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15 best fascinating summer facts

Check your weather app and it looks like we're going to say goodbye to the sauna tomorrow. I can hardly wait for a refreshing shower. Although I have it easy, because on Saturday I'm flying to Italy to bask in the warmth there for a bit. Anyway. Summer, the heat, it does something to you. Here are 15 facts you can flash during your afternoon rosé.

  1. You take about 50 licks to finish a scoop of ice cream.
  2. Swimming with a breaststroke burns 600 calories per hour.
  3. In summer, the Eiffel Tower is 15 centimeters taller.
  4. Men produce an average of 30 percent more testosterone in the summer.
  5. The largest scoop of ice cream ever was 2 meters 81 and was scooped in, how could it be otherwise, Italy.
  6. The climate is not hugely important for our well-being. Residents of the Midwest in America are, for example, just as happy as residents of warm California.
  7. In heat, we become more aggressive. With a temperature increase of three degrees, violence in the US increases by 14 percent.
  8. In the rain, we work thirty minutes longer and more concentrated than when the sun is shining outside.
  9. At temperatures of 30 degrees, we are a lot less happy than at 20 degrees Celsius. Researchers compare the unpleasant feeling that some people may have at that high temperature to that of a divorce. Well, let that rain come again.
  10. Warm weather makes us more sensitive to weak arguments and we are less critical when it comes to making decisions. We are more impulsive.
  11. Men fall in love faster in the summer.
  12. The production of vitamin D leads to an improvement in sperm. Men are therefore much more fertile in the summer.
  13. In the city, it can be 7 degrees warmer than in the countryside.
  14. Where many people are together, it can easily become 3 or 4 degrees warmer. Anyone up for a little festival?
  15. The highest temperature ever recorded is 57.7 degrees. That was in the Sahara.

Enjoy it while you can. Before you know it, we're stirring in the Mont d'Or with Michael Bublé in the background.