Short pieces on the questions people actually ask at work, written by Polora's editors and checked by several AI models before they reach you. Each pick keeps the full record of that check.
Of six large US chip companies, Intel brought in the most revenue every quarter from 2019 through 2022. By early 2026, Nvidia, Broadcom and Micron had all passed it, and Nvidia's quarterly revenue was about six times Intel's.
Yes. In NASA's global temperature record, which goes back to 1880, each of the 12 calendar months had its warmest reading in 2023 or later. The 12 warmest full years are the last 12, 2014 to 2025.
Mostly because a US flag would bring US shipbuilding and US crewing rules. The flag country is mainly responsible for checking a ship's safety, and other countries' ports inspect it too. Whether a cruise company pays US tax on its shipping income depends mostly on where the parent company is incorporated.
A nine-inning big-league game took 1 hour 48 minutes in 1920 and 3 hours 10 minutes in 2021. In 2023, the first season with a pitch clock, games lost 24 minutes, by far the biggest one-season drop since 1920, even though batters struck out about as often as before.
Average hourly pay for most US private-sector workers has more than doubled since January 2000, faster than prices overall. Hospital care, tuition and childcare, car repair, rent, eating out and gasoline all rose faster than pay, while toys got cheaper and clothes barely moved.
Only part is resold nearby. The rest is sorted, sold by the kilo and often shipped abroad in bales, where many clothes are worn again. What those kilos fetch has long helped pay for the bin on your street.
Natural gas first, then wind and solar. Coal fell from 52% of US electricity in 2000 to 16% in 2025; gas took the top spot in 2016, and wind and solar together passed coal in 2024.
Usually from meals eaten a day or more ago, mixed together. In studies of healthy adults, the first trace of a meal usually took over a day to appear. The urge after eating is your colon moving out what was already there.
On an ordinary alkaline AA it isn't acid. It is leaked alkaline liquid that the air has turned into a salt. Dead cells can leak when current is forced through them, and heat and age can make unused ones leak too.
Yes, by 5.9 million. In September 2026 health care counted 18.6 million US jobs to manufacturing's 12.7 million. Health care pulled ahead in September 2008 and has stayed ahead every month since, though in January 1990 factories had more than twice as many jobs.
Both. The company that owns the IKEA name rarely runs the stores. It charges them 3% of their sales, but takes in far more by selling them the goods, and does not say which of the two earns it more profit.
The IOC has the safer income. It sells TV rights and global sponsorships years ahead, while public bodies in the host country pay for venues, transport and security. Paris 2024's organisers ended €75.7 million ahead, and France's auditors counted about €6.65 billion in public spending, most of it by the national government.
Not overall. Airlines still pay the larger share worldwide and across US airports, though not at every airport. Of the 44% that US airports earn from other sources, parking and ground transport come first, far ahead of the shops.
No committee votes on new English words. Dictionary editors add a word once they see wide use over several years and judge the evidence strong enough. An entry records how a word is used. It does not certify the word as correct.
Barely. The Economist recorded a US Big Mac at $4.29 in July 2014 and $6.22 in July 2026; adjusted for consumer prices overall, that is only 3.4% more. The real jump came between 2005 and 2014, and since then the price has roughly kept pace with inflation.
No single party decides it. For an insured prescription, the price comes out of contracts among the drug maker, your health plan and the pharmacy benefit manager the plan hires, and the plan's choice of copay, deductible or coinsurance shapes your share most directly. If you are paying toward a deductible or a percentage of the price of a brand-name drug, your share is often figured on the price rung up at the counter, which follows the list price, not on the lower price your plan pays after rebates.
Because money loaded onto a Starbucks card or the app is paid before any coffee is made, and Starbucks books it as a debt it repays in drinks. In June 2026 that debt, counted together with unspent rewards points called Stars, stood at about $1.7 billion. Card balances earn customers no interest and carry no deposit insurance.
Private companies build the scores lenders use. FICO is one, and VantageScore, owned by the three credit bureaus, is the other. Lenders choose which score to use. For many mortgages, a federal agency sets which scores are allowed.
Since July 2009, the federal minimum wage has stayed at $7.25 an hour, and rising prices have taken away 36% of what it buys. It is the longest the floor has ever gone without a raise, and before 2026 it had not been worth this little since 1949.
No. In September 2026, US workers in a large monthly survey still worked about 27% of their full paid workdays from home, nearly four times the 2019 level. That is far below the 2020 peak, and the decline has slowed to about a point a year since 2022.
Yes. In August 2026 a dozen eggs averaged $2.27 in US cities, which after inflation is less than in any month of 1980. For the average production and nonsupervisory worker, a dozen also took about half as many minutes of hourly pay as in January 1980.
By 2023, 67.1% of people lived in a country where the fertility rate was below 2.1 children per woman, roughly the level at which each generation replaces the last. In 1960 it was 3.9%. Most of that rise came in two single years : 1991, when China crossed the line, and 2020, when India did.
Counted inside city limits, the way the census counts cities, the top ten moved south and west after the Second World War. Part of that, the Census Bureau says, is where city lines are drawn : most of the rising cities took in a lot of land, and counted by whole metro areas, only three of the ten largest are in those states.
