December 30, 2004
| Business
FactID: 173
Rated
3.60 stars
75% of the nation's employees are looking for a new job.
Society for Human Resource Management via Fortune
December 29, 2004
| Sports
FactID: 172
Rated
3.78 stars
ESPN
The median income of visitors to the ESPN website is $77,000 across 15.3 million unique visitors each month.
December 28, 2004
| Science
FactID: 171
Rated
2.57 stars
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.
Aaron Fulkerson
December 27, 2004
| Politics
FactID: 170
Rated
3.33 stars
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?
December 25, 2004
| Computers
FactID: 169
Rated
3.12 stars
Google Suggest can read your mind!
December 23, 2004
| Society
FactID: 167
Rated
4.50 stars
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.
USA Today
December 22, 2004
| Random
FactID: 166
Rated
3.29 stars
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.
December 18, 2004
| Society
FactID: 163
Rated
4.50 stars
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.
World Wide Words
December 17, 2004
| Sports
FactID: 161
Rated
4.27 stars
Everyday, 150,000 of those yellow LiveStrong bracelets supporting the Lance Armstrong are sold .
So far they've sold 28,000,000 of them!
New York Times via Jason Langberg
December 16, 2004
| Cars
FactID: 160
Rated
2.67 stars
Out of all the big car companies, Toyota is the biggest supporter of the Democrats at 76% of their political spending
Choose the Blue via Steve Parker
December 15, 2004
| Business
FactID: 159
Rated
3.50 stars
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.
December 14, 2004
| Astronomy
FactID: 158
Rated
2.33 stars
NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe resigned yesterday after 3 years of running America's space program. Chancellor at Louisiana State University.
December 13, 2004
| Random
FactID: 152
Rated
3.33 stars
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
December 12, 2004
| World
FactID: 151
Rated
3.50 stars
In Canada , "Hogtown" means Toronto and "Cowtown" means Calgary.
article via Matt Mattila
December 11, 2004
| Computers
FactID: 150
Rated
2.67 stars
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.
Wired Magazine via my Dad
December 10, 2004
| Cars
FactID: 148
Rated
4.45 stars
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 .
December 9, 2004
| Computers
FactID: 145
Rated
3.75 stars
Wireless networking (802.11a/b/g) operates at 2.4 Ghz as does your... microwave . Get too close and your connection will drop.
HowStuffWorks.com , Sharat Nagaraj
December 5, 2004
| Science
FactID: 143
Rated
3.17 stars
You get "shocked" by static charge
more in the winter because it is less humid and humidity usually
helps to dissipate static charge.
December 4, 2004
| Random
FactID: 142
Rated
3.88 stars
You can only fold a sheet of paper in half
7 times .
December 2, 2004
| World
FactID: 141
Rated
3.25 stars
Brazil shares common boundaries with every
other South American country except Chile and Ecuador.
CIA World Factbook
December 1, 2004
| Math
FactID: 140
Rated
4.27 stars
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.
Associated Press , Quinn McCleery
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