Listed here are a variety of interesting numbers that have appeared in the news. See if any of these resonate with you; you may find that the scale and magnitude of numbers are of more interest than you had thought!

If you were one of America’s most popular and enduring actresses, how much would you have invested in real estate ?

Wasn’t JC Penney bankrupt? How many stores do they have?

“WOW — That’s a lotta bread !”

Paying your teenage nephews $20 to deliver these

How much was consumer spending expected to drop once student loans had to be repaid?

Burning two $10,000 handbags? Who would have done such a thing?

How many times has your regional alma mater been in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament?

Within only one year, up 111%, 136%, 155%, and 82%

Making half a billion in her first year by offering more than “light, medium, medium dark, dark”

North Carolina and Maryland each had four times as many of these as Virginia had and over 100 times as many as were in Maine