Reading and Writing Emails
Percentage of the average “knowledge worker’s” time that is spent reading and writing emails: 28
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It’s all about the cheese
Due to the high demand of the “dip season,” a national shortage of Velveeta has shoppers hunting stores for the gooey, bright-yellow “cheese product.” People planning Super Bowl parties are calling the shortage of the dip-friendly substance a “cheesepocalypse.” One fan tweeted, “If this is true, I’m going to die.”
Read morePirates
Portion of the Indian Ocean that is underexplored by scientists because of pirates: 1/4
Read moreDriving On The World Wide Web
Drivers are doing more than just texting behind the wheel. In a new study by Braun Research, 33 percent admitted they regularly send and read emails while driving, while 28 percent said they browse the internet and 27 percent said they use Facebook.
Read moreIt was a bad week for . . .
. . . ordering a margarita, after heavy rains, tree disease, and cartel violence sent prices for Mexico’s limes soaring from to $14 a case to $100. “We don’t buy them [anymore],” said the owner of a San Antonio Mexican restaurant. “We substitute lemons.”
Read moreChange In The Number Of Overweight People
Percentage change in the number of overweight people in the developing world since 1980: +261
Read moreRACE AND WAGES
75%: The percentage of wages earned by full-time black and Latino retail workers relative to their white counterparts, according to a June 2 report from the NAACP and the liberal think tank Demos.
Read moreUnderwater Mining
Number of square miles of seabed in international waters that were under contract for mining operations in 2000: 0 That are today: 463,323
Read moreBarrel of monkeys
A wild rhesus macaque who’s stalked Tampa Bay for three years bit and scratched an elderly woman. “He gets up in my tree and starts shaking it because he wants to be fed,” said Jeff Seilbach, a neighbor of the attacked woman. “If you don’t feed him, he cops an attitude.”
Read moreHigh School Dropouts
Portion of high-school dropouts who say they left school to work: 1/4 Portion of those dropouts who earn less than $10,000 per year: 3/5
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