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| December 30, 2004
| Business
FactID: 173
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75% of the nation's employees are looking for a new job.
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|  Source: Society for Human Resource Management via Fortune
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| December 29, 2004
| Sports
FactID: 172
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ESPN stands for "Entertainment and Sports Programming Network".
The median income of visitors to the ESPN website is $77,000 across 15.3 million unique visitors each month.
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| Source: Ankeet Shah
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| December 28, 2004
| Science
FactID: 171
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Lead's symbol on the periodic table of elements is Pb, as in plumbum which is Latin for "lead" since the Ancient Romans made their plumbing out of lead.
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| Source: Aaron Fulkerson
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| December 27, 2004
| Politics
FactID: 170
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It looks like there may be some competition for my "Fact of the Day" -- The White House has an Iraq Fact of the Day.
No wait, they stopped updating it at the end of June. Either I scared them off from "interesting facts" or Dubya stopped caring about Iraq?
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| December 25, 2004
| Computers
FactID: 169
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Google Suggest can read your mind!
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| Source: Doug Daniell
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| December 23, 2004
| Society
FactID: 167
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Manhattan in NYC is a 13.4 mile long island, only 2.3 miles across at its widest point, with only 1.5 million residents.
Every business day, 6.7 million people commute into Manhattan, via only 12 bridges and tunnels. 85% of the residents use public transportation, compared with only 5.3% for the rest of the US.
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| Source: USA Today
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| December 22, 2004
| Random
FactID: 166
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There is a seven-letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, and herein.
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| Source: Quinn McCleery
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| December 18, 2004
| Society
FactID: 163
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Pounds are abbreviated as "lbs.", as in the latin word "Libra" which refers to balance scales for measuring weight -- just like the Libra constellation in the sky (one of the Zodiac constellations) that looks like a big balance scale.
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| Source: World Wide Words
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| December 17, 2004
| Sports
FactID: 161
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Everyday, 150,000 of those yellow LiveStrong bracelets supporting the Lance Armstrong are sold.
So far they've sold 28,000,000 of them!
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| Source: New York Times via Jason Langberg
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| December 16, 2004
| Cars
FactID: 160
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Out of all the big car companies, Toyota is the biggest supporter of the Democrats at 76% of their political spending
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| Source: Choose the Blue via Steve Parker
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| December 15, 2004
| Business
FactID: 159
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One night in the middle of February 2004, Vodafone (Europe's largest mobile phone company) bid ~$34B for AT&T Wireless and went to bed (since the sun sets earlier in England than in America).
Too bad Cingular(#1 in US) stayed up later that night (2:00am) and bid $41B for AT&T Wireless, winning it. They are now completing the physical merger.
So then Sprint (#3 in US) thought of buying Nextel (#5 in US) for $30B. Too bad Vodafone & Verizon (#2 in US) are thinking of snatching Sprint up for $40B.
No wait, just this morning at 7:00am, Sprint and Nextel announced their $35B merger, forming the #3 player in the market.
Wild.
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| Source: Wall Street Journal
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| December 14, 2004
| Astronomy
FactID: 158
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2.33 stars
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NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe resigned yesterday after 3 years of running America's space program.
Now, he will become the Chancellor at Louisiana State University.
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| December 13, 2004
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FactID: 152
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A typical busy day has 33,000 flights land or take off from the major U.S. airports. Thanksgiving Eve last year had 51,000 flights
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| Source: CNN via Udayan Seksaria
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| December 12, 2004
| World
FactID: 151
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3.50 stars
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In Canada, "Hogtown" means Toronto and "Cowtown" means Calgary.
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| Source: CNN.com article via Matt Mattila
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| December 11, 2004
| Computers
FactID: 150
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It took four years and 331,000 participants and the relentless efforts of distributed.net to break the 64-bit encryption developed RSA data securities.
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| Source: Wired Magazine via my Dad
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| December 10, 2004
| Cars
FactID: 148
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GM created Saturn car company 15 years ago and has since invested $15B in Saturn.
Saturn has not made a single dollar in earnings to date.
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| Source: Fortune
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| December 9, 2004
| Computers
FactID: 145
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Wireless networking (802.11a/b/g) operates at 2.4 Ghz as does your... microwave. Get too close and your connection will drop.
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| Source: HowStuffWorks.com, Sharat Nagaraj
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| December 5, 2004
| Science
FactID: 143
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You get "shocked" by static charge
more in the winter because it is less humid and humidity usually
helps to dissipate static charge.
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| Source: Discovery Channel
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| December 4, 2004
| Random
FactID: 142
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4.00 stars
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You can only fold a sheet of paper in half
7 times.
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| Source: Matt Mattila
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| December 2, 2004
| World
FactID: 141
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3.25 stars
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Brazil shares common boundaries with every
other South American country except Chile and Ecuador.
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| Source: CIA World Factbook
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| December 1, 2004
| Math
FactID: 140
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Gert Mittring, a 38-year-old German with degrees in psychology,
education and computer science, needed only 11.8 seconds to calculate
the 13th root of a 100-digit number in his head, setting
a new record.
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| Source: Associated Press, Quinn McCleery
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