From Time magazine, "Numbers" section:


$5 million: 

    Estimated annual cost for a 10-year program that
    would identify large asteroids most threatening to earth. 

$75 million: 

    Budget for "Deep Impact", a film about the devastation
    caused when a comet hits earth. 

Go into Wendy's around 9:00 p.m.  Nobody in the store.  I 
ordered a Frosty.  The guy at the counter pushed the little 
button on his register and leaned into the microphone and said 
"Frosty".  He then proceeded to turn around and draw the drink 
HIMSELF!  I asked why he used the mike, and his response
was, "That's the way I was trained to do it.  If I don't, I get 
confused".

A convict broke out of jail in Washington D.C., then a few
         days later accompanied his girlfriend to her trial for
         robbery. At lunch, he went out for a sandwich. She needed to
         see him, and thus had him paged.  Police officers recognized
         his name and arrested him as he returned to the courthouse
         in a car he had stolen over the lunch hour.