50 Interesting Facts You May Not Know

Life is all about recognizing how little you know. I wonder at people who learn something know and feel proud of their knowledge. Every new piece of learning indirectly teaches a subtle lesson that we don’t know, and can’t know everything. So, be humble when you’re blessed with a new lesson in life and take pride only when you’re generous enough to share it with as many as you can.

After this rather metaphysical prelude, let’s turn immediately to the little, yet very interesting facts that may surprise you. Here you go!

1. Barack Obama was a heavy pot smoker during his school days. His friends nicknamed him “Barack Oganja.”
2. A British graduate student, Caroline Tagg, has recently earned a PhD in text messaging for writing a voluminous thesis on text messages.
3. There are about 3 reported cases of dolphins raping humans every year.
4. Chocolate emits the same chemical in your body that love does - Penylethylamine.
5. Humor is associated with intelligence and honesty - This is why women tend to be more attracted to men with a sense of humor.
6. People with stronger friendships have the greater ability to communicate strictly through facial expressions.
7. Laziness and inactivity kills just as many people as smoking.
8. The feeling of loneliness is processed in the same part of the brain as physical pain.
9. 5% of the world’s population is daydreaming about sex at any given time.
10. You only have to earn $34000 to rank among the world's wealthiest 1%.
11. Ants go to war similar to humans - They use even more advanced strategies such as sending the weaker ants out to fight first.
12. In Malaysia, it’s legal to divorce your partner via text message.
13. Caffeine can cause you to be more open-minded to viewpoints that contradict your own.
14. When a pregnant woman suffers organ damage (ex: a heart attack), the fetus will send stem cells to repair the damaged organ.
15. The oldest fully preserved human body ever found actually has tattoos.
16. Elephants are the only other mammals (besides humans) to have chins.
17. Butterflies taste with their feet.
18. When Albert Einstein died, his brain was taken without his family's permission and was cut into 238 pieces.
19. The first man to survive going over Niagara Falls later died from slipping on an orange peel.
20. There are more stars in the sky than grains of sand on the earth.
21. 50% of giraffes are bisexual.
22. The Bible is the most-shoplifted book in the world.
23. Cats meow to communicate with humans, not with each other!
24. Our population grew by another 95 people since you started reading this line.
25. In 1979 a woman named Elvita Adams jumped from the 86th floor of the Empire State Building, only to be blown back onto the 85th floor.
26. People who are born blind, dream in terms of smell, touch, sounds and emotion.
27. A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep.
28. Jellyfish are considered biologically immortal. They never age and will never die unless they are killed.
29. There is a Museum of Broken Relationships in Croatia, exhibiting things like a bottle of breakup tears, a divorced bride’s wedding dress, and an axe used to hack an ex’s furniture apart.
30. Honey bees die after they sting people.
31. Writing down your worries just before taking an exam can boost your test score.
32. A group of female prostitutes in Nairobi have become resistant to AIDS.
33. A French chemist, Hervé This, unboiled an egg.
34. The human brain cell can hold 5 times as much information as the Encyclopedia Britannica.
35. The ancient Romans used urine as toothpaste, mouthwash and laundry detergent, the urine collection business was so lucrative that Emperors Nero and Vespasian imposed urine taxes.
36. Mosquitoes don’t just bite you. They pee on you after sucking your blood.
37. If your stomach didn’t produce a new layer of mucous every two weeks, it would digest itself.
38. Single women tend to be more attracted to men who are taken rather than those who are available.
39. Babies start dreaming even before they are born.
40. You cannot snore and dream at the same time.
41. Alcohol activates the part of one’s brain that deals with honesty.
42. “WAS IT A CAR OR A CAT I SAW?” is the only full English sentence which, when read in reverse, will be the same!
43. Rearranging the letters of Princess Diana gives:
    1. “Dies in car snap.”
    2. “Ascend in Paris.”
    3. “A car spin is end.”
44. The right ear is better at hearing speech, the left one at enjoying music.
45. People who laugh at your stupid jokes are more likely to like you and want to have sex with you.
46. Every human has a unique eye and tongue print, just like fingerprints.
47. Yawns are more contagious among people with closer relationships.
48. There’s a bridge in Scotland famous for canine suicides. Since 1950, over 50 dogs have leaped from Overtoun bridge and killed themselves.
49. Intelligent people are three times more likely to suffer from depression and anxiety.
50. Read is the most commonly colored vehicle involved in accidents each year.

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