"If 99.9% Is Good Enough...."
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-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)