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Thursday, July 21, 2011

Gas Prices around the World: How much does gas cost in other countries?

Here's some GAS prices around the WORLD:
The price of regular gallon of gas in:
  • Venezuela is  $0.12 
  • Nigeria is  $0.38
  • Puerto Rico is $1.74
  • South Africa is $2.62
  • Cuba is $3.03
  • Ireland is $4.78
  • Netherlands is $6.48
Go to CNN/Money for more gas prices!

How much does the government spend each day?

Random Fact of the Day
The estimate for the cost of national public services for 2011, is 3.7 trillion dollars! That equals 10.2 billion dollars a day, 425 million dollars an hour and 7 million dollars per minute.

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

What are the world's BIGGEST BOX OFFICE successes?


The world's highest grossing films are (as of June 2011):
  1. Avatar $2,782,275,172
  2. Titanic $1,843,201,268   
  3. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King $1,119,110,941
  4. Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest $1,066,179,725
  5. Toy Story 3 $1,063,171,911
And the grand total of the world's top 5 grossing films is
 $ 7,873,939,017


Healthcare in America

Did you Know That?
  • 35 million people in the U.S enter the hospital and stay for about 5 days.
  • The average cost of the stay is around $8000!
  • 199 million people are covered by private health insurance.
  • 47 million people have no health insurance.
  • Health care spending in U.S was over 1.9 trillion in 2004!
  • Finally, women outlive men by about 6 years.

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Random Fact of the Day - 7.19.11

  • Japan is the largest exporter of frog's legs.
  • On average there are 180 sesame seeds on a bun of a BigMac.
  • There are about 100,000 bacteria in one litre of drinking water.
  • Coca Cola was originally green.
  • The powder on chewing gum is finely-ground marble.
  • The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
Time for DINNER!!
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