The human brain can perform up to 10,000 trillion operations per second, at least 100 times as many as some of the world’s fastest supercomputers.
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Pandemic Beats Plague
The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 and 1919 killed more people, an estimated 50 million in all, than the Black Death plague that hit Europe in the 1300s.
Economics Majors
What do Paul Newman, Tiger Woods, Sandra Day-O’Connor, John Elway, Mick Jagger and Ronald Reagan have in common? Each declared a major in economics while in college.
Eggstraordinary Effort
In the United States, approximately 250 million hens lay close to 66 billion eggs each year.
