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| February 28, 2006
| Entertainment
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The world's top five supermodels made $38.2 million dollars in 2005:
- Gisele Bundchen - $15.2 million
- Heidi Klum - $7.5 million
- Tyra Banks - $6 million
- Kate Moss - $5 million
- Adriana Lima - $4.5 million
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|  Source: MSN Money via Jason Langberg
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| February 27, 2006
| Cars
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Toyota also makes the Lexus and Scion brand automotives for various ages:
- Toyota - median buyer age 50
- Lexus - median buyer age 55
- Scion - median buyer age 35
As a result, 85% of Scion owners have never purchased a Toyota.
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| Source: Business 2.0 article
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| February 22, 2006
| Math
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In a room full of 23 people, there is a 50%
chance that two people have the same birthday. Strange.
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| Source: Wolfram Research
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| February 21, 2006
| Entertainment
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In 2005, 332.7 million songs were downloaded legally --- versus 134.2 million songs in 2004.
On the flip side, US album sales dropped 7% in 2005 (from $651 million to $602 million in 2005).
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| Source: Nielsen Soundscan via American Way magazine
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| February 16, 2006
| Food
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The original slogan of Life Savers candy was "For that stormy breath."
The original product packaging (back in 1912) pictured an old seaman throwing a life preserver to a young female swimmer with the slogan "For That Stormy Breath."
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| Source: Adclassix.com via Gina Taylor
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| February 15, 2006
| Society
FactID: 533
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The average American house built in 2005 was 2,349 square feet in size, a 12% increase from ten years ago.
And then there's the August fact about a 14% increase in prices this past year.
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| Source: The Economist
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| February 13, 2006
| Entertainment
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DVRs (Digital Video Recorders like Tivo) are estimated to be in 7% of the 110.2 million TV households in the US, according to Nielsen Research.
It is also that 50-70% of DVR users fast-forward through commercials.
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| Source: NYTimes
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| February 8, 2006
| Entertainment
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Tonight at the 48th Grammy Awards, 1,100 nominees are up for 108 trophies. However, only 10-13 of the most important Grammys are given out during the TV broadcast.
The other 95 awards are presented during an untelevised ceremony earlier in the day.
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| February 7, 2006
| Politics
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In 2004, VP Dick Cheney (along with his wife) earned an adjusted gross income of $1,734,373! (see their actual return in PDF)
The Cheneys best year, financially speaking, was 2000, when they earned $36,086,635 (that's 8 figures), mostly from Cheney's Halliburton stock!
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| February 4, 2006
| Sports
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ABC is said to be selling 30-second spots during Super Bowl XL for between $2.5 million and $2.6 million, which would be a record price for Super Bowl ads. (More than 86 million people watched the Super Bowl last year in the U.S., according to Nielsen Media Research.)
In addition, Comcast Digital Cable customers will be able to view these commercials on demand for all of the next week!
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| February 3, 2006
| Sports
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Super Bowl XL will be held at Ford Field in Detroit, MI this Sunday. The ~67,000 tickets will be distributed accordingly:
- 34.8% -- go to the other 29 teams in the NFL.
That's 810 for each (or 23,490 seats in all) for this year's game.
- 17.5% -- go to the NFC championship team.
That's 11,812 seats.
- 17.5% -- go to the AFC championship team.
- 25.2% -- go to the NFL home office. Minus 500 pairs for the fan lottery, that's 17,010 seats. That's where the majority of corporate people would be.
- 5.0% -- go to the host-city team. That's 3,375 seats.
Now - see where the name "Super Bowl" came from, according to an old FactMe! fact!
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| Source: GQ Magazine (February 2006) via Ankeet Shah
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