5 Facts of Randomness

[blue_hours_too]

About 200 babies are born worldwide every minute.

Your statistical chance of being murdered in the USA is 1 : 20,000.

About 10% of the workforce in Egypt is under 12 years of age. Although laws protecting children are on the books, they are not well enforced, partly because many poverty-stricken parents feel forced to send their children out to help

Comments

[missvex]

i love those random fact posts, keep it up, always make me smile, or wonder, or both

[blue_hours_too]

I will. ;o)

[johnmill79]

Yeah, I always wonder about that. Won't we eventually run out of space in the ground to bury people? nd I imagine cremation is better for the environment too.

[blue_hours_too]

I think we *are* moving toward cremation becoming more common in the Western world. I've noticed people are changing their attitudes about it.

[blue_hours_too]

Haha, I'm sure you're safe. The family you will stay with won't live in the ghetto if they can afford a nanny. I've survived the US thus far, too... ;o)

The Thursday fact *is* interesting. In the place I'm from in Northern Germany, it always seems like Sunday is the day with the most overcast and rainy weather. It must somehow be related to the Gulf stream that creates weather patterns over there.

[deltasheets]

You've only got a 0.005% chance of being killed in America, compared to 0.03% chance in Brazil. I like my chances better here. She shouldn't worry. ;)

[blue_hours_too]

Yes, chances are she'll make it. ;o) At the same time, the US is famous for crime. More than any other place that's western and industrialized.

[thelongerhours]

200 babies every minute. thats truly scary.