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In 2010 retail chain Walmart's income was greater than the entire economy of Norway. The company's 2010 income, measured in pounds, was £278.38 billion. Norway's gross domestic product for 2010 was £276.61 billion.
 

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worbod said:
In 2010 retail chain Walmart's income was greater than the entire economy of Norway. The company's 2010 income, measured in pounds, was £278.38 billion. Norway's gross domestic product for 2010 was £276.61 billion.
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Walmart - still a better name for a country than Uruguay

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Cruyff14 said:
I wonder how the figures in that Woodstock list would look today after taking inflation into effect.
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$10,000 USD in 1969 is about 65-70K now.

I would reckon that's well less then what the big bands get for a festival slot now. But the value of musicians has gone up significantly in the last few decades - or at least their ability to extract value.
 
The Passenger said:
$10,000 USD in 1969 is about 65-70K now.

I would reckon that's well less then what the big bands get for a festival slot now. But the value of musicians has gone up significantly in the last few decades - or at least their ability to extract value.
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Hm yeah, you're definitely not wrong.

No way a headliner would get $70k. Be in the hundreds of thousands, I'm sure.
 
For the winners of the Indianapolis 500, it is tradition to drink milk in celebration. Before the race, drivers actually get a choice of what type of milk they prefer, this year 17 drivers chose whole milk, 12 chose 2%, and 3 chose fat free.

Also on the Indy 500. For the first time 66 years, residents of Indiana will actually be able to watch the Indianapolis 500 live on TV. It seems crazy that in its home state, it's not even broadcast live on TV, but it was actually originally an attempt to draw people into attending the event instead of watching from home. Being the 100th straight running this year, the race sold out, which is what brought in the decision to lift the ban if broadcasting in Indiana.

Typically, race day attracts over 300,000, but being a sell out this year 400,000 or so are expected.
 
A taxi driver in India only drives his taxi cab backwards. Harpeet Devi drove his taxi in Punjab in a regular way until his gearbox got stuck and would only work in reverse. While saving up to have the gearbox fixed, Devi drove the cab backwards. He got to like it so much that he actually had his car converted to drive backwards permanently.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...R-extra-gears-car-enabling-drive-reverse.html
 
worbod said:
A taxi driver in India only drives his taxi cab backwards. Harpeet Devi drove his taxi in Punjab in a regular way until his gearbox got stuck and would only work in reverse. While saving up to have the gearbox fixed, Devi drove the cab backwards. He got to like it so much that he actually had his car converted to drive backwards permanently.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...R-extra-gears-car-enabling-drive-reverse.html
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That would be a modern equivalent of the Lightburn Zeta, which went as fast backwards as it did forwards (which admittedly wasn't particularly fast).
 
Wallaby said:
Hull City.

Of all the professional teams in the EPL, and the four levels of the Championship, this is the only one with a name that has zero letters that can be coloured in.
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Until their 2008 promotion to the Premier League, Hull was the largest town/city in Europe to have never had a team in their country's football top flight.

Promoted again last night.
 
Batman's car in the original TV series was made from a concept car that was bought for only one dollar. In 1955, a futuristic one-off car was hand built in Italy for the Lincoln motor car company. Called the Lincoln Futura, it was displayed at auto shows and then retired. A decade later, car customiser George Barris bought the vehicle for one dollar and, with the aid of metalworkers and designers, produced the Batmobile ~ a sleek 5.7 metre long vehicle with giant tail fins. The producers of the show later had seat belts installed into the Batmobile to address complaints from the American National Safety Council. Holy Swiss cheese!
 
Bunk Moreland said:
Until their 2008 promotion to the Premier League, Hull was the largest town/city in Europe to have never had a team in their country's football top flight.

Promoted again last night.
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Hull City is the only team in the English Football League where you cannot colour in the letters.

ie no a, b, d, e, g, o, p, q in its name.
 

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Forward Press said:
Hull City is the only team in the English Football League where you cannot colour in the letters.

ie no a, b, d, e, g, o, p, q in its name.
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Until their 2008 promotion to the Premier League, Hull was the largest town/city in Europe to have never had a team in their country's football top flight.
 
Marklar_33 said:
Until their 2008 promotion to the Premier League, Hull was the largest town/city in Europe to have never had a team in their country's football top flight.
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Hull City is the only team in the English Football League in which you cannot colour in any of the letters in their name.
 
Pink Floyd where such fans of Monty Python on TV that their album Dark Side of the Moon funded some of the first Monty Python movie
 
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