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By the Numbers

40

Percent of the world’s population that will be using the Internet by 2015

5.8

Projected number of Internet devices there will be in North America per person by 2015

225 billion

Spam emails sent per day in July 2010

40 billion

Spam emails sent per day in June 2011

33

Percent of tomatoes consumed in the United States that are grown in Florida

110

Number of fungicides, pesticides and herbicides that can be applied to tomatoes listed in the Florida handbook for tomato growers

8

Times more pesticide and herbicide Florida growers apply to tomatoes than California growers

30

Percent more vitamin C found in a supermarket tomato in 1960 than in a supermarket tomato today

Sources: Cisco; Mashable.com; Tomatoland