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Wild stat: Finland has 3.3 million saunas for a population of 5.6 million (a sauna for every two people).
this guy is worth $110 bn dollars
Ages of the Founding Fathers on July 4, 1776
James Monroe, 18
Aaron Burr, 20
Alexander Hamilton, 21
James Madison, 25
Thomas Jefferson, 33
John Adams, 40
Paul Revere, 41
George Washington, 44
Now check the ages of our three branches of government in 2024...
Alexis Ohanianx.comJoseph Heller wrote Catch 22 in the evenings after work - it took him eight years spending 2-3 hours each night.
source: Daily Rituals, Mason Currey
Why is life expectancy so long in Hong Kong? Life expectancy in Hong Kong is 84.23 years, more than five years longer than the US and the highest in the world. Hong Kong is not that wealthy (median household income is $38,000 USD); it’s somewhat polluted; people don’t obviously eat what seems like a healthy diet; and they don’t seem to exercise a g... See more
Tyler Cowen • Work on these things - Marginal REVOLUTION
Today I learned that the East side of most American cities is poorer than the West side because of the Industrial Revolution.
Factories produced pollution, and winds in the US tend to move West to East. Wealthy people, wanting to avoid pollution carried by the wind, stayed West.
Video Game Industry: $221 Billion
Movie Industry: $77 Billion
Music Industry: $26.2 Billion
You could combine the revenue of the movie industry and the music industry, double it, and you'd still be shy of the gaming industry
Yeah, we play video games
Crittertwitter.comIn 2004, with the introduction of automated traffic lights, New York City disabled most of its 3,250 crosswalk buttons (it was cheaper than removing them), but pedestrians continue to press them, under the illusion that it changes the light so they can cross.”