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UPS trucks don’t turn left. It’s not that they can’t, it’s just that they won’t…generally speaking.

In 2004, after evaluating their CO2 emissions, UPS announced that its drivers would avoid making left turns. They calculated that the amount of time spent idling waiting to make a left turn would save millions of dollars in fuel costs every year. For example, in 2006 UPS trucks drove 2.5 billion miles, and with their unique package flow technology combined with their right-turn routes, they estimate saving 28,541,472 million miles, and three million gallons of fuel. Talk about improving the bottom line!

via e-myth.com

A total eclipse of the Moon occurs during the night of Wednesday, February 20/21, 2008. The entire event is visible from South America and most of North America (on Feb. 20) as well as Western Europe, Africa, and western Asia (on Feb. 21). During a total lunar eclipse, the Moon’s disk can take on a dramatically colorful appearance from bright orange to blood red to dark brown and (rarely) very dark gray.

• Eclipse Diagram for AST (Atlantic Standard Time)
• Eclipse Diagram for EST (Eastern Standard Time)
• Eclipse Diagram for CST (Central Standard Time)
• Eclipse Diagram for MST (Mountain Standard Time)
• Eclipse Diagram for PST (Pacific Standard Time)
• Eclipse Diagram for AST (Alaska Standard Time)
• Eclipse Diagram for HST (Hawaiian Standard Time)
• Eclipse Diagram for GMT (Greenwich Mean Time)
• Eclipse Diagram for GMT +1 (Greenwich Mean Time + 1 Hour)
• Eclipse Diagram for GMT +2 (Greenwich Mean Time + 2 Hours)

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Sad but true. Toshiba has officially thrown in the towel, which means that Blu-ray is the new format.

toshiba.co.jp

Russian police are hunting scrap metal thieves who stole a 200-tonne metal bridge in a night-time raid.

The bridge in Khabarovsk in eastern Russia vanished overnight and was part of the only road leading to a local heating plant.

Now staff at the plant have to find alternative routes to work.

dailymail.co.uk

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People looking to walk into an Apple retailer and buy an iPhone with cash will be out of luck. The company is now accepting only credit or debit card payments for the devices so that it can track who purchases the phone, according to an employee at the Apple Store in New York’s SoHo neighborhood.

infoworld.com

via Eric L

…THE DAYTONA BEACH INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT.
THE RESULT OF THIS FLURRY IS A RECORD SNOWFALL OF A TRACE. THIS OF
COURSE PILED HIGHER THAN THE OLD RECORD FOR THIS DATE OF NONE.

via NOAA

The chief operating and development officer of Yum brands, which includes Taco Bell, KFC, Long John Silver’s and Pizza Hut, is named Mr. Hearl. Mr. Hearl is retiring and will be replaced by Mr. Eaton. Seriously.

wsj.com

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10,000 Filipino families live in this massive graveyard in Manila. I recently spent five days walking among its residents taking photos and hearing stories of struggle and survival.

Some families ended up here almost accidentally. Some inherited the mausoleums that they now live in from their great-grandparents. Others came from the provinces and couldn’t make enough money to live in the big city. In all cases, they’re basically families with nowhere else to go.

viceland.com

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Biodiesel may not become the airplane fuel of the future but it did prove effective enough to recently power a 1968 L-29 Czechoslovakian jet—dubbed BioJet 1—up to 17,000 feet (5,180 meters) over 37 minutes. A three minute, 15-second test the day before was the world’s first flight entirely fueled by cooking oil.

sciam.com

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