for the olympics closing ceremony 19 composers created 30 hours of music. A total of 600 hours was spent recording. Sun, 24 Aug 2008
China's inflation-adjusted per-capita income was lower in the 1950s than at the end of Song Dynasty in 1270 - http://tinyurl.com/6dw5dh Thu, 21 Aug 2008
"Last year, an average of eight peer-reviewed papers using fMRI were published per day" - http://tinyurl.com/6yuv5d Tue, 19 Aug 2008
"Women spend 136 days of their lives getting ready for a night out" - http://tinyurl.com/6m5b55 Tue, 19 Aug 2008
"Every minute, 10 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube." - http://tinyurl.com/5qkbua Sun, 10 Aug 2008
the beijing olympics opening ceremony cost $476,000 per minute (low estimate) http://tinyurl.com/5tpt59 Sat, 09 Aug 2008
Reportedly 12% of websites and 25% of search engine requests are porn. http://tinyurl.com/5eq5lj Sun, 03 Aug 2008
nevermind google's profit ($33k) per minute. Last quarter exxon made $90k per minute Fri, 01 Aug 2008
Google makes over $2 million an hour. http://tinyurl.com/6r4ufo Mon, 21 Jul 2008
Without The Beatles we might not have CAT scans. http://tinyurl.com/5gf6pf Thu, 17 Jul 2008
Just over 1 in 7 bottles of wine is ruined by "corking" - http://tinyurl.com/6n4zwf Wed, 09 Jul 2008
During WWI Woodrow Wilson used sheep to mow the White House lawn. http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/grounds/06.html Sat, 05 Jul 2008
Swedish Fish were invented in Sweden but are now for the most part made in Canada. Tue, 01 Jul 2008
A human brain has 100 trillion synapses (in comparison the web has 57 trillion hyperlinks) - http://tinyurl.com/6pbe9r Sun, 29 Jun 2008
Stairway to Heaven has been played ~3 million times on radio which is equal to ~45 years of continuous play - http://tinyurl.com/56t8tv Sun, 29 Jun 2008