One idea per bit, under two minutes each. New bits ship continually.
Starbucks made over $207 million last year on gift card money you never spent.
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No major US airline made money flying planes in 2024.
Kroger's data arm watches 60 million households and sells your shopping habits back to brands.
FICO's mortgage grip is a government rule. One rival cleared, the stock fell 19% in a day.
Intuitive Surgical sells a million-dollar robot. The robot is barely the business.
One spot in the universe is colder than the Big Bang's leftover heat.
The M&M's company is the biggest vet-care provider on Earth. Roughly 3,000 hospitals.
The bigger the black hole, the safer it is to fall in.
One company legally owns every .com. And it's allowed to raise the price.
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Total solar eclipses are a cosmic accident. They expire in 600 million years.
Williams-Sonoma added a pricier bread maker. Almost nobody bought it. The cheaper one nearly doubled.
Progressive is investing $80 billion that isn't its money.
Every chip is printed by light from plasma 40 times hotter than the Sun.
You'll defend a choice you never made. And never notice the swap.
Your phone's GPS would drift 10 km a day. So engineers built the clocks to run slow.
McDonald's makes more from rent ($10B) than from selling burgers.
Visa keeps ~66¢ of every dollar it makes. One of the fattest margins on earth.
Spotify keeps about 30¢ of every dollar. The labels take the rest.
Ferrari makes ~$137k profit per car. On just 13,752 cars a year.
These 8 sunglasses brands? All one company.
10 supermarket brands you'd never connect. All one company.
One teaspoon of a neutron star would weigh about a billion tons on Earth.
Losing $100 hurts about twice as much as winning $100 feels good.
Costco has held its rotisserie chicken at $4.99 since 2009, and loses money on every bird.
