Dollar General is now the largest retailer in America by store count, and is adding 600 shops a year.
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British parents buy their children an average of 41 toys per year.
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Of the $1.2 trillion spent globally each year on R&D across corporations and academia, 40 percent—much the largest share—pays for people.
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With around 7,000 people per square kilometre, Singapore is the third most densely populated country in the world.
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Around 8 million units of the Microsoft Kinect were sold within 60 days of its launch in November 2010. No consumer-electronics device has ever sold so fast, according to Guinness World Records.
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