Efficiency is increased, even if ease of searching for a particular factoid isn't.
The most interesting factoid Graham mentioned was that he and his five partners interview each applicant for only ten minutes.
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Exotic animal ownership is rampant in the US. According to one oft-repeated factoid, there are more tigers in Texas than in India.
This factoid has become a source of outrage for anti-taxers ever since they got wind of some estimates by my Tax Policy Center colleagues.
Another factoid from the Hirsch crew: The average gain for the Dow from a midterm election year low to the high the following year is 50%.
One odd factoid Dunn mentions is that it in some ways was easier to get consumers to switch from VCR to DVD because there were dual-mode boxes.
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Just check out this factoid from The Observer back in 2007 right when bonuses had reached record highs: In 2006, year-end Wall Street bonuses set cumulative and individual records.
Viewership skews Republican for college basketball, college football, Nascar and the PGA Tour, according to survey results the company analyzed, a worthwhile factoid for GOP strategists looking to sway their base.
All of the materials needed for each experiment are included, along with a lesson plan, instructions and "factoid" cards with tidbits of interesting trivia, such as the number of elements on the periodic scale.
China is the incremental buyer of industrial commodities (here is a factoid: it is responsible for two-thirds of global demand for iron ore), so even if we have inflation, commodity prices will still decline with plummeting demand when China cuts back.
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Of course one of the reasons that I noticed this particular factoid in the Baidu- Robin Li Businessweek story has to do with one of the Warren Buffetts Next Door I profile in my new book, Mike Koza.
An interesting little factoid that.
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