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August 19, 2004

$4,000,000

Amount of money Newsday Media Group paid in late-2009 for the redesign and relaunch of its website, Newsday.com.

35

Number of paid subscribers Newsday.com attracted in its first three months as a pay-to-view site.

$9,100

Amont of subscription-related revenue Newsday.com has generated in its first three months as a pay-to-view site.

$36,400

Projected revenue Newsday.com will generate from paid subscriptions in its first year as a pay-to-view site.

$650,000,000

Amount of money Cablevision paid to purchase Newsday and Newsday.com in July 2008.

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August 18, 2004

$1,550,000

Total amount of bonus money New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg handed out in 2005 to election campaign staffers after securing for the Mayor a 19.4% margin of victory.

$400,000

Amount of bonus money Mayor Bloomberg gave to his campaign manager, Kevin Sheekey, after the 2005 victory.

$850,000

Total amount of bonus money the Mayor handed out in 2001 when he won by 2.4%.

$100,000

Sheekey's 2001 bonus.

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August 17, 2004

$14,500

Cost to participate in reStart Internet Addiction Recovery Program -- a 45-day treatment program for people with Internet, video game, texting and gaming addictions.

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August 16, 2004

33

Number of companies who pulled their advertisements from Fox's The Glenn Beck Program after Beck himself referred to President Barack Obama as a racist with "a deep-seated hatred for white people."

2,400,000

Number of people who viewed The Glenn Beck Program on average per day the week in which Beck made his remark.

3,040,000

Number of people who viewed the program on Wednesday, August 26, the day after the 33rd advertiser pulled their ad.

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August 13, 2004

11,400

Number of times per minute a honey bee's wings stroke.

1/12th

Fraction of a teaspoon of honey the average honey bee will produce in its lifetime.

30,000,000

Number of years honey bees are thought to have inhabited Earth.

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August 12, 2004

90

Percent of paper money circulating in the United States containing traces of cocaine.

100

Percent of paper money circulating in Miami, Boston, and Detroit containing traces of cocaine.

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August 11, 2004

300

Number of hours of community service an Arizona judge ordered Walt Stanton to serve after a federal jury found him guilty in June 2009 of leaving jugs of water in the desert for illegal immigrants crossing over from Mexico.

$2.356 billion

Total state tax revenue attributable to immigrant workers in Arizona in 2004 (latest figures available).

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August 10, 2004

690

If you never cut it, the number of miles long your hair could grow to by the time you reach the age of 77.

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August 9, 2004

155,000

Number of prisoners Great Britain deported to Australia between the years 1788 and 1868.

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August 8, 2004

4,000

Approximate number of people injured each year worldwide by tea pots.

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August 7, 2004

1,000

Approximate number of down feathers that can be pressed into a thimble.

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August 6, 2004

50

Percentage of males raised on farms who have had sexual contact with an animal.

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August 4, 2004

$228,000,000

Cost for the U.S. Department of the Treasury to replace printing presses and plates as a result of a May 2008 appeals court ruling that U.S. paper money discriminates against the blind and visually impaired.

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August 3, 2004

$10,000

Average amount of money stolen in 2008 in U.S. bank robberies.

$9,000

Average amount of money stolen in 2006.

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August 2, 2004

76

Percent of U.S. companies that have written policies and guidelines governing e-mail use.

26

Percent who have fired employees for misusing e-mail.

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August 1, 2004

6

Number of women who have accused Dr. Robert M. Haddad--the top official of the Archdiocese of Boston's hospital system (the Caritas Christi Health Care System)--of sexual harassment.

$830,000.00

Amount of money Dr. Haddad received as severance pay after the Caritas Christi Health Care System board fired him over the allegations.

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