Top 15 Facts About Human Mind

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1. 94 per cent of professors at a large university believe that they are better than the average professor.

2. Obesity is contagious; you’re more likely to be overweight if you have a lot of overweight friends.

3. On average, those who eat with one other person eat about 35 per cent more than they do when they are alone; members of a group of four eat about 75 per cent more; those in groups of seven or more eat 96 per cent more.

4. If you ask someone to draw a glass, for the most part they will draw it from the angle demonstrated to the left. But what is to stop them from simply drawing a circle? This would be a valid overhead view. The reason is that our brains, when left to their own devices, imagine objects in this format.

5. Because we experience our memories as mini “movies” that play in our heads we tend think that our memories are stored away as complete little files much the same as a video on your computer’s hard drive. This, however, is not the case. Every time you think back to your third grade classroom that memory is reconstructed by your mind. This leads to the obvious conclusion that no two recollections are ever the same. In fact, our memories change over time and can influence one another.

6. Attempts to understand the mind go back at least to the ancient Greeks. Plato, for example, believed that the mind acquired knowledge through virtue, independently of sense experience. Descartes and Leibniz also believed the mind gained knowledge through thinking and reasoning—or, in other words, rationalism.

7. In contrast to rationalists, empiricists, such as Aristotle, John Locke, and David Hume, believe that the mind gains knowledge from experience.

8. Scientists propose that the human mind evolved largely through the sexual choices our ancestors made, similar to the way a peacock’s tail evolved through sexual selection.

9. Most scientists argue that there is no evidence that playing classical music to babies increases the power of their mind. However, children who learn to play a musical instrument can develop their mental skills further than those who don’t learn a musical instrument.

10. The term “mind” is from the Old English gemynd, or “memory,” and the Proto-Indo-European verbal root *men-, meaning “to think, remember.” The use of “mind” to refer to all mental faculties, thought, feelings, memory, and volition developed gradually over the 14th and 15th centuries.

11. Buddha described the mind as being filled with drunken monkeys who jumped, screeched, and chatted endlessly. Fear, according to Buddha, was an especially loud monkey. Buddha taught meditation as a way to tame the “drunken monkeys” in the mind.

12. The Stanford Prison Experiment is an infamous experiment that took average people and randomly assigned them to be either guards or prisoners. After a few days, the prisoners and guards became grossly absorbed in their roles. The experiment revealed how readily the human mind accepts authority and institutional ideologies.

13. Studies show that people are able to group items in short-term memory into roughly seven units that allow them to hold more individual items. Interestingly, many human belief systems have considered the number 7 to be a sacred number.

14. In 1938, Orson Wells broadcaster an adaption of H.G. Wells’ War of the World on the radio. The broadcast caused mass panic in nearly 3 million of the 6 million listeners. Psychologists note that even highly educated people believed it because it was on the radio and thus “authoritative.” They also note that media manipulation of our minds is a regular art form.

15. Scientists believe that the mind forgets in order to avoid information overload, to think more quickly, assimilate new information easier, and to avoid emotional hangovers.

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40 Food Facts Which are Unbelievable

Amazing Food Facts Which Blow Your Mind

• Ripe cranberries will bounce like rubber balls.
• Consuming dairy may cause acne.

• An average ear of corn has an even number of rows, usually 16.
• Pound cake got its name from its original recipe, which called for a pound each of butter, eggs, sugar, and flour.
• Central Appalachia’s tooth decay problem is referred to as Mountain Dew mouth, due to the beverage’s popularity in the region.
• Apples belong to the rose family, as do pears and plums.
• One of the most popular pizza toppings in Brazil is green peas.
• Oklahoma’s state vegetable is the watermelon.
• Real aged balsamic vinegar actually costs anywhere from $75 to $400 or more.
• About 70% of olive oil being sold is not actually pure olive oil.
• Store bought 100% “real” orange juice is 100% artificially flavored.
• The winner of the 2013 Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating contest consumed 69 hot dogs in 10 minutes.
• The most expensive pizza in the world costs $12,000 and takes 72 hours to make.
• The Dunkin’ Donuts in South Korea offer doughnut flavors such as Kimchi Croquette and Glazed Garlic.
• There is an amusement park in Tokyo that offers Raw Horse Flesh-flavored ice cream.
• Chocolate was once used as currency.
• The tea bag was created by accident, as tea bags were originally sent as samples.
• Castoreum, which is used as vanilla flavoring in candies, baked goods, etc., is actually a secretion from the anal glands of beavers.
• A Cinnabon Classic has less sugar than a 20-oz. bottle of Pepsi.
• The fear of cooking is known as Mageirocophobia and is a recognised phobia.
• Humans are born craving sugar.
• The red food-coloring carmine — used in Skittles and other candies — is made from boiled cochineal bugs, a type of beetle.
• Radishes are members of the same family as cabbages.
• Casu Marzu is a cheese found in Sardinia that is purposely infested with maggots.
• The potentially fatal brain mushroom is considered a delicacy in Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, and the upper Great Lakes region of North America.
• The softening agent L-cysteine — used in some bread — is made from human hair and duck feathers.
• It is almost impossible to find out what all the ingredients are that Papa John’s uses in its pizzas.
• Coconut water can be used as blood plasma.
• McDonald’s sells 75 hamburgers every second of every day.
• Milt, which is a delicacy around the world, is fish sperm.
• Three plates of food at a Chinese buffet will net you about 3,000 calories.
• Ranch dressing contains titanium dioxide, which is used to make it appear whiter. The same ingredient is used in sunscreen and paint for the same effect.
• One fast food hamburger may contain meat from 100 different cows.
• To make jelly beans shiny, shellac is used, which is made from Kerria lacca insect excretions.
• Ketchup was used as a medicine in the 1800s to treat diarrhea, among other things.
• Fruit-flavored snacks are made with the same wax used on cars.
• Peanuts aren’t nuts, they’re legumes.
• The most expensive fruit in the world is the Japanese Yubari cantaloupe, and two melons once sold at auction for $23,500.
• No matter what color Fruit Loop you eat, they all taste the same.
• Canola oil was originally called rapeseed oil, but rechristened by the Canadian oil industry in 1978 to avoid negative connotations. “Canola” is short for “Canadian oil.”

