TIL Minimum wage has only increased by $7.00 in 85 years in the USA.
Upon inception it was set at $0.25. It is now $7.25.
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Upon inception it was set at $0.25. It is now $7.25.
Wyoming Area: 253,335 km2...
In light of the recent Crowdstrike crash revealing how weak points in IT infrastructure can have wide ranging effects, I figured this might be an interesting one....
The weight of the trees was so great that the ones on the bottom got squished and became coal. That’s where coal is from. Bonus fact: the whole time this was happening, sharks were hunting in the oceans. Sharks are older than trees and fungus!
They own brands such as Pampers, Olay, Old Spice, Pantene, Oral B, Herbal Essences, Gilette, Dove, Hellmann’s, Axe, Knorr, Magnum, Breyers, and Lipton, among others....
It was initially used by BP to shift blame to consumers instead of oil companies.
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I always believed that there were none, but on a rewatch of QI, I learned there are actually two:...
I was reading about Dungeon Meshi and Kuro, the “kobold”....
Hail corporate and all that....
Here is the Wikipedia link.
I think he would love Vegas source...
For a few years I used dark mode because i thought it was better for your eyes; it isn’t....
Obligatory vamoose you little varmint.
Australia is about 200 times bigger, by landmass, 7.7 million to Taiwan’s 36,000 square km
euronews.com/…/want-to-travel-portugal-by-train-n…
While $1m USD in 1988 is worth only $2.6m in 2024, if they just put it in the S&P 500 back then and left it there, it’d be worth over $44.6m today....
I thought that the distinction existed only between Americans (astronauts) and Russians (cosmonauts), but no, Chinese also have their own term. I guess Indians should come up with their own, as well =)
I was trying to figure out how many generations could theoretically exist at the same time, so I decided to first check Guinness. Hopefully I did all the math correctly.
I learned this morning that if you microwave frozen pancakes for 2 minutes you’ll have to throw the plastic plate out
www.wcrf.org/…/skin-cancer-statistics/