North Koreans are shorter than South Koreans. According to a researcher from Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, North Koreans are, on average, four centimetres shorter than South Koreans. Factors that cause the height difference include malnourishment, economic stagnation, and lack of immigration.
100 Mind-Blowing Economic Facts
Recessions may not be good for our finances, but it turns out that they’re good for our health. Researchers in the US initially studied data from previous economic crises expecting to find a correlation between mortalities and economic crises. What they found was surprising, as harder times seemed actually to reduce mortality rates instead of increasing them. This is because during a recession, there is less traffic, and cleaner air, and people have less money to spend on unhealthy things like drinking alcohol or smoking.
Government vehicles in Cuba are legally required to pick up hitchhikers. When the Soviet Union collapsed, Cuba went through a period of severe economic hardship called the “Special Period,” and the majority of the country’s vehicles came to a standstill. Unable to take public transport because there wasn’t enough oil or parts to maintain the buses, citizens resorted to hitchhiking. Times got so difficult that the government forced all of their vehicles with free space to pick up any hitchhikers, typically found at designated pick-up points.
Rocky Road ice cream was originally marketed during the Great Depression as a metaphor for coping with the economic crash.
The likelihood that a cybercrime entity is detected and prosecuted in the U.S. is estimated at around 0.05 per cent. (World Economic Forum)
Despite the statistics saying that AI will replace more than 80 million jobs, the World Economic Forum projects that more than 97 million new jobs will be created by 2025 due to AI technology. – PWC