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  1. last tweet was supposed to be from personal twitter account not this one. now that its here though it seems like it fits.
  2. WTF?! Delta wants to charge me an additional $50 to change my flight because i booked on Orbitz.
  3. Of the 17k+ words Shakespeare used, over 1700 are recorded there for the first time. http://bit.ly/1Ccv1j
  4. "300 million [golf] balls are lost or discarded in the United States alone, every year." http://bit.ly/3yXjsq
  5. 10 percent of electricity in the US comes from "dismantled nuclear bombs, including Russian ones." http://bit.ly/WFO6Q
  6. "LEGO is the world's No. 1 tire manufacturer." They produce 306 million tiny tires a year. http://bit.ly/3IMnnA
  7. Kafka invented HARD HAT while working @ Worker's Accident Insurance Institute of Kingdom of Bohemia http://bit.ly/33sNfc
  8. "The number of licenses to operate cabs in New York [City] has actually shrunk since 1937." http://bit.ly/4F8MW9
  9. "Total vacant land in Detroit now occupies an area almost the size of Boston." http://bit.ly/42gCBr
  10. "US Wireless Users Send 4.1 billion Texts Daily" http://bit.ly/49ocio
  11. Average broadband speed and cost in US is 4.8mbps and $3.33 per 1mbps. Japan is 61mbps & $0.27 per 1mpbs. http://bit.ly/2SOhnt
  12. mid 70s in the bronx there were 120,000 per yr (3 fires every 2 hrs). 40% of all housing was destroyed. http://bit.ly/3q18yR
  13. the first ATMs were installed in NYC in 1977 at Citibank branches. http://bit.ly/16GQWL
  14. "New Mexico boasts the largest concentration of Ph.D. scientists per capita in the United States." http://bit.ly/F70kP
  15. US consumers spent $66.54 per person on Halloween in 2008, a number that's expected to drop this year. http://bit.ly/1izJa
  16. What was the most watched show in the history of cable? Last night's Vikings/Packers game: http://bit.ly/1JZGiW [Via @fimoculous]
  17. In Dutch vader means father. (via @Joe_Liebman)
  18. Youngest member of The Forbes 400: Mark Zuckerberg, 25 Net Worth: $2 billion http://bit.ly/rFTog
  19. Collective net worth of The Forbes 400: $1.27 trillion http://bit.ly/13lG5g
  20. Some US airports use falconry (hunting of game with falcons) "to scare off birds that can be hazardous for airplanes." http://bit.ly/YxmYX