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NUMBERS

We never cease to be amazed at some of the numbers out there in our every day world. We so often take things for granted or are outright oblivious to the size of our world until things are brought into perspective when we hear about a number.

To that end, this website was created to shine a light on these numbers.

Current # of Records: 143

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4,295 Number of M4 Sherman Tanks destroyed during WWII. 1636 were suffered by the 37 Independent Tank Battalions, and , 2659 by the 15 armored divisions.
(Source:Steve Zaloga's book Armored Thunderbolt: Dated: Jun 2020)


2,000 Number of people using asthma inhalers every minute world wide.
(Source:Smithsonian Magazine Sept 2020: Dated: Sep 2020)


9 Millions of wild/feral pigs in the United States. Includes many huge domestic pigs which have escaped their pens and turned wild, mating with wild boars. (2020)
(Source:NPR Radio via Adventure Journal : Dated: Sep 2020)


3 million coins are deposited in vending machines every 15 minutes in the United States alone.
(Source:Modern Marvels Television Show: Dated: Nov 2020)


40 billion US$ (and more) runs through the food and beverage vending machines per year.
(Source:Modern Marvel Television Series: Dated: Nov 2020)


35,000 Number of laundromats in the United States. A 5 billion US$ industry.
(Source:Martin Ray Laundry Systems : Dated: Nov 2020)


24 million web pages that have been published 5 or more years ago on more than 200 million active website, which the developers have lost or forgotten about. Pages that will never, ever be updated, corrected, changed or removed. Pure guess.
(Source:Numbers (this site) publisher. Pure guess: Dated: Dec 2020)


5 Millions+ shipping containers are moving across/around the world on any given day.
(Source:History Channel: Dated: Jan 2021)


7 7.2 million.. Number of data centers in the world. As of 2017, required 416 Terawatts of electricity (3% of 2017 power).
(Source:Statista : Dated: Jan 2021)


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