We feel “hungry” because it’s harder for us to control our emotions when our brains are low on glucose.
100 Mind-Blowing Feel Facts
A certain type of box jellyfish’s venom will make you feel a strong sense of anxiety and sense of impending doom, and possibly thoughts of suicide. These symptoms can last up to two weeks.
People who eat breakfast feel better both mentally and physically throughout the day.
Wearing a tie can reduce blood flow to the brain by 7.5 per cent. A study in 2018 found that wearing a necktie can reduce the blood flow to your brain by up to 7.5 per cent, which can make you feel dizzy, and nauSEOus, and cause headaches. They can also increase the pressure in your eyes if on too tight and are great at carrying germs.
Football teams wearing red kits play better. The colour of your clothes can affect how you’re perceived by others and change how you feel. A review of football matches in the last 55 years, for example, showed that teams wearing a red kit consistently played better in home matches than teams in any other colour.
It’s almost impossible to get too much sugar from fresh fruit. While the sugar in fruit is mostly fructose and glucose (fructose is what’s converted into fat in your body), you can’t get too much sugar from fresh fruit. Fresh fruit contains a lot of fibre and water which slows down your digestion and makes you feel full.
Murder rates rise in summer. Ever feel angry or in a bad mood when the weather is hot? Well, you’re not alone. Violent crime goes up in hotter weather, and in the US, murder rates reportedly rose by 2.7 per cent over the summer.
In the UK in 2019, renewable energy generated more electricity than fossil fuels for the first time. Also, did you know Norway gets 0% electricity from coal? And Germany has installed 1 kW of renewable capacity per person in the last decade? a) (Climate change is the biggest global issue of our time, but there are some things to feel positive about!)
The first time the word “period” was used on TV about menstruation was in 1985. It came via a line in a Tampax commercial: “Feeling cleaner is more comfortable. It can change the way you feel about your period.” And the actor who made pop culture history was Courtney Cox of Friends fame.
The national animal of Scotland is the Unicorn. One of the fun facts that’ll make you feel like we’re pulling your leg: the unicorn is officially Scotland’s national animal. The unicorn is the Celtic symbol of purity, innocence, masculinity, and power. Because people believed they were real for around 2,500 years, there’s no wonder why the official coat of arms of the United Kingdom features a unicorn.
Netflix spent $0 on marketing its DVD rental business, but over 6 million people still used it. Remember how compact disks feel in your hand? The frustration of wiping it clean when it starts to skip? Nowadays, it’s all Netflix and chill. However, one of the coolest fun facts about Netflix is how it owned the marketing game in 2014. Despite spending nothing on marketing, sales for DVD rentals soared at an all-time high that year.
Your heart beats 100,000 times a day. A fun fact for when you feel dead inside: your body is working hard to keep you from being dead on the outside.
J is the only letter that doesn’t appear on the periodic table. One of the fun facts for whenever you feel excluded: All 26 letters of the alphabet can be found in the periodic table except for the letter J. Out of the 118 elements, not once is J used.
Human fingers are really sensitive. The nerve endings on fingers are so sensitive that if your fingers were the size of Earth, you could still feel the difference between a house and a car.
About 7% of American adults believe chocolate milk comes from brown cows. While this may not seem like a lot, this totals around 16.4 million Americans. Imagine how they feel when you tell them buttermilk doesn’t have any butter in it.
There is a term for a person who is perpetually afraid of being late. Time anxiety is the fear of running out of time. People who suffer from this have an obsession with spending their time in the most meaningful way possible. Commonly, people who suffer this are also in a constant rush which makes those around them feel uncomfortable.
Michael Jordan makes a lot of money from Nike. This is more than what all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia annually make combined. This is enough money to be able to feel the entire world population a meal.
Dogs can learn commands better with hand signals. This is also another way you can build communication and further develop trust with your pets. Professional trainers say that when a dog understands their tasks, they feel safer because they know what to do.
You can feel happier by crying. Research has indicated that crying triggers the production of endorphins which acts as a natural pain killer. It also releases feel-good hormones such as oxytocin.
Apples wake you up more than coffee in the morning. This is because of the high amounts of sugar that is found in apples. The vitamins from the apples also have similar effects to caffeine, thus making you feel more awake.
