Fun fact: to prove just how much compressed air you have in your lungs, a test that a beginning diver must pass is to do just that, except he must exhale all the way from 33 feet to the surface--in one exhale. Nobody believes it, but Boyle's Law don't lie.
Nearly 200 institutions participating in a TARP program supposedly aimed at healthy, viable institutions have skipped dividend payments to the government, costing the Treasury Department an estimated $506.2 million, according to Romero's report.
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