Be prepared for the most intriguing list of facts you've seen this month. You might be great at scientific trivia or historical trivia or maybe you have an incredible IQ, but we bet you'll never ever forget the facts that we are about to tell you right now. It will not only keep you up tonight, but many nights to come.
Do you know how many murderers you meet in your lifetime? Or what you smell when you sleep? Buckle up because you're up for a crazy ride.
Do you know your palm can totally help you with geometry. You can measure the angles with your hand. As a student you must have had a hard time understanding how to measure angles. But you can totally measure them with an easy trick. Spread your palm and make sure there's space between your fingers. Hold your hand upright, the angle between the base of your palm and thumb makes a 90° angle whereas the finger next to your little makes a 30° angle.
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The average person walks past at least 16 murderers in their lifetime. A math-loving Redditor did the equation and it's mind-boggling. You meet/ pass at least 10 new people every day. Multiply that with 365 (for days in a year) and multiply that with 71 which is the average lifespan of man. You'll get the number 260,000, which is the number of people you pass in your life. Now multiply 260,000 with 6 and divide it by 100,000 (considering 6 murderers per 100,000 individuals) and you get 15.6, which rounds up to 16.
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Have you ever sucked at your skin after you inured it? That might have helped because human saliva has pain relieving properties. The saliva produces opiorphin which is apparently a lot more effective than morphine when it comes to relieving pain.
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Do you know there are colours our brains struggle to imagine? For instance, the human brain finds it difficult to imagine colours like bluish purple or blue-green, and when you try to close your eyes and try to visualise it you can either see blue or yellow or green but not the blended hue.
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Do you know that creatures called Demodex mites live in your skin pores and hair follicles and survive there? The older we get the more mites crowd our skins and in fact they spread through skin contact. It has also been found out that Demodex mites lay eggs in our skin and release faeces when they die.
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Do you know traffic lights are usually a lot bigger than they seem? If you think about it you'll realize that you only see traffic lights from a certain lower angle which makes them look smaller as they are far. But if you ever see a traffic light on a normal ground you'll see its taller and wider than you thought.
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Do you know how heavy clouds are? It was revealed that an average cloud weighs the same as 100 elephants. And each storm cloud weighs the same as 200,000 elephants which if you think about it is mind-blowing.
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If you're a millennial you've been born at a crucial juncture in the history of time. If you were born in 1990 you've lived in two centuries, two millenniums and three decades before you even turned 30.
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Do you know a human head remains conscious ten seconds after it has been severed? It takes three to six minutes for the cells to start dying.
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Your desk job might be slowly killing you. If you sit at a desk for more than eight hours you're more prone to get blood clots which make way for pulmonary embolism.
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Do you know how unsafe the bridges in the US are? Around 18,000 bridges in America are shaky and can collapse any minute. Most of these bridges are labelled as 'fracture critical' which ideally means that people should stop using them and they may collapse the minute a structure-breaking entity is driven upon it.
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America throws away 40% of its food every year which could feed entire cities. It was found out that 60 million tons of food which cost more than $150 billion is thrown away every year.
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It was discovered in 2015 that in the last few years in US history more people were killed by toddlers than by terrorists. This study is also a telling indicator of the much-debated gun safety issue as most of these deaths involved firearms.
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Are you a fan of comedy? Then you must enjoy the laughter tracks which are featured in the comedy shows when something funny happens. Do you know that most of these laughter tracks have been recorded years or even decades ago and people on the tracks are dead by now. Which would mean you are listening to dead people laughing.
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You must have joked about extraterrestrial life or watched alien movies but have you ever given life outside earth a serious thought? Have you ever thought that only two possibilities exist in the universe. Either human race is entirely alone or they are not, and both of these thoughts are equally scary.
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Do you know you're physically a different person than when you were born? It has been discovered that every cell in our body gets swapped for new ones every seven years and since we are entirely made of cells, all of our cells since birth have been swapped many times and we are technically in a new body.
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By the time you're 60, you'll lose half of your taste buds and ability to taste the difference between sweet or salty.
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In the next 80 years, most people on Facebook and Twitter will have died since they are already at least 10 years old.
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