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TIL Iceland has no McDonald’s restaurants anywhere in the country. McDonald’s left Iceland on 30 October 2009, as a result of the 2008–2011 Icelandic financial crisis and high import tariff on imported ingredients which required the prices of their products to increase.

by whatilearned March 21, 2023, 2:35 am

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Til of Robin Mahfood, who ran a charity called Food for the Poor that was charged millions for misleading donors and tax officials as well as raising prices for donated goods under his leadership

by whatilearned March 6, 2023, 7:25 am

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TIL Tacit collusion is when groups work together without an explicit agreement. One example is price leadership inwhich one company changes their prices and competitors follow. In one case automated price setting led to the book The Making of a Fly having a price of $23,698,655.93.

by whatilearned February 9, 2023, 12:00 pm

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Why do you actually think egg prices are high?

by QuestionGuy February 6, 2023, 4:08 pm

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I don’t understand how cemeteries can raise their prices

by cringeyjokesman February 2, 2023, 1:22 am

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TIL about the Panic of 1837, a major financial depression in the U.S. that lasted until the mid-1840s. Nearly half of all banks failed, businesses closed, prices declined, and there was mass unemployment. The economy recovered by 1850 due to the California Gold Rush.

by whatilearned January 14, 2023, 4:42 am

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TIL Bill Watterson used to sneak signed Calvin & Hobbes collections onto the shelves of his hometown bookstore, but stopped doing so when he discovered they were being sold online for high prices.

by whatilearned January 11, 2023, 5:15 pm

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People who put the “I did that” Joe Biden stickers all over gas pumps when gas was high, where are they at now that gas prices have dropped so low? If he was responsible for the high gas prices, wouldn’t he then also be responsible for the low ones?

by QuestionGuy December 23, 2022, 11:00 pm

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TIL in 1987, United Airlines purchased Hertz, Westin, and Hilton for $2.3 billion, and rebranded itself as Allegis Corp., a one-stop fly-drive-sleep travel company. Stock prices tanked, investors balked, and it was dismantled less than 4 months later.

by whatilearned December 19, 2022, 6:22 pm

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People who blamed Biden for rising gas prices, how have you thanked him for prices going down lately?

by QuestionGuy December 7, 2022, 1:00 am

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TIL in 2018, footwear retailer Payless set up a fake luxury store. Their aim was to see if people would be willing to pay luxury prices for their discount footwear. It succeeded, with shoppers agreeing to pay upto about $600 for footwear that would typically cost between $19.99 and $39.99.

by whatilearned December 7, 2022, 12:27 am

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People who were outraged at president Biden for causing gas prices to rise so much earlier this year, why aren’t you giving him credit now that gas prices have dropped?

by QuestionGuy December 6, 2022, 2:18 am

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