Numbers & Numbers, from a greek newspaper Options

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[title]Numbers[/title]

• 10 is the number of outpost blocks that Jesus and Mary would have to pass through today to make their trip to the stable Jesus was born.
  
  [source]Shurat HaDin Law Centre[/source]
  
  
• 5:3 is the ratio between overweight : starving people in the world today.
  
  [source]WHO | World Health Organization[/source]
  
  
• 2 out of 5 are the possibilities that a patient will suffer implications after any surgical or not operation to reduce weight
  
  [source]Agency for HealthCare Research and Quality, Rockville, Md. [/source]
  
  
• 36% of global newspapers are tabloids, the rest have the classic size.
  
  [source]World Association of Newspapers[/source]
  
  
• 40% of British people state they would be willing to sacrifice sex for life if they were to live 100 years.
  
  [source]Ipsos Mori gallup[/source]
  
  
• 1 out of 10 of European people is calculated to have been conceived during sexual intercourse on a bed bought by IKEA stores.
  
  [source]BBC News[/source]
  
  
• 102.000 km, roughly about 2,5 the length of Earth Ecuador is the length of all smarties consumed this year worldwide.
  
  [source]Daily Telegraph[/source]
  
  
• 80% is the percentage of German employees that do nto qualify to work in companies in search of sophisticated experts.
  
  [source]Newsweek magazine, Dec 2006[/source]
  
  
• 58% of Germans wants to return to the mark instead of the Euro.
  
  [source]Forsa Institute[/source]
  
  
• 9,80€ was paid by a reader of the column for 800gr of crispies at a bakery store in Athens.
  
  [source]Bakery Payment Receipt[/source]
  
  
• 500 British Pounds was placed on July 2005 as a bet at William Hill by british Arthur Robinson, 91 years old then, that he would die by the end of the year. William Hill accepted the bet with 6:1 ratio, so if he died the legacy would be 3000 pounds. He is still alive.
  
  [source]Times[/source]
  
  
• 57 bic pens are sold each second in the world. There have been sold about 100 billion of those since 1950.
  
  [source]Harper's Index[/source]
  
  
• 1649 was the year Olivier Cromwell stopped the kingdom and the celebration of Christmas at December the 25th. Whoever celebrated during that day was prosecuted to jail to stand on trial
  
  [source]http://www.thepeacefamily.force9.co.uk/xmasfact.html#facts[/source]
  
  
• 75 kg of raw materials are necessary to construct just one mobile phone
  
  [source]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4075140.stm[/source]

Source for all the above :

[source]"ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΟΤΥΠΙΑ" Newspaper, 23 Dec 2006, from Chris Michailides, www.bavzer.blogspot.com[/source]