Fun fall facts mixed in with a few other things that scare me!
I. A 16-ounce Pumpkin Spice Latte from Starbucks has 450 calories and 25 grams of fat. On the plus side, it also contains 20% of your daily calcium allowance.
II. If the candy corn kernels purchased each year were laid end to end, they would stretch around the world 4.25 times.
III. A child born today will face a first-year college cost of $41,000 for public in-state tuition. Want to go private? That’ll be $92,000 for one year. That’s assuming a 5% annual inflation rate from today’s prices.
IV. The world’s spider population weighs 29 million tons, as much as 478 Titanics. Spiders eat about 10% of their body weight each day – about like a 200-pound man eating 20 pounds of meat per day. Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/03/28/spiders-could-theoretically-eat-every-human-on-earth-in-one-year/?utm_term=.1b7896af84f4
V. According to a March 21, 2016 article on Motley Fool, the average American has $63,000 saved for retirement. Withdraw that at the generally “safe” rate of 4% starting in your sixties, and that gives you $210/month in retirement income plus Social Security. It makes you envy the spiders – they have less to worry about.
