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Here are 50 amazing facts to blow your mind.
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In March of 2018, scientists discover that all galaxies,
regardless of their individual sizes,
rotate at the same rate of one billion years per spin.
Studies have shown
that when it comes to relationship issues,
men tend to be more emotionally effected than women,
but are good at hiding it most of the time.
Goosebumps are the result of evolution.
They occur when the muscles around the body hair
rise up to make the hair stand up straight.
The intent is to puff out the entire outer coat
to increase insulation, and thus keep us warm.
A study conducted at Oregon State University
revealed that drinking beer can actually make you smarter.
There's a chemical in hops,
which positively affects intellectual function.
The only problem is you'd have to consume
3,520 pints in a day in order to see such results.
And I'm pretty sure that'd have a negative affect.
A study done in 2016 revealed
that as climate temperatures increase
the scents released by flowers decrease.
Despite the incredibly popular theory,
you absolutely do not swallow eight spiders
while asleep each year.
In fact, it's far more likely
that a spider has never come even close to your mouth
than having you consume that quantity.
The first woman to ride a bicycle around the world
was Annie Londonderry, who circled the globe
between June 1894, and September 1895.
What made this feat even more impressive
is the fact that she learned how to ride a bike
only a few days before setting off.
Psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa conducted a study
with 20,745 students over a five year period,
and he concluded that night owls,
or those who prefer going to bed and waking up later,
tend to be more intelligent than early risers.
Another study revealed that despite what early risers
may nag their night owl counterparts for,
the owls tend to use more of their awake time productively.
They're mentally alert for longer periods
than the morning people.
In the early days of cologne being marketed
to potential buyers,
it was sold as protection.
People would wear and drink eau de cologne
to avoid getting the plague.
Napoleon, Hitler, Alexander the Great, and Mussolini
all allegedly suffered from ailurophobia, the fear of cats.
Despite what several politicians seems to pitch,
science has shown that there is no substantial connection
between mass shootings and violence in video games.
In fact, many responsible for so many deaths
don't play video games at all.
Our blood appears red
because of how oxygen and iron interact.
There are sub-units called hemes
in each hemoglobin protein in our blood,
which bind iron molecules, which in turn bind oxygen.
When iron is oxygenated, it becomes red.
When it becomes de-oxygenated, it becomes dark red.
After his death on December 26, 1974,
comedian Jack Benny continued to remind his wife,
Mary Livingstone, of how much he cared.
Every day, Mary received a long stemmed rose
from Benny's estate, until her death nine years later.
The average yawn lasts six seconds,
and humans yawn about 240,000 times in their lifetime,
which means you spend around 400 hours in your life yawning.
Researchers at the University of York
determined that dogs are more likely to respond
to high pitched voices,
like the way you talk to a baby,
than normal toned ones.
A 2013 report revealed that nearly a third of children
learn how to use a smartphone or tablet
before they learn how to speak.
As a human being, your skin regenerates itself
every 27 days.
And will replace itself on average
around 900 times in your lifetime.
The reason tattoos are not replaced
when your skin replenishes
is because the dye is inserted deep into the dermis layer,
which does not exfoliate
or otherwise fall away without injury.
Although she was born deaf,
Taiwanese dancer and choreographer, Lin Ching Lan
uses the vibrations music make on the wooden floor
beneath her feet to feel the rhythm.
She's been featured in commercials,
and even started a dance troop for the hearing impaired.
Self driving cars developed by a company called Oxbotica,
learned to navigate thanks to a series of programs
which included Grand Theft Auto V.
The tech company claims
that there are not enough hours in a day
to clock the real world miles needed,
so GTA was used to simulate.
According to researchers in London,
if everyone on earth regularly washed their hands properly,
over one million lives would be saved every year.
Roodharigendag, or International Redhead day
in an annual event held on the first weekend in September
in Breda, small town in the Netherlands.
Thousands of natural redheads attended,
participating in lectures, workshops, and demonstrations
all focusing on having red hair.
American scientist James Reyniers
conducted several studies building clean rooms
and using various animals in an attempt to determine
if they could survive without bacteria.
He eventually concluded that it was technically possible,
but many of his test subjects died,
due to the digestive system needing certain bacterias
in order to break down food and extract nutrients.
On September 6, 1901, Doctor Roswell Park
was performing surgery when he was called on.
He replied that he couldn't leave,
even for the president of the United States.
Ironically, it was, in fact, President William McKinley,
who had been shot and needed him,
but he refused to abandon his patient.
The president died, and two weeks later,
Parks saved a woman who presented with similar injuries.
According to the results of a Harris Interactive Survey,
women who play video games tend to have more sex
and have happier relationships than those who don't.
There's a farm in Delaware that turns old, damaged
and retired United States paper currency into mulch.
