Daily Random Facts

[DaveM]

You have a greater risk of mental illness if you’re highly intelligent. A survey of the top 2% of Mensa members showed that their rates of depression, bipolar disorder, and others were all higher than the national average. While intelligence doesn’t cause mental illness, scientists suspect that highly- active brains might also be highly sensitive....

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[Rocky]

Highly intelligent? Phew, that leaves me out

 

[CarlS]

Highly intelligent? Phew, that leaves me out

I am safe, too!

 

[DaveM]

A small branch of Germany’s government is still dedicated to hunting Nazis. Since 1958, employees of the Central Office for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes have been reviewing WWII paper- work to identify Nazis. They track down about 30 per year but will soon shut their doors, because the remaining suspects are either dead,...

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[DaveM]

If you’re creative, you might actually perceive the world differently. In a study that showed people a red dot in one eye and a green dot in the other, those who had traits associated with creativity merged the dots and saw a two-colored image. The remaining participants saw two individual dots, suggesting that the creative...

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[DaveM]

When Mark David Chapman murdered John Lennon in 1980, David Bowie was the next target on his hit list. Bowie, who was starring on Broadway at the time, said “Chapman had a front-row ticket to ‘The Elephant Man’ the next night. John and Yoko were supposed to sit front row for that show, too. So…...

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[DaveM]

The Poison Garden is a public garden full of deadly plants. When the Duchess of Northumberland took over the English garden in 1995, she wanted to fill it with something different that would interest children, who “don’t care that aspirin comes from a bark of a tree. What’s really interesting is to know how a...

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[DaveM]

Inspired by a similar plan in Canada, police in the UK gave out free lollipops at the door of a nightclub to reduce rowdiness after closing time. The idea was that drunken, late-night clubbers wouldn’t be inclined to shout or cause a disturbance while they were sucking on them. It worked. (Source)

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[DaveM]

Ravens are smart enough to play tricks on each other. If a raven knows it can be seen by other ravens, it sometimes pretends to stash its food in one place while secretly hiding it elsewhere so onlookers can’t steal it. This tactic doesn’t always work, however, because the ravens who were watching are often...

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[DaveM]

Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Silence of the Lambs, and American Horror Story all have characters that were based on serial killer Ed Gein, who was so devastated by his mother’s death that he began to make a ‘woman suit’ so he could “become her and literally crawl into her skin.” (Source)

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[DaveM]

There’s no such thing as a ‘sugar high.’ Research shows no evidence that sugar makes kids extra hyper- we’re just so conditioned to think it does that we often perceive ‘changes’ in a child’s behavior when we think they’ve eaten too much sugar, even if they haven’t actually had any at all. (Source, Source 2,...

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[Rocky]

Over the last number of years I've cut way back on sugar and salt and am a fanatical label reader when I shop.

 

[DaveM]

There’s a tiny little island in the Philippines called Vulcan Point. It sits in the middle of Main Crater Lake, which is located on Volcano Island, which is in the middle of Lake Taal, which is on the main Philippine island of Luzon – making it an island within a lake, within an island, within...

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[DaveM]

In Norway, people use the word ‘texas’ as slang for ‘crazy.’ It doesn’t refer to a person, but rather a chaotic atmosphere or state of mind- so saying a party ‘was totally crazy!’ in Norwegian would be ‘det var helt texas!,’ which literally means ‘it was totally texas!’ (Source, Source 2, Source 3)

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[DaveM]

When you’re thinking to yourself by silently talking or arguing in your head, it’s actually accompanied by tiny muscular movements in your larynx. So any time you’re mentally talking to yourself, your body is also physically talking a little bit without your knowing it. (Source, Source 2)

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[DaveM]

Sleeping with your bedroom door closed could help you survive a house fire. While open-door rooms can reach 1,000+ degrees Fahrenheit, having your door closed can keep the temperature in your room below 100, limit your carbon monoxide exposure, and reduce smoke inhalation. (Source, Source 2)

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[DaveM]

The first time “Google” was used as a verb on TV was on the show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In an episode from October of 2002, Willow asks Buffy “Have you Googled her yet?,” to which Xander replies “She’s 17!” – and Willow then has to clarify that Google is, in fact, a search engine....

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[DaveM]

The perfect length of time to be on vacation is 8 days. Your health and wellness levels rise rapidly while on vacation, but they peak on the 8th day and return to baseline within your first week back no matter how long you’re gone. Because lengthier vacations don’t seem to make a difference, experts say...

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[Rocky]

I did that for years; a week or ten days at a time.

 

[Greyfell]

When you take a week off, you have 5 days and 2 weekends (for those that work 5 days a week), so if you promptly start your vacation shortly after work, or the next morning, you get that 8th and 9th day.