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| February 7, 2010
| Random
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Bubble wrap turned 50 years this week.
Originally bubble wrap was conceived as a wallpaper. Since that did not work out, it was used as a wrapping material. Every year enough bubble wrap is made to stretch it all the way to moon and back.
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| June 27, 2009
| Computers
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The Apple I Computer was priced at $666.66.
Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak later said he had no idea about the correlation between the number and the mark of the beast. He says, "I came up with [it] because I like repeating digits." It was $500, plus a 33% markup.
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| June 26, 2009
| Business
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You know the "Aaron Rents & Sells Furniture" chain of stores? Turns out that there is no "Aaron"!
Back in 1955, Founder Charlie Loudermilk and a partner borrowed $500 to purchase 300 chairs that they rented out for 10 cents a day. They chose the name "Aaron" for their business because it appears at the beginning of the phone book!
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| Source: Fortune magazine article
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| June 11, 2009
| Food
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The name Pepsi came from the word "dyspepsia" since it was originally thought to be a medicine against indigestion.
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| January 14, 2009
| Technology
FactID: 621
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To start Apple Computer in 1976, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak each sold their most prized possessions:
Jobs sold his Volkwagen Bus and Wozniak sold his HP scientific calculator -- each was worth $500.
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| Source: "Apple's Core" - HBS case on Apple
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| August 31, 2008
| Astronomy
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After landing on the moon on July 20, 1969 with the Apollo 11 mission, NASA proposed four major projects:
- A space station
- A space shuttle
- A permanent base on the moon
- A manned mission to Mars
All of these projects were cancelled except for the space shuttle which passed Congress by only 1 vote! As of August 9th, 2005, the space shuttle ("Shuttle Transport System" or "STS") has now completed over 100 missions in 25 years of service.
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| August 30, 2008
| Astronomy
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The inside of the Earth is spinning faster than the rest of it.
According to a new study, the inner core of Earth spins nine-thousandths of a second faster than outer layers of the Earth, which may be responsible for the Earth's magnetic field.
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| August 25, 2008
| Society
FactID: 421
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The median price of existing homes in America is $218,000 -- a 14.1% increase from the past year.
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| Source: America's National Association of Realtors via The Economist.
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| August 24, 2008
| Health
FactID: 420
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The average adult has 100 billion brain cells. We lose 85,000 of these every day!
If all our brain cells were laid end-to-end, it would be 200 million miles long (from here to the Sun and back!)
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| August 23, 2008
| Society
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22.7% of American adults are obese.
This is an average from 2002-2004 -- a number that has been steadily increasing. The report, based on CDC data, also finds that MS, AL, WV, LA, and TN have the highest percentage of obese adults.
"Obesity" is defined by having a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 30 or more. Find out your BMI now!
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| Source: WashingtonPost.com via Jason Langberg
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| August 21, 2008
| Business
FactID: 417
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Nine of the world's fifty richest people are women.
Alice (56) and Helen (85) Walton share the title of richest woman in America. As daughter and wife of Sam Walton, respectively, they have an estimated net worth of $18 billion each.
Another tidbit about Wal-Mart -- Their sales in one day was larger than the GDP of 36 countries!
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| August 20, 2008
| Food
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There's a lot of hubbub around the "buy local" mantra these days, but there may be more in it for you that you realize, especially when it comes to honey.
By buying locally-produced honey, your body gets small doses of the same pollen that can trigger your allergies. In the same fashion that a vaccine works, by giving your body the honey, allergies may be dramatically reduced! So the closer you live to the beekeeper, the better off you are!
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| Source: Beeguys.com via Madeleine Deblois
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| August 18, 2008
| Society
FactID: 415
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Daylight Saving Time begins for most of the United States at 2 a.m. on the first Sunday of April. Time reverts to standard time at 2 a.m. on the last Sunday of October. In the U.S., each time zone switches at a different time.
The official spelling is Daylight Saving Time, not Daylight SavingS Time.
On August 8, 2005, President Geroge W. Bush signed the Energy Policy Act of 2005. This Act changed the time change dates in the U.S. Beginning in 2007, DST will begin on the second Sunday of March, and end the first Sunday of November.
Daylight Saving Time, for the U.S. and its territories, is NOT observed in Hawaii or in most of the Eastern Time Zone portion of the State of Indiana, and the state of Arizona (not the Navajo Indian Reservation, which does observe). Navajo Nation participates in the Daylight Saving Time policy, due to its large size and location in three states.
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| August 16, 2008
| Entertainment
FactID: 414
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In 2001, Jennifer Lopez became the first actress to have a movie (The Wedding Planner) and an album (J.Lo) top the charts in the same week!
In 2004, Fortune named her the 19th richest person under 40.
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| Source: Time via Ankeet Shah
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| August 14, 2008
| Cars
FactID: 44
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In February 2001, Chrysler Group sued GM over
the design of the Hummer
H2, claiming the front
grille too closely resembled that of its Jeep brand.
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