SortStack #1011 — 2029-03-16

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Manhattan Island, as the Dutch paid for it (in goods, at the famous valuation) $24

The Dutch paid 60 guilders in trade goods in 1626 — a sum 19th-century historians famously converted to about $24. Manhattan real estate is now worth well over a trillion.
A Hermes Birkin handbag at retail, entry size $12K

The bag was born on a flight when actress Jane Birkin's basket spilled — the Hermes CEO sitting beside her sketched a better bag on an airsickness bag.
The median home in the United States $420K

In 1970 the median US home cost about $23,000 — roughly twice the median household income. Today it's nearly six times.
Dennis Tito's trip to the International Space Station as the first space tourist $20M

NASA objected so strongly to the 2001 visit that Tito trained in Russia and flew on a Soyuz — NASA staff were initially told not to assist him.
SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles, the most expensive stadium ever built $5.5B

Because it sits under the LAX flight path, the roof had to stay low — so builders dug the field about 30 meters below ground level.
Pixar, when Disney bought it $7.4B

The 2006 deal made Steve Jobs Disney's largest individual shareholder — he had bought Pixar from George Lucas two decades earlier for about $10 million.