BUT HOW MANY TOILETS ARE THERE? New York City most certainly does contain monuments and icons — especially if, as I’m given to understand, Jacksonville’s Alltel Stadium counts as one — but it may suffer from a more serious threat: toilets. Your fact of the day, courtesy of John Mueller is this: “Outside of 2001, fewer people have died in America from international terrorism than have drowned in toilets.”

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–Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias is a senior editor at the Center for American Progress Action Fund, a former Prospect staff writer, and the author of Heads in the Sand: How the Republicans Screw Up Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Screws Up the Democrats. Follow @mattyglesias