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$1,000,000,000,000
AMOUNT ($1 trillion) that Apple and Amazon were each worth last month, based on their stock prices. They’re the first American companies to hit the trillion dollar mark.
Source: The New York Times
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Thomas Hawthorne/The Republic
WEIGHT of a burger being sold at Arizona Cardinals football games this year. The burger, which costs $75, is topped with five hot dogs, five bratwursts, eight chicken tenders, and eight slices of bacon.
Source: USA Today
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YEARS it took the F.B.I. to track down the ruby-red slippers worn by Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, after they’d gone missing from a museum in Minnesota.
Source: FBI.gov
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MINIMUM AGE you now must be to use indoor tanning booths in New York State. Fifteen other states and D.C. also bar minors from using the booths, which can increase the risk of skin cancer.
Source: Associated Press