Harper's Index Nov. 2005

The monthly news magazine Harper's has an list of hilarious, or interesting facts called "Harper's Index". I might have done something like this before, either way, here's some highlights from this month.

Number of journalists killed in Vietnam during twenty years of war there: 63

Number killed in Iraq since March 2003: 71

Average number of blogs created each second: 1

Number of erotic Harry Potter fan-fiction stories posted on a website run by an Illinois woman: 1,750

Average number of hits the site receives each day: 198, 000

Estimated chance, worldwide, that a father is unknowingly raising another man's child: 1 in 25

Minimum # of infants impeded from boarding airplanes because of their names were on the U.S. no-fly list: 14

Percentage of U.S. women who own vibrators: 46