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

Time (Jerusalem)

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

American Facsimile Association (Philadelphia)

2/97Number of candy hearts that the New England Confectionery Company made last year: 8,000,000,000

New England Confectionery Company (Cambridge, Mass.)

    Number that said, “Fax Me”: 1,700,000

New England Confectionery Company (Cambridge, Mass.)