Fast Facts: April 20
April 20, 2011
- Bill Gates earns $250 per second.
- The New York Stock Exchange started out in a coffee house.
- The earliest known example of an organized market for equities dates from Rome, second century B.C.
- American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.
- It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.
