The Numbers Museum

Every specific figure ever claimed on the show. 621 match this view. Red rows are numbers the cited sources contradict.

All Dollars Multiples Percentages Big numbers

Figure	As spoken	The claim	Who	When	Checked?
1M	“a million”	US Formula 1 Viewership Doubled From 2018 to 2021 Following the Netflix Series	David Rosenthal	Mar 5, 2026	Partly supported
1M	“a million”	The Motorola Droid Reached One Million Sales Faster Than the Original iPhone	David Rosenthal	Aug 26, 2025	Partly supported
1M	“a million”	Rolex sells 1M+ watches annually at an average price of $13,000	Ben Gilbert	Feb 24, 2025	Supported
1M	“one million”	Rosenthal: IKEA reached 6M kronor sales and 500k subscribers by 1955	David Rosenthal	Nov 18, 2024	Partly supported
1M	“a million”	Gilbert: Microsoft offered around $1M to acquire Zuckerberg's high school software Synapse	Ben Gilbert	Oct 28, 2024	Supported
1M	“one million”	Netscape expanded from one million to fifteen million users in one year	Ben Gilbert	Jul 22, 2024	Supported
1M	“a million”	Windows 95 sold 7 million copies in its first month	David Rosenthal	Apr 22, 2024	Supported
1M	“one million”	Treating 30,000 diabetes patients in 1980 required one million animals annually	David Rosenthal	Jan 22, 2024	Supported
1M	“a million”	Huang says he wouldn't have started NVIDIA if he knew the suffering	Jensen Huang	Oct 16, 2023	—
1M	“a million”	Nvidia's CUDA platform reached four million registered developers by May 2023	Ben Gilbert	Sep 6, 2023	Partly supported
1M	“a million”	Rosenthal: Home Depot can reach 90% of US homes within 24 hours	David Rosenthal	Sep 14, 2026	Partly supported
15K	“15 thousand”	Rosenthal: Trader Joe's stores average 15,000 square feet versus Walmart's 150,000	David Rosenthal	Oct 27, 2025	Supported
1K	“a thousand”	Gilbert: Acquired had fewer than 1,000 Spotify listeners on Jan 1, 2019	Ben Gilbert	May 18, 2023	—
1K	“a thousand”	Doug DeMuro Predicts a $2 Million All-Electric Porsche Supercar Soon	Doug DeMuro	Jun 27, 2023	Didn’t hold up
1K	“a thousand”	Thompson: Stratechery gained 250 subscribers in 24 hours after hitting 1,000	Ben Thompson	Dec 6, 2022	—
1K	“a thousand”	Thompson: The internet creates an economic barbell of giant or niche businesses	Ben Thompson	Dec 6, 2022	—
1K	“a thousand”	Gilbert: NVIDIA and Stanford matched Google Brain's 1,000 nodes with three	Ben Gilbert	Apr 20, 2022	Supported
1K	“a thousand”	Ben Gilbert: NVIDIA's Scale Moat Relies on Amortizing 1,000+ CUDA Engineers Across Millions	Ben Gilbert	Apr 20, 2022	—
1K	“a thousand”	McCormick: Not Boring adds 1,000 to 2,000 subscribers per week	Packy McCormick	Dec 3, 2021	—
1K	“a thousand”	Google Brain Trained a 9-Layer Neural Network Using 16,000 CPUs	Ben Gilbert	Oct 6, 2025	Supported
1K	“a thousand”	Dimon: Venture capitalists caused SVB and First Republic runs by telling startups to withdraw	Jamie Dimon	Jul 16, 2025	Partly supported

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