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About ½ of your friends probably don’t think of you as their friend.
Climbing the social ladder causes a lot of one-sided friendships because those lower on the ladder often claim to be friends with people who are higher up, while those at the top are more selective about who they consider being in their circle. Basically, no matter where you land on the ladder, you have more fake friendships than you think you do. ' https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/79698/study-half-your-friends-dont-consider-you-their-friend |
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Santa Claus has his own personal hotline. Calling 951-262-3062 takes you straight to Santa’s voicemail, where he says he’s busy building toys, remind kids that their families love them very much, tells them to be good and listen to their parents, and asks them to leave a message with their Christmas wishes.
. https://www.simplemost.com/santa-claus-phone-number-call/ |
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When you have a strong feeling that someone is watching you, they most likely are.
Developed long ago as a primal survival skill, your brain has a ‘gaze detection’ system that fires an alert whenever it notices someone is staring directly at you or looking a few degrees to your side - so suddenly getting that ‘eerie feeling’ of being watched could in fact be a signal that your subconscious has just caught someone staring you down. . https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11322803 |
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People are helping premature babies by crocheting tiny octopuses. The tentacles are thought to mimic the feel of an umbilical cord, and babies who cuddle an octo are less likely to pull out their monitors and tubes.
When hospitals that participate in the Octo Project noted an increase in the overall health of their preemies, volunteers around the world began flooding them with donations. . https://www.poole.nhs.uk/about-us/latest-news/2016-news/tentacles-for-tinies.aspx |
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U.S. college textbook prices have risen more than 1,000% since 1977. Because college students are forced to purchase every book their professors choose, they are considered ‘captive customers’. Due to a student’s obligation to buy these books no matter what they cost, prices have increased at 3x the rate of inflation.
. https://www.ibtimes.com/college-textbook-prices-have-risen-over-1000-1971-2037875 |
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The website weirdorconfusing.com consists of nothing but a button that takes you to a random listing for some completely nonsensical product, like canned unicorn meat, a calendar of dogs pooping, a Nicolas Cage pillow, a yodelling pickle, or a tiny Madonna costume for your dog.
. https://weirdorconfusing.com/ |
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The human sigh acts as a reset button.
. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/feb/08/a-sighs-not-just-a-sigh-its-a-fundamental-life-sustaining-reflex |
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The founder of Little Caesar's pizza paid Rosa Parks’ rent for over 10 years. When Mike Ilitch learned the 81-year-old civil rights activist had been robbed and beaten in her Detroit home in 1994, he wanted to move her to a safer apartment- so he established a trust to cover the housing expenses and continued paying her rent every single month until she died in 2005.
. https://qz.com/912541/mike-ilitch-owner-of-little-caesars-and-the-detroit-tigers-paid-rosa-parks-apartment-rent-for-11-years/ |
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One of the best ways to remember something is to tell someone about it.
When you immediately relay what you’ve learned to somebody else, you’re more likely to remember the details longer than if you just keep re-reading them. This is because your brain assumes that any information you’ve told to another person must be pretty important, and when it’s categorizing memories, the ones flagged ‘most important’ are kept in a more readily-accessible place. . https://www.spring.org.uk/2017/01/remember-more.php |
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Medieval castle stairs were often built to ascend in narrow, clockwise spirals so right-handed castle defenders could use their swords more easily. This design put those on the way up at a disadvantage (unless they were left-handed). The steps were also uneven to give defenders the advantage of anticipating each step’s size while attackers tripped over them.
. https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/08/03/the-secrets-of-medieval-castles-stairs-are-built-in-a-clockwise-fashion-for-a-very-good-reason/2 |
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Cinnamon is tree bark. To make it, the inner layer of bark from a variety of evergreen trees is shaved off and dried, causing it to curl up into quills. After that, it’s either cut into sticks or crushed and made into a spice powder.
