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Award winning Barbadian singer and business woman, Robyn Rihanna Fenty turns 37 today.

Value of a gold bar (400 troy ounces) ; Today: $1.2 million 5 years ago: $708,000 10 years ago: $482,000 15 years ago: $442,000 20 years ago: $171,000 25 years ago: $112,000

Value of $100 invested 20 years ago: Nvidia: $60,419 Netflix: $59,294 Apple: $16,166 Amazon: $12,802 Monster Beverage: $9,473 Hermes: $4,172 Google: $4,069 United Rentals: $3,993 Autozone: $3,565 Domino's Pizza: $2,744 Costco: $2,260 LVMH: $1,083 Microsoft: $1,557 Adobe: $1,354

Google’s first investment was a check for $100,000. Today, the company generates $100,000 in revenue every 8 seconds.

Jamaican singer-songwriter, Robert Nesta Marley better known by his stage name Bob Marley would have been 80 today.

#OnThisDay in 1999 Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot 41 times by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race relations in the city.

#OnThisDay in 1789, George Washington was unanimously elected president of the United States with 69 votes.

On this day in 2004: The Web site FACEBOOK was launched (as TheFacebook.com)

In 1997, Apple lost $1 billion. Today, it makes $1 billion in 2 ½ days.

Best digital infrastructure, 2024. 1. 🇯🇵 Japan 2. 🇰🇷 South Korea 3. 🇺🇸 US 4. 🇨🇳 China 5. 🇩🇪 Germany 6. 🇬🇧 UK 7. 🇸🇬 Singapore 8. 🇦🇪 UAE 9. 🇨🇦 Canada 10. 🇸🇪 Sweden 11. 🇫🇷 France 12. 🇨🇭 Switzerland 13. 🇳🇱 Netherlands 14. 🇩🇰 Denmark 15. 🇶🇦 Qatar Source ~ World Report

Nike was founded in 1964. It was called Blue Ribbon Sports. Sales in the first year were $8,000. Today, it’s $8,000 every 5 seconds.

Best universities, 2025. 1. 🇺🇸 MIT 2. 🇬🇧 Imperial College 3. 🇬🇧 Oxford 4. 🇺🇸 Harvard 5. 🇬🇧 Cambridge 6. 🇺🇸 Stanford 7. 🇨🇭 ETH Zurich 8. 🇸🇬 NUS 9. 🇬🇧 UCL 10. 🇺🇸 Caltech Source ~ QS

World's best honeymoon destinations. 1. 🇲🇺 Mauritius 2. 🇮🇩 Bali, Indonesia 3. 🇲🇻 Maldives 4. 🇻🇳 Hoi An, Vietnam 5. 🇹🇭 Phuket, Thailand 6. 🇬🇷 Santorini, Greece 7. 🇹🇿 Zanzibar Island, Tanzania 8. 🇮🇹 Florence, Italy Source ~ TripAdvisor

Size of economy, 2022 (current prices) 🇷🇺 Russia: $2.2 trillion 🇨🇦 Canada: $2.1 trillion 🇧🇷 Brazil: $1.9 trillion 🇦🇺 Australia: $1.7 trillion 🇰🇷 South Korea: $1.7 trillion 🇪🇸 Spain: $1.5 trillion 🇺🇸 Texas: $2.4 trillion

Value of $1,000 invested 25 years ago: Nvidia: $2,852,400 Intel: $647

In 2018, Apple became the first U.S. company with a $1 trillion valuation. Today, there are 8: Apple: $3.8 trillion Microsoft: $3.3 trillion Nvidia: $3.3 trillion Amazon: $2.4 trillion Alphabet: $2.3 trillion Meta: $1.6 trillion Tesla: $1.4 trillion Broadcom: $1.1 trillion

Time it takes to generate $100 million in sales; Walmart: 1 hour, 16 minutes Amazon: 1 hour, 22 minutes Apple: 2 hours, 17 minutes Microsoft: 3 hours, 18 minutes Tesla: 8 hours, 35 minutes FedEx: 9 hours, 49 minutes Nike: 17 hours, 25 minutes Netflix: 21 hours, 58 minutes

This is the oldest working computer. It needs 10 seconds to multiply two numbers. And it weighs 2 ½ tons.

Valuations - December 2024; Netflix: $387 billion Disney: $201 billion Valuations - December 2004; Disney: $56 billion Netflix: $607 million