2/96Amount U.S. intelligence agencies have spent on psychics since 1972: $20,000,000

9/01Chance that an eighty-year-old American is left-handed: 1 in 100

    Chance that a ten-year-old is: 1 in 7

1/02Number of years after being executed as witches that six Massachusetts women were exonerated last fall: 309

10/02Size in acres of a billboard that a Chinese town is constructing next to its ancient giant Buddha: 10

6/04Chances that God exists, according to a British physicist working as a risk analyst in Ohio: 2 in 3

5/07Amount the British military spent in 2002 researching whether psychics could find terrorist hideouts: $35,000

7/07Minimum number of Wiccans currently serving in the military: 1,870

5/08Percentage of Britons who believe that Winston Churchill is a mythical figure: 23

8/95Percentage of the French who say “believing in God is not necessary anymore”: 32

10/94Percentage change since 1986 in the number of American adults who believe in the devil: -29