Fun Facts

The number of hours people have spent waiting for Internet sites to load in this year, collectively: 28,626,200,000

The number of cars produced worldwide this year: 33,887,600

$40,000-$60,000 - the amount one of Grateful Dead leader Jerry Garcia's Gibson guitars is expected to fetch at a Christie's auction on December 17.

122,173,800 - the number of people born this year, so far, on the entire planet.

50,236,953 - the number of people who have died this year.