1. That babies start developing laughter only around 3-4months. No wonder they’re always crying before that - they don’t know any better :’)
2. That Japan’s National Sport is Sumo Wrestling. Pretty cool.
3. Concrete traps heat during the day and releases the trapped heat at night, which is why cities with buildings are generally much warmer at night than rural areas / open lands etc.
4. That the 7-8% GDP growth of India has been on a scale that IMF graded badly - which means our scale itself has been fundamentally broken & that GDP & other economic measures are inaccurate
   1. https://frontline.thehindu.com/economy/india-gdp-growth-myth-data-inequality-unemployment/article70485926.ece
   2. https://open.spotify.com/episode/5KQ7e9JpWr0fqExv7IzMk8?si=622dc16b8bda4f6f
   3. Also that GDP is not even the right metric to look when measuring economic growth - a few hundred billionaires can easily heavy lift the GDP. I remember thinking so when “GDP” term and it’s calculation was being taught to us for the first time in 9th standard in school. I remember asking my Economics teacher why our economists never came up with a better measure - GDP seemed too vague. She sadly said that “that’s what the WEF, IMF & other countries measure their growth on” which wasn’t really the answer to what I asked, and I remember feeling confused. Good times.
5. That sugar is going to get “even” more expensive because we exported most of it after a wrong forecast! And the festive season has only just begun so would be interesting to see sweets prices in the market.
   1. 1 - whats up with govt forecasts, what does “wrong” forecast even mean
   2. 2 - also how long did we actually wait before the shortfall was “observed”
   3. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2r9y9eleno