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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
Target think they will lose $500m of profit from theft in 2023, known in retail parlance as “shrinkage”. [MarketWatch]
“37 percent of the world’s population, 2.9 billion people, have never used the Internet.“
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...
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
One of my favorite business stats today is that Tesla has never spent money on advertising.
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).
Wild stat: Finland has 3.3 million saunas for a population of 5.6 million (a sauna for every two people).