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WYD Trivia
By CHRISTINE BOYD and GRAEME SMITH, Globe and Mail Update
• Litres of Catholic Mass wine to be consumed: 752
• Red nylon backpacks sewn by federal prison inmates for pilgrims: 350,000
• Number of football fields that would fit inside the Papal mass area: 180
• Portable toilets: 7,500
• Rolls of toilet paper: 750,000
• Volunteers: 25,000
• Volunteer hours donated: 8 million
• Hours donated to social service activities: 300,000
• School buses: 15,000
• Motor coaches: 1,650
• Percentage of Canada's total supply of motor coaches this represents: 50
• Hours each day that subways will run on "rush hour" schedules: 18
• Total hours per day of full-capacity subway service: 20.5
• Meals to be served: 3.5 million
• Square-feet of meal service tents: 160,000
• Garbage bins at food pavilions: 320
• 500-mL bottles of water: 2.6 million
• Individual-sized packets of salt: 2 million
• Number of mentions of "salt" in the Pope's Youth Day message: 11
• Apples served: 1.5 million
• Cans of tuna: 200,000
• Packets of dry fruit mix: 200,000
• Turkey and swiss-cheese sandwiches: 200,000
• Pounds of ham and sausage jambalaya: 134,000
• Forklifts: 30
• Tractor trailer loads of scaffolding, for stages and towers: 60
• Kilometres of audio cable: 150
• Speakers: 1,000
• Video screens: 21
• Radios: 10,000
• Walkie talkies: 5,000
• Cell phones: 2,000
• Number of Toronto homes for billeting: 15,000
• Hotel rooms: 12,000
• Languages spoken by catechism participants: 25
• Kilometers the World Youth Day Cross has travelled by air, road, boat, snowmobile, foot and even dog sled: 42,000
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