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STATISTIC
of the DAY Tuesday, February 9
Record for most text messages exhanged by two people in one month:
217,000 From March 7 to April 6, 2009, Nick Andes, 29, and Doug Klinger, 30, of Pennsylvania exchanged 217,000 text messages. Source: Los Angeles Times, 4/22/2009
1919 The first usage recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary is attributed to Upton Sinclair. Source: "20th Century Words" by John Ayoto (Oxford), 1/1/1999
ENVIRONMENT: Natural Disasters
Furthest distance from the epicentre of the earthquake which led to Dec. 26, 2004 tsunami:
5,000 miles The furthest recorded death connected to the tsunami was at Port Elizabeth in South Africa, 5000 miles away.
Source: Daily Mail (London), 12/27/2005