25 interesting facts #36

876. One reason democracies are greener is because they outsource environmental impacts of their consumption to other countries (Bernauer et al. 2025)

877. Lengthy asylum processes decrease employment among refugees (Hainmueller et al. 2016)

878. Judges favor the first dish tasted in a blind test in The Great British Bake Off (Reimão et al. 2025)

879. Conspiracy believers overestimate how much others agree with them (Pennycook et al. 2025)

880. Fingers wrinkle in the same way every time they are in water for too long (Laytin and German 2025)

881. When evaluating product ratings, consumers overestimate fractional star ratings and underestimate fractional Arabic numerals (e.g., 3.5) (Sirwani et al. 2025)

882. Photo-taking impairs memory on memory tests (Lurie and Westerman 2021)

883. CEOs with deeper voices manage larger companies (Mayew et al. 2013)

884. People follow laws and social norms even without extrinsic incentives and social preferences (Gächter et al. 2025)

885. Amongst adults, zips are the most frequent cause of penile injuries (Bagga et al. 2013)

886. Constituencies with higher proportions of fish and chip shops showed stronger support for Brexit (Pickering and Tanaka 2025)

887. There was a decrease in lunar night-time surface temperatures on the Moon during the COVID-19 global lockdown (Prasad and Ambily 2024)

888. Wild American crows gather around their dead to learn about danger (Swift and Marzluff 2015)

889. There is no correlation between Dark Triad traits (i.e., psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism) and body height (Øvstetun and Stieger 2025)

890. The frequency of monitoring something shapes the perception of progress (Vaz et al. 2025)

891. Speaking two languages may delay the onset of dementia (Freedman et al. 2014)

892. Compulsory voting increases men's turnout most (Singh 2025)

893. There is a strong bias in many LLMs towards overgeneralising scientific conclusions (Peters and Chin-Yee 2025)

894. Cheating and lying are theoretically distinct and meaningfully different behaviors (Skowronek 2025)

895. The gender-equality paradox is a methodological artifact (Berggren and Bergh 2025)

896. Sleep hours fall as income rises (Jara et al. 2025)

897. German cyclists are more sensitive to temperature, rain, and daylight hours than Dutch cyclists (Hudde 2023)

898. Cool people are perceived to be more extraverted and autonomous, whereas good people are perceived to be more conforming and agreeable (Pezzuti et al. 2025)

899. The wheel was invented by miners harvesting copper ore as early as 3900 BC (Alacoque et al. 2024)

900. Cheese and peanut butter are inadequate sources of protein (Antonio et al. 2024)