- Chances of being killed in the United States (over a four year period):
- Timbercutter (most lethal legal job): 1 in 200
- Death Row: 1 in 20
- Drug-dealer ('foot-soldier' earns below minimum wage): 1 in 4
- Unborn Fetus: 1 in 3.25 (37mn abortions since 1980 legalization. 6mn jews killed in holocaust)
- 50% IQ is Genetic. 20% IQ develops in the womb. 4 weeks after conception fetus has a recognisable brain.
- Children laugh 300 times a day, Adults 50 times. No data on crying.
- Human brains double in size in first five years. Monkey brains barely grow in this time. After this there is continual growth in the connections between neurons. We have 100bn neurons, 1,000trn synapses. But only 1mn genes.
- The shadow economy is 15-20% global GDP. 70% of resources available to organised crime comes form narcotics.
- UK homicide statistics (per 100k) over the centuries:
- c14th - 23
- c16th - 7
- c17th - 5
- c18th - 1.5
- c19th - 1.7
- c20th - 0.9
- 2008 Defence Budgets:
- US $532bn ($14trn GDP)
- UK $62bn ($4.6trn GDP)
- France $51bn
- China $59bn (18% growth. Significantly under-reported)
- Japan $42bn
- Germany $37bn
- India $26bn (5% growth)
- Amount spent by christian charity groups to support social services in Philadelphia: $1bn
dec 31 2008 ∞
may 18 2009 +