fun facts
Target think they will lose $500m of profit from theft in 2023, known in retail parlance as “shrinkage”. [MarketWatch]
phoebe added 9mo ago
- from my 6yo: did you know that sea horses are the only male animals that give birth to babies?
sari added 1y ago
- WHOA. OnlyFans generated $5.6bn in gross payments, $1.1bn in revenue and a $525m profit in 2022. The number of “creators” increased +47% to 3.2 million, and the number of “fans” +27% to 239 million (!). The owner paid himself a $338m dividend.
phoebe added 1y ago
Wild stat: Finland has 3.3 million saunas for a population of 5.6 million (a sauna for every two people).
Alara added 9mo ago
The first digital ad was displayed in 1994 on hotwired.com — the ad had a click-through rate of 44%, compared to an average of 0.46% for online display ads last year.
sari added 8mo ago
- Joseph 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
sari added 1y ago
“37 percent of the world’s population, 2.9 billion people, have never used the Internet.“
phoebe added 9mo ago
- Young people report higher levels of stress than their older counterparts. Nearly 6 in 10 respondents in the 35 to 44 years of age category reported high or very high levels of stress (58%), while less than one-quarter (23%) of respondents in the 55-plus age group reported experiencing the same upper levels of stress. Source: Stress Management f... See more
sari added 1y ago
On-demand audio listening time (think podcasts) crossed linear audio listening (think radio) for the first time in 2023.
phoebe added 9mo ago
- I learned more about why women living in the same space have menstrual synchronization: it speaks to our physiology; humans give off particles, absorbed by those around us (interesting how this works with stress and cortisol too)- The sex steroid hormones leak out of our sweat and through our particles, other women around us frequently can absorb t... See more
Mathilde Delorme added 1y ago