EVERY SATURDAY ON TheJournal.ie, we bring you a selection of the statistics and numerical nuggets to help you digest the week that has just passed.
5085%: The overnight increase in the price of a potentially life-saving drug.
50: The height in feet of a ‘Rockefeller-style’ Christmas tree planned for Dublin this Christmas.
200,000: The number of people who attended ‘The Ploughing’ over three days this week.
€2.05 billion: What Denis O’Brien’s Digicel hopes to raise when it floats on the New York Stock Exchange.
800: The number of daily calories per day in a diet book from Geordie Shore star Holly Hagan, just 40% of a woman’s recommended intake.
28: The number of pages in Johnny Ronan’s submission to the banking enquiry that contained a notorious Nazi work slogan.
480,000: The number of Volkswagen vehicles that may have been rigged to falsify their diesel emissions.
€72,000: What staff at Limerick Institute of Technology (LIT) are earning with ‘no work to do’.
717: The estimated number of people who were killed in a stampede during the Muslim pilgrimage of hajj.
€17: The price of a hotdog with sweet potatao fries in new Dublin bar/restaurant ‘Porndog‘.
$19 billion: The value of the cannabis industry in the US by 2019 according to new Snoop Dogg-backed digital venture ‘Merry Jane’.
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