25 interesting facts #34

826. The killer whale is second only to humans as the most widely distributed mammal in the world (Ford 2009)

827. An average individual’s immune system consists of approximately 1.8 trillion cells (Sender et al. 2023)

828. Over 11% of the world’s billionaires have held or sought political office (Krcmaric et al. 2024)

829. All mammals above 3 kg in weight empty their bladders over nearly constant duration of 20 seconds (Yang et al. 2014)

830. Street-level vegetation can act to exacerbate air pollution (Venter et al. 2024)

831. Pop music lyrics have become simpler and easier to comprehend over time (Parada-Cabaleiro et al. 2024)

832. Exposure to The Apprentice increased Donald Trump’s electoral performance in the 2016 Republican primary (Kim and Patterson Jr. 2024)

833. School shootings increase donations to NRA (Roemer 2023)

834. Longer novels are more likely to win literary awards (McGowan 2024)

835. There is no robust association between zodiac signs and subjective well-being (Joshanloo 2024)

836. In a negative undirected network, a person’s enemies have more enemies, on average, than a person does (Ghasemian and Christakis 2023)

837. In US Supreme Court confirmation hearings, male and white participants are more likely to interrupt women and person of color speakers (Boyd et al. 2024)

838. Compression during sleep results in wrinkles and may also contribute to facial skin expansion (Anson et al. 2016)

839. A person cannot swallow their tongue during a seizure (Rossi et al. 2020)

840. Brain size predicts bees' tolerance to urban environments (Lanuza et al. 2023)

841. Thinking about God does not increase acceptance of artificial intelligence in decision-making (Moore et al. 2024)

842. The European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) induced firms to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 15% with no detectable contractions in economic activity (Colmer et al. 2024)

843. Political giving and charitable giving are substitutes (Yildirim et al. 2024)

844. AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data (Shumailov et al. 2024)

845. In the 2020 presidential elections, the Polish government organised a competition where the municipality with the highest turnout could win a fire truck (Gulczyński and Cześnik 2024)

846. Herring gulls use human behaviour to locate food (Goumas et al. 2020)

847. Large language models does not provide reliable survey data (Bisbee et al. 2024)

848. Cats can produce 276 distinct facial signals (Scott and Florkiewicz 2023)

849. Biological soil crusts protect the Great Wall of China from erosion (Cao et al. 2023)

850. In Mexico, violent cartels counted up to 185,000 units in 2022, making them one of the country’s top employers (Prieto-Curiel et al. 2023)

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