- 72 hours' worth of videos are uploaded to YouTube every minute.
- Cigarettes are the most shoplifted item in America according to the NRF.
- Mobil Oil alone makes $4.5 million per hour in profit.
- Iceland considered most peaceful country in the world. Canada came 4th.
- 1 in 224 every homes in Atlanta Georgia received a foreclosure filing just in May 2012. There are 9677 properties with foreclosure filings.
- Once homeless people who are doing OK now: Halle Berry; Jim Carrey; Jewel.
- According to a study by UBC in Vancouver, how cool you are (in Canada) is dependant on socially desirable attributes such as charisma, kindness and concern for others.
- M&M stands for Mars and Murrie.
- Cell phone data traffic (globally) only made up 1% of total internet data in 2009. Now it makes up 10%. In India, it's at 50%.
- Bread bag tags make great cord labels.
- After the first 2 years of sales, while the iPhone sold around 20,000,000 phones, the iPad is already at almost 70,000,000 tablets in its first 2 years of sales.
- More US teens smoke weed than smoke cigarettes now. Mostly because cigarette smoking has decreased.
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Things I learned this week 23 Jun
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