By the numbers


Arizona Daily Wildcat
Monday, August 9, 2004
14
Days until the first day of the Fall 2004 academic semester.

600+
Number of Golden Gate Bridge suicide jumpers since its completion in 1937.

250,000
Annual number of American husbands that are physically attacked and beaten by their wives. 27
The number of Mormon leader Brigham Young's wives.

158
The number of verses in the Greek national anthem.

$687
The average annual income of an American family in 1915.

2,598,960
The possible variations of five-card poker hands from a 52-card deck.

660,000
The speed of the earth moving through space in miles per hour. 45
The average length of nerves in miles within the human body.

20 million
The approximate number of urinals in the U.S. Each is flushed an average of 75 times a day - 27,375 times a year - consuming almost 40,000 gallons of water (sans urine) annually. Props to The Miami Herald.