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Продажи Burger King в три раза больше продаж Starbucks.
Но площади логотипов отличаются в 9 раз!

Gizmodo was trying to demonstrate that the new iPad battery gained 70% in capacity. They did this by making the battery on right 70% taller than the battery on left. However, since they also expanded the width of a cylinder,the implied volume has skyrocketed of the battery. Whoops.

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Fox News really got this wrong. First of all, if we lost 15 million jobs in one quarter this country would be a lot worse off than it actually was. The points don't actually follow a straight line, something you don't notice because there isn't actually a Y-axis. The four points are also not equidistant with time.
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