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And 25 other facts you should probably know.
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
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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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