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Percentage of songs on Billboard’s Top 20 list during 2004 whose lyrics mention at least one brand name: 40
Percentage that mention weaponry: 50
Minimum number of days that a Florida couple picketed their home in December to get their children to do more chores: 17
Average number of years by which a 2004 study found the cells of chronically stressed women to have prematurely aged: 13
Microseconds by which December’s Indian Ocean earthquake permanently shortened the length of a day: 3
Chance that a tsunami will hit the U.S. Pacific Northwest in the next thirty years: 1 in 10
Days after Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston separated in January that an Us Weekly executive called the story “our tsunami”: 4
Number of saplings that Pitt paid to have planted in Bhutan last year to counteract his personal CO2 production: 1,700
[Harper's Index; http://www.harpers.org/MostRecentIndex.html]