According to the World Health Organization, physical inactivity is second only to tobacco smoking as a health risk in developed countries, and this is associated with many tens of billions of dollars of healthcare costs.

According to this view, the mere existence of billions of humans overstresses the ecology of the planet, eventually leading to a Malthusian collapse.

According to leading Chinese business magazine Caixin, North Korea accounts for 40 % of China's foreign aid budget and 50, 000 tonnes of oil exports per month to maintain a buffer state against Japan, South Korea, and the United States, but that the three nations were no longer China's enemies, and that trade and investment with them was worth billions of dollars, while its support of North Korea was expensive and internationally embarrassing to support due to its " unruly " behavior and defiance towards China.

According to Hindu creationists the universe may even be older than billions of years.

According to released information, billions carats of sapphire is estimated under the 450 sqkm mine territory.

According to the producers, billions of smart card chips and many millions of reader modules have been sold.

According to the Canadian Association of Income Trust Investors, the change in tax rules cost investors billions of dollars in market value.

According to Idaho Rivers United, recent studies show that dam removal will save U. S. taxpayers and Northwest electricity consumers billions of dollars and generate billions more in increased tourism, outdoor recreation and improved sport and commercial fishing opportunities.

According to The Hollywood Reporter < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s annual Star Salary Top 10, she was tied for eighth place on the top ten list of actresses ' salaries, commanding 10 to 12 million dollars per movie for 2006.

According to Herbert Weinstock's 1968 biography ( see below ), the composer's estate was valued at 2. 5 million francs upon his death in 1868, the equivalent of about 1. 4 million US dollars.

According to reports released in February 2010, Hezbollah received $ 400 million dollars from Iran.

According to the World Bank Nicaragua's GDP was around $ 4. 9 US billion dollars.

According to the journalist Christopher Hitchens, Ekéus " told me that he'd been offered by Tariq Aziz in person, to his face, a bribe of a million and a half dollars to change his inspection report.

According to the artist, he arrived in New York in 1962 with nothing but 20 dollars and his portfolio of drawings.

According to one estimate, leasing a top-level motorcycle for a rider costs about 3 to 3. 5 million dollars for a racing season.

According to Jackson, " We all sat there in a circle with the dollars running out, and nobody came up with anything.

According to Transparency International, Mobutu embezzled over $ 5 billion USD from his country, ranking him as the third-most corrupt leader in the past two decades and the most corrupt African leader during the same period .< ref > But after his death the Swiss Government has claimed that Mobutu's legacy was just evaluated at 5. 3 millions dollars.

According to IPCC ( 2011 ) estimates of annual losses have ranged since 1980 from a few billion to above 200 billion USD ( in 2010 dollars ), with the highest value for 2005 ( the year of Hurricane Katrina ).

According to Harmon and Glut, Flash Gordon had a budget of over a million dollars.

According to Turner Classic Movies, the film cost $ 35, 000 to produce ( roughly between $ 1, 600, 000 and $ 3, 300, 000 adjusted to 2007 dollars ) and its profits eventually amounted to almost $ 1 million ( roughly $ 46, 000, 000 to $ 95, 000, 000 ).

According to Karlheinz Deschner's book The Moloch Dulles ascribed assets of 1 billion dollars to the Nazi party in 1933 after Hitler's appointment as Chancellor, and according to Stephen Kinzer's 2006 book Overthrow, his firm benefited from doing business with the Nazi regime.

According to an unnamed production insider, " People wonder how a movie like Heaven's Gate could cost forty million dollars.

According to Lamar County Administrator Chuck Bennett on December 30, 2008, the courthouse is slated for a complete renovation that could cost up to 4 million dollars and could take up to four years to complete.

According to the Van Halen News Desk, the reunion tour with Roth was the highest grossing in the band's history, raking in almost 93 million dollars.

According to Cynthia Brown, director of UTPA's Center for Border Economic Studies, Mexicans invested $ 1. 4 billion dollars into the economy and paid for 41, 000 jobs.

According to a study by Metatech corporation, a storm with a strength comparative to that of 1921 would destroy more than 300 transformers and leave over 130 million people without power, with a cost totaling several trillion dollars.

According to a financial expertise transmitted in May 2004 to the judge Courroye, Pierre Falcone paid Jean-Christophe Mitterrand 2, 2 million dollars.

According to press statements throughout the 1990s, the program was the most successful infomercial for several years and Warwick earned in excess of three million dollars per year as spokesperson for the network.

