posted March 05, 2007 01:17 PM         

401. 1,314 phone calls will be misplaced by telecom services every minute.

402. 111,111,111 multiplied by 111,111,111 equals 12,345,678,987,654,321

403. 13 people a year are killed by vending machines falling on them.

404. 2 and 5 are the only primes that end in 2 or 5.

405. 2,500 newborn babies will be dropped in the next month.

406. 22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong bank accounts in the next hour.

407. 25% of Americans have internet access.

408. 25% of native Africans have AIDS.

409. 25% of U.S. 4th graders are pressured by friends or classmates to use drugs or alcohol.

410. 27% of Americans think billboards are beautiful.

411. 27% of U.S. male college students believe life is a meaningless existential hell.

412. 4% of the U.S population are vegetarians.

413. 40% of women have hurled footwear at a man.

414. 50% of bank robberies take place on Fridays.

415. 50% of teenage boys say that they would rather be rich than smart.

416. 51% of turns are right turns.

417. 55% of motorbike accidents happen on the weekend.

418. 56% of the video game market is adults.

419. 57% of British school kids think Germany is the most boring country in Europe.

420. 60% of electrocutions occur while talking on the phone during a thunderstorm.

421. 68% of Americans who view computer commercials on TV that advertise a processor, such as the Pentium III, believe it speeds up your internet connections. However, a modem does that.

422. 69% of men say that they would rather break up with a girl in private rather than in public.

423. 7% of Americans think Elvis is alive.

424. 70% of all boats sold are used in fishing.

425. 811,000 faulty rolls of 35 mm film will be purchased this year.

426. 82% believe in an after life.

427. 880,000 credit cards in circulation will turn out to have incorrect cardholder information on their magnetic strips.

428. 9% of Americans reported having been in the presence of a ghost.

429. 90 percent of women who walk into a department store immediately turn to the right.

430. 95% of food poisoning cases are never reported.

431. 97% of Canadians say they would not borrow a toothbrush if they forgot to pack their own.

432. A survey in the U.S shows that nuns of small or medium build expect to live far longer than tall unskilled and divorced alcoholic laborers.

433. About 1 out of every 70 people who pick their nose actually eat their boogers.

434. About 43% of convicted criminals in the U.S. are re-arrested within a year of being released from prison.

435. About 5% of Americans claim to have talked to the devil personally.

436. About 6% of murdered American men are killed by either their wife or girlfriend... or wife who caught them with their girlfriend.

437. About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money.

438. About two hundred babies are born worldwide every minute.

439. Americans spend more time at shopping malls than anywhere else outside their homes and jobs.

440. Annual growth of WWW traffic is 314,000%.

441. Approximately 97.35618329% of all statistics are made up.

442. Assuming Rudolph was in front, there are 40320 ways to rearrange the other eight reindeer.

443. At 1.6 deaths for every 1000 persons, Qatar has the lowest death rate in the world.

444. August is the month when most baby's are born.

445. Average age of top GM executives in 1994: 49.8 years. Average age of the Rolling Stones: 50.6.

446. By 65 years old, Americans have watched more than nine years of television.

447. Chances of a white Christmas in New York: 1 in 4

448. Chances that a burglary in the U.S. will be solved: 1 in 7.

449. A single share of Coca-Cola stock, purchased in 1919, when the company went public, would have been worth $92,500 in 1997.

450. IBM's motto is "Think."

451. It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.

452. NERF, the popular foam children's toy company, doesn't actually stand for anything.

453. Nestlé is the largest company in Switzerland, yet more than 98 percent of its revenue comes from outside the country.

454. Organized crime is estimated to account for 10% of the United States' national income.

455. Sixty percent of big-firm executives said the cover letter is as important or more important than the résumé itself when you're looking for a new job.

456. The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

457. The A & P was the first chain-store business to be established. It began in 1842.

458. The average bank teller loses $250 a year.

459. The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.

460. The largest employer in the world is the Indian railway system, employing over a million people.

461. The most dangerous job in the United States is that of Sanitation Worker. Firemen and Policeman are a close second and third, followed by Leather Tanners in fourth.

462. The sale of Vodka makes up 10% of the Russians government income.

463. The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is 'Live Free or Die.' These license plates are manufactured by prisoners in the state prison in Concord.

464. Workers at Matsushita Electric Company, in Japan, beat dummies of their foreman with bamboo sticks to let off steam. The company at this time enjoyed 30 percent growth for 25 consecutive years.

465. Zip code 12345 is assigned to General Electric in Schenectady, N.Y.

466. Did you know that you're more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than a poisonous spider?

467. Every day in the U.S., about a hundred people over the age of fourteen commit suicide.

468. Experienced waitress say that married men tip better than unmarried men.

469. Fifty percent of all marsh mellows consumed in the U.S. have been toasted.

470. Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.

471. Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada has the largest bar per capita than anywhere else in the world.

472. If you earn twenty thousand dollars a year, one minute of your time is worth a little more than seventeen cents.

473. In Calcutta, 79% of the population live in one-room houses.

474. In Japan, 20% of all publications sold are comic books.

475. In the next seven days, 800 Americans will be injured by their jewelry.

476. It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk.

477. It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.

478. Less than 7% of the population donates blood.

479. Men are 1.6 times more likely to undergo by-pass surgery than women.

480. Meteorologists claim they're right 85% of the time.

481. More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.

482. More than 10 percent of all the salt produced annually in the world is used to de-ice American roads.

483. Most fatal car accidents happen on a Saturday.

484. Nobody yet has explained satisfactorily why couples who marry in January, February, and March tend to have the highest divorce rates.

485. Nowadays, 50% of all people who get married get divorced.

486. Number of 30-second commercials seen in a year by an average child: 20,000

487. Odds of being killed by a dog are 1 in 700,000.

488. Odds of being killed by a tornado are 1 in 2 million.

489. Odds of being killed by falling out of bed are 1 in 2 million.

490. Odds of being killed in a car crash are 1 in 5000.

491. Odds of dying in the bathtub are 1 in 1,000,000.

492. Of the 266 men who have been pope, 33 have died violently.

493. On average, children between the ages of two and seven color 28 minutes every day.

494. One sixth of all Americans, an estimated 43 million people, move each year.

495. One-fourth of the world's population lives on less than $200 a year. Ninety million people survive on less than $75 a year.

496. Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.

497. Over 50% percent of Americans believe in the devil.

498. Percentage of men who say they are happier after their divorce or separation: 58%

499. Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%.