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.
Please feel free to browse, edit and contribute. Please promise to be as accurate as possible.
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| 2,653 |
Number of handguns confiscated from passenger luggage
at
236 U.S. airport screening stations in 2015. 82% were
loaded.
(Source:TSA website 2016  : Dated: Jan 2017)
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| 3,000 |
Number people in the US that will die of food poisoning each year.
(Source:USDA via channel 7 news.: Dated: Dec 2016)
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| 3,000 |
Number of people who die of food poisoning each
year in the US. CDC estimates that each year
roughly 1 in 6 Americans (or 48 million people)
gets sick, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die
of foodborne diseases.
(Source:Center for disease control: Dated: May 2021)
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| 3,000 |
Number of perfectly good, hi end, luxury cars abandoned each
year in Dubai.
(Source:staff writer Khawaja Rahmanudin Sideqi for Quora : Dated: Feb 2021)
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| 3,035 |
Number of people living in San Francisco's homeless shelters in 2013
(Source:Popular Science, Dec 2014: Dated: Jan 2014)
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| 3,200 |
Number of people killed in home fires each year in the USA.
(Source:Heard it on TV: Dated: May 2018)
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| 3,300 |
Number of people who are killed in vehicular road crashes
each
day.
(Source:Assoc for Safe International Road Travel : Dated: Jan 2015)
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| 3,300 |
Number of deer hits every day on US Highways.
(Source:Good Morning America via NTA: Dated: Feb 2017)
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| 3,500 |
Number of college athletes who will graduate this year with less than a 5th grade education.
(Source:Pure guess, JT: Dated: Dec 2014)
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