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12 Things You Didn’t know
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1. South Florida is the only place on Earth where 1. alligators and crocodiles coexist in the wild. 2. “The Dark Knight” (2008) was the first comic book movie to earn $1 billion worldwide.2. 3. The largest chocolate chip cookie ever made weighed over 40,000 pounds. 3. 4. Spiral staircases were placed in firehouses in 4. the 1800s to prevent the horses that pulled the engines from wandering up the stairs. 5. The average man spends seven hours a year 5. hiding in the bathroom for “peace and quiet,” according to a 2018 survey. 6. In the US, about 40% of college students drop 6. out, the top reason being money. 7. In 1993, “Tetris” became the first video game ever played in space.7. 8. Roughly 2% of people are considered “sleepless elite,” early-birds and night-owls that can run on 8. less than 5 hours of sleep without needing coffee or naps. 9. 9. When ”Jump Around” plays at the University of Wisconsin football games, the fan’s jumping registers on the Geology Department’s seismograph, located two miles away. 10. 10. If California were its own country, it would be the fifth richest country in the world. 11. 11. George Washington died in 1799 after doctors drained nearly 40% of his blood in an attempt to cure a sore throat. 12. 12. Texas is so large that El Paso (in the western corner of the state) is closer to San Diego, California, than it is to Houston, Texas.
1. Throughout his lifetime, 85-year-old philanthropist
Charles F. Feeney has given away $8 billion—he now has $2 million to live on. 2. New research has found that the more visually creative a person is, the lower the quality of their sleep. 3. Subscriptions to streaming music services increased by 50% in 2016, totaling 92 million.
According to an extensive study, the best day to buy 4. plane tickets is Sunday—especially if you’re booking more than 21 days in advance. 5. Studies show that, when it comes to food, the human brain is bad at judging quantity increases but accurate at judging quantity decreases. 6. A new U.S. study has found that economy round-trip and one-way airline tickets are the lowest they’ve been since 2013. 7. By 2050, it’s estimated that four trucks of plastic waste will be added to the ocean every minute.
Research shows that kids are more likely to be hon8. est when they know it will please their parents, even if their parents still punish them. 9. A recent study found that higher blood pressure in an expectant mother is associated with having a boy. 10. In 2015, Americans wrote out 17.3 billion checks. In the same year, they made 69.5 billion debit card purchases. 11. According to a survey, 67% of hiring managers cite lack of eye contact as the biggest mistake candidates make in interviews. 12. New research has found that the NFL players that incur the most penalties get arrested more than their teammates.
Ichiro Suzuki, baseball’s all-time hits leader, learned 1. Spanish just for the purpose of trash talking oppo nents. 2. The average American woman now weighs as much as the average 1960s man. 3. Research shows that the creativity may begin in the cerebellum, rather than the “right brain.”
Making art has been found to lower stress hormone 4. levels in most people, regardless of skill.
A U.S. study found that the most disproportionately common interest found on people’s resumes in New 5. Hampshire is “Bigfoot.”
The design of the tallest residential building in the world, 432 Park Avenue in Manhattan, was inspired 6. by a trash can.
On average, early risers writing emails between 4am 8. and 8am make 11.8 mistakes per 100 words.
A study found that only 24% of Canadians know that
Queen Elizabeth II is their head of state. 9. Research has found that, on average, a person’s social media writing contains three times as many 10. mistakes as their emails.
Amy Schumer is the only woman ever to land on
Forbes’s list of the world’s highest-paid comedians. 11.
According to USDA projections, by 2025 Americans 12. will consume 219 pounds of meat per year on average.feeling to occur.
1. The world’s first labor strike was held on the site of a pyramid.
The world’s oldest hotel has been operating since 705 2. AD in Japan.
The name tag on Heath Ledger’s nurse uniform in 3. “The Dark Knight” read “Mathilda” the name of the actor’s daughter. 4. One man, without help and without proper construction tools, spent 34 years building the Watts Towers, which still stand in Los Angeles. 5. Louisiana has the highest incarceration rate of any
U.S. state, and New Orleans has the highest incarceration rate of any city in the state. 6. Samsung has been granted a patent in South Korea for contact lenses that project images directly into the wearer’s eyes. 7. By 2017, it is estimated that nearly 207 billion emails will be sent every day. 8. Studies suggest that gifted people often have bad handwriting because their brains work faster than their hands. 9.
Cheetos are naturally gray before they are given a bright orange artificial color. 10.
Looking through Instagram accounts of healthy meals can actually trick you into enjoying those foods 11. more than you otherwise would, a study found.
Women are statistically better drivers then men. 12. It cost $15 million to build Disneyland’s New Orleans
Square—the amount the U.S. paid for the real New
Orleans in the Louisiana Purchase.
1. The sentence “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the
A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair. 5.
The shortest war in history was between
Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar 6. surrendered after 38 minutes.
A polar bear’s skin is black. Its fur is not 7. white, but actually clear.
Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland 8. because he doesn’t wear pants.
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes. 9. Shakespeare invented the words “assassination” and “bump.” 10.If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white. 11.The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with. 12.The word “lethologica” describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
