Hello lovely blog readers! With August here, we will take a break from heavy topics and instead have some fun with a list of interesting facts and trivia gleaned from various sources. I hope you enjoy a sampling of what I found!
- Amazon employees spend two days every two years working at the customer service desk. Even the CEO does that! This is to help all workers understand the customer service process.
- The world’s largest package delivery company, UPS, was founded by two teenagers with a bicycle and $100 borrowed from a friend.
- If you have $10 in your pocket and have no debt, you are in a better financial position than 25% of the American population.
- The red and white Coca-Cola logo is recognized by 94% of the world’s population.
- In 2012, the 100 richest people in the world earned enough money to end world poverty four times over.
- 5 percent of small businesses are made up of immigrants from other countries.
- Candy Crush brings in a reported $633,000 a day in revenue.
- Samsung accounts for 20% of Korea’s gross domestic product.
- Gambling generates more revenue than movies, spectator sports, theme parks, cruise ships, and recorded music combined.
- Everything you say to Siri is sent to Apple, analyzed and stored.
- Starbucks spends more on health care insurance for its employees ($300 million) than on coffee.
- 70 percent of small businesses are owned and operated by a single person.
- “97 percent of the world’s population now lives in countries where the fertility rate is falling,” writes author Jonathan Last.
- The most productive day of the workweek is Tuesday.
- The average smartphone user checks Facebook 14 times a day.
- One in 10 Europeans are conceived in an Ikea bed.
Written By: Christine Hess of Wendy Jo’s
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