100 Mind-Blowing Dull Facts

There is a city in Oregon called Boring. It also has a sister city called Dull in Scotland. This town was named after its founder William H. Boring.

The human brain is the only brain that shrinks with age. Humans are the only animals that get dumb when they get older. Other animals’ senses would get dull, but they retain the same brain mass.

Three towns in Scotland, Australia, and the US are united by how boring they are. The towns themselves probably aren’t that boring, really, but their names sure are. Dull, Scotland; Boring, Oregon; and Bland, Australia, teamed up back in 2014 to get a much-needed tourism boost by creating the tongue-in-cheek League of Extraordinary Communities. It wasn’t long before the three towns’ union gained a new nickname – the Trinity of Tedium.

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