Did you know office copiers have a hard drive that stores all the documents they scan or copy? If not, you’re in good company. And so are your secret documents, which get passed on to the next owner. | learn more
Here’s another one I had to look up after a conversation this week. We were reminiscing about the music player that started the MP3 movement. | learn more
I heard this in a podcast and just had to look it up. The Monday after we “spring forward” and lose an hour has a 25% higher incidence of heart attacks than other Mondays throughout the year. | learn more
“Every second on Earth, 100 lightning bolts strike the planet. That’s about 8 million strikes per day, and 3 billion a year, on average. But as this map of nearly 9 billion lightning strikes shows, lightning is not evenly distributed […]
Horses were, for a long time, quite prominent in the US: 25 million horses for 100 million people in 1915. They were often the most valuable asset of a family, and they were fairly easy to move. So, horse thievery […]
“SaaStr CRO Dayna Rothman’s true story of how she was catfished by an AE candidate…” | learn more
If you’ve ever wondered why all cities seem to have giant water towers, this is the link for you. | learn more
“Discovery Wildlife Park in Alberta faces two charges for failing to notify officials the bear was leaving the zoo.” YES, there is a video of this bear eating ice cream. | learn more
This post includes an interesting chart that shows how wealth is allocated among different asset classes, depending on net worth from $10K to $1 Billion. | learn more
“More than half of the paintings in a museum in French artist Étienne Terrus’ birthplace were fake.” | learn more