🔢 By the Numbers

Here are five stats from this past week that made our team go “whoa.” Hopefully you will, too.

  • ☀️⌚ More than half of US adults (54%) are ready to do away with the practice of Daylight Savings Time entirely – up from 23% in 1999, when Gallup last asked that question.
  • 👶📛 22% of all siblings’ names start with the same letter, per a recent study of ~129,000 parents from BabyCenter.
  • 🏘️ The median US home price in January was $418,000, up ~45% from five years ago ($289,000), according to Redfin.
  • 🔥💰 A three-inch-long Hot Cheeto shaped like a Pokémon Charizard sold for ~$88,000 this week, per Goldin auction house.
  • 💼💼 A record-high ~8.9 million Americans have multiple jobs, per the new February jobs report; that’s 5.4% of employed workers, a level last seen in April 2009.
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