WaPo Op-Ed: Living For The Unremarkable Moments

52 more things Kent Hendricks learned in 2024

Indian Americans own about half of all motels in the United States. Of them, 70% have the last name Patel.

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In the 1990s, then-leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-ll, and current leader Kim Jong-Un got fake Brazilian passports and went to Disneyland in Tokyo (probably).

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Waymo self-driving taxis generate 88% fewer property damage claims and 92% fewer bodily injury claims than human drivers. After driving 25.3 million miles, Waymo Driver had nine property damage claims and two injury claims, compared to 78 property damage claims and 26 injury claims from humans who drive an equivalent number of miles.

Here are 49 more, not all confirmed in the Andrew Gelman 

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62 Fascinating Facts of 2024

The New York Times:  Each day, Times Insider editors scour the newspaper for the most interesting facts to appear in articles. This year, tidbits about grudge-holding crows, the first-ever first kiss and George Washington’s dentures enlightened, informed and entertained us…
21. In the United States, more than 60 percent of the work force lives paycheck to paycheck. The average American is in five- to six-figure debt and often has only cursory knowledge of how they got there…”