Mostly from Amazon Web Services (AWS), its cloud business. In 2025, AWS brought in 18% of Amazon's sales but 57% of its operating income. In three of the years between 2014 and 2025, the cloud earned more than the whole company, which means everything else at Amazon, taken together, lost money.
Mainly through higher memory prices, Micron says, driven by AI demand it describes as outpacing what the industry can supply. By mid-2026 Micron kept about $85 of gross profit from every $100 of sales, a level Nvidia did not reach in any of its quarters in this data, which starts in 2008. In early 2023, Micron's cost for the chips it sold, swollen by a write-down of chips still in stock, was bigger than its sales.
Yes, by a wide margin. In fiscal 2025, Disney's parks, cruises and merchandise earned $10.0 billion in operating income, more than twice the $4.7 billion from film, TV and streaming combined. Disney does not report a profit figure for movies alone.
Not for the verdict, Guinness says. Individuals chasing a record for themselves can apply free, but brands must pay : for help choosing a record, a judge or the logo. An executive said in 2023 that this work brings in about half its revenue.
By a weighted formula it keeps revising. For national universities, 52 percent is how students fare after enrolling, 20 percent is college leaders rating rival schools, and acceptance rate counts for nothing.
Yes, though not every store or product. A US chain may ask a brand to pay just to stock a new product, and the brand may then fund its discounts and displays. Trader Joe's says it charges no such fee.
Not really. The category, 1 to 5, rates only a hurricane's strongest sustained wind, while roughly eight to nine in ten people killed directly by US hurricanes since 1963 died in water : rain floods, storm surge and surf.
For HP, the money is in the refills. Its then chief executive said it loses money on printers and earns it on supplies such as ink and toner, which bring in about two thirds of its printing revenue.
Yes, but only cents : a US industry group puts what a station keeps at 10 to 15 cents a gallon before tax. The store earns most of the gross profit, yet in 2025 fuel kept stores profitable.
Usually it never was. A diamond bought in a shop has long sold back for a fraction of its price, because the shop price carried a retail markup, while anyone buying it back pays wholesale or less. Separately, De Beers, the company that long controlled most of the world's diamond supply, held the price level up. Lab-grown stones have weakened that system, and De Beers is up for sale.
It is usually an estimate, not a measurement. Label calories are typically calculated from protein, carbohydrate and fat using per-gram factors from around 1900. The US test for packaged food fails a product only when a sample drawn from a batch holds more than 20 percent more calories than the label states. Fewer calories than stated does not fail that test.
Both. In 2025 McDonald's reported $10.4 billion in rent from franchisees against $6.0 billion in royalties, but that rent is tied to how many burgers its restaurants sell.
No. A 90% means 9 in 10 counted critics leaned positive, however mildly. A film most critics call merely fine can outscore one half of them call a masterpiece.
Largely from a tiny group of big spenders, plus ads. In a 2016 study of tens of millions of players, 1.9 percent bought anything in a month, and 0.19 percent brought in 48 percent of purchase revenue. Ads earn from many who never pay, and the mix varies by game.
Partly. Under EU rules, 'Made in Italy' names the country where the last substantial stage of manufacture took place, not a mere finishing touch. A shirt sewn in Italy from imported fabric can carry it.
Sales count, but the Times decides how. It surveys stores it won't name, weights them by a formula it doesn't publish, skips some kinds of books and judges bulk buying.
In the US, no government agency does. A committee of eight academic economists at a private nonprofit, the National Bureau of Economic Research, names the month a recession began. It does not use the 'two quarters of falling GDP' rule, and it names the month only after the fact, often many months later.
Because Michelin started the guide in 1900 to get French drivers on the road and wearing out tires, and never let it go. Today, in many newer places, tourism boards help pay for the guide to come, after Michelin judges the local dining worth a look. Michelin says the stars themselves are not for sale.
Mostly not from the free stock trades. In 2025, Robinhood made $302 million from stock trades out of $4,473 million in revenue. Option orders, crypto, and interest on loans and idle cash earned far more.
Mostly by paying almost nothing on your balance. In September 2026 US interest checking averaged 0.07 percent while short-term Treasury debt paid around 3.6 percent. That gap, plus card and penalty fees, is what pays for most free accounts.
A committee of S&P Dow Jones Indices staff decides. Published rules on size, profit and share trading set who may normally be considered. The committee chooses from that pool, can pass over a company that meets every rule, and does not apply the entry rules to companies already inside.
The broad reason is that, over the long run, the screen inside became much cheaper to make. Some brands also earn money after the sale, from home-screen ads and viewing data. In 2024 Vizio's TVs and sound bars made a gross loss, and its profit came from that second business.
Yes, but it is a small share of their profit. At AutoNation, a large US dealer group, new cars brought in almost half of 2025 revenue but only 13.4% of gross profit. Repairs and service made 47.6%, and loans and warranties sold with the car most of the rest.
A low-cost gym sells far more memberships than it has room for at one time, because members come at different hours and some rarely come at all, while the dues arrive either way. At Planet Fitness, the company behind the brand also takes a royalty on franchise clubs' dues and fees, 7% under its current agreement, and sells them their equipment.
Usually not, for a can or bottle. In most countries a separate bottler mixes, fills and delivers it with Coca-Cola's concentrate, and Coca-Cola keeps the more profitable part.
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