According to Fox files she was rehired within weeks for a two-picture deal totaling one million dollars, $ 500K to finish Something's Got To Give, plus a bonus at completion, and $ 500K for What a Way to Go.

According to the Public Stadium Authority's website, the events center contributes more than half a billion dollars to the region's economy.

According to SIPRI, total world spending on military expenses in 2009 was $ 1. 531 trillion US dollars.

According to the Mishnah and Tosefta, in the Maccabean, Herodian, and Mishnaic periods, new months were determined by the sighting of a new crescent, with two eye witnesses required to testify to the Sanhedrin to having seen the new lunar crescent at sunset.

According to A. Zahoor, in the 11th century, the Persian polymath scholar Abu Rayhan Biruni described the Milky Way galaxy as a multitude of fragments having the properties of nebulous stars, and also gave the latitudes of various stars during a lunar eclipse in 1019.

According to Vietnamese tradition, if good things come to the family on the first day of the lunar New Year, the entire following year will also be full of blessings.

According to another version of their struggle against the Olympians, alluded to so briefly that it must have been already familiar to the epic's hearers, they managed to kidnap Ares and hold him in a bronze jar, a storage pithos, for thirteen months, a lunar year.

According to the footnote of the " The lunar calender of Qin and Chu " (《 秦楚之际月表 》) from the Index of the Records of the Grand Historian (《 史记索隐 》), the first month Zhengyue, " due to the taboo of the First Emperor's given name Zheng, was reformed as Duanyue ( 端月 ).

According to legend, the Milky Way separates these lovers, and they are allowed to meet only once a year on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month of the lunisolar calendar.

According to Chaitanya Charitamrita, Nimäi was born on the full moon night of February 18, 1486, at the time of a lunar eclipse.

According to Eusebius ' Church History, quoting Polycrates of Ephesus, churches in the Roman Province of Asia " always observed the day when the people put away the leaven ", the 14th of the lunar month of Nisan.

According to the I Ching, nine is a yang number ; the ninth day of the ninth lunar month ( or double nine ) has too much yang ( a traditional Chinese spiritual concept ) and is thus a potentially dangerous date.

According to the Sejong Sillok ( 세종실록 ; 世宗實綠 ), King Sejong proclaimed publication of Hunmin Jeongeum ( 훈민정음 ; 訓民正音 ), the document introducing the newly created alphabet which was also originally called by the same name, in the ninth month of the lunar calendar in 1446.

According to Ronald Hutton, the concept of a Triple Goddess with Maiden, Mother and Crone aspects and lunar symbology was Robert Graves's contribution to modern paganism.

According to the lunar calendar, when the sun moves from the Tropic of Capricorn to the Tropic of Cancer or from Dakshinayana to Uttarayana, in the month of Pausha in mid-January, it commemorates the beginning of the harvest season and cessation of the northeast monsoon in South India.

According to the Chinese lunar calendar, the festival comes on the 15th of March annually and lasts three days.

According to press reports in late 1957, an anonymous source had divulged to a United States Secret Service agent that the Soviets planned to commemorate the anniversary of the October Revolution by causing a nuclear explosion on the Moon to coincide with a lunar eclipse on November 7.

According to Bill Bryson's " A Short History of Nearly Everything ," he was an early proponent of both Arthur Holmes ' and Alfred Wegener ' Continental drift theory and the impact theory of lunar creation.

According to geologist Edwin Gnos and coworkers, the meteorite's origin can be pinpointed to the vicinity of the Lalande impact crater ; isotopic analysis shows a complex history of four distinct lunar impacts:

According to convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Helicon.

According to the fictional continuity of Macross construction of the SDF-2 ship began on the lunar surface at Apollo Base in November 2003.

According to the Samguk Yusa, this ban was established in the twelfth lunar month of 599.

According to the lunar calendar, it was the Amawasya of the month of Shravan, in the Samvat 1968.

" According to Houbolt, these ground rules were constraining NASA's thinking about the lunar mission — and causing LOR to be ruled out before it was fairly considered.

According to Arjen Lucassen, the song tells of the events he lived during first manned lunar landing-the Apollo 11 mission.

According to Weor, the magnetic induction produced by crossing the active ( phallus ) and passive ( uterus ) creative organs causes lunar, solar and akashic currents to flow through the Brahmanic cord ( the ida, pingala and sushumna nadis respectively ) of the couple.

According to the lunar calendar, his birthday is at the 3rd day of the 6th lunar month.