imports that the United States gets from the Middle East. Americans need not look very far to know where most of their oil comes from — Canada, which accounted for 26% of their oil purchases.

Aug 04

14,000,000

Amount, in US dollars, that People Magazine and Hello Magazine paid Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt to gain rights to publish photos of their newborn twin babies Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline. {link}

Aug 03

72

Number of hours a 30 year-old Chinese man spent playing video games nonstop before collapsing and eventually die from overexhaustion. {link}

33

Number of days to register property in Davao City, Philippines, according to a World Bank report. Similarly, the report revealed that it took an average of 47 days for entrepreneurs to start their businesses in the city. {link}

100,000,000,000

Zimbabwe's 100 billion dollar bill
Denomination of Zimbabwe’s newly circulated currency, roughly equivalent to one US dollar. Zimbabwe’s annual inflation is the highest in the world, at 2,200,000%, forcing the government to issue billion dollar bank notes that are worth next to nothing.