$1.4 billion
The price of the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft. The ship will make at least 76 loops around Saturn and engage a dozen cameras and instruments, according to Time magazine. 16
Printings so far of Bruce Campbell's autobiographical "If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a 'B' Movie Actor."

$2.5 million
The highest price ever paid for a Gutenberg Bible, in 1970.

$125,000
The amount paid to Elvis Presley to appear for six minutes on a television special in 1957. The financier was Frank Sinatra, who described rock-and-roll as "phony and false" and "written and played for the most part by cretinous goons."

170 miles per second
The speed at which our solar system revolves around the center of the Milky Way.

13,700,000
People who died in battle during World War I.

1300
Inventions patented by Thomas Edison during his lifetime. His favorite was the phonograph.

$107,000
The debt owed by Thomas Jefferson in 1826, when he was 83 years old. He convinced the Virginia state Legislature to allow him to sell lottery tickets for his land. The lottery was unsuccessful, and Jefferson died with many unpaid debts.