One peck is equal to 8 dry quarts or 16 dry pints, so Peter picked 8... According to the nursery rhyme, Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. A peck is a unit of measurement of dry volume.
The following is a list of how many people were killed on Dec. 7, 1941 as a result of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. US Navy: 2,008 KIAUSMC: 109 KIAUS Army: 218 KIACivilâ¦ians: 68 Total: 2,403 Close to 2/3 of those who died occurred in the first 15 minutes of the battle when the Oklahoma, Utah and the Arizona were bombed. In addition, 55 Japanese died, in addition to an unknown number of Japanese wounded. The US had 1,178 personnel wounded.
An estimated 559,312 people die of cancer each year, i.e. one person every minute. Death due to cancer is 22.8% of total deaths in US (higher than WHO global cancer statistics). The lifetime probability of developing cancer in US men is 1 in 2, and in US women is 1 in 3 (highest in the world).n UK, cancer statistics show that one in three people will develop cancer in their lifetime and over one in four people die from cancer. Cancer is the cause of 30% of all the deaths in males and 25% in females. (2007: incidences of cancers in UK).