is any of this true?

Factual Questions
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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 landing at Chicago’s O’Hare airport every day will be unsafe .

  • 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

2

I HOPE NOT. (Especially since I plan to fly into OHare in two weeks.)

3

Poogas21, where did you get that information? I recognize it from a chain letter that starts “Do you think 99%is good” or something like that. What the letter said was that if things get messed up 1% of the time, then all this shit occurs. They just multiply the number of births a year by .99, the number of shoes shipped per year by .99, etc. The point it tries to make is that 99% of the time is not as good as you think… at least not in all cases.

But the letter never said these things DO happen. It said IF things went wrong 1% of the time, then the things WOULD happen.

I think you are definately missing the rest of that letter or you just read it wrong.