Odd Facts for 8-21
Tourists are paying $65 each for a guided bus tour of Los Angeles’ violence filled gang turf. Customers are required to sign a waiver, acknowledging risk of gunfire.
43% of all U. S. venture capital in 2008 went to the San Francisco Bay Area.
The only bookstore in Laredo, Texas (B. Dalton) has closed. Now the closest bookstore to Laredo is in San Antonio, which is 150 miles away.
The odds are 1 out of 4 (25%) that a ninth grader in the Detroit public school system will graduate in four years.
Steve Irwin’s body was fed to crocodiles at his request.
Colorado will reduce minimum wage by 4 cents in 2010 – becoming the first state to lower the minimum wage in over seventy years.
Stray dogs in Moscow have apparently taught themselves to use the subway.
Toby Cosgrove, chief executive of the Cleveland Clinic (one of the nation’s largest medical centers), said that if it was up to him, he would stop hiring the obese.
The federal government is now spending $2 for every dollar it takes in.
In Mississippi, legislators tried to pass a bill to let restaurants prohibit obese people from dining.
The odds are 1 in 582 (.0017%) that you will be injured in a traffic accident due to “driver distraction”.
Niger (Africa) has the world’s highest fertility rate – 7.1 children per mother.