Fodder #5 Feb. 25, 2009

Day 463, 15:02 Published in USA USA by Leviathann
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Averages
Income Tax: 15% (up 2😵
Salary: $9.06 (down $0.32)
Strength: 2.62 (no change)
ePeen Length: 2" (no change)

Totals
Treasury: 237.85g (down 25.24g)
GDP: 1568.56g (down 40.28g)
Exports: 363.22g (no previous data due to error)
Imports: 6.82g (down 59.10g)
Inflation: 1.82% (up 42.02😵
Voters: Not Nearly Enough

Exchange Rates
1g = $59.50 (up $1.60)
A ton of bricks still ≈ 64 million feathers. (no change)

Humans
When Alexander the Great was campaigning in Asia, his army cost twenty talents a day, the equivalent of half a ton of silver.

Earth
Fresh snow is typically made up of 90-95% trapped air.

Machines
During the Second World War, Hitler ordered his engineers to build a giant tank – ironically called The Mouse. It had two giant cannon and was watertight so it could travel under a river. Unfortunately it weighed 180 tonnes, and the prototype sank into the ground.

Origins
One trillion seconds ago, Neanderthal man (and woman) walked the earth. The 1,000,000,000,000 seconds since then add up to 31,709 years.

Theories
The number of seconds since the Big Bang is one followed by 17 zeroes. Whilst the number of atoms in the Universe is one followed by 100 zeros.

Technology
Worldwide we created more information in the last 3 years than in all of previous recorded history.

Space
A pinhead-sized piece of a neutron star weighs 1 million tons.