Travis Scott’s partnership meal with McDonald’s was so popular that it caused supply chain issues.
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Treadmills were originally designed for punishing prisoners. Their designer, Sir William Cubitt, proposed using their muscle power to both cure their idleness and produce useful work.
Most people who own trucks don’t use them. 75% of truck owners tow something once or less, and a third do not haul anything in their truck beds at all. In other words, truck ownership is mostly a form of costly signalling.
Tuvalu earns about 1/12th of its national income from licensing its ‘.tv’ domain to streaming platforms like Twitch.
TV subtitles were designed as a hearing aid, but they’re now used as an attention aid. That’s why under 30s are more likely to use them than any other age group, even for shows in their native language.
97% of tweets come from one quarter of all accounts.
After Twitter / X privatised the likes feature, there was a huge spike (roughly 10%) in their volume – suggesting lots of people have opinions they are happy to express in private but not public.
Uber could have easily resorted to defining themselves as a taxi service. But they never wanted to limit themselves to moving people around in cars: Uber exists to “reimagine the way the world moves for the better.” This has given Uber a credible platform to provide services as varied as food delivery (Uber Eats), healthcare (Uber Health) and, more recently, travel services.
30% of Uber drivers in the US have never had a bank account, but they need a minimum of a debit card to get paid on the app. So Uber has allowed drivers to sign up for a bank account as part of the application process, and in doing so has become the largest acquirer of small business bank accounts in the US
Or is it Dunkin?
Before Uber became mass market it was originally a luxury brand – targeted at wealthy professionals and positioned as ‘Everyone’s Private Driver’. It only allowed users to hail a black luxury car and the price was approximately 1.5 times that of a taxi.
UK homes that face each other at the rear are required to be built 21 metres apart. This comes from a 1902 regulation drafted by designers who determined this was closest they could be to each other before they could see the other’s nipples through their shirts.
What’s worth £99.2bn a year according to one trusted source and £147bn to another? The UK grocery market. Some sources rely on EPoS (electronic point of sale) data – every transaction a retailer has made – but Aldi and Lidl famously don’t share this data, leaving out a huge chunk of the market. Others rely on consumers scanning barcodes of items they’ve bought, but this only covers products that are brought home after purchase and excludes products consumed outside the home after purchase.
The Conservative party was in power for 14 consecutive years from 2010 to 2024. Yet the Labour party led in two-thirds of the 4,000 opinion polls published during that time – just not when it mattered.
The richest tenth of UK households holds over 40% of wealth (though income is distributed more evenly).