Interesting Facts For Curious Minds: 1572 Random But Mind-Blowing Facts About History, Science, Pop Culture And Everything In Between

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With random facts about everything from animals, space, geography, science, health, biology and much more, welcome to our odyssey of oddities. 71 of the best random fun facts If you have a twin brother or sister, there's a higher chance that one of you might be left-handed. You could sweat when you're anxious to alert others. One theory suggests we've evolved to sweat whilst anxious to alert the brains of other people around us so they are primed for whatever it is that's making us anxious. Brain scans have revealed that when you sniff the sweat of a panic-induced person, regions of the brain that handle emotional and social signals light up. When you're anxious your sympathetic nervous system releases hormones including adrenaline, which activates your sweat glands.

Then Interesting Facts For Curious 1572 Random But Mind Blowing Facts About History, Science, Pop Culture and Everything in Between is the book for you! Duke, a Great Pyrenees dog, held office in the village of Cormorant, Minnesota. He served four one-year terms – that's 28 years for a dog – after a fun community vote took a serious turn when the fluffy pooch-turned-politician became a viral sensation. 28. The abbreviation OMG was used over 100 years ago! When pineapples were first introduced to britain about 200 years ago, they were so rare and amazing that they became status symbols. Rich people would display pineapples on their mantelpieces until they went rotten, and even build houses shaped like pineapples! Would you build a house shaped like your favourite food? 59. Animals used to be put on trialThe world’s oldest dog lived to 29.5 years old. While the median age a dog reaches tends to be about 10-15 years, one Australian cattle dog, ‘Bluey’, survived to the ripe old age of 29.5. What is it? The go-to podcast to learn everything about spying on other people online, while avoiding to be spied on Left-handed people may use their brains in a special way. They sometimes share the work between both sides of their brain more evenly.

Earth’s poles are moving. This magnetic reversal of the North and South Pole has happened 171 times in the past 71 million years. We’re overdue a flip. It could come soon, as the North Pole is moving at around 55 kilometres per year, an increase over the 15km per year up until 1990. According to the Guinness World Records, a snowflake fell in Montana which measured 15 inches wide and 8 inches deep, like a big pile of ice cold pizzas! This happened in 1887, so there's a big chance it has melted by now. 7. Don't blow your nose in Japan! Football teams wearing red kits play better. The colour of your clothes can affect how you’re perceived by others and change how you feel. A review of football matches in the last 55 years, for example, showed that teams wearing a red kit consistently played better in home matches than teams in any other colour. It's almost impossible to get too much sugar from fresh fruit. While the sugar in fruit is mostly fructose and glucose (fructose is what's converted into fat in your body), you can't get too much sugar from fresh fruit. Fresh fruit contains a lot of fibre and water which slows down your digestion and makes you feel full. You don't like the sound of your own voice because of the bones in your head. This may be because the bones in our head make our voice sound deeper.

Bananas are radioactive. Due to being rich in potassium, every banana is actually slightly radioactive thanks to containing the natural isotope potassium-40. Interestingly, your body contains around 16mg of potassium-40, meaning you’re around 280 times more radioactive than a banana already. Any excess potassium-40 you gain from a banana is excreted out within a few hours. Comets smell like rotten eggs. A comet smells like rotten eggs, urine, burning matches, and… almonds. Traces of hydrogen sulphide, ammonia, sulphur dioxide, and hydrogen cyanide were all found in the makeup of the comet 67P/Churyumove-Gerasimenko. Promotional postcards were even commissioned in 2016 carrying the pungent scent of a comet.