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From Visual Economics,

Click here to see fifteen things– e.g., an iPad for every college student in the U.S. and Twitter (the company)– that, together, cost less than British Petroleum has lost as a result of the Gulf oil spill.

As we wonder if the cap will hold, we might recall that it was on this date in 1951 that Dezik and Tsygan became the first dogs in space, as they made a sub-orbital flight in a Soviet spacecraft.

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