. https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/cinnamon-comes-from_n_4963435 |
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There are currently 78 people named S. Claus
living in the U.S. -- and one Kriss Kringle. (You gotta wonder about that one kid's parents) December is the most popular month for nose jobs. Weight of Santa's sleigh loaded with one Beanie Baby for every kid on earth: 333,333 tons. Number of reindeer required to pull a 333,333-ton s sleigh: 214,206 -- plus Rudolph. Average wage of a mall Santa: $11 an hour. With real beard: $20. To deliver his gifts in one night, Santa would have to make 822.6 visits per second, sleighing at 3,000 times the speed of sound. At that speed, Santa and his reindeer would burst into flame instantaneously. |
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Medieval English longbows could fire an arrow further than 300 yards - which is almost the distance of 3 football fields. So much strength was required to operate them that ancient skeletons can be identified as longbow archers due to their enlarged left arms.
. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_longbow |
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There’s an adorable breed of pigs called Mangalitsa that is covered in a woolly coat of super curly hair. If you treat these ‘sheep pigs’ nicely, they will follow you, play with you, and become “as tame as a dog”.
. https://www.wideopenpets.com/meet-mangalitsa-sheep-pig-acts-like-dog/ |
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In 1897, Indiana almost passed a bill to change the value of pi. An amateur mathematician decided he had proof that pi was not 3.14, but actually 3.2, so he convinced the state to take on the bill. It passed the House unanimously, made it through a Senate committee, and likely would’ve been approved if a professor from Purdue hadn’t been in town. After hearing the news, he went to the statehouse, watched the debate, decided to intervene, and eventually convinced the Senate that the theory was nonsense.
. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/30214/new-math-time-indiana-tried-change-pi-32 |
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Twinstrangers.com is a website where you can try to find your lookalikes from anywhere in the world by uploading photos of yourself, selecting your facial features, and sorting through matches.
. https://twinstrangers.net/ |
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Dutch trains now run entirely on wind energy. The wind powers 5,500 trips per day, enabling 600,000 daily train passengers to commute without any emissions. Over the course of an hour, a single windmill can power a train for 120 miles.
. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/90795/trains-netherlands-now-run-entirely-wind-energy |
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Nikola Tesla had such severe OCD that he rarely slept, was an extreme germaphobe, hated round objects, refused to touch hair, was fixated on doing things in sets of 3, had to have 18 napkins on his table during meals, counted his steps wherever he walked and had a “violent aversion against the earrings of women.” He also died a virgin (probably) and fell in love with a pigeon.
. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-rise-and-fall-of-nikola-tesla-and-his-tower-11074324/ |
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If you pretend to understand your baby, they might start talking sooner. Studies show infants whose parents respond to them in conversational patterns have better language skills and more vocalization during their toddler years- because if they can understand early on that speech elicits a reaction, they are more likely to use words to get what they want.
. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/08/pretending-to-understand-what-babies-say-can-make-them-smarter/379324/ |
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Mark Hughes once played for Wales and Bayern Munich in the same day
Hughes had just signed for Bayern and was due to play for Wales against Czechoslovakia in Prague in a Euro ’88 qualifier. “I had dinner with Uli Hoeness who asked me what time the Wales match was,” he said. “I told him it was around midday and he said: ‘That’s OK then, you can play in the evening as well.'” Hoeness watched the game and then flew him to the Bayern game on the other side of the Czech border where Borussia Monchengladbach were the opponents. “We actually flew over the ground and missed the first half, but I got there at the start of the second half.” Bayern won. |
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To allow for more commercials, ABC cut scenes from ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ …the 1965 holiday TV special about the overcommercialization of Christmas.
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KFC is such a popular Christmas meal in Japan that orders sometimes have to be placed 2 months in advance.
. https://abcnews.go.com/Business/World/move-santa-claus-kfcs-colonel-sanders-signals-christmas/story?id=12437818#.TzXhPYHppAk2 |
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Traditional nativity scenes in Catalonia sometimes include a figure of a guy pooping. He’s called the Caganer, which literally means ‘crapper’ in Catalan. He’s been around since at least the 18th century, and he’s usually hiding in the corner with his pants pulled down.
. https://www.ranker.com/list/what-is-in-a-catalonian-nativity/melissa-sartore |
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Twice as many soldiers died from disease than battle injuries during the American Civil War. Dysentery and chronic diarrhoea were so prevalent that there was an honour code among soldiers – you couldn’t shoot a man while he was pooping.
. https://academic.oup.com/jhmas/article-abstract/47/1/49/770426 |
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Lewis and Clark brought mercury chloride, a strong laxative, with them on their expedition across the US. Because the mercury it contains passes right through the system, archaeologists have been able to find their trail by locating what’s left of their makeshift latrines and testing the mercury content. More than 100 years later, their footpaths are overgrown, but their poop remains.
