Reading Time: 2 minutes Did you know that there’s a difference when it comes to the male versus female heart rate? At first glance many people would think that this is absolute rubbish, why would the hearts beat at different rates? Men and women aren’t that different are they? Well apart from the obvious differences, not really. But there …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Do you like being tickled or hate it? Many young children love the sensation of laughing uncontrollably, but many adults hate the feeling altogether. Maybe it’s a feeling of not being n control of the situation, or maybe it’s the result of an evolutionary response. In any event though, when you are laughing while being tickled it …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Believe it or not but police in the northern Madhya Pradesh state of India actually get paid an allowance for growing a moustache. Such an allowance may seem bizarre to many, especially from modern western cultures, but there was some logic behind the decision. Moustaches are one of those things that come and go with fads. …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Oh, the question that needs urgent answering. Where does belly button fluff come from? You know the stuff. Naval fluff, belly button lint, naval lint. The fabric fluffy material that you discover inside your belly button. At first thought most people would say it all comes from our clothing and traveled down due to gravity. But this …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Why does chewing foil hurt? Specifically, why does chewing, or biting down on aluminum foil hurt? Surprisingly, the pain caused by chewing or biting down on aluminum foil is caused by an electric shock. It’s weird, I know, but it does make perfect sense. We have all been there and felt the pain. Just as …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Do you know how strong stomach acid is? This will blow you away. Have you ever suffered from acid reflux? As my wife so eloquently puts it, it’s a bitch. It burns and causes a great deal of discomfort. If left untreated for extended periods of time it can cause significant health issues, even lesions …
Reading Time: 2 minutes In one of the coolest recent discoveries about the human body, you have taste buds in your lungs. But before you reach for an expensive cigar to test this out, there are a few significant differences between the taste buds in the lungs compared to the ones on your tongue. Not only that, but they may …
Reading Time: 2 minutes The most babies born to one mother belongs to a woman from Russia during the 18th century. During her life she gave birth to what can be best described as a nerve wracking 69 babies, and nearly all of them survived. Today families usually restrict the number of children to between two or three on average. …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Have you ever seen a cage looking device over a grave? In very old cemeteries around the world you may see these hard prisons placed over grave sites. So, is a mortsafe for zombies, or a zombie apocalypse? Not at all. A mortsafe was a contraption developed at the beginning of the 19th century to …
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Reading Time: 6 minutes Remember them or not, dreams are a part of our lives. Some of them are so vividly memorable we just want to experience them over and over again, but some can be, well, embarrassing. So we thought it would be great to look at some dream facts and see what we could uncover. And here …