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Big Stories of 2016

Here are the Top stories of 2016

1. Attack in Paris

A series of coordinated terrorist attacks occurred in Paris, France and the city's northern suburb, Saint-Denis. Beginning at 21:20 CET, three suicide bombers struck near the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, followed by suicide bombings and mass shootings at cafés, restaurants and a music venue in central Paris.

In response to the attacks, a three-month state of emergency was declared across the country to help fight terrorism, which involved the banning of public demonstrations, and allowing the police to carry out searches without a warrant, put anyone under house arrest without trial and block websites that encouraged acts of terrorism.

2. Germanwings Plane Crash

Germanwings Flight 9525, was a scheduled international passenger flight from Barcelona–El Prat Airport in Spain to Düsseldorf Airport in Germany. The flight was operated by Germanwings, a low-cost carrier owned by the German airline Lufthansa. An Airbus A320-211, crashed 100 kilometres (62 mi) north-west of Nice in the French Alps after a constant descent that began one minute after the last routine contact with air traffic control and shortly after it had reached its assigned cruising altitude. All 144 passengers and six crew members were killed. It was Germanwings' first fatal crash in the 18-year history of the company.

The crash was deliberately caused by the co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, who had previously been treated for suicidal tendencies and been declared "unfit to work" by a doctor. Lubitz kept this information from his employer and reported for duty. During the flight, he locked the pilot out of the cockpit before initiating a descent that caused the aircraft to crash into a mountain.

3. Amtrak Train Crash

A train derailment in Philadelphia killed eight and injured more than 200 Amtrak passengers in May after the Northeast Regional train sped around a curve and went off the track.  8 were killed and over 200 injured, 11 critically. The train was traveling at 102 mph (164 km/h) in a 50 mph (80 km/h) zone of curved tracks when it derailed. Some of the passengers had to be extricated from the crashed cars. Many of the passengers and local residents helped first responders during the rescue operation. Five local hospitals treated the injured. The derailment disrupted train service for several days.

4. Charleston Church Shooting

Target was African American churchgoers. That was a mass shooting that took place at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, United States, on the evening of June 17, 2015. During a prayer service, nine people were killed by a gunman, including the senior pastor, state senator Clementa C. Pinckney; a tenth victim survived. The morning after the attack, police arrested a suspect, later identified as 21-year-old Dylann Roof, in Shelby, North Carolina. Roof later confessed that he committed the shooting in hopes of igniting a race war.

5. Orlando nightclub shooting

On June 12, 2016, Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old American security guard, killed 49 people and wounded 53 others inside Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, United States.It was both the deadliest mass shooting by a single gunman and the deadliest incident of violence against LGBT people in U.S. history, as well as the deadliest terrorist attack in the U.S. since the September 11 attacks in 2001. It was also considered a hate crime. Initial reports said he may have been a patron of the nightclub and used gay dating websites and apps, but Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) officials said they have not found any credible evidence to substantiate these claims. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) also conducted an investigation and said it found no links between ISIL and Mateen.

6. European Refugee Crisis

Tens of thousands of people fleeing war-torn Syria and other areas in the Middle East and Africa spent much of this summer making the laborious, and dangerous, trek through Europe toward countries including Germany and Sweden in hopes of finding asylum. . The vast majority arrived by sea but some migrants have made their way over land, principally via Turkey and Albania.The conflict in Syria continues to be by far the biggest driver of migration. But the ongoing violence in Afghanistan and Iraq, abuses in Eritrea, as well as poverty in Kosovo, are also leading people to look for new lives elsewhere.

