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Fast facts: A 1999 survey of 25,500 standard English-language dictionary words found that 93 percent of them have been registered as .coms. A chest X-ray is comprised of 90,000 to 130,000 electron volts. A machine has been invented that can read printed English books aloud to the blind, and it can do so at a speed half as fast as normal speech. A standard 747 Jumbo Jet has 420 seats. At a jet planeâs speed of 1,000 km (620 miles) per hour, the length of the plane becomes one atom shorter than its original length. Bill Gates formed a company to sell a computerized traffic counting system to cities, which made $20,000 its first year. Business dropped sharply when customers learned Gates was only 14 years old.

 

On this date: In 1778, Washingtonâs troops finally left Valley Forge. In 1782, Congress approves the Great Seal of the United States and the eagle as the countryâs symbols. In 1895, Caroline Willard Baldwin became the first female doctor of science. In 1926, Mordecai W. Johnson became the first black president at Howard University. In 1936, Jesse Owens of the United States set the 100-meter dash record at 10.2 seconds. In 1944, Congress chartered the CIA. In 1967, Muhammad Ali was convicted of refusing induction into armed services. In 1990, Nelson Mandela landed in New York to begin a tour of the United States.

 

Quotable... "How much of what we found out after the fact, if we had known before the fact, might have triggered somebodyâs mind to do some things differently?" ÷Rep. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., about ãdeficienciesä in national security agenciesâ ability to protect the United States from terrorism.