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October 27 - October 28, 2020
The human brain uses 20% of the body’s energy even though it's only 2% of the body's total weight.
The human brain has a negativity bias causing us to continually look for bad news. It's an evolutionary trait that stem from early humans as a survival mechanism.
Twenty four women have made accusations that Donald Trump has elicited inappropriate sexual behavior over the previous thirty years.
There are still thirty million people living in caves in China.
In Japan, it’s considered to be good luck if a sumo-wrestler makes your baby cry.
The youngest Pope to ever be elected was Pope Benedict IX, born in 1012, who was only twelve years old.
Many murder cases in Japan are declared suicides in order for police officers to save face and to keep crime statistics low.
A group of lemurs is called a conspiracy.
The US Navy owns over thirty killer dolphins. They are trained to hunt, and carry guns with toxic darts in them that are lethal enough to kill someone in one shot.
Prairie dogs say hello with kisses.
License plates in the Canadian Northwest territories are shaped like polar bears.
Coal power stations put out 100 times more radiation into the air than nuclear power plants producing the same amount of energy.
A group of owls is called a parliament.
Cats are one of the only animals that domesticate themselves and approach humans on their own terms.
The first ever ticket purchase to the first ever Comic Con in New York was by George RR Martin in 1964. He was the first of only thirty people there that day.
Depending on the species of sharks, they can either give birth to live young, or lay eggs.
If you wear headphones for an hour, it will increase the amount of bacteria you have in your ear by 700 times.
A group of parrots is called a pandemonium.
Doctors with messy handwriting kill more than 7,000 people and injures over a million people each year due to receiving the wrong medication.
The creator of Pringles, Fredric Baur, had his ashes stored in a Pringles can after he died.
Skittles and jelly beans contain insect cocoons which are used to coat candies to give them that special shine known as shellac.
Ben and Jerry's has a cemetery where they bury all their discontinued flavors.
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he isn’t wearing any pants.
In the novel Forrest Gump that the movie was based upon, Forrest goes into space with NASA but upon returning, he crash lands on an island full of cannibals and only manages to survive by beating the head cannibal every day at chess.
If your eye were a digital camera, it would have 576 megapixels in them.
Tourists throw over a million euros into the Trevi fountain in Rome each year. The city uses this money to fund a supermarket for the poor.
There is an insect called the “assassin bug” which wears its victims corpse as armor.
The word font only refers to things like italics, size, and boldness. The style of the lettering is called a “typeface.”
The original script of Lord of the Rings was one long saga, but was split into three books for the publishers to make more money.
In Churchill Manitoba, Canada, it's illegal to lock your car in case someone needs to hide from one of the 900 polar bears in the area.
Using a paper towel after washing your hands decrease bacteria by 40% while using an air dryer increases the bacteria by up to 220%, as bacteria grow quickly in warm and moist environments.
Before Nazis used the salute we now know as Hitler's salute, it was called the “Bellamy salute,” and was used by Americans to salute the flag until it was replaced in 1942 by the hand over heart salute.
Climonia is the excessive desire to stay in bed all day.
Over 90% of the Australian population live within fifty kilometers of its coastline.
The smallest cat in the world was a Himalayan persian cat named Tinkertoy. At seven years old she measured three inches (seven centimeters) tall and seven inches (nineteen centimeters) long.
The term for forgetting something after walking through a doorway is called an “event boundary.”
Tigers, jaguars and cheetahs are attracted to the cologne “Obsession” by Calvin Klein.
In 2012, a sixty-three year old man named Wallace Weatherhold from Florida had his hand bitten off by an alligator and he was charged with illegally feeding the animal.
In 1983, Marvel published a comic called “Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider Ham.” He was a spider pig named Peter Porker.
There's a movie from 2010 called “Rubber,” about a murderous car tire
named Robert that rolls around killing people and blowing things up.
On Good Friday in 1930, the BBC announced there is no news, followed by piano music.
Volvo invented the three point seat belt, but opened up the patent to any car manufacturer who wanted to use it, as they felt it had more value as a life saving tool than something to profit from.
The dot over the “j” or “i” is called a “tittle.”
Atelophobia is the fear of not being good enough or having imperfections.
The actor who plays Mr. Bean, Rowan Atkinson, once saved a plane from crashing after the pilot passed out, despite never having piloted a plane before.
When Charles Darwin first discovered the huge tortoises on the Galapagos Islands, he tried to ride them.
In the late 1990’s, there was a Russian TV show called “The Intercept,” where contestants had to steal a car. If they didn't get caught by police in thirty five minutes, they got to keep the car, otherwise they were arrested.
Turophobia is the fear of cheese.
It took a whole month for Erno Rubik, the inventor of the Rubik's cube, to solve his own creation.
