Friday, May 16, 2014

60,000 What??

The JewPsy blog has reached 60,000 hits! But what's so special about 60,000?


Men in hard hats posing in front of a sculpture of the number sixty thousand
This photo has no relevance at all other than the big, red
60,000 with which these fellows are inexplicably posing.
Well, imagine that. You all have visited this blog sixty thousand times! Which doesn't really mean all that much because, to be honest, 60,000 is not a particularly significant number. It's not the flashy 50,000, and it's less than plenty of downright boring numbers (60,001 being just one of infinite examples). But 60,000 is still a nice, round number, and that's a good enough reason for me to allow myself to share a little high-five with you (yes, and you too). While we're at it, though, here's a little 60,000 trivia that you may find, if not
useful, then at least marginally interesting.
60,000 is:



  • The number of Legos it took to build a scale model of Vatican City last week in Summit, NJ. The model, built by the 5th and 6th graders of Oak Knoll School of the Holy Child took up 400 square feet of the school gym. 
  • The number of people who sang Bohemian Rhapsody together while waiting for the start of a Green Day concert in London's Emirates Stadium in June. (I know, right? Green Day still selling out stadiums?) That just shows you the dangers of prolonged exposure to heat, boredom, and claustrophobia. Watch the video after the bump:

  • The number of plastic bags Americans use every 5 seconds.
  • The age, in years, of aboriginal art on a stone in Australia that some idiot vandalized yesterday by etching above it "Go and work for a living." 
  • The money that Jonah Hill made for starring in The Wolf of Wall Street. (Leonardo Dicaprio only made around $50 million.)  
  • The amount of dollars in cash that a manager and an unarmed security guard were pushing around in a shopping cart in the Whole Foods on Houston Street before it was stolen by a "quick, quiet" armed robber.
  • The length, in miles, that the blood vessels of an average child would span if laid out end-to-end.
  • The level of income, in dollars, that is higher than or equal to what the majority of American households make each year. 54% of working-age families in this country with children under the age of 18 make between approximately $15,000 and $60,000 per year). 
  • jarNumber of jars of peanut butter donated by Peanut Proud, a charitable organization of U.S. peanut growers, donated to food banks in the southern U.S. after the devastating tornadoes that hit the area last month. 
  • It's also the number of dollars that it cost to ship millions of jars of peanut butter from a bankrupt peanut-processing plant to a New Mexico landfill this March. The 950,000 jars weighed approximately 25 tons and made up 58 truckloads. 
  • ...and the number of times JewPsy has been visited (actually it's 60,080 by now, but who's counting, right?
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