📊 RANKED: Which Countries Work the Longest Hours
For reference, in the U.S. about 10% of employees work 50+ hours per week.
*And this measure covers employees (paid workers), not the self-employed.
♟️ Elon Musk Beefs with Chess.com Intern
🛰️ Miami Used to Look a Lot Cooler from Space
Bring back the sodium lights
👾 Humans Are Obsessed with 69, AI Is Obsessed with 7
👉 I asked ChatGPT to explain itself:
Good answer.
🇨🇦 MAPPED: U.S. States By Largest Foreign Export Trading Partner
🇪🇺 Trump is Not Super Popular in Europe
📱 MapQuest Back on Top (Momentarily)
Nice growth hack 🤣
🇺🇸 MAPPED: Obesity Rate Per U.S. County
The most obese county in America is Jefferson County in Mississippi (50% obese).
The least obese county is Eagle County in Colorado (13% obese).
*There’s new data that actually puts Holmes County, Mississippi at #1. Recent datasets put it around 52–53%
🇺🇸 Half of the U.S. Population Lives in the Yellow
Another Pareto distribution
🌎 UN Abandons Mercator Projection
The UN voted 164-1 to abandon the Mercator projection in favor of the “Equal Earth” map.
The U.S. was the only country to vote against it
👉 Couple of fun animations showing how the Mercator projection distorts actual country size:
Mexico and Greenland are actually pretty much the same size:
Japan is a lot bigger than you prob thought:
🇹🇬 Togo is the country that spearheaded the campaign at the UN:
RIP to the Mercator projection. I will miss you. You gave me so many banger posts on IG. 🌹
🧭 Europe Is North AF
💸 Net Take-Home Pay % After Income Tax and Social Security
Quite a bit of variance there
🎶 Banger of the Day
Two cousins from Rhode Island making sick beats. That’s Javelin. This track is off their self-released album from 2008 called Jamz n Jemz.
I saw these guys play in London once. Barely remember the show but pretty sure it was great. Or maybe I thought about going, then didn’t go. Maybe that’s why I can’t remember. Hard to say. Damn human brain can’t remember shit.
Javelin - Vibrationz
SIDE NOTE: On Instagram, we pair each post with a song that bangs. A lot of people don’t know that we have a comprehensive Spotify playlist with every song we ever played. Click here to check it out. 🎶
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