8-27-12: Maryland By the Numbers

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Number 10 on Forbes’s “America’s Coolest Cities” list: Baltimore

Number 1: Houston

How much earlier in the summer lightning bugs are appearing in Maryland compared to 2005, according to a local entomologist: 1 week

The number of fireflies it would take to fully illuminate the cupola of the Bromo Seltzer Tower in downtown Baltimore: 13,240,000
Source: Richard Williams, vice president of Spears Votta and Associates, the engineering firm that designed the lighting for the Bromo Seltzer Tower

Increase in Baltimore’s median home price over the past year, according to a July 19 tweet from Governor Martin O’Malley: 46 percent

That increase according to a Real Estate Business Intelligence report released nine days earlier: 6 percent (NOTE: The Baltimore City number is in fact 46 percent. It's 6 percent for the Baltimore region.)

Cost of a pork donut from the Gypsy Queen food truck: $3

Ratio of fudge to cookie in a Berger Cookie, according to company president Charles DeBaufre: 3 to 1 (Mr. DeBaufre said, “Let me clarify a little bit: nothing is a science. It’s handmade. If you get someone else in there, it could be 4 to 1, or 2 to 1.”)

Number of layers in the official Maryland state dessert, the Smith Island Cake: 8 to 10

Maryland’s ranking among the most obese states in America: 18

Towson’s ranking in Money Magazine’s “Best places for the rich and single”: 8

Money Magazine’s #1 best place to be poor and single:

Number of diplomas for Prince George’s County high school graduates that had to be reprinted because of a misspelling: nearly 8,000

Maryland’s ranking among all U.S. states for charitable giving: 10

Maryland’s rank for median household income: 1

Additional money the Department of Legislative Services projects will be added to the Education Trust Fund in Fiscal Year 2013 if table games are added to Maryland’s casinos: $7.3 million

Amount of money University of Maryland dropout Greg Merson could win during the World Series of Poker finals this October: $8.5 million

Years since the Orioles won a World Series: 29

Years since Maryland voted for a Republican presidential candidate: 24

Baltimore’s rank in a Travel and Leisure Magazine feature called “America’s Worst Dressed People”: 3

Average age of a Baltimore Raven, according to sports blog “Blogging the Beast”: 31 years, 10 months, 11 days

Ravens’ rank among all NFL teams for oldest team: 1

#1 song the week Ray Lewis was born: "He Don’t Love You Like I Love You" by Tony Orlando and Dawn

#1 song the week linebacker Courtney Upshaw, the Ravens first draft pick this year, was born: We Didn’t Start the Fire, Billy Joel

Amount of money a Maryland man and his partner got when they allegedly put two men in headlocks, videotaped them, and told them they were going to be on a reality show called “You Just Got Robbed”: $20