YOU can access a million million web pages…and other mind-bending stats

Posted on Sep 25th, 2009 by beachdog.com | 0

Mashable.com turned us on to the video below from The Economist, which includes stunning factoids such as:

40 million people have been rick-rolled
95% of all downloaded songs last year weren’t paid for
There are 2 million TVs in bathrooms in the U.S.
90% of some 200 billion emails sent per day are spam.
As print newspaper circulation has declined by 7 million over the last 25 years
Online newspaper readership has soared up 30 million unique visitors in the past 5 years
While ABC, NBC and CBS combined (companies that have been around for a combined 200 years) receive 10 million viewers per month,Myspace , Facebook and YouTube reach 250 million monthly uniques — and none existed 6 years ago.

Check out the video below and let us know what you think. Did any of the stats surprise you and if so, which ones stood out?

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