According to a March Pentagon report, Halliburton charged the U.S. government $27 million to transport $82,000 worth of liquefied petroleum gas from Kuwait to Iraq.

Mitzi Gaynor was paid 40 times what the individual Beatles were paid for their joint Ed Sullivan TV appearance in 1964. Topo Gigio – a marionette mouse – made more than 10 times what the Beatles made.

Clean water could be provided to everyone on Earth for an outlay of $1.7 billion a year beyond current spending on water projects, according to the International Water Management Institute.

The percentage of American kids who walk or bike to school has dropped from 71% to 18% in just one generation.

Speed in Swedish is “fart” and speed bump is “farthinder.”

This article appears in September 9 • 2005.

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