Jul 22, 2010
Largest consumer of oil in the world = <drum roll>
Largest consumer of oil in the world = U.S. Military
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Largest consumer of oil in the world = <drum roll>
Largest consumer of oil in the world = U.S. Military
2 billion = number of videos streaming per day on YouTube (via techcrunch)
2 Billion views a day 3rd most visited website (Alexa) Localized in 23 countries across 24 different languages 15 The average number of minutes people spend on the site each day 24 Hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute 45 Million home page impressions every day 70% of YouTube traffic comes from outside the U.S. 100 Years of video scanned by copyright managent technology, Content ID, every day 1700 Years it would take you to watch the hundreds of millions of videos on YouTube
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/D9N16Bjyeyc/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email
"How much water is in a latte?" - MIT Sloan Management Review
"Here’s the breakdown, by liters, of the water needed to make that latte:
0.1 for the water itself 2.5 to make the plastic lid 5.5 to make the paper cup and sleeve 7.5 to grow the sugar 49.5 to feed the cows that make the milk 143 to grow the coffee"
Source: How much water is in a latte? - Beyond Green - MIT Sloan Management Review
4.9 billion pounds = Seafood Consumed per Year
NOAA - citing a third of this seafood to come from Gulf of Mexico
“A week after its $4billion bailout Chrysler spent more than $200,000 for a full page ad in the Wall Street Journal that read, “Thank you America.”
-MotherJones.org - Mar/Apr 2009
1000 = Number of US Banks that failed following the Railroad bubble bursting from 1893-1897.
"Who Shredded our Safety Net?" Mother Jones. May/June 2009
Americans spend an average of 29 hours a week watching television - which means in a typical life span, we devote 13 uninterrupted years to our television sets. The biggest problem with mass media isn't low quality - it's high quantity.
The Way I See It Quote - back of Starbucks cup
$120 BILLION = the amount US Drug Companies spent on R&D in 2007-2008. # of Completely New Drugs approved by the FDA in 2008= 8
BW 3/30/09 -Data from Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers