last highlighted date: 2024-10-12 document note: Nice statistics about income vs where you born
Highlights
- Ronald Reagan tried to curry favor with Israeli leaders with a story about how he helped liberate Nazi death camps in WWII. He didn’t — did his military service in Hollywood. Fabricated military service is apparently so common that Congress passed a law against it.
- One of the strongest signals of life expectancy (and much else) is the ZIP code where you’re born.
- San Francisco, where, in the decade of the nineties, more wealth was created within a 7-mile radius than in all of Europe since WWII.