Life in numbers
Posted on March 4, 2007
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34 percent the number of people who walk to work (Transportation Research Board)
5 the number of times Martin Scorsese was nominated for an Oscar and lost until wining one for The Departed in his sixth nomination.
1.12 liters per hour the average man sweats during intense exercise (Journal of strength and conditioning research)
12 billion kilometers and counting the distance of NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft from our Sun
3 number of times more likely people who drink 2.5 cans of soda daily are to be depressed and anxious, compared to those who drink less (American journal of public health)
71 percent the number of men who want to have better sexual endurance
57660 the minimum number of civilians reported killed in Iraq since the war on terror started (iraqbodycount.com)
131,6 miles the distance traveled by Stanley, Stanford’s autonomous driving robot car on its way to wining the $2 million dollar price in DARPA’s Grand Challenge in 2005
114 years the age of Puerto Rican Emiliano Mercado Del Toro recognized as the oldest man alive today
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