As far back as the Google Insights data will take us (2004), Utah has consistently out-Thanksgivinged the rest of the country by a factor of 2 to 1. You’ve got a long way to go, Texas.
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6 months ago Well your comment about "l even think she’d beat Titanic." This is not right. Titanic was in the beginning of the 20 century HOW can you compare modern superliners [...]
Tags: The Oasis Of The Seas
The map from this month’s issue of The Atlantic is the most disturbing thing I’ve seen in quite a while. The Oasis Of The Seas casts shadows on 20-story buildings, makes more than nine elephants worth of ice cubes every day, and produces enough electricity to power all of the homes in Utah’s second-largest metropolitan statistical area!? Is this really necessary?
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In 2007, the US Mint produced 2,089,500,000 new dimes. Two trillion! Averaged evenly across the year, this equates to over 66 dimes per second.
A single dime is 0.705 inches in diameter. Lined end-to-end, the dimes produced last year alone would stretch over 23,249 miles. For comparison, the circumference of the Earth is 24,800 miles.
A single dime weighs 2.268 grams, so there are 200 dimes in one pound. 2007’s dime production weighs in at over 10.4 million pounds. For comparison, my car weighs 2,800 pounds, and the world’s heaviest record land mammal, an African elephant found in Angola, weighed 27,000 pounds.