Global Mobile Phone Usage. How Many Phones Are There?

Interesting information from a UN report done last year about the use of cellular phones around the world.
By the end of last year there were an estimated 4.1bn mobile subscriptions, up from 1bn in 2002. That represents six in 10 of the world’s population, although it is hard to make a precise calculation about how [...]

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How Much Fuel Does the Space Shuttle Use?

Did you know if costs $450 million for a single shuttle mission?  Or that the shuttle carries 835,958 gallons of fuel at liftoff?  Thats 1,607,185 pounds of fuel!
[NASA Shuttle FAQ]

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The Happiest States in America

A survey by the CDC did a study of over 1.3 million people from all over the country and came to the conclusion that people in Louisiana, Hawaii and Florida are among happiest Americans.
Ranking No. 1 in happiness was Louisiana, home of Dixieland music and Cajun/Creole cooking.
Oswald urged a bit of caution in that ranking, [...]

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How Much Time Do We Spend On The Internet?

Did you know that a recent survey found that adults now spend an average of 13 hours a week on the internet?  14% spend 24 or more hours a week online.
[Harris Interactive]

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1.2 Billion YouTube Videos a Day

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?

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.

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, [...]

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Henry Ford and the Ford Charcoal Company

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?

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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