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STATISTIC
of the DAY Thursday, September 2
Record for most text messages exhanged by two people in one month:
217,000 From March 7 to April 6, 2009, Nick Andes, 29, and Doug Klinger, 30, of Pennsylvania exchanged 217,000 text messages. Source: Los Angeles Times, 4/22/2009
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THE GAME! Department of Thoughtful Economic Analysis
"If money isn't loosened up this sucker could go down." President George W. Bush
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TECHNOLOGY: Telephones
Crime for which Mary L. Kaynes was convicted in 1955:
Refusing to get off the phone Kaynes refused to yield her party line to someone who needed to report a fire. Party lines are telephone lines shared by a number of households; few if any still exist today. Source: The New Yorker, 12/16/2002
ENTERTAINMENT: Movies
Deaths of movie stuntmen :
4 In a 1923 movie called "Plunder," a stuntman named Johnny Stevenson tried to jump from a New York bus onto an elevated subway track, but missed and fell to his death. In 1977, Vic Rivers drowned in a three-foot streambed after driving a car off a bridge during the filming of a biker film called "Hi-Riders." In 1978, stuntman A. J. Bakunas died when the air bag he jumped into during the filming of "Steel" gave way. In November 1986, Dar Allen Robinson died during a motorcycle chase scene during the filming of "Million Dollar Mystery." Source: The New Yorker, 10/20/2003
