-
12 newborns will be given
to the wrong parents daily
-
114,500 mismatched pairs
of shoes will be shipped/year
-
18,322 pieces of mail
will be mishandled/hour
-
2,000,000 documents will
be lost by the IRS this year
-
2.5 million books will be
shipped with the wrong covers
-
Two planes landed at
Chicago's O'Hare airport will be unsafe every day
-
315 entries in Webster's
Dictionary will be misspelled
-
20,000 incorrect drug
prescriptions will be written this year
-
880,000 credit cards in
circulation will turn out to have incorrect cardholder information on
their magnetic strips
-
103,260 income tax
returns will be processed incorrectly during the year
-
5.5 million cases of soft
drinks produced will be flat
-
291 pacemaker operations
will be performed incorrectly
-
3056 copies of tomorrow's
Wall Street Journal will be missing one of the three sections
-
A typical day would be 24
hours long (give or take 86.4 seconds)
