2.5 million Estimated number of people betting on the NCAA tournament in online pools
280 Total online gambling websites
1 in 75 million Mathematical odds of predicting all 63 NCAA games correctly
$85,125 Amount raised by House Speaker Denny Hastert's political-action committee, Keep Our Majority, in all of 1998
$350,000 Amount raised by the PAC in the first two months of 1999, since Hastert became Speaker
$175,400 House Speaker's salary
$383 million Taxpayer money spent every year on rescuing boaters, hikers and campers
$63.15 Average amount spent by rescue services on a stranded hiker
$150 Amount a climber is charged to...