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Is there a solid source on what was actually collected?

They can be trademarked, which is why you can't use "Harry Potter" without permission.

I've gotten those too. The letters/emails are carefully worded so the subject screams "Pending domain registration!" to make you think it's your actual domain expiring, but the small print says that the service they offer is "registering" your domain in some random "world business directory". This way it's not an outright scam, in that they do render a (completely useless) service in exchange for your money, but of course they hope that the random admin/manager who sees the "bill" won't realize the difference and will pay up.

Tungsten costs around $30k/ton, so you'd be looking at a cool $15M for that 500T cube.

Lead goes for around $2k/ton, so this might be a more feasible compromise.

This proposal would likely be a lot more economic if they could reuse existing holes, like abandoned mines. However, mines tend not to dig down vertically and the cost of retrofitting and maintenance would be non-trivial.

I've worked for several companies that offered paid time off for volunteering. (With plenty of conditions and limits, of course.)

Midlife crisis is a thing in itself. One day you realize 20 years have passed, your spouse is no longer the person you married, you don't like your kids, you hate your job and -- here's the crisis part -- it dawns on you that this is it and you'll follow your current trajectory of quiet unhappiness for the rest of your life.

In reaction some people buy a Harley, some seek escape in adultery, some commit suicide... and a few disappear and start a new life.

In Japan you need guarantors even for mundane things like renting an apartment. This is particularly difficult for immigrants if they don't know anybody and their employer won't sponsor them.

The key insight (that older people count out seconds faster) is based on experimental science. The rest is more speculation.

FWIW, I'm convinced that seconds felt slower when I was a child, and they now tick up faster than they used to. Obviously there's no way to measure this, because this is my perception, not measurable reality.

The modern Korean writing system (hangul) is unrelated to Chinese.

Also, it's quite common for languages to be written in scripts originally developed for completely unrelated languages. Maltese is related to Arabic but written in the Latin (English) alphabet, Mongolian uses Cyrillic (Russian), Thai/Lao/Khmer derive from South Indian scripts, etc.