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This past week's collection of interesting and notable facts:

Thursday, March 11, 2010
There are fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar; Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses.
(Source: Unknown)

Wednesday, March 10, 2010
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
(Source: A caculator)

Tuesday, March 9, 2010
There are currently 6,912 living languages, defined as languages that people speak today.
(Source: Unknown)

Monday, March 8, 2010
The war between England and Zanzibar in 1896 was the shortest war in history, lasted only 38 minutes.
(Source: Unknown)

Sunday, March 7, 2010
A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
(Source: Unknown)

Saturday, March 6, 2010
Every day is about 55 billionths of a second longer than the day before it.
(Source: Unknown)

Friday, March 5, 2010
The national orchestra of Monaco (a nation in Europe) has more individuals than its army.
(Source: Unknown)