463 Hard to Believe Facts: Better Explained, Counterintuitive and Fun Trivia by Kostov Nayden

Author:Kostov, Nayden [Kostov, Nayden]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, pdf
Published: 2021-04-23T16:00:00+00:00

Tired people are better at solving problems that require creativity.

In a 2008 study, a team at the University of British Columbia and Harvard Business School found that spending as little as $5 a day on someone else could significantly boost happiness, more than spending the money on yourself.

Worldwide, more than one-third of people have never seen snow.

Until late 2017, it was impossible to block Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook.

Sir Edmund Percival Hillary (1919-2008) was a New Zealand explorer and climber. On 29 May 1953, Hillary and his companion Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa mountaineer, became the first people confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest. Obscure fact: because of his hobby, Hillary was often referred to as “the most famous beekeeper in the world”.

The combined mass of all the asteroids in the Solar System is less than that of Earth’s Moon.

Printer paper can be recycled on average five to seven times. Paper is normally made up of long fibres, but every time it is recycled, those fibres get shorter, making it harder to be recycled further. That is why shredders are not friends of paper for recycling.

As of 2015, there were 15,372 golf courses in the USA. This is 45% of all golf courses in the entire world.

The Gate Tower Building is a 16-floor office building in Osaka, Japan. It is remarkable for the highway that passes through the building.

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