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Interesting 40 Facts about World

Here is Top 40 Facts to know, Amazing for Gaining Knowledge

1. Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms  like fried bacon.
2. Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
3. Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it.
4. Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions!
5. What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.
6. On average a hedgehog's  heart beats 300 times a minute.
7. "Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
8. More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.
9. "Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.
10. The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.
11. In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child
12. More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food.
13. A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!
14. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
15. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
16. The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!
17. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath
18. The six official languages of the United Nations are: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish.
19. There is a city called Rome on every continent.
20. Earth is the only planet not named after a god.
21. It's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland!
22. It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA.
23. Horatio Nelson, one of England's most illustrious admirals was throughout his life, never able to find a cure for his sea-sickness.
24. You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206.
25. The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of London
26. Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
27. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people
28. It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
29. Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe!
30. The longest recorded flight  of a chicken is 13 seconds
31. One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!
32. Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness. She declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it or not
33. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!
34. Slugs have 4 noses.
35. The first known transfusion of blood was performed as early as 1667, when Jean-Baptiste, transfused two pints of blood from a sheep to a young man
36. A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years!
37. Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
38. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
39. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
40. The average person laughs 10 times a day!

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50 Facts About Life Funny But Important to know

   Ever wondered that why our Earth is round, what the fear of marshmallows is called? if no, then this blog for you

1. Watermelons are a popular gift to bring to a host in China or Japan.

2. An ostrich egg would take four hours to boil.

3. The chemical name of caffeine is 1,3,7 trimethylxanthine.

4. Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his hat while playing baseball and he used to change it every two innings.

5. An olive tree can live to 1500 years old.

6. Singer Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem.

7. In the movie Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock, chocolate syrup was used for blood in the shower scene.

8. Drivers kill more deer than hunters.

9. Polar bears can smell seal from 20 miles away.

10. It would take 15,840,000 rolls of wallpaper to cover the Great Wall of China.

11. Daniel Boone hated coonskin caps.

12. About 10% of Jewish households have Christmas Trees.

13. The deepest underwater penguin dive is 1,772 feet by an Emperor Penguin. 

14. Contrary to popular belief, there are almost no Buddhists in India, nor have there been for about a thousand years.

15. Celtic warriors sometimes fought their battles naked, their bodies dyed blue from head to toe.

16. Watermelons can cost up to $100 in Japan.

17. A recent study at Harvard has show that eating chocolate can actually help you live longer.

18. Rapper LL Cool J’s name actually stands for “Ladies Love Cool James”.

19. In Singapore, it is illegal to sell or own chewing gum.

20. Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the U.S. treasury.

21. Pearls melt in vinegar.

22. Close to two million people who go to the hospital in the U.S. for one ailment wind up catching another.

23. Even a small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will cause it to go crazy and sting itself.

24. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had only one testicle.

25. On average, a disposable diaper can hold up to 7 pounds of liquid.

26. The world’s smallest and oldest republic is San Morino. It’s 25 square miles and is located mostly on top of a mountain entirely surrounded by Italy.

27. Over half the U.S. population would rather fold, than wad their toilet paper.

28. Over half the U.S. population would rather fold, than wad their toilet paper.

29. When honey is swallowed, it enters the blood stream within 20 minutes.

30. Reno, Nevada is west of Los Angeles, California.

31. Elizabeth Taylor has appeared on the cover of Life magazine more than anyone else.

32. The Beatles have sold more albums than anyone else with over 1 billion worldwide. 

33. The Flintstone’s cartoon was the first thirty-minute cartoon to be aired during prime time.

34. A male moth can smell a female moth from 100 yards away.

35. Not only the fur of the tiger is striped but also its skin.

36. It is rumored that sucking on a copper penny will cause a breathalyzer to read 0.

37. Diamonds mined in Brazil are harder than those found in Africa.

38. The state of Florida is bigger than England.

39. On average, a 4-year-old child asks 437 questions a day.

40. Make a fist with your left hand, squeeze your left thumb, then put your right index finger down your throat. You now have no gag reflex.

41. The New York Stock Exchange started as a coffee shop.

42. If a wolverine was the size of a bear, it would be the strongest animal on Earth.

43. 1 acre of wheat can produce enough bread to feed a family of 4 for about 10 years.

44. 16 pennies stacked up equals one inch, and 16 pennies in a line is one foot.

45. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

46. Our calendar repeats itself every 400 years.

47. Scientists say the higher your I.Q. the more you dream.

48. The human brain cell can hold 5 times as much information as the Encyclopedia Britannica.

49. Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

50. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

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