. https://io9.gizmodo.com/archaeologists-tracked-lewis-and-clark-by-following-the-1727887223 |
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Bill Murray once took a cab and found out the driver, who played the saxophone, never got to practice his instrument because he worked 14-hour days. Murray forced him to pull over, traded places with him, and drove the cab around while the cabbie played his sax in the back seat.
BM: “I said, ‘When do you practice?’” Cabbie: “I drive 14 hours a day.” BM: “Well, where’s your sax?” Cabbie: “In the trunk.” BM: “Pull over and get in the back, I know how to drive a car. ” “Not only did he play all the way to Sausalito, which is a long way, we stopped and got barbecue. He [wound up] playing in what some would call a sketchy, weird place in Oakland at 2:15 in the morning. I was like, ‘Relax, man, you’ve got the [bleeping] horn! We’re cool!’ And it was great and it made for a beautiful night!” . https://pagesix.com/2014/09/05/bill-murray-drove-a-taxi-while-the-cabbie-played-his-sax-in-the-back/ |
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George R.R Martin was the first person ever to buy a ticket to Comicon. In 1964, the future Game of Thrones author attended the world’s first Comicon, and he also bought the very first ticket - making him the very first person to ever pay admission for a comic convention.
. https://www.businessinsider.com/george-rr-martin-cant-attend-comic-con-in-the-same-way-anymore-2015-10?r=US&IR=T |
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If you have a bottle of champagne that has recently gone flat, drop a raisin in it. The carbon dioxide left in the bottle will cling to all the grooves in the raisin and release back into the liquid, making it bubbly again.
. https://www.today.com/video/can-a-raisin-make-flat-champagne-bubbly-again-1122447939825?v=raila& |
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Greyhounds are universal blood donors. Most greyhounds have a blood type that can be given to almost any other breed of dog on the planet.
. http://www.nbcnews.com/id/22611158/ns/us_news-giving/t/racing-dogs-land-nd-careers-blood-donors/#.Xgx9TEf7Tcv |
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Half the atoms in our galaxy– including the atoms in your body – likely came from outside the Milky Way.
Basically, according to research, parts of you came from across the universe. . https://www.newscientist.com/article/2141950-half-the-atoms-inside-your-body-came-from-across-the-universe/ |
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and the half come from witherspoons
all the best for 2020 bigmo |
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*other half... edit
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Thanks Escapee. And you.
In 1926, Poland sent the US a birthday card with over 5 million signatures. Polish citizen Leopold Kotnowski visited the White House to present the card for America’s 150th birthday. It has 30,000 pages full of art, photos, poems and pressed flowers. Volumes 14-110 were digitized by the Library of Congress, and some are available online. . https://www.loc.gov/collections/polish-declarations/about-this-collection/ |
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In your lifetime, your heart will beat over 2.5 billion times and pump about 1 million barrels of blood - which circulates through your body 3 times a minute and travels 12,000 miles (the equivalent of 4 trips across the US) in a single day.
. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/heart/heartfacts.html |
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In 1998, Bill Morgan died, came back to life, and won the lottery twice. A car wreck had left him clinically dead for 14 minutes before he was revived into a 12- day coma. Within a year, he recovered, got engaged, and won a $17k car on a scratch card.
When he was interviewed by a news station, they gave him a new scratch card, asked him to re-enact how he won the car, and he ended up winning $250k right then, live and on camera. . http://lotto.co.uk/news/lottery-latest/classic-lottery-winners-the-extraordinary-story-of-bill-morgan/801800816 |
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Neurotic people live longer.
Studies show those who are often stressed, get irritated easily, and worry about things tend to have longer life spans than people who are more laid back. . https://edition.cnn.com/2017/08/10/health/neurotics-live-longer-partner/index.html |
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Ablutophobia- Fear of washing or bathing.
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Chaetophobia- Fear of hair.
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Studies show those who are often stressed, get irritated easily, and worry about things tend to have longer life spans than people who are more laid back.
ffs looks like I'll be living to 120 then bigmo   |
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Blimey Hank, if that really is the case then I'll do well to last out until my Summer holiday in Portugal!
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