Facts about you

• Your brain has the potential to remember everything you have ever experienced, read, heard and seen. The only problem is you can't recall it, but it's all in there somewhere.
• Your body is constantly replacing cells, so much so in fact, you have a completely different body than you did seven years ago.
• The amount of information your brain can hold is believed to be up to 1000 terabytes. The IBM supercomputer Watson, the one Jeopardy! contestants competed against earlier in the year has 16 terabytes of RAM (what a dumbass ).
• With the sperm in your testicles right now (guys), you could repopulate Dallas, and it would take you 6 months to repopulate the entire planet.
• Everyone in your dreams you have seen while awake at some point in your life.
• In your lifetime you will eat about 50 tons of food (You fat bastard!).
• To exercise your legs the same amount of exercise your eyes get, you would need to walk 50 miles a day, every day.
• In the next four years you will shed your body weight in dead skin.
• Your hair grows about 12 mm a month.
• You constantly sweat (about two pints a day).
• Pound for pound, when you were a baby you were stronger than an ox.
• You react at speeds of 170 mph.
• Aside from burning, your hair is so non-disintegrative it's basically indestructible.
• 25,000,000 cells of you died while you read this sentence (but your body made 300 billion more of 'em today so don't worry)
• You were one cell for half an hour.

10 Cool Science Facts

Fact 1: It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
Fact 2: Back in 1919, the Russian transplant pioneer Serge Voronoff made headlines by grafting monkey testicles onto human males.
Fact 3: Natural gas does not have any odor. In order to detect a gas leak, some gas companies add a chemical that smells similar like rotten eggs.
Fact 4: A galactic year is 250 million Earth-years. This is the time it takes for our solar system to make one revolution around the Milky Way Galaxy.
Fact 5: The Hubble telescope is so powerful that it is like pointing a beam of light at a dime that is two hundred miles away.
Fact 6: There are mirrors on the moon. Astronauts left them so that laser beams could be bounced off of them from Earth. These beams help give us the distance to the moon give or take a few metres.
Fact 7: The longest recorded duration of a total solar eclipse was 7.5 minutes.
Fact 8:The Central African raffia palm is known to have the longest leaves. The leaves can measure up to 82.5 feet long.
Fact 9: Just by recycling one aluminum can, enough energy would be saved to have a TV run for three hours.
Fact 10: A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy.

9 Brain Habits You Didn't Realize You Had

Brain is certainly the most amazing part of human body. It becomes more interesting when it does not work the way you expect it should. Psychology frequently establishes our intuitions about how human mind works, but it reveals a number of surprises as well…

1) The maximum capacity of your short-term memory is seven.

Humans have basically three forms of memory: Sensory, Long-term and Short-term. Long-term memory is just like hard-drive space. Similarly, Short-term memory functions like a very small RAM. This Short-term memory is capable to hold only about five to nine (seven is an average) items at a time.

Retrieving information longer than this will need you to either pack it together into seven units or store it in Long-term memory. Have you observed that the most phone numbers have only seven digits?

2) The most visible color is Chartreuse.

Yellowish green, chartreuse, is naturally placed right in the middle of the frequencies of visible light. Human eyes have receptors for green, blue and red colors. Being placed in the middle, chartreuse actuates the most of these receptors to fire, making it distinct and easier to spot. For the same reason, in some metropolises, firetrucks have been modified from red to a yellowish green color to make them more visible and obvious to the eye.

3) Subconscious is smarter than you.

Subconscious is smarter than you. In other words, it is more powerful. In a recent study, a square was attributed to a location on a computer screen through a complex pattern. After watching it out, people began to get results better than the chance of recognizing where the square would crop up next. However, when they were inquired to consciously find out the pattern, even given a few hours, nobody really did it!

4) There are two nervous systems.

We have two sets of nervous systems. One controls excitation, while the other controls inhibition. If you hold out your hand, you might observe minor tremors. This is actually stimulated by slight, random differences in the amount each of the two systems are firing.

5) Brain is exceptionally bad at probability.

