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Percentage of recent college graduates who were unemployed from April 2011 to March 2012: 9.4

Percentage of recent high school graduates who were unemployed from April 2011 to March 2012: 31.1 1

Percentage of Americans who believe that college is unaffordable for most: 75 2

Number of directors for the 500 top-grossing films from 2007 to 2012: 565

Number of those directors who are black: 33

Percentage of black characters with speaking parts in movies with a black director: 52.6

Percentage of black characters with speaking parts in movies without a black director: 9.9 3

Year in which Anne Frank was born: 1929

Year in which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born: 1929

Year in which Barbara Walters was born: 1929 4

Year in which Pluto was discovered: Nope, it was 1930

Surface area of Pluto in square miles: 6,427,806 5

Surface area of Russia in square miles: 6,601,668 6

Number of times Pluto orbited the sun while classified as a planet: 0 7

Number of cigarettes smoked per year for every man, woman, and child on the planet: 1,000 8

Number of annual deaths in the United States due to smoking and secondhand smoke: 480,317 9

Annual cost of smoking-related health care in the United States:
$76,000,000,000 10

Percentage of NPR listeners who know that Egyptians successfully overthrew their government: 68

Percentage of political blog followers who know that Egyptians successfully overthrew their government: 61

Percentage of FOX viewers who know that Egyptians successfully overthrew their government: 49 11

Percentage of adults who own either a tablet computer or e-reader: 50

Percentage of American adult readers who use only e-books: 4

Percentage of Americans who believe that closing their local library would impact their community: 90 12

Duration, in days, of the longest mammalian gestation period—Asian elephant: 660 13

Duration, in days, of the shortest mammalian gestation period­—American
opossum: 13 14

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Christine St. Pierre is a former editorial intern for èßäÉçÇø!

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Kali Swenson is a former editorial intern for èßäÉçÇø!

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