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Search ArticlesSee which Apple products drive the most of its $391B revenue.
Over half of Nvidia’s revenue comes from outside the US This chart breaks down where Nvidia’s revenue comes from—both in terms of which business segments it’s generated by and in which countries. Most of Nvidia’s revenue stems from its computing segment, which includes billions spent by companies building AI.
Cartoonist Thomas Nast helped bring down Boss Tweed, one of America's most corrupt political bosses.
Additional insights we found via ThoughtCo Boss Tweed led a New York City political machine known as "The Ring," which stole millions of dollars in public funds after the Civil War. Cartoonist Thomas Nast used Harper's Weekly to depict Tweed's corruption in images that ordinary readers could understand at a glance. The New York Times published leaked ledgers exposing the scheme in 1871 after a disgruntled former Tweed associate handed them to an editor.
A Gilded Age moral crusader convinced Congress to pass a law banning "obscene, lewd or lascivious" materials from the mail that's central to today's debate over abortion pills.
Additional insights we found via HISTORY The 1873 Comstock Act banned mailing such materials, a category Congress expanded to include information on birth control and abortion. Days after the law passed, the Post Office appointed Comstock a special agent, giving him the power to conduct raids and make arrests. Congress repealed the law's ban on birth control materials in 1971, but left its abortion-related language on the books.
With sufficiently sensitive hearing and powerful equipment, if a source of music traveled past someone at twice the speed of sound, they would hear the music backward.
Additional insights we found via Benn Jordan The phenomenon was predicted in 1896 by Lord Rayleigh—the 1904 physics Nobel laureate—whose studies of waves led to the understanding of Rayleigh scattering, which explains why the sky is blue. By moving faster than the speed of sound, sound waves lag behind the source of the music, with the earliest notes lagging the most and therefore being heard the latest as they pass a listener.
Humans may have evolved to need less sleep.
Some animals seem to live well on little sleep African bush elephants typically sleep for about 2 hours per 24-hour day, coming in well under a human's recommended seven-hour minimum. Other animals also appear to skimp on sleep, by human standards, without the consequences humans associate with being sleep deprived. This academic article details the sleeping habits of animals that appear to thrive on fewer than 40 winks and explores whether their sleep processes are just built different.
Pan Am Discovery, Legendary 'Big Boy,' and Monkey Minds
The world’s largest operating steam locomotive, Big Boy 4014, arrived in Kansas City yesterday as part of a monthslong coast-to-coast tour honoring the United States’ 250th anniversary. Watch the gigantic steam engine in action here. Big Boy 4014 was one of 25 large locomotives built for Union Pacific in the 1940s. The 1.2-million-pound machine hauled heavy freight through mountain passes during World War II.
More than 80% of New York City's newsstands have closed in the past two decades, in part due to a series of price caps that hurt the stands' ability to evolve.
Posted by Kathryn DeHart Jul 22 Additional insights we found via 1440 Originals In the 1990s, New York City had more than 1,500 newsstands. Today, there are just over 300 stands left. To prevent these stands from becoming corner stores (which hold pricey permits from the City to operate), the stands can’t sell clothes, jewelry, or pre-packaged meals, and all products had to cost less than $5 before taxes.
Experiments involving AI agents operating in virtual societies for 15 days produced diverse outcomes, ranging from every agent dying to the creation of a functioning democracy, depending on the AI model used.
Additional insights we found via BBC World Service In the simulated environment with Grok-powered agents, more than 300 acts of violence occurred before the loss of every virtual citizen, whereas in the environment with Gemini-powered agents, an intellectually rich society emerged with an expanded constitution and community events.
Pan Am was once the largest international airline in the US—but it shut down in 1991 after a series of financial issues, beginning with increased operating costs and reduced demand driven by the oil crisis in the 1970s.
Additional insights we found via Business Insider In October 1973, OAPEC declared an oil embargo against nations, including the US, that supported Israel in the Yom Kippur War. By the embargo's end in March 1974, the price of oil had risen by more than 400%. Pan Am was particularly hard hit by the rise in oil prices given its exclusively long-haul flights, which required more fuel than the domestic flights that other airlines offered.
Mississippi didn't officially ratify the Thirteenth Amendment banning slavery until 2013, nearly 150 years after it passed.
Mississippi's legislature voted against ratifying the amendment in 1865, since the state's economy relied heavily on slavery and it held the largest enslaved population in the country. In 1994, a Texas legislative clerk discovered the oversight and sent Mississippi lawmakers a resolution to fix it, leading to a unanimous, largely symbolic ratification vote in 1995. State officials never filed the required paperwork with the federal government, so the 1995 vote wasn't legally recognized.