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. […]
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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 […]
25 interesting facts #11
251. Democratization is associated with more deforestation (Sanford 2021) 252. Since the 1950s, there has been a moral aversion to using water as a weapon in armed conflicts (Grech-Madin 2021) 253. People with disagreeable personalities do not have an advantage in pursuing power at work (Anderson et al. 2020) 254. Overconfidence in news judgments is […]
25 interesting facts #6
126. Climate change may have been an important factor in the outbreak of COVID-19 (Beyer et al. 2021) 127. On average, people underestimate how much their conversation partners enjoy their company (Boothby et al. 2018) 128. There are at least 137 design mistakes you can make in your PowerPoint presentations (Kosslyn et al. 2012) 129. […]
25 interesting facts #5
101. Claude Monet’s late works were the result of cataracts and not conscious experimentation with a more expressionistic style (Gruener 2015) 102. There are about ~40,000 virus species in mammals, including ~10,000 viruses with zoonotic potential (Carlson et al. 2019) 103. People mispredict the time course of their own creativity (Lucas and Nordgren 2020) 104. […]
25 interesting facts #3
51. Concerns about travel time explain why some members of the European Parliament favour holding plenaries only in Brussels (Whitaker et al. 2017) 52. Prospect theory replicates across countries and languages (Ruggeri et al. 2020) 53. Anti-vaccine policy attitudes correlate with low levels of knowledge about the causes of autism (Motta et al. 2018) 54. […]