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| April 28, 2006
| Sports
FactID: 551
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Clifford Robinson, Forward for the Nets, is the only currently active player in the NBA to have played in the late '80s.
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|  Source: NBATV via Ravi Agarwal
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| April 27, 2006
| History
FactID: 550
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In 1901, New York became the first state to require motor vehicle owners to purchase and display license plates on their cars.
The early plates only displayed the owner's initials.
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| Source: TheDeal.com
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| April 21, 2006
| Random
FactID: 548
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Starbucks Corp. spends more on health insurance for its employees than on coffee beans.
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz said Starbucks expects to spend about $200 million this year for health care for its 80,000 U.S. employees — more than the total amount it spends on green coffee from Africa, Indonesia and other countries.
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| Source: MSNBC.com via Shiva Raj
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| April 10, 2006
| Business
FactID: 223
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Lawrence J. Ellison, founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation for 25 years earned $706,077,000 in 2001 after exercising 23 million stock options that were granted to him ten years earlier.
Assuming a 40-hour workweek, this is the equivalent of almost $340,000 an hour.
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| Source: Guiness Book of World Records via Matt Ross
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| April 5, 2006
| Math
FactID: 547
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Gaurav Rajav, a 15-year old Virginia high school student, recited 8,784 digits of Pi — the non-repeating and non-terminating decimal — likely placing him among the top Pi-reciters in the world.
He had hoped to recite 10,790 digits and set a record in the United States and North America. He says, "I'm kind of disappointed, but I guess I did OK."
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| Source: USA Today article via Lynn Lowry
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| April 4, 2006
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FactID: 546
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Tomorrow, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06.
This won't happen again in our lifetimes! (or until the year 3006)
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| Source: Shaival Patel
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