More Than 100 Facts For the 99%Ninety nine percent of all life forms
that have ever existed are now extinct.
99% of The Universe is plasma.
Ninety nine percent of all schools
have computers. 99% of all Shakespeare's
plays have been tapped out by virtual monkeys.
Ninety nine percent of all Santas are jolly,
merry and kind-hearted. 99% of all
lawyers give the rest a bad name.
Ninety nine percent of all felonies are settled
by plea bargaining. 99% of all problems
in communication start with misunderstandings.
Ninety nine percent of all marijuana
eradicated in the US is feral. 99% of all new
online businesses will fail.
Ninety nine percent of all tomato products
consumed in the US come from California.
99% of all river blindness is in Africa.
Ninety nine percent of all bandwidth
on the internet is devoted to child and animal
porn. 99% of Believers would take the gold.
Ninety nine percent of all migrant farmworkers
are members of an ethnic minority. 99% of all
turkeys raised in the US are Broadbreasted White.
Ninety nine percent of all family foundations
have assets under $100 million. 99% of all
human DNA is exactly alike.
Ninety nine percent of all law under
Capitalism has to do with property. 99%
of all profit is made by 1% on Wall Street.
Ninety nine percent of all puppies sold come
from puppy mills. 99% of all public schools
serve lunch from the National Lunch Program.
Ninety nine percent of all calcium in the body
is found in the teeth and bones. 99% of all
freshwater pearls are grown in China.
Ninety nine percent of all Oregon state prosecutions
involving non-violent protesters exercising their rights were
against them. 99% of all hazelnuts are grown in Oregon.
Ninety nine percent of all ghost pictures
can be explained away. 99% of all maternal
deaths occur in developing countries.
Ninety nine percent of all cats deliver
their kittens without assistance or complications.
99% of all US households have a television.
Ninety nine percent of all TVs sold in the US
come with remote controls. 99% of all promotions
are created because somebody has stock to sell.
Ninety nine percent of all land animals eaten
in the US are factory farmed. 99% of all gas consumed
in the US comes from the North American Continent.
Ninety nine percent of all snail species
have shells with whorls that coil clockwise.
99% of all successful businesses require teamwork.
Ninety nine percent of all businesses lose
25%-40% of their profits from mistakes. 99%
of all masturbation involves lust and fantasy.
Ninety nine percent of all virtual forces
affecting our life is invisible. 99% of all
beer cans are made out of aluminum.
Ninety nine percent of all book queries
to agents and editors are rejected. 99% of all
first books are not good enough to publish.
Ninety nine percent of all mass in the galaxy
is taken up by the sun. 99% of all the world's
land ice is in Greenland and Antarctica.
Ninety nine percent of all banking organizations
have assets in excess of $10 million. 99% of all
new jobs since 1990 have been in the service sector.
Ninety nine percent of all the billions
of ants on Earth are female. 99% of all
US prisoners on Death Row are male.
Ninety nine percent of all water on Earth
is ocean water. 99% of all life is invertebrate
and 99% of all invertebrates are extinct.
"Ninety nine percent of all failures come from
people who have a habit of making excuses,"
declared the inventor of the peanut. 99% of all diets fail.
Ninety nine percent of all things that most
of us worry about never actually occur. 99%
of all species that have ever existed are extinct.
Ninety nine percent of all living structures
are built from just 6 elements. 99% of all living
things live within a few thousand feet from the surface.
Ninety nine percent of all newspapers take
their own photos. 99% of all reading
takes place in the brain and not the eyes.
Ninety nine percent of all interactions between
bacteria and host are beneficial. 99% of all
"germs" are killed by hand sanitizer.
Ninety nine percent of all electricity generated
in the world is lost to resistance as it flows
from source to use. 99% of all TVs are unsold.
Ninety nine percent of all personal care products
contain 9,350 chemical compounds untested for safety.
99% of all abortions are performed prior to 20 weeks.
Ninety nine percent of all great inventions
weren't perfect the first time. 99% of all
plastic bags in the US are not being reused.
Ninety nine percent of all Americans listen
to the radio. 99% of all bottled water sold
in the US has only been filtered.
Ninety nine percent of all ingredients in consumer
products are inert or inactive, thus protected
by trade secret. 99% of all wills are uncontested.
Ninety nine percent of all plants still use
3 instead of 4 atoms of carbon for photosynthesis.
99% of all farm animals killed are birds and fish.
Ninety nine percent of all people trying
out for a role in TV, theater or film will not
get the job. 99% of all new businesses fail.
Ninety nine percent of all professional speakers
earn less than $1 million their entire career.
99% of all capital exists only as processor entries.
Ninety nine percent of all tobacco-related
deaths are caused by inhaling tobacco smoke.
99% of all cervical cancer is caused by a virus.
Ninety nine percent of all television sets owned
are in color. 99% of the people who produce,
write and direct for television are white males.
Ninety nine percent of all goods produced in
the world are trashed within six months. 99% of all
US businesses are small and create 75% net new jobs.
Ninety nine percent of all electricity in the world
is produced by running a wire through a magnetic
field. 99% of all baking is applying heat to starch.
Ninety nine percent of all fires on the planet
are lit by humans. 99% of all mothers' milk
contains detectable levels of DDT.
Ninety nine percent of all pesticide poisoning
deaths are caused by developing countries. 99%
of all adverse drug reactions are unreported.
Ninety nine percent of all eligible American
Indians registered to fight in WWII. 99% of all
privately owned hand guns are never used.
Ninety nine percent of all footwear sold in the US
is made by foreigners overseas from foreign goods.
99% of all transactions take less than a minute.
Ninety nine percent of all Medicare dollars
spent are linked to chronic illness. 99% of all
healthcare dollars are spent on illness, not prevention.
Ninety nine percent of all genetics
have been mapped. 99% of all wireless
calls rely upon fixed fiber optic lines.
Ninety nine percent of all US households
purchase milk. 99% of all uranium in the human
body will exit through the evacuation of fecal waste.
Ninety nine percent of all pumpkins
are sold for decoration. 99% of all
people talk to their dog or cat.
Ninety nine percent of all stars will end up
as a white dwarf. 99% of all human
history is a hunter-gathering way of life.
Ninety nine percent of all connections
are now done digitally. 99% of all active
genes in the body are not human.
Ninety nine percent of all problems
can be identified. You are 99% of the
problem If you are not 99% of a solution.
If ninety nine percent of the whole
can be equal to its part, than 99%
of us can be equal to any and all.
Lorna Dee Cervantes
11/29/11
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