Interesting things which we dont know

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma. Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television. The King of Hearts is the only king without a mustache. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin. Pearls melt in vinegar. It is possible to lead a cow upstairs… but, not downstairs.

Turtles can breathe through their butts. If you like this page, please share with a friend: Facebook. H February 1, , am. Previous Comments. In , Carl Mosca Dionisio strung together 18, latex condoms and used them to bungee jump from a foot tower. In , Beaver College changed its name to Arcadia in part because anti-porn filters blocked access to the school's website. The electronic game Simon, where players repeat the sequence of lit-up colored panels, debuted at Studio In , during the Eisenhower administration, the White House was wired to play Muzak.

Lyndon Johnson owned an Austin franchise earlier that decade. In the s, the British government launched a series of PSAs on the proper way to use a handkerchief. Kleenex was originally marketed not as a disposable hankie, but as a cold-cream remover.

Fredric Baur invented the Pringles can. When he died in , his ashes were buried in one. Nobel Prize winner Niels Bohr was given a perpetual supply of beer piped into his house. Thomas Edison convinced the printers of the first phone books to make it the sanctioned greeting. All the characters on The Simpsons have four-fingered hands with one exception: God. Meanwhile, the bridesmaid tradition started because people believed that dressing everyone up in the same clothing would confuse evil spirits.

If your eyeball grows too long, light is focused too soon before it hits the retina—so when it does hit the retina, the image is blurry. Your cerebellum—the area in the back of your brain that monitors movement—predicts the sensation you will feel when you attempt to tickle yourself, countering the response that the tickle would otherwise elicit in other parts of your brain. Two distinct parts of your brain are responsible for giving you that ticklish feeling: the somatosensory cortex and the anterior cingulate cortex, Sarah-Jayne Blakemore , a research fellow at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London, explained to Scientific American.

You probably shouldn't be swallowing these things, but you might be surprised to learn that your stomach could do some serious damage on razor blades if you did.

Researchers out of Meridia Huron Hospital tested the effects of gastric juice on metal objects and found that over 24 hours, the stomach acid reduced razor blades to 63 percent of their original weight pennies and batteries, however, were barely affected.

Among the plethora of things you didn't know about your body: your small intestine is about 18 to 23 feet long, meaning that, if you uncoiled it, it would stretch to almost four times your height.

We've all felt that "butterflies in the stomach" sensation say, before a first date or major presentation. There's good reason for this: there's a network of neurons that lines the gut, which some scientists have taken to referring to as our " second brain. So, yeah, trust your gut. Next time you're in a meeting or having a quiet conversation and your stomach makes an embarrassing rumbling sound, you can blame it on borborygmus , according to the International Foundation for Gastrointestinal Disorders.

That's the technical term for the gurgling sound that results from fluid and gas moving around in the intestines. You may think you're safe when the guy all the way across the subway car sneezes, but you may be in the line of fire without even realizing it. A video study conducted by researchers at MIT found that sneezes travel much farther than previously believed— as far as 20 feet.

To be clear: you don't want to eat earwax! But that annoying stuff you're using Q-tips to remove serves the important purpose of lubricating, cleaning, and protecting your ears from infection. It's as much as 50 percent fat, coating the ear and catching dust and debris— keeping your ears healthy , even if it looks gross.

Wine may taste better as it ages, but as we age, it's harder for us to appreciate it. Just as hearing and vision tend to deplete as the years go by, your sense of taste does the same. As you get older, your taste buds regenerate more slowly after injury or if you take certain medications.

And bad news for the ladies: Women generally experience a decrease in their taste sensitivity beginning in their 50s, while men don't experience that until their 60s. Just as your fingerprint is uniquely yours, so too is your tongue print , according to a study by the Thai Moogambigai Dental College.

Biometric scans can be done to compare the individual shape long or short, wide or narrow and texture ridges, wrinkles, and marks , with specific details tracked and mapped by a "tongue image-acquiring device.

The liver is resilient. Even if reduced by as much as 75 percent, it can grow back to normal size. This happens through the rapid replication of liver cells , with the thing reaching its original size or very close to it within about a month, according to the University of Iowa. While many animals produce tears as lubricants for their eyes, humans are the only ones who cry as an emotional response.

Thomas Dixon , PhD, director of the Centre for the History of Emotions at Queen Mary, University of London, suggested that tears serve a social purpose for humans and that, "Even for those who think they really are just weeping for nobody apart from themselves, it's still a sort of performance. It turns out the universe is, on average, kind of beige. They named the color "cosmic latte. They also have a higher tolerance for pain than men do, according to Time.

Use Amazon Smile instead of plain old Amazon, and Amazon will donate 0. Many phones, including iPhones, track your location and attach that information to every picture you take by default. You can turn it off in your settings , but that doesn't remove the information from pictures you've already taken. You don't have to cast your vote before the polls close. As long as you're in line , you're legally allowed to vote. Don't have any close friends who feel like good choices to inherit your fortune?

Not a problem. Your pets can be listed as the beneficiaries of your will. Water will make a grease fire much, much worse. Instead, starve the fire of oxygen by completely covering it and removing it from heat, if possible. Baking soda will also help put out a grease fire, as will a class B fire extinguisher. Most modern microwaves come with a mute option.

Sometimes it's as easy as finding the button that has "mute" written on it in small letters and holding that down for a while. Otherwise, check your owner's manual and exponentially improve your quality of life. If you stop taking antibiotics before you're supposed to, any bacteria that didn't get killed can develop an immunity to that antibiotic and become a super-strain that's much more difficult to kill in the future.

So keep taking your pills, even if you feel better. Go to your house, click on it, and then click " report a problem " at the bottom of the screen. You can also do this for your face or your car. Instead of accidentally getting duped into a membership to a service you don't want, simply cancel during the free trial period.

With most free trials, you can cancel immediately after you sign up and still enjoy the entire trial period.

In the United States, it's customary to stand right and walk left on stairs and escalators, even if it's not posted anywhere. There are perforated spots on either side of a box of aluminum foil or plastic wrap.

Punch those tabs in, and they hold the foil or wrap in place, and you never have to deal with accidentally flinging a roll across the kitchen ever again. Air is actually 78 percent nitrogen. An over abundance of oxygen can actually make you feel kind of high.

That's why oxygen bars started to become a thing for a bit in the late '90s and early '00s. All Rights Reserved. Open side menu button. From practical tips to amazing facts, these are the things everyone should know—including you.