1. Most Japanese schools do not employ janitors or custodians. It is expected that people clean up after themselves. This supposedly teaches respect, responsibility, and emphasizes equality.
2. Perfectionists are more likely to have suicidal thoughts because of the social pressure they feel.
3. April 11 1954 is known as the most boring day in modern history. Nothing memorable or anything of importance happened.
4. Tigers that come across each other while hunting will share their meals. Males also wait for the female and cubs to eat.
Bonus Fact: The lion is basically a polar opposite of the tiger, if lions come across each other during hunting, they will fight to the death.
5. Women tend to do slightly better then men in academics.
Bonus Fact: Despite there being very few women in engineering, science, or math careers, they also tend to do better in these classes.
6. Watermelon contains a chemical called B6, which helps relieve stress and anxiety.
7. If anyone was found brewing bad beer in ancient Babylonia was punished in two ways : drowning in their own beer or drinking their beer until they die.
8. In the top 5 things that people wish they did before they died, people wished they worked less and had more family time.
9. Children with autism can benefit from video games because it shows them self control, self awareness, and flexibility.
10. There is a tradition that a traffic cone must be put upon the Duke of Wellington's head. It costs the government about 10,000 euros each year to keep the cone on his head.
11. The longest word that can be spelled in English without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
12. Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building, it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that
falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors
for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.
13. There is a man named Kim Ung-Yong who began doing calculus problems at age 4 and mastered it by the grand old age of 7. He began teaching calculus to high school students when he was eight years old.
14. There are 500 different ways to cook a potato.
15. Two thirds of the human population doesn't know what their strengths are and do not know what they are good at.
16. Research has shown that singing is not a gift given at birth, but a skill that can be taught and learned. Nearly everyone has the potential to sing well.
17. Tokyo's Keikyu Aburastubo Marine Park lets visitors hold hands with the otters.
18. In March of 2015, a Georgia teen was fined for stealing a goat. The man later confessed that his intention was asking a girl if she wanted to "goat" prom with him.
19. Psychopaths are only capable of perceiving positive consequences for their actions. This means most psychopaths aren't capable of perceiving the negative consequences.
20. A research paper from 2013 concluded that Harry Potter fans tend to be more open to diversity, more politically tolerant, less authoritarian, (favoring or enforcing strict obedience to authority[simply put, they are more likely to question authority]) and less likely to support the use of deadly force or torture devices.
#15 is me, heh.
ReplyDeleteLoving that last fact! I feel that I can comfortably identify with it. :)
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