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English Books and ISBN Numbers

“If the ten digit number on the back of a book starts with a zero or a one, the book is written in English.” [ISBN]

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World Population Numbers

“There are 6,720,580,927 people in the world as of 04:31 GMT (EST+5) Sep 01, 2008, 2006.” http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/worldpopinfo.html

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ISBN Numbers

“The beginning numbers of a book”s ISBN are a prefix which acts as a code for its country of origin or the language in which it is written. The country code prefix can be anywhere from 1 to 5 digits long. Examples include 0 or 1 for Englishspeaking countries, 2 for French speaking countries, 4 [...]

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Fractions of Sevenths

“There is an interesting pattern with the fractions of sevenths (1/7th, 2/7th, 3/7th, 4/7th, 5/7th, 6/7th.). First, there are only 6 digits that are used in these fractions, and they repeat. So, for example, 1/7th is equal to .142857142857142857….(it keeps going). but here”s the cool part – to get 2/7th, you just find the next [...]

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Opposite Sides of a Dice

“Opposite sides of a dice always add up to 7″ [source]

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3.14159265

“pi is 3.14159265 to 8 significant figures and is used to define the circumfrence of a circle.” [source]

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Myspace

“With the 100 millionth account being created on August 9, 2006[4] and a news story claiming 106 million accounts on September 8, 2006 [5], the site reportedly attracts new registrations at a rate of 230,000 per day. [3] From Wikipedia.org

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United Parcel Service

“United Parcel Service Inc. is the world”s largest package delivery company, delivering more than 14 million packages a day to more than 200 countries around the world.” [source]

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