1.2 Billion YouTube Videos a Day

June 30, 2009

From TechCrunch

But the real number of streams/day, we’ve now confirmed with a source at Google, is above 1.2 billion/day worldwide. That matches what we’ve heard from other sources. That pretty much means everyone on the Internet, on average, is watching one YouTube video per day.

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How Many People Go Whale Watching?

June 30, 2009

Did you know that whale watching draws in 13 million people a year from 119 different countries?  It also generates over $2.1 billion a year.

Whale Watching

The Ifaw-commissioned report, compiled by the Australian organisation Economists at Large, found that income from whale watching had doubled over the last decade, with the fastest growth seen in Asia.

In 2008, it concluded, 13 million people went to sea to watch cetaceans in 119 countries.

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Henry Ford and the Ford Charcoal Company

June 25, 2009

Henry Ford came up with the Model T car, but he was also involved in the creation of Kingsford Charcoal.
In the production of his cars, scrap wood was produced. Ford made this scrap into charcoal, and created the Ford Charcoal company. But when a new site was needed for the plant, a relative of his, [...]

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What’s the Least Inhabited Place on Earth?

June 23, 2009

A new discovery reveals the least inhabited place on Earth.
The seafloor sediments in the middle of the South Pacific have fewer living cells than anywhere else measured, a new study found.
Oceanographer Steven D’Hondt of the University of Rhode Island and colleagues took a boat out to the middle of the ocean and collected cores, or [...]

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What’s the Biggest Source of Food Poisoning?

June 19, 2009

A recent report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identified chicken as the biggest source of food poisoning in the United States. The second largest cause was identified as vegetables, fruits and nuts.
Poultry was the most commonly identified source of food poisoning in the United States in 2006, followed by leafy vegetables [...]

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Picture City, Florida

June 19, 2009

In the early 1920s, when the economy was in its heyday and the real estate business was booming, the Olympia Improvement Corporation drew up plans to turn a small town in Florida named Hobe Sound into the next Hollywood. A downtown was built in Grecian style, with all the streets being named after various Greek [...]

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How Do Migrating Birds Know Where They’re Going?

June 18, 2009

Even though we’ve only recently developed GPS systems that give us directions while we’re driving, birds have always been able to find their way during migration. Their sense of direction is dependent on a combination of three “maps” of their own.
Birds who migrate during the day can orient themselves by the position of the sun. [...]

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Origin of the Twinkie

June 16, 2009

Hostess Twinkies were invented in 1931 by James Dewar, manager of Continental Bakeries’ Chicago factory. He envisioned the product as a way of using the company’s thousands of shortcake pans which were otherwise employed only during the strawberry season. Originally called Little Shortcake Fingers, they were renamed Twinkie Fingers, and finally “Twinkies.”

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