523 Hard To Believe Facts: Better Explained, Counterintuitive and Fun Trivia from the Creator of RaiseYourBrain.com (Paramount Trivia and Quizzes) by Nayden Kostov

Author:Nayden Kostov [Kostov, Nayden]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2019-10-10T16:00:00+00:00

Delivery trucks of the company UPS avoid making left-hand turns. This seemingly silly strategy started in the 1970s and has paid off: UPS’s routing software shaved 20.4 million miles off their routes in 2016 while delivering 350,000 more packages. It also diminished CO2 emissions by 20,000 metric tons.

Making a left turn at a US crossroad is three times more likely to kill pedestrians than turning right.

A dead humpback whale was found on the edge of the Amazon jungle in early 2019. Scientists are still unsure as to how exactly a whale ended up dead on the edge of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, some 15 m (50 ft) from the ocean shore and close to the Amazon river mouth.

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