Running the numbers

Have you ever read the Harper's Index? You've probably seen some permutation of it, usually a pithy or surprising factoid phrase, followed by a defining number. I've been a big fan of Harper's ever since high school, when my history teacher would hurl the facts and numbers at us in his amazingly deadpan voice (thanks, Mr. Brown!).

I was reading this month's Index, and it happened to have a couple professionally relevant tidbits, which I found so interesting, as the Index items always are.

Estimated length of human nose removed by U.S. plastic surgeons each year, in feet: 5,469

Factor by which this exceeds the length of George Washington's nose on Mount Rushmore: 260