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Three factoids underscore that inequality: The 400 wealthiest Americans have a greater combined net worth than the bottom 150 million Americans.
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I heard many stories of drownings in these harsh and forgiving rivers (Winnipeg, which lies at the bottom of the Red River Valley, a low-lying plain, is famous for its flooding); one woman I met proudly told me she's personally witnessed three (factoid: Winnipeg comes from a Cree word meaning "Muddy Waters").
So that's one factoid of information uncovered.
(Here's one factoid: Even if you clean your bed pillowcase repeatedly, one-tenth of your pillow's weight in six years will be your own bacteria).
One quirky factoid is that the writer Somerset Maugham was born in an upstairs room.
One amazing factoid: Central banks bought more securities than the Treasury issued in 2006 a total of $320 billion according to Brad Setser, a former Treasury official who follows the money flows better than anyone.
One of the factoids in Mr. Shaw's post — that Windows Phone is outshipping iPhone in seven countries — garnered notice from John Gruber at Daring Fireball, who wondered about the identities of the seven countries.
(Random factoid: Two of Screenleap's four co-founders created a site at Stanford 13 years ago called Steamtunnels, which was a predecessor of Facebook).
One day, he came across a factoid: ninety per cent of the world's information had been created in the past two years.
One of the unremarked-upon factoids in recent political history is that the last two Democratic presidents both had their careers underwritten by lawyer spouses who served as the chief family wage-earners.
On one page, he writes, "The Factoids: Nobody knows whether they in fact exist".
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