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

• 🎰 Just 4% of online gamblers end up earning money—aka withdrawing more than they deposited—per a first-of-its-kind study of 700,000 gamblers.
• 🍿 More Americans say Forrest Gump is their favorite movie (17%) than any other film, with The Wizard of Oz and Titanic tied for second at 15% apiece.
• 📆 The average American says they have 12 “perfect” days each year.
• 👕 Mark Zuckerberg paid $4,000+ for a shirt Jesse Eisenberg wore in The Social Network when he played…Mark Zuckerberg.
• 💼 The portion of job-seeking Harvard MBA students who remained unemployed three months after graduation rose from 10% in 2022 to 23% in 2024.