6/85Quarts of ice cream the average Southerner eats each year: 12

International Association of Ice Cream Manufacturers (Washington, D.C.)

    The average New Englander: 23

International Association of Ice Cream Manufacturers (Washington, D.C.)

6/94Average number of faxes transmitted in the United States each minute: 88,000

American Facsimile Association (Philadelphia)

11/89Number of the 15 fax machines in the Gaza Strip whose use the Israeli government has suspended: 15

Time (Jerusalem)

10/89Estimated total value of the candy distributed last Halloween: $1,000,000,000

Ogilvy & Mather (N.Y.C.)

12/92Price of a box of pina colada-flavored candy canes from the Spangler Candy Company of Bryan, Ohio: $1.89

Spangler Candy Company (Bryan, Ohio)