The library

TurboTax spent years and millions to keep free tax filing from existing.

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The $1.50 Costco hot dog hasn't changed price since 1985. On purpose.

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You own the $500,000 tractor. You're not allowed to fully fix it.

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Netflix rented every show it streamed. Its landlords were about to evict it.

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Planet Fitness is built hoping you never walk in.

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Your Keurig coffee costs more per pound than steak. That's the plan.

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Mastercard sells your swipe twice. Once to move your money, again as data.

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The $40 you left in Venmo earns PayPal money. You get none of it.

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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.

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Kroger's data arm watches 60 million households and sells your shopping habits back to brands.

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FICO's mortgage grip is a government rule. One rival cleared, the stock fell 19% in a day.

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Intuitive Surgical sells a million-dollar robot. The robot is barely the business.

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One spot in the universe is colder than the Big Bang's leftover heat.

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The M&M's company is the biggest vet-care provider on Earth. Roughly 3,000 hospitals.

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The bigger the black hole, the safer it is to fall in.

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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.

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Williams-Sonoma added a pricier bread maker. Almost nobody bought it. The cheaper one nearly doubled.

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Progressive is investing $80 billion that isn't its money.

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Every chip is printed by light from plasma 40 times hotter than the Sun.

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You'll defend a choice you never made. And never notice the swap.

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Your phone's GPS would drift 10 km a day. So engineers built the clocks to run slow.

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McDonald's makes more from rent ($10B) than from selling burgers.

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Visa keeps ~66¢ of every dollar it makes. One of the fattest margins on earth.

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Spotify keeps about 30¢ of every dollar. The labels take the rest.

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Ferrari makes ~$137k profit per car. On just 13,752 cars a year.

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These 8 sunglasses brands? All one company.

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10 supermarket brands you'd never connect. All one company.

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One teaspoon of a neutron star would weigh about a billion tons on Earth.

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Losing $100 hurts about twice as much as winning $100 feels good.

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Costco has held its rotisserie chicken at $4.99 since 2009, and loses money on every bird.

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