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Notable numbers: Chicken wings, women’s pay and Bubba’s pay

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1.3 billion The number of chicken wings Americans are expected to eat during the Super Bowl

5,479 The number of tickets that Washington DC issued for vehicles parked on emergency routes by the time the state of emergency was lifted after the snowstorm

$1.37 million How much money those tickets would bring in if paid

149 The number of people in the United States exonerated last year after being wrongly convicted of crimes

^1/3 The number of those who had been convicted of murder

14 The average number of years they had spent in prison

5 The number exonerated from death row

69 The percentage that women in Wake County earn in relation to what men earn

79 What the figure is nationally

$6,000 The amount less than men with the same education that women who don’t have a high school degree earn in Wake County

$40,000 The amount less that women with graduate degrees earn than their male counterparts

$5,300 The average cost of year-round child care at a three-star center in Wake County

$12,700 The annual cost at a five-star center

12 The birthday that Facebook celebrated this week

72 The percentage of U.S. Internet users who have a Facebook account

70 The percentage of those people who check it daily

82 The percentage of online adults ages 18 to 29 who use Facebook

31 The percentage of all online American adults who use Pinterest

28 The percentage who use Instagram

23 The percentage who are on Twitter

1 Where Iceland ranks among Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries in anti-depressant use

1 Where Iceland ranks on the list of the world’s most peaceful nations

60,000 The estimated shortage of physicians in the United States now

1/3 The portion of practicing doctors expected to retire by 2020

10 The number of years it has been since Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas asked a question from the bench

45 The number of years it has been since another justice went even one term without asking a question

$58,388! The yearly amount of UNC-Chapel Hill athletic director Bubba Cunningham’s 10 percent raise approved by the Board of Trustees

$642,268 His annual pay now

$58,388! It just seemed worth repeating

40 With 2015’s numbers in, the number of years in a row that Cary-based SAS recorded revenue growth

$3.16 billion The revenue for 2015 for SAS

25 The percentage of that amount that SAS reinvested in research and development

$4.1 million What Gov. Pat McCrory had on hand for his re-election campaign at the beginning of the year

$4.9 million What likely Democratic challenger Roy Cooper had on hand

$108,000 What former Raleigh Mayor Charles Meeker raised in the second half of 2015 in his bid to unseat Cherie Berry as state labor commissioner

$27,000 What Berry raised during the same period

This story was originally published February 5, 2016 at 4:22 PM with the headline "Notable numbers: Chicken wings, women’s pay and Bubba’s pay."

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