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| June 30, 2007
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FactID: 120
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The average office chair with wheels will
travel 8 miles this year.
The average pencil will draw a line 35 miles
long.
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| June 29, 2007
| Science
FactID: 192
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"Inches", "Feet", and "Miles" were originally defined based on the human body.
An inch was the width of a thumb.
A foot was the length of a foot.
A pace was two marching steps (~5 feet). A mile was a thousand paces (5,280 feet).
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| Source: "Necessary Numbers" by Mary Blocksma
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| June 28, 2007
| Astronomy
FactID: 27
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The rings of Saturn are so thin that if you
shrunk
them so that they are as thick as a music record, they would
still be 8 miles wide.
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| Source: Astronomy Picture of the Day
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| June 27, 2007
| Animals
FactID: 164
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A dachshund (the "weiner" dog) named Baron ran the 50-yard dash in 4.22 seconds. His legs are 4 inches long.
The record for a human being is 5.15 seconds (set by Canadian Ben Johnson in 1988).
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| Source: Animal Planet
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| June 26, 2007
| Business
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Thomas Edison, inventor of light bulb, founded General Electric (GE) (#5 on Fortune 500)
The sound on NBC when they hit the peacock feathers (dum-dum-dum) is the sound of the musical notes G-E-C. General Electric Corporation (GEC) owns NBC.
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| June 25, 2007
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The Guiness World Record
for dominoes is 3,847,295 in 2002.
It took 100 people 3 months of full-time work. Once set into
motion, the dominoes fell for 35 minutes straight.
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| June 24, 2007
| Science
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There are only 6 lists of hurricane names,
used in rotation, so hurricanes have the same name every
6 years. Also, the list for each year includes one hurricane
name for each letter of the alphabet except Q, U, X, Y, and Z.
If a hurricane is particularly devastating or costly, however,
the name can be retired. Atlantic storms can have French, English
or Spanish names because those are the languages spoken where
the hurricane activity usually is.
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| June 8, 2007
| Technology
FactID: 611
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Nintendo was originally founded in 1889 as a maker of playing cards!
They made their first video game in 1975.
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