Fact of the day

Fact of the day

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Fact N° 2328
Women enjoy online gaming slightly more than sex.
According to a study commissioned by Doritos, almost as many women play online games as men (49% and 50%), though the study's terminology didn't differentiate between, say, Zynga games and first-person shooters. Eighty-four percent of the women in the study said they enjoyed gaming, while only 70% said they enjoyed sex (75% reported enjoying taking baths, 71% enjoyed shopping and 62% enjoyed exercising).
Fact N° 2329
Women find a far wider range of traits attractive than men do.
Men are generally in agreement about what's attractive: "thin" and "seductive" appear to be the traits they're drawn to, followed by "confident," according to a Queens College study. Women in the study were also drawn to these traits to some extent, but were far more varied in the specific men they found attractive. Study participants were shown photos of 100 men and women, and while men agreed on which women were attractive, some women were attracted to men who others found entirely unattractive. This was true regardless of sexuality. Homosexual men were more in accordance about the attractiveness of other men than women were, and straight men showed a greater consensus on the subject than lesbians did.
Fact N° 2330
The internet is influencing how we remember information.
Many of us have transitioned from remembering specific facts and information to remembering where we can most easily look up those facts on the internet, posit the authors of a Colombia study. In a study titled "Google Effects on Memory: Cognitive Consequences of Having Information at Our Fingertips," researchers found that subjects perform worse at remembering information if they believe they'll be able to access it later, and that they are also more likely to remember the locations where data would be stored than the data itself.
Fact N° 2331
Marital happiness is improved when wives are thinner than their husbands.
A University of Tennessee study in Social Psychological & Personality Science tracked the BMI of 169 newlywed couples for four years, finding that men who were more overweight than their wives were happier at the beginning of a marriage, while women who were thinner than their husbands were happier overall. The influence of a wife's BMI on marital satisfaction, according to study authors, has an evolutionary basis, in that women of a healthy weight are more fertile and therefore more attractive; if the study had tracked husbands' ability to provide, they contend, the results would look similar.
Fact N° 2332
Chicago and New York consumers are least likely and most likely to steal unattended bottles of tea, respectively.
Honest Tea set up an experiment on July 19th, when temperatures in U.S. cities ranged above 100Â° F. The company set out unattended racks of bottled iced tea adorned with signs that asked people to leave $1 per bottle if they took one, then monitored the racks with hidden cameras. Seattle, the coolest city in the running, initially also had the highest payment rate, though Chicago, where it was 85Ã‚Â° F, eventually won that spot with a 99% payment rate. Boston and Dallas rounded out the top three spots, both with 97% payment rates. Washington, D.C., Los Angeles and New York filled out the bottom of the list, with 91%, 88%, and 86% payment rates respectively.
Fact N° 2333
Being overweight can be as harmful to your liver as using alcohol.
Though cirrhosis is often thought of solely as the result of heavy drinking, a Swedish study that followed 855 men for up to 40 years found that being overweight contributed to cirrhosis of the liver, but did not demonstrate the same link with alcohol use. Other studies have demonstrated that alcohol and obesity contribute together to liver disease more than the additive effects of both risk factors on their own. In Britain alone, it's estimated that half a million children suffer from non-alcoholic liver disease, which can lead not only to cirrhosis, but also to stroke and heart disease.
Fact N° 2334
Women with lots of Facebook activity tend to base their self-worth on their appearance.
A study published in the journal Cyberpsychology found that women with larger friend networks and more well-maintained public profiles (including large photo albums) also tend to have a public-based sense of self-esteem, influenced by others' approval (and especially by physical appearance). Additionally, the study found that women at large shared five times as many photos as men, as well as being more active on Facebook overall.

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