"Number of Saudi men who were imprisoned and flogged for behaving like women at a party in March: 100" or how about this one: "Number of Americans who spend more than a quarter of their income on health care: 14,300,000."
I haven't read the Harper's Index for awhile but for many years it was a favourite read (secretly, I always felt a little superior to my friends who , for the most part, just didn't like to read newsy-type things). It's always got some numbers that surprise (Are they true? Who says?).
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