fun facts

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).

In 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.”

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

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.

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...