51911 Hotline
About 40% of the calls that come into the emergency hotline (911) in San Francisco are deemed nonemergencies. Examples include people complaining about rap music next door, car towing, and, in one case, no internet.
52. About 80-90% of high school graduates in Singapore are myopic. The same is true in China, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea, all places where kids now spend far more time hunched over a desk or computer than the previous generations. Some studies estimate that about half the world could need glasses by 2050.
53. Roughly 25% of women or 33% of men snort when they laugh.
54. Nguyen is a very common Vietnamese family name. By some estimates, 40% of Vietnamese people bear this surname.
55. In 2013, women earned 60% of all bachelor’s degrees that were awarded that year in the United States.
