Oh, I did have one more thing...

I forgot. Last weekend, for my birthday, we went to the art museum and the zoo. (We're members at the museum, and are planning to join the zoo, but the great thing about this city is that most of the cultural activities are free.) There is an exhibit at the zoo called The Living World. You punch in your birthdate, and it tells you lots of fun (and somewhat depressing) stuff about the world we live in, and life in general.

So here you go...

Since you were born, 12,784 days have passed, and in those days:

• 4.56 billion people have been born
• 385,000 seal skins have been obtained from the Pribilof Islands off the coast of Alaska
• The United States has produced 2.21 thousand quadrillion BTUs of energy
• 77,000 tons of nuclear waste have been dumped at sea
• 7.09 billion tons of Sulphur Dioxide have been emitted into the atmosphere (the major contributor of acid rain)

Thank you for coming into the St. Louis Zoo.

NO, St. Louis Zoo. Thank YOU!