551. The more people learn about terrorism, the smaller they perceive the threat of terrorism to be (Krause et al. 2022) 552. Harassment deters women and men from applying for jobs in workplaces where they are the gender minority (Folke and Rickne 2022) 553. People like music less when they think it was composed by […]
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25 interesting facts #22
526. A worldwide assembly size for a lower chamber could be approximately 2000 seats (Colomer 2014) 527. Consumer-posted photos on Yelp are strong predictors of restaurant survival (Zhang and Luo 2022) 528. More than two million km² of wilderness were lost from 2000 to 2018 (Mu et al. 2022) 529. The creme-heavy side is uniformly […]
25 interesting facts #21
501. Tigers have experienced little evolutionary pressure to evolve green coloration and they appear green to deer (because deer are dichromats) (Fennell et al. 2019) 502. In the United States, Holocaust survivors are more supportive of helping refugees (Wayne and Zhukov 2022) 503. There is a talisman effect in insurance, i.e., consumers who have an […]
25 interesting facts #20
476. The Øresund bridge between Denmark and Sweden increased the gender wage gap in the region (Bütikofer et al. 2022) 477. Gorbachev’s policies of perestroika (restructuring) and glasnost (official openness) led to the collapse of the Soviet regime (Kramer 2022) 478. Marriage inequality increased civil conflict in the Boko Haram insurgency (Rexer 2022) 479. In […]
25 interesting facts #19
451. In art auction markets, blue and red paintings generate higher bids (Ma et al. 2022) 452. Increasing group size reduces perceptions of danger (Tedeschi et al. 2021) 453. In 2019, only 54% of Americans agree that human beings developed from earlier species of animals (Miller et al. 2021) 454. Before numerical or written marks […]
25 interesting facts #18
426. Western sanctions on Russia in 2014 forced Putin to pay a political price, but the price was low compared to the benefits arising from the Crimea annexation (Alexseev and Hale 2020) 427. More than three-quarters of the Amazon rainforest has been losing resilience since the early 2000s (Boulton et al. 2022) 428. Men are […]
25 interesting facts #17
401. The highest emitting 100 urban areas account for 18% of the global carbon footprint (Moran et al. 2018) 402. In the United States, indigenous land density has been reduced by nearly 99% (Farrell et al. 2022) 403. Researchers funded by the alcohol industry are more likely to report alcohol protective effects (Golder and McCambridge […]
25 interesting facts #16
376. A sixth of the carbon footprint of average EU diets is due to tropical deforestation emissions (Pendrill et al. 2019) 377. In blind taste tests, there is no consistent preference for Coke or Pepsi (Van Doorn and Miloyan 2018) 378. Alphabetic writing was probably invented during the Bronze Age (Höflmayer et al. 2021) 379. […]
25 interesting facts #15
351. Preservation of historical heritage increases bird biodiversity in urban centers (Bhakti et al. 2021) 352. Torturers in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq justified their actions morally by diffusing responsibility, blaming victims, and using just-cause thinking (Einolf 2021) 353. Dogs exhibit social skills and interest in human faces by 8 weeks of age (Bray et al. 2021) […]
25 interesting facts #14
326. Obesity accelerates hair thinning (Morinaga et al. 2021) 327. U.S. policymakers did not have compelling evidence that the threat of a Communist takeover was increasing substantially in the months before the coup d’état in Iran in August 1953 (Gasiorowski 2019) 328. More than 60 percent of Danish Ministers and Permanent Secretaries end up in […]