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| May 28, 2005
| World
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At least 9 out 10 Nigerians attend church regularly.
Only 4 out of 10 Americans claim to do so.
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| May 27, 2005
| Animals
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At birth, koalas weigh only 0.5 grams and are the size of a bee!
Eventually they grow to about 20 pounds (9,000 grams) by eating mostly eucalyptus leaves (approx. 500 grams/day as adults).
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| May 26, 2005
| Random
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Police said they were searching for a gunman who ran up to a woman while she was walking her dog Monday night and grabbed the bag she was holding.
It contained poop.
When the gunman discovered what was in it, he threw it down in disgust, pointed his gun at the dog and demanded money. He pulled the trigger twice, but fortunately, it didn't fire...
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| May 25, 2005
| Computers
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Back in 1999, during the heat of the Microsoft trials, Jim Allchin, Senior VP at Microsoft in charge of the Windows group, lied during testimony regarding the difficulty of removing Internet Explorer from Windows.
Allchin played a video showing how Windows slowed down a lot after running an Internet Explorer removal tool. Turns out that the video was false -- "It's not slow due to the Felten program," David Boies (lead attorney Department of Justice) continued. "It's slow because of Windows 98, isn't it?"
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| May 24, 2005
| Food
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Burger King is rolling out a veggie burger to their 7,700 restaurants nationwide.
Now Albert Einstein, Sexy Spice (Victoria Beckham), Natalie Portman, and I will have somewhere to eat.
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| Source: CNN Money and FamousVeggie.com
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| May 23, 2005
| Computers
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Today, the typical information worker in North America gets 10 times as much e-mail as in 1997, and that number continues to increase.
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| Source: Executive Email from Bill Gates
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| May 22, 2005
| History
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April 1 was originally New Year's Day because it so closely followed the vernal equinox on March 21st -- the first day of spring.
In 1582, the Church changed the calendar and those who continued using April 1 as the date of the new year were referred to as "April Fools."
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| May 21, 2005
| Society
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40% of 12-14 year olds have cell phones
63% of Americans have cell phones.
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| Source: Yankee Group via Forbes
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| May 20, 2005
| Food
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Coke is introducing "Diet Coke Sweetened with Splenda".
Splenda is 600 times sweeter than sugar.
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| May 19, 2005
| Computers
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In 1978 the first spam e-mail was dispatched to about 400 people on the Arpanet (Arpanet was designed for the Department of Defense and was a precursor to the current internet).
It was a plug from a marketing representative at Digital Equipment Corporation for the new Decsystem-20 computer.
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| Source: Scientific American via Aaron Fulkerson
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| May 18, 2005
| Entertainment
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Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith opens tomorrow, Thursday, May 19th.
According to global outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc, absenteeism could cost employers as much as $627 million over the two workdays of the four-day opening weekend, as workers take off to see the film.
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| May 15, 2005
| Politics
FactID: 338
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In 2000, African Americans made up 23% of the US Army's recruits. Today that number has dropped to only 14%.
However, African Americans still make up only 12.1% of the US total population.
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| May 14, 2005
| Food
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In 1920, the first "Baby Ruth" candy bar was sold.
It is named after President Grover Cleveland's daughter - not the legendary baseball player Babe Ruth.
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| Source: Wikipedia & "So, now you know" by Bright and Briscoe
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| May 13, 2005
| Computers
FactID: 335
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The name Yahoo! is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle".
Yahoo started out as "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web" -- as in Jerry Yang and David Filo who were Ph.D. candidates at Stanford in 1994 when they started the site.
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| May 12, 2005
| Health
FactID: 334
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In 2004, the U.S. spent nearly $1.7 trillion on healthcare -- that’s more than the country spends on food, housing or national defense
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| May 11, 2005
| Food
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Americans consume 17 billion quarts of popped popcorn annually or 54 quarts of popcorn per man, woman and child -- each year!
Approximately 70 percent is eaten in the home (home popped and pre-popped) and about 30 percent outside the home (theaters, stadiums, schools, etc.).
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| May 10, 2005
| Business
FactID: 331
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Wal-Mart's sales on one day were $1.42 billion, which is more than the gross domestic products of 36 countries.
The store chain employs 1.6 million associates in over 5,100 stores. Each week, more than 138 million customers visit a Wal-Mart around the world.
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| May 9, 2005
| Animals
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The oldest known animal was a tortoise, which lived to be 152 years old.
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| May 7, 2005
| Entertainment
FactID: 330
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50 Cent has become the first recording artist since The Beatles to hold 4 positions in the U.S. Top 10 at the same time.
Hate it or love it, the underdog's on top.
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| May 6, 2005
| Cars
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Between 1981 and 2003, the average horsepower of cars sold in the US rose 93%.
The average fuel economy of 2004 cars was 6% lower than the average of cars from 1987.
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| May 5, 2005
| Animals
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The starfish is the only animal that can turn its stomach inside out.
The cardiac stomach, which is a sacklike stomach located at the center of the body, may be everted - pushed out of the organism's body and used to engulf and digest food. Some species take advantage of the great endurance of their water vascular systems to open the shells of mollusks (clams, mussels, etc.), and inject their stomachs into the shells. Once the stomach is inserted inside the shell it digests the mollusk in place!
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| May 4, 2005
| Science
FactID: 329
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Matthew Nagle can control his TV and computer just by thinking!
After a knife attack in 2001, Matthew became paralyzed from the neck down. However, he received a brain implant consisting of 100 electrodes implanted a millimeter deep in the motor cortex of his brain that controls movement.
Now, he can think his TV on and off, change channels and alter the volume thanks to the technology and software linked to devices in his home. Read more!
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| May 3, 2005
| Entertainment
FactID: 326
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Trailing behind only California and New York, North Carolina is the third most often-utilized filmmaking location in the U.S.
Offering over 30 sound stages in eight studio complexes, along with the state's breathtaking beauty and four seasons, North Carolina beckons filmmakers from around the globe.
Visitors can enjoy viewing the locations and sets of Dawson's Creek, Dirty Dancing and the spectacular train wreck from The Fugitive.
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| Source: VisitNC.com and NCFilm.com via Ankeet Shah
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| May 1, 2005
| Random
FactID: 291
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The odds of being bumped from a flight are just 1 in 11,628.
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