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Forty
percent
of Native people are under the age of 24.
Did you know that 80
percent
of the information we receive comes through our eyes, and if you compare light energy to musical scales, it would only be one octave that the naked eye could see, which is right in the middle?
I went home from work early one day with what I thought was the flu, and less than 24 hours later I was in the hospital on life support with less than a two
percent
chance of living.
So like Johnny Depp, and like 25
percent
of Americans between the ages of 16 and 50, I have a tattoo.
33
percent
of all of our regrets pertain to decisions we made about education.
They account for less than three
percent
of our total regrets.
The FDA estimates that of all the Americans who have tattoos, 17
percent
of us regret getting them.
We often think of torture as being political torture or reserved for just the worst, but, in fact, 95
percent
of torture today is not for political prisoners.
Eighty
percent
of the two thousand people here are without a lawyer.
For example, our National Endowment for the Arts, with its $150 million budget, slashing that program would immediately reduce the national debt by about one one-thousandth of a
percent.
According to the National Science Foundation, 29
percent
of that goes to public research universities.
For things that were written more than 50 years ago, the computer cannot recognize about 30
percent
of the words.
This is the number of distinct people that have helped us digitize at least one word out of a book through reCAPTCHA: 750 million, a little over 10
percent
of the world's population, has helped us digitize human knowledge.
It's about 20
percent
of the size of English.
The problem with this business model is that 95
percent
of the world's population doesn't have 500 dollars.
Ninety-five
percent
of every single car that goes on the road gets recycled here.
And of that car, about 75
percent
of the entire car actually gets used again.
Even as we move towards battery-powered cars, there are companies that claim they can recycle up to 90
percent
of the 11 million tons of batteries that are going to be with us in 2020.
In the setting of prostate cancer, up to 60
percent
of men after prostate cancer surgery may have urinary incontinence and erectile disfunction.
That's something like eight
percent
of the total agricultural output globally.
Or for that matter, if you look at the genetic level, 60
percent
of medicines were prospected, were found first as molecules in a rainforest or a reef.
If you start green, it's like 80 to 100
percent.
If it's yellow, it's 40 to 60
percent.
In fact, what's being absorbed is something like 25
percent
of our emissions, which then leads to acidification or lower alkalinity in oceans.
Green carbon, which is the deforestation and agricultural emissions, and blue carbon together comprise 25
percent
of our emissions.
Now, Ms. Counts and all of her librarian colleagues have really been at the forefront of comics advocacy, really since the early '80s, when a school library journal article stated that the mere presence of graphic novels in the library increased usage by about 80
percent
and increased the circulation of noncomics material by about 30
percent.
I was in the Netherlands early this year and was absolutely amazed by the amount of bikes on the road; 26
percent
of all trips taken in the Netherlands are by bicycle, and it's gotten me thinking: How do we get that happening in terms of food and gardens?
How would we get 26
percent
of all produce coming from backyard gardens?
That might sound like a lot, because we're probably at about two
percent
at the most right now.
But if you take into consideration that at the peak of the victory garden movement last century, 40
percent
of all produce was coming from gardens.
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