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  1. Of the 17k+ words Shakespeare used, over 1700 are recorded there for the first time. http://bit.ly/1Ccv1j
  2. "300 million [golf] balls are lost or discarded in the United States alone, every year." http://bit.ly/3yXjsq
  3. 10 percent of electricity in the US comes from "dismantled nuclear bombs, including Russian ones." http://bit.ly/WFO6Q
  4. "LEGO is the world's No. 1 tire manufacturer." They produce 306 million tiny tires a year. http://bit.ly/3IMnnA
  5. Kafka invented HARD HAT while working @ Worker's Accident Insurance Institute of Kingdom of Bohemia http://bit.ly/33sNfc
  6. "The number of licenses to operate cabs in New York [City] has actually shrunk since 1937." http://bit.ly/4F8MW9
  7. "Total vacant land in Detroit now occupies an area almost the size of Boston." http://bit.ly/42gCBr
  8. "US Wireless Users Send 4.1 billion Texts Daily" http://bit.ly/49ocio
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. the first ATMs were installed in NYC in 1977 at Citibank branches. http://bit.ly/16GQWL
  12. "New Mexico boasts the largest concentration of Ph.D. scientists per capita in the United States." http://bit.ly/F70kP
  13. US consumers spent $66.54 per person on Halloween in 2008, a number that's expected to drop this year. http://bit.ly/1izJa
  14. What was the most watched show in the history of cable? Last night's Vikings/Packers game: http://bit.ly/1JZGiW [Via @fimoculous]
  15. In Dutch vader means father. (via @Joe_Liebman)
  16. Youngest member of The Forbes 400: Mark Zuckerberg, 25 Net Worth: $2 billion http://bit.ly/rFTog
  17. Collective net worth of The Forbes 400: $1.27 trillion http://bit.ly/13lG5g
  18. Some US airports use falconry (hunting of game with falcons) "to scare off birds that can be hazardous for airplanes." http://bit.ly/YxmYX
  19. Farthest you can get from a McDonald's in the USA: 107 miles as the crow flies, 145 miles by car. http://bit.ly/19nlFS [Thanks @epakurar]
  20. Billionaire Roman Abramovich's new mega-yacht is protected from paparazzi by camera detecting laser shield http://tinyurl.com/mg8gej