Your high-school math teacher might have told you about this one. Here what’s interesting isn’t that your brain is bad at probability. But how? In one study, recipients were asked:

Jessica is 31 years old, single, candid, and very promising. She graduated in philosophy. As a student, she was anxious about discrimination issues and social justice, and also took part in anti-nuclear demonstrations.

Assign a rank to the following statements from most probable to least probable: Jessica is a teacher in an elementary school.

1. Jessica works in a bookstore and takes Yoga classes.
2. Jessica is active in the feminist movement.
3. Jessica is a psychiatric social worker.
4. Jessica is a member of the League of Women Voters.
5. Jessica is a bank teller.
6. Jessica is an insurance salesperson.
7. Jessica is a bank teller and is active in the feminist movement.

Nearly 90% of students responded that #7 was more probable than #5. This is despite the fact that to be a bank teller and in the feminist movement is entirely contained within the set of #5 (just being a bank teller). It is observable that our minds like to think more details make events more probable, not less.

6) Memory isn’t great either.

Research has revealed that people are highly probable to misremember past events. Even worse, it is quite easy to suggest a memory that never happened. Due to this fact, so-called “repressed” memories should be given a lot of consideration. It is extremely easier to suggest a memory of a situation that never encountered, then it is to recover one that actually did.

7) Depth is perceivable with one eye.

It’s not quite true that depth perception is totally the result of having two eyes. Binocular vision does help in making a three-dimensional image. Still, most of your capability to perceive depth comes from inside your brain. It has been wired to look at angles and proportions to measure distance.

If you needed two eyes to perceive depth, then most optical illusions wouldn’t work and it would be extremely difficult to gather information from two-dimensional images. Not to mention a great number of one-eyed pirates walking overboard.

8 ) Long-term memory closes up during sleep.

The components of the brain that carry information to Long-term memory turn off while sleeping. For the same reason, dreams quickly fade out after you wake up. Although you may have quite a few dreams in a night, they aren’t being memorialized into Long-term memory. Normally only the fragments of a dream left in Short-term memory have a possibility to be converted after you wake up.

9) The Brain has an amazing instant playback feature.

The last form of memory, i.e. Sensory memory is actually your brain’s equivalent to an instant playback feature. Functioning for both your vision and hearing, your thalamus can resend signals a few seconds after they were originally sent.

Let’s suppose being at a party and overhearing someone call your name. Often you can recall what they said even if you were concentrating on another conversation. This is because your sensory memory re-sends the signals when it feels something important, such as your name. If you missed this form of memory, activities such as multitasking or taking notes from a speaker would not be practicable for you.

If you’re supposed to repeat something you just said because the other person wasn’t hearing, just wait for a few seconds. Often they can replay the message in their head and cause to a reaction.

Cool Facts You Didn’t Know

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is“screeched”.

“Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters“mt”.

Almonds are members of the peach family.

The symbol on the “pound” key (#) is called an octothorpe.

The dot over the letter ‘i’ is called a tittle.

Ingrown toenails are hereditary.

The longest word in the English language, according to theOxford English Dictionary,is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

Alfred Hitchcock didn’t have a belly button.It was eliminatedwhen he was sewn up after surgery.

Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays.

Donald Duck’s middle name is Fauntleroy.

Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.

Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on theAustralian coat of arms for that reason.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only haveabout ten.

The word “Checkmate” in chess comes from the Persian phrase“Shah Mat,” which means “the king is dead”.

"Unknown" Facts

There are some facts you might not know.

• A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
  
• Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
  
• The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
  
• A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
  
• A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate. I know some people like that!
  
• A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
  
• A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2 by 3-1/2.
  
• During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur," a small red car can be seen in the distance.
  
• On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily! That explains it!
  
• Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
  
• Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
  
• The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
  
• There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.
  
• The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan." There was never a recorded Wendy before.
  
• The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
  
• If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
  
• Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves.
  
• The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
  
• The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
  
• The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
  
• The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
  
• Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.
  
• By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
  
• Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
  
• Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
  
• Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
  
• Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Elementary, my dear Watson."
  
• An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.
  
• The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
  
• The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
  
• Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them. Not to mention the other drawback.
  
• Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.