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• Although the shares sell at a discount to real market value, management has announced it will issue 10 percent more shares to help finance a diversification program.

• The division that was expected to be sold for $20 million only brings $12 million in the actual sale.

• The reducti...

Mercury's highly eccentric, egg-shaped orbit takes the planet as close as 29 million miles (47 million kilometers) and as far as 43 million miles (70 million kilometers) from the Sun. It speeds around the Sun every 88 days, traveling through space at nearly 29 miles (47 kilometers) per second, fa...

34. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

35. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

36. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

37. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

38. The ele...