
Starting today, fans of the Green Bay Packers can purchase an official share of stock in the team for $250.
The FAQs at packersowner.com offer further details for any Cheesehead thinking about getting into the world of professional sports ownership:
You will not receive any special benefits with respect to tickets, preferential seating or discounts on merchandise, but you will receive an invitation to the annual meeting and the opportunity to purchase exclusive shareholder merchandise.
Related Fact: By one recent estimate, the people at the back of the Green Bay Packers season ticket waiting list can expect to wait approximately 955 years before having their name called.
[Sources: Packers Owner and JS Online. See previous Numbers of the Day here. ]


At your typical American shopping mall, one in every 11 stores is currently empty — the highest vacancy rate in a decade.
Related Link: The stories behind 20 mall staples.
[Sources: The Week and TIME. See previous Numbers of the Day here. ]

If you made a film and it was set to premiere in a real movie theater, you’d probably assume that—worst case scenario—a handful of the people associated with making it (and maybe their friends and family) would show up to see it.
Apparently not.
A new film, aptly named The Worst Movie Ever, recently premiered at Laemmle Sunset 5 in LA and grossed a grand total of $11 in its opening weekend.
Related Fact: The Worst Movie Ever seems poised to challenge Zyzzyx Road, a 2006 independent film starring Katherine Heigl, which famously cost around $1.2 million to make and brought in $30 at the box office.
[Sources:Slash Film and Entertainment Weekly. See previous Numbers of the Day here. ]

The son of a major league baseball player is 800 times more likely to play in the majors than is an “average kid.”
Related Fact: On September 14, 1990, Seattle Mariners Ken Griffey and Ken Griffey, Jr. became the first and only father-son combination to hit back-to-back home runs in a Major League game.
[Sources: Freakonomics and Bleacher Report. See previous Numbers of the Day here. ]

Today marks the 100-year anniversary of the passage of The Apportionment Act of 1911 (AKA Public Law 62-5), which established 435 as the fixed number of members in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Related Fact: The longest serving member in the history of the House is current Representative John D. Dingell of Michigan, who has been in office since December 13, 1955. He was preceded in office by his father, who had served since 1933.
[Sources:Office of the Clerk and Dingell.House.Gov. See previous Numbers of the Day here. ]

Former Pittsburgh Steelers coach Ray Horton recently sold his red 1999 Mercedes SL500 convertible to a Steelers cafeteria worker named Maurice Matthews for all the money Matthews had in his pocket at the time: $20.
“Ray said, ‘Hey, you always liked the car, you’re a good dude, I know you’ll take care of it,’” Matthews told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Related Fact: The $20 purchase price amounts to roughly 1/887th of the car’s estimated value of $17,735.
[Source: Yahoo Sports. See previous Numbers of the Day here. ]

An often-cited statistic claims a new baby typically robs parents of anywhere between 400-750 hours of sleep in the first year alone.
Related Question: Over to you, moms and dads—how much sleep did you miss out on in your child’s first year?
[A reliable primary source was hard to pin down, which is why I'm curious to see how your experience matches up. See previous Numbers of the Day here. ]


An artist named Thomas Pavitt has created what he believes to be the world’s biggest connect-the-dots drawing – a portrait of Mona Lisa created with 6,239 individual points. The incomplete and (somewhat jagged) completed version are both shown above.
[Source: Geekosystem. See previous Numbers of the Day here. ]


The Keret House, a proposed single-occupancy office and residence in Warsaw, Poland, will be built between two existing buildings and feature an interior width of only 72 centimeters (28.3 inches) at its narrowest point.
Related Fact: The home recently completed by Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani could fit 2,535 Keret Houses inside of it. At 27 stories and 398,000 square-feet, it is the world’s largest home.
[Sources: Arch Daily and Inhabitat. See previous Numbers of the Day here. ]

As of June, the Alcor Life Extension Foundation of Scottsdale, Arizona, had 106 patients in various states of cryopreservation (frozen in liquid nitrogen). The most famous of these is baseball Hall of Famer Ted Williams.
Related Fact: The field of Cryonics was pioneered in 1964 with the publishing of The Prospect of Immortality by Robert Ettinger – who recently passed away and will be cryonically preserved in Michigan alongside his mother and two wives.
[Sources: Alcor and Telegraph. See previous Numbers of the Day here. ]