The width of a tornado can range from less than ten yards to more than a mile.
The speed of sound must be exceeded to produce a sonic boom.
The size of a red blood cell is 708 microns. This is equivalent to one millionth of a meter.
The USS Abraham Lincoln has five gymnasiums on the ship and a basketball league with 22 teams.
The world's deepest gold mine is seven kilometers below the surface of the Earth.
EBay to cut 1,000 jobs, spend $1.3B on acquisitions
Online auctioneer eBay today announced plans to cut 1,000 jobs, while at the same time spending about $1.3 billion on three acquisitions: electronic payments business Bill Me Later and Danish Web sites dba.dk and bilbasen.dk.
Today's job reductions, amounting to 10 percent of eBay's work force, follow an earlier round of cuts amounting to 125 jobs in North America and Europe, including 70 at its headquarters in San Jose, CA.
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