Daily Random Facts

[DaveM]

People who find it easy to keep time musically are more likely to have a high IQ. Even if you’re not a ‘musical person’, if you can accurately tap out a beat, you’re probably more intelligent than someone who can’t. (Source, Source 2)

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Would this count as I can do it


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbflttfKc9U

 

[Rocky]

I was able to keep up too

 

[CarlS]

I struggled; but I could do it, too!

 

[DaveM]

Whitetip reef sharks sleep in cuddly piles, just like kittens or puppies. Although sharks don’t enter a fully- unconscious state of sleep like mammals do, they like to snuggle while switching between states of wakefulness and restfulness. (Source, Source 2)

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[Twin Pots]

A Texas man went to the ER with a blood alcohol level of 0.37, but swore he hadn’t been drinking. For years, people thought he was a “closet drinker” because he often became randomly drunk and claimed he didn’t know why. Doctors found that he had auto-brewery syndrome, a condition which caused intoxicating fermentation inside...

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Now that's a doctors note worth carrying! No Officer, I have not been drinking and driving.
That must be why its called Auto-brewery syndrome.

 

[DaveM]

A hummingbird’s tongue is so long that it curls up into its skull and around its eyes when not in use. (Source, Source 2, Source 3)

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[Rocky]

I think my mother-in-law had a tongue like that

 

[DaveM]

Incompetent people are often so incompetent, they don’t even realize their own incompetence. According to the Dunning-Kruger effect, people who are ignorant or unskilled in any area are too inept to notice, so they end up thinking they’re far more competent than they actually are. (Source, Source 2, Source 3)

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[DaveM]

Incompetent people are often so incompetent, they don’t even realize their own incompetence. According to the Dunning-Kruger effect, people who are ignorant or unskilled in any area are too inept to notice, so they end up thinking they’re far more competent than they actually are. (Source, Source 2, Source 3)

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This one I can well believe.

 

[DaveM]

By the time you turn 5, you have already developed a sense of self-esteem as strong as an adult’s. Because self-image plays a critical role in how children form social identities, this suggests that a child’s first 5 years are an extremely important foundation for life. (Source, Source 2)

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[DaveM]

Alice Lee Roosevelt Longworth, daughter of Theodore Roosevelt, was known for smoking in public, swearing at officials, riding in cars with men, late-night partying, and owning a pet snake during an era where women were expected to conform. When an offended dignitary asked the president if he could control his daughter, he replied, “I can...

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[Rocky]

good answer

 

[DaveM]

If you’re a woman, the scent of your husband or boyfriend can help lower your stress levels. (Source, Source 2)

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[CarlS]

On the other hand, it raise the stress levels!

 

[Rocky]

Is that before or after a shower

 

[DaveM]

There are tea bags shaped like little goldfish that swim around in your mug. (Source)

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[DaveM]

There are tea bags shaped like little goldfish that swim around in your mug. (Source)

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I have just one question

WHY


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ8ySN0yyz8

 

[CarlS]

What next?!

 

[Rocky]

can't wait to get some of those.

 

[DaveM]

Christina of Sweden was a 17th-century monarch who ruled as a king. Born covered in hair, she had a cry so deep that everyone thought she was a boy. Happy to learn she was a girl, her father decreed she would have the education of a prince and made her his heir. She inherited the...

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