The Unbroken Window » Fun Facts http://theunbrokenwindow.com The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design. - F.A. Hayek Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:40:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 Fun Images to Know and Show: Insert Your Favorite Caption Edition http://theunbrokenwindow.com/2012/01/28/fun-images-to-know-and-show-insert-your-favorite-caption-edition/ http://theunbrokenwindow.com/2012/01/28/fun-images-to-know-and-show-insert-your-favorite-caption-edition/#comments Sat, 28 Jan 2012 09:18:58 +0000 wintercow20 http://theunbrokenwindow.com/?p=6343 I was perusing my National Parks magazine and they made reference to the fact that policemen used to monitor the height of women’s bathing suits at the DC Tidal Basin Beach. It turns out to be true. Here is a photo from 1922 showing a man enforce the government’s rule that bathing suits could be no more than six inches above the knee.

Hey maam, can I take you out for a drink later? Oh wait, we banned alcohol too!

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  • Surprisingly not Major League Baseball
  • Surprisingly not College Football
  • Not NASCAR
  • Not golf
  • Not Professional football

Answer: high school sporting events. The sport with the most occasional fans? College football.

Also: More people regularly attend equestrian events than professional soccer events. Can’t you see why I am upset that they are going to drop the Statistical Abstract?

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]]> http://theunbrokenwindow.com/2012/01/07/fun-facts-to-know-and-tell-doctor-pay-edition/feed/ 2 Fun Facts to Know and Tell: Having Someone to Kiss When the Ball Drops Edition http://theunbrokenwindow.com/2011/12/31/fun-facts-to-know-and-tell-having-someone-to-kiss-when-the-ball-drops-edition/ http://theunbrokenwindow.com/2011/12/31/fun-facts-to-know-and-tell-having-someone-to-kiss-when-the-ball-drops-edition/#comments Sat, 31 Dec 2011 09:29:31 +0000 wintercow20 http://theunbrokenwindow.com/?p=6262 Nearly 60% of the residents of Bloomington, Indiana are single - making it (by this admittedly misleading measure) the loneliest place to be on New Year’s Eve.

]]> http://theunbrokenwindow.com/2011/12/31/fun-facts-to-know-and-tell-having-someone-to-kiss-when-the-ball-drops-edition/feed/ 0 Cost and Quality Differences in International Health Care http://theunbrokenwindow.com/2011/12/15/cost-and-quality-differences-in-international-health-care/ http://theunbrokenwindow.com/2011/12/15/cost-and-quality-differences-in-international-health-care/#comments Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:35:07 +0000 wintercow20 http://theunbrokenwindow.com/?p=6227 In today’s news we learn that American doctors deliver a 24-week old baby that is the size of a soda can. Look up the data on what other countries do at this level. Second, once you adjust for the things that doctors have no control over (the risky behavior and accidents Americans endure), the US lands at the top of  life expectancy statistics for OECD countries (slide 18).

In other news from the AP, half of America is now poor. I won’t throw my considerable pennies at that claim, or reasons for it, but check out this part of the article:

The struggling Americans include Zenobia Bechtol, 18, in Austin, Texas, who earns minimum wage as a part-time pizza delivery driver. Bechtol and her 7-month-old baby were recently evicted from their bedbug-infested apartment after her boyfriend, an electrician, lost his job in the sluggish economy.

After an 18-month job search, Bechtol’s boyfriend now works as a waiter and the family of three is temporarily living with her mother.

“We’re paying my mom $200 a month for rent, and after diapers and formula and gas for work, we barely have enough money to spend,” said Bechtol, a high school graduate who wants to go to college. “If it weren’t for food stamps and other government money for families who need help, we wouldn’t have been able to survive.”

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