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Ed Cota, American basketball player
Eduardo Enrique Cota is a Panamanian-American former professional basketball player. Remarkably, Cota also played an NCAA record 138 games without ever fouling out. Cota's team won the Lithuanian National Championship both season. As a sophomore, he broke the ACC record for most assists in a single season.
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Ed Cota was born in 1976. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.
These figures put everyday life in Ed Cota's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.
| Measure | 1976 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Gas | $0.59 | $3.45/gal |
| Average home | $48,000 | $435,000 |
| Average income | $14,958 | $67,500 |
| Minimum wage | $2.30 | $7.25/hr (federal) |
| Movie ticket | $2.13 | $11.95 |
| Postage stamp | $0.13 | $0.73 |
| Population | 218.0M | 341 million |
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