1830s
Decade when Dr. Miles Compound Extract of Tomato, a patent
medicine, went on the market. Today, it is best known
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80 The estimated percentage
of total power saved by turning off a monitor when a computer is not
in use.
12345 The zip code assigned
to General Electric in Schenectady, N.Y.
1,000 The number of "Sky
Soldiers" in a nighttime airdrop in Iraq in March by U.S. Air Force
C-17s. It was the largest combat airdrop since the U.S. invasion
of Panama in 1989 and a first for the C-17.
1,000,000,000,000 The
supposed, and approximate, capacity in "bits" of information of
the human brain.
167
The number of letters in the poetic name of Bangkok, Thailand, making
it the world's longest place name: Krung thep mahanakhon bovorn
ratanakosin mahintharayutthaya mahadilok pop noparatratchathani
burirom udomratchanivetma hasathan amornpiman avatarnsa thit sakkathattiyavisnukarmprasit.
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