Interesting facts

This page contains 925 facts I have shared in a series of blog posts over the years.

925. Better-paid local politicians are less likely to be corrupt (Klasnja et al. 2026)
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924. There is no evidence of a gendered pattern whereby women political leaders face unique penalties in crises (Horiuchi and Johnson 2026)
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923. One tonne of CO2 emitted in 1990 caused US$180 in discounted global damages by 2020 (Burke et al. 2026)
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922. In Stanley Milgram's obedience study, no entirely “fully obedient” participant fully obeyed the procedures Milgram's experimenter instructed them to do (Kaposi and Sumeghy 2026)
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921. Dog genetic diversification started well before 14,200 years ago (Bergström et al. 2026)
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920. Managerial performance is strongly predicted by economic decision-making skill (Weidmann et al. 2026)
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919. Politically liberal are more likely to believe that words can cause lasting psychological harm (Pratt et al. 2026)
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918. When education is in-person, attractive students receive higher grades (Mehic 2022)
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917. Genetic variation contributes to proneness to chills from artistic, poetic, and musical expressions (Bignardi et al. 2026)
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916. Overall cognitive-personality functioning peaks between ages 55 and 60 (Gignac and Zajenkowski 2025)
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915. Heritability of human life span due to intrinsic mortality is above 50% (Shenar et al. 2026)
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914. Elite soccer players possess personality traits like high conscientiousness and openness to experience (Bonetti et al. 2025)
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913. Elections increase satisfaction with democracy (Singh 2025)
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912. Female suicide bombers inflict fewer fatalities than their male counterparts (Choi and Acosta 2025)
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911. Professional forecasters overreact to idiosyncratic but underreact to common information (Gemmi and Valchev 2026)
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910. Tanning bed users are more likely to develop melanoma (Gerami et al. 2025)
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909. The Condorcet paradox holds little to no empirical relevance in national elections (Barbaro and Kurella 2025)
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908. Humans were making fire in the UK 400,000 years ago (Davis et al. 2025)
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907. Legislators talk less about the future as they age (Hanretty et al. 2025)
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906. The availability of the internet has reduced inequalities in chess (Grechyna and Grechyn 2025)
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