- Studies show that sandwiches actually taste better when other people make them for you – when we make food ourselves, we get desensitised to the smell
- When people talk to themselves in the third person, they are able to better control their thoughts, feelings, and behaviour
- The Rubik’s Cube actually has 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possible configurations.
- Astronomers have discovered a planet which rains glass sideways, giving it a blue hue. Its named “HD189733b”
- Eating more carrots and tomatoes can give you a healthy looking tan.
- A sleeping human brain can still understand the words being spoken around it.
- The younger you are when you start drinking, the more likely you are to have a problem with alcohol.
- Tiger attacks are still a serious issue in India: the Sundarbans suffer between 30 and 100 attacks a year.
- Jellyfish have lived on this planet for more than 650 million years, long before the dinosaurs, making them the oldest multi-organ animal.
- The word “queue” is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
- The dates 4/4, 6/6, 10/10 and 12/12 all fall on the same day of the week every year. They’re called doomsdays.
Courtesy of interestingfacts.com