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| January 30, 2006
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In 2005, 12% of US newlyweds met online.
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|  Source: McKinsey
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| January 25, 2006
| Business
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According to USA Today, 43% of first-time homeowners last year bought their homes using no-money-down loans.
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| Source: Yahoo! Finance via Jason Langberg
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| January 23, 2006
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The five permanent members of the UN Security Council, have a primary responsibility, under the Security Council Charter, for the maintenance of international peace and security.
However, these five permanent members of the UN Security Council - France, Russia, China, the UK, and the USA - together account for 88 per cent of the world's conventional arms exports.
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| Source: Amnesty International via Jason Langberg
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| January 21, 2006
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There are 2.1 billion Christians in the world. This includes just over a billion Catholics, about 350 million Protestants, and the Orthodox and Anglican faiths.
Islam is the world's second-largest religion, with roughly 1.3 billion followers -- including 940 million Sunnis and 170 million Shiites, as well as those belonging to other Muslim faiths like Sufism. Hindus are the third largest group at just under a billion.
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| January 18, 2006
| Entertainment
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Product placements on network primetime shows increased about 30% last year to 106,808, according to Place Views, Nielsen Media Research's product placement tracking service.
Shows with the most product placements included NBC's "The Contender" and "Fear Factor," Fox's "American Idol," and CBS' "The King of Queens."
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| January 16, 2006
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Around 825 A.D. in Baghdad, Mohammed ibn-Musa al-Khwarizimi wrote a book called "Kitab al-jabr wa al-muqabalah", which means "The science of restoration and reduction" and stood as the major algebraic work of the period.
The word "algebra" comes from this title ("al-jabr"), since this was the first textbook used in Europe for this subject.
The word "algorithm" is a distortion of al-Khwarizmi's name.
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| Source: "The Golden Ratio" by Mario Livio
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| January 12, 2006
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Apple sold 14 million iPods in the fourth quarter of 2005 - the equivalent of more than 100 iPods a minute for 3 months straight, day and night!
In all, Apple has sold 42 million iPods to date. And Apple's stock has more than doubled in the past 6 months!
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| Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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| January 11, 2006
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Pluto is the size of the lower forty-eight states of the US. It's just .25% the mass of Earth.
In terms of distance, if Earth was a pea, Pluto would a mile and a half away!
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| Source: "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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| January 9, 2006
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In 2005, AOL blocked an average of 1.5 billion spam messages per day.
Approximately eight in 10 e-mails received at its gateway were blocked as junk.
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| Source: CNet article
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| January 8, 2006
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Rapper Vanilla Ice's real name is Robert Van Winkle. With the hit "Ice Ice Baby", his debut album sold more than a million records each week and is to this day, the Number 1 debut record of all time!
A sidenote: Under pressure as a white rapper to gain street credibility, his publicists put out the story that he attended an all-black high school in the ghetto, when his real upbringing was in the suburbs.
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| Source: Bankrate.com
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| January 6, 2006
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The = sign ("equals sign") was invented by 16th Century Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde, who was fed up with writing "is equal to" in his equations. He chose the two lines because "noe 2 thynges can be moare equalle".
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| Source: BBC via Aaron Fulkerson
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| January 3, 2006
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Mohammed is now one of the 20 most popular names for boys born in England and Wales.
The most popular names for boys and girls -- Jack and Emily.
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| Source: BBC via Aaron Fulkerson
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| January 1, 2006
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Founded in 1928, Motorola was originally a pioneer in car radios. Thus the name "Motorola" was originally a combination of "motor" and "ola" (as in the "Victrola" phonograph).
The company invented cellular technology and marketing the first commercial handheld cell phone in 1983, the DynaTac (aka "the Zack Morris phone").
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| Source: Business 2.0 article
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