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MAR 2010

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DATE FACT OF THE DAY 3/1/10      Juneau, Alaska, can be reached by cruise ship, ferry, or air, but it is the only U.S. state capital that cannot be reached by road. - Provided by The World Almanac 2010 3/2/10      In 2001, 59-year-old Robert Tools received the world's first fully implantable artificial heart. - Provided by RandomHistory.com 3/3/10      On July 2, 1937, aviator Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first round-the-world flight at the equator. - Provided by The World Almanac 2010 3/4/10      Ninety-one percent of Americans live in places at moderate-to-high risk of earthquakes, volcanoes, tornadoes, wildfires, hurricanes, flooding, high-wind damage or terrorism - Provided by The World Almanac 2010 3/5/10      A middle-income American family with a child born in 2008 can expect to spend about $221,190 ($291,570 when adjusted for inflation) for food, shelter, and other necessities to raise that child over the next seventeen years. In 1960, a middle-income family could have expected to spend $25,230 ($183,509 in 2008 dollars) to raise a child through age seventeen. - Provided by RandomHistory.com 3/6/10      In 1932, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell to its lowest point in the Great Depression; its value had dropped nearly 90% since Sept. 1929. - Provided by RandomHistory.com 3/7/10      Proportionally, hash browns have more fat and calories than a cheeseburger or Big Mac. - Provided by RandomHistory.com 3/8/10      The Constitution of Louisiana is the 2nd longest constitution in the world. - Provided by RandomHistory.com 3/9/10      In 1962, AT&T (in conjunction with NASA) launched the first privately-owned satellite, Telstar 1, from Cape Canaveral. - Provided by The World Almanac 2010 3/10/10      Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, the minimum wage was originally 25 cents per hour on Oct. 24, 1938. - Provided by The World Almanac 2010 3/11/10      About 92 percent of the coal used in the United States is used for generating electricity. - Provided by The World Almanac 2010 3/12/10      About 19 percent of the total net electricity generated in the United States comes from nuclear power. That's about equal to the amount of electricity used in California, Texas and New York, the three most populous states. - Provided by The World Almanac 2009 3/13/10      Vice presidents, members of Congress, and former presidents and their spouses are granted the privilege of “franking” - free postage. - Provided by The World Almanac 2010 3/14/10      In 2007, the busiest U.S. airport by passenger traffic, with 89.4 million passengers, was Hartfield-Jackson Airport, in Atlanta, Georgia. The busiest airport outside the U.S., with 68.1 million passengers, was Heathrow Airport, in London, UK. - Provided by The World Almanac 2010 3/15/10      The 1637 collapse of the Dutch tulip market is considered history's first economic bubble. - Provided by The World Almanac 2009

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