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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.
I don’t know who needs to hear this but… Craigslist has being running for the last 20+ years with a team of ~50 people.
On-demand audio listening time (think podcasts) crossed linear audio listening (think radio) for the first time in 2023.
Wild stat: Finland has 3.3 million saunas for a population of 5.6 million (a sauna for every two people).
Tesla is the first US car manufacturer to mass-produce vehicles without going into bankruptcy in the past 100 years (and now has a larger market cap than the next six largest automakers combined).
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
In 1993, there were just 23,000 websites and less than 40 million users. In 2018, there are roughly a billion websites, and more than three billion users.
Jack Self • THE BIG FLAT NOW: Power, Flatness, and Nowness in the Third Millennium
“37 percent of the world’s population, 2.9 billion people, have never used the Internet.“
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