quietmint » By The Numbers http://quietmint.com "Yesterday's absence of corrections was due to a technical hitch rather than any sudden onset of accuracy." Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:53:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 We Out-Thanksgiving Them All http://quietmint.com/2009/we-out-thanksgiving-them-all/ http://quietmint.com/2009/we-out-thanksgiving-them-all/#comments Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:53:13 +0000 Nick http://quietmint.com/?p=384 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.

Google Insights: Thanksgiving In Utah

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The Oasis Of The Seas Map

"Hope Floats"

]]> http://quietmint.com/2009/the-oasis-of-the-seas/feed/ 3 Your Family Share: $2.60 http://quietmint.com/2008/your-family-share-260/ http://quietmint.com/2008/your-family-share-260/#comments Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:21:00 +0000 Nick /2008/10/your-family-share-260/ DimeIn 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.

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