It's estimated that nearly four tons of the bills
are turned into compost every day.
According to an article published in 2002,
there's been a constant increase
in human beings maximum life expectancy
since 1841, of around 3 months per year.
An Ikea, in the Netherlands was forced to cancel
their one Euro Sunday morning breakfasts,
when the demand for them
began causing huge traffic jams and road closures.
According to a report in 2018,
in four of America's five largest cities,
New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington D.C.,
it's actually cheaper to rely on Uber
than to own your own car.
Dallas is the odd city out,
and owning a car there actually saves you $116 a week.
In 1978, Francisco Macias Nguema,
the first president of Equatorial Guinea
changed the nation's motto to
there is no other god than Macias Nguema.
A year later he was ousted and executed.
Actor Frankie Munez suffers from memory loss so damaging
he doesn't remember starring in the hit show
Malcolm in the Middle.
His girlfriend actually keeps a journal
of what they do day to day
to keep him reminded and help with the condition.
Studies show that people who have friends
live longer than those who don't.
In fact, having a community as friends
is as healthy as quitting smoking,
and almost twice as beneficial to your life expectancy
as having being physically active.
In 2006, October 10th was declared Tom Cruise Day in Japan.
According to the Japan Memorial Day Association,
Cruise was given the honor
because he has visited the country
more times than any other star in Hollywood.
A study conducted at Stanford University School of Medicine
involving 24 children between the ages of seven
and 12 years old,
revealed that they could recognize their own mother's voice
even when she spoke only nonsense words,
in less than one second with 97% accuracy.
A study conducted in 2010 revealed
that stressed out teenagers were almost instantly soothed
upon hearing their own mother's voice.
This is due to the bond making hormone called oxytocin
being released when humans recognized the loved one as near.
Thompson & Morgan, a U.K. horticulture company
has created a plant that produces
two different edible crops.
Called the TomTato, it can apparently provide
up to 500 tomatoes and two kilograms of potatoes
over a season with just a single plant.
The world's oldest social housing complex
in Hausberg, Bavaira is called Fuggerei,
and it's renters pay today what was paid
when the houses were first built in the 1500s,
the equivalent of one U.S. dollar.
Before officially being given the name dynamite,
the explosives were called Nobel's safety powder,
and were named after their inventor Alfred Nobel.
It's estimated that each commercial plane
in the United States is struck by lightning
at least once a year.
But thankfully, due to technological advancements,
lightning has not caused a crash since 1967.
There's a steel bridge in Vietnam called Dragon Bridge.
It's shaped like the legendary creature,
complete with a head that shoots out balls of fire
and jets of water.
The average person spends more than three months
of their lives on the toilet.
Research shows that men, on average,
spend four more minutes per day on the toilet
than women do.
After a shortage of human and pig tissues
left doctors in Fortaleza, Brazil,
unable to treat burns,
they began using the skin of tilapia,
a type of fish widely available in the area.
The results were actually incredible,
as tilapia had even more collagen,
which is needed for scarring, than human tissue does.
There are now clinical trials being conducted
and this treatment could spread to other countries.
Fish skin, ooh.
In June of 2018, model company Revell
agreed to stop producing one of their products,
a model of a non-existent Nazi UFO called Haunebu II,
the packaging of which claimed
that it was the first ship that could fly in space.
Revell received a number of complaints
that it was historically inaccurate,
and apologized for their ridiculousness.
After a volcano called Mauna Loa
erupted in December of 1935,
the 15,000 residents in the town of Hilo, Hawaii,
found themselves directly in the path
of one of the five lava rivers.
In order to stop it from destroying the town,
the U.S. Army Air Corps dropped 20 bombs on the volcano,
trying to cut it off at the source,
which had never been attempted before.
Luckily, they were successful.
The ability to close your eyes,
but still touch your nose
is thanks to a sense beyond the five
that you thought you already had, called proprioception.
This extra meta-sense allows you to feel
where your body parts are in relation to each other.
In the 1960s, pre-internet hacking groups
began taking over phone lines
with, of all things, toys that they got out of cereal boxes.
Whistles given out in boxes of Cap'n Crunch
played at 2600 hertz, a tone that can commandeer phone lines
and make as many long distance calls as the hackers wanted.
In 1980, workers at a 3M plant in South Carolina
were shocked to discover that the spools of plastic film
used to make stationary items
had created a force field of static electricity.
Workers became frozen in place
and couldn't get near the machinery.
To escape, they literally had to walk backwards
until they reached an area where the effect was less severe.
Scientists using an MRI scanner
at the University of California in Los Angeles,
found that the same parts of the brain lit up
when a subject was feeling heartbreak,
such as at the end of a relationship,
as to when they felt physical pain.
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