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700%

Percentage increase in pencil sales in Britain--reportedly due to the sudoku craze.

SOURCE THE INDEPENDENT [LONDON]

$17.3 million

Price paid at auction for four rare Revolutionary War battle flags--more than the cost of the war itself.

SOURCE: THE NEW YORK TIMES

10.95

Weight, in pounds, of Art History, by Marilyn Stokstad; it is perhaps the world's heaviest college textbook.

SOURCE: THE NEW YORK TIMES

$10

Minimum hourly wage that big-box stores like Wal-Mart must pay in Chicago by 2010, according to a new city ordinance.

SOURCE: THE NEW YORK, TIMES

102.7

Decibel level of...

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