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Small facts, big facts
70% of Earth’s surface is water, 30% is land or ice.
Several studies have shown a correlation between the music aired in a shop and sales.
Classical music → People buy more expensive stuff.
Slower music → People slow down and buy more.
Loud music → People fasten up but do not buy less. (Great for the shop.)
A year is technically 365.24219 ephemeris days.
The complicated system we have with leap years every 4 years, except for multiples of 100 unless they are multiples of 400, is akin to average increments of 365.2425 days.
This requires very infrequent adjustments to the Gregorian calendar.
#Luxemburg, a country with 600,000 inhabitants, has a total GDP over 70 billion $.
It is more than a country like Burma, despite it has a population over 55 million.
Our planet is the only one within the Solar system to have plate tectonics.
There are only 2 countries in Latin America with a capital having the same name as the country itself.
> Guatemala
> Mexico
Small facts, big facts
