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Nearly 25 years ago, a mariachi band played at a SpaceX party while Elon Musk posed for a photo. The rocket company’s head count was single digits back then. Today, it’s over 22,000.SpaceX started with two long-shot goals: make rockets cheaper to launch and, eventually, send mankind to Mars.More than…
Jakarta, Indonesia, was named the most populous city in the world in the United Nations’ World Urbanization Prospects report last year.But population doesn’t directly translate into how crowded the cities actually are — the 42 million residents of the Jakarta metro area, for instance, are spread over more than 2,500…
By the 1980s, McDonald’s had already become a well-established fast-food chain with a well-known menu and distinctive branding.Ray Kroc opened the first McDonald’s franchise location in Des Plaines, Illinois, on April 15, 1955. That year, he also founded McDonald’s System, Inc., which would become the McDonald’s Corporation we know today. By 1958, McDonald’s…
When my son told me the details of his nine-day school trip to England last June, one rule stood out above the rest: they wouldn’t be able to use their phones for the majority of the trip. Loading audio narration… He’d be an ocean away, staying in dorms at a…