Singing in a group boosts one’s mood. Maybe those Glee kids had it right all along. According to Multiple studies, singing as a part of a group provides different physical and emotional benefits. Singing with others releases hormones like oxytocin and cortisol into the bloodstream, making us feel happy and reducing stress.
Bad feelings are good for you. Nobody wants to feel sad, afraid, or hurt, but suppressing these negative emotions can hamper us psychologically. One’s mental health should acknowledge and know how to process negative feelings.
Your brain uses 12 watts of energy to think and does not feel pain. The brain uses 20% of our resting metabolic calorie rate to keep functioning. It does not feel any pain because there are no pain receptors in the brain itself.
A woman who lost her wedding ring found it over a decade later on a carrot in her garden. In 1995, a woman in Sweden lost her wedding ring while cooking for Christmas. One of the more feel-good WTF facts: 16 years later, the woman found the ring around a carrot in her garden. Turns out, the ring was lost in the vegetable peelings that were made into compost.
A human could swim through a blue whale’s veins. This is one of the WTF facts that’ll just make you feel small.
When you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond. Ever let out a sneeze so hard, you feel like everything stopped for a moment? Well, your heart does stop when you sneeze, but only briefly. There’s another one of the WTF facts you could’ve gone without knowing.
Humans are the only animals that blush. Some people believe we may be the only animals who feel embarrassed.
Wearing a tie can reduce blood flow to the brain by 7.5%. According to a 2018 study, in addition to increasing eye pressure and carrying germs, wearing a tie too tightly can make you feel nauSEOus and dizzy, as well as cause headaches.
Soccer teams that wear red tend to play better. The colour of your clothes affects how others see you and how you feel. Studies have shown that soccer teams played better in red in home matches.
The human brain cannot feel pain.
Most parents feel like their babies grow fast, and those with teenagers often feel they cannot keep enough food for their growing kids. Yet, human children have nothing on Blue Whales. The offspring of these mammals can grow up to 200 pounds in a single day. This rapid growth rate can last an entire year.
Over 80% of people feel more confident approaching an attractive person if that person has a dog with them.
Tigers cannot purr. When they are happy or feel safe, they squint or close their eyes.
Drivers of expensive cars are less likely to slow down for pedestrians. They are also more likely to feel a sense of superiority over fellow drivers and to break traffic regulations.
IT Professionals Stress Out About Technology Just Like Everyone Else. Most people think of IT professionals as experts in hardware and software. 31% of them rated “keeping up with technology” as the biggest challenge in the workplace, though. Unsurprisingly, IT professionals constantly deal with new hardware and software. New products and services launch in the IT field every single day. IT professionals who work with multiple companies or clients may find themselves using dozens of different hardware and software solutions. For high-level IT professionals, “impact on work-life balance” takes precedence over technology woes. Many IT professionals pointed out they feel like they’re connected to work 24/7 but wouldn’t choose another profession.
The majority of people plug in their USB wrong. 86% of people try to plug in their USB devices upside down. That makes me feel a lot better about getting it wrong every time!
There’s a name for when you feel your phone vibrate… but it doesn’t. This is my favourite tech fact on this list! “Phantom Vibration Syndrome” is the name for when someone thinks their phone is vibrating, but it isn’t. Research suggests the cause for this is someone being over-involved with their phone.
Individual people can experience time differently, too. You’ve probably noticed how time seems to speed up when you’re racing against a deadline or having fun, and how it tends to drag when you’re bored. This is because when you’re focused on something, like a big work project or a party, your brain pays less attention to how time passes. But when you’re bored, or your brain is less stimulated, you become more aware of the passing of time, making it feel slower. One study proposed that dopamine—the neurotransmitter and hormone that helps us feel happy—may be an additional culprit. It showed that increased dopamine production, which happens when you’re enjoying something, may slow down your body’s internal clock, making time feel like it’s flying by.
Time zones can still be a bit complicated. Big countries like Canada and the United States have multiple time zones, whereas China, another large country, only has one. China adopted the Beijing Standard Time to foster unity, but the effect can feel a bit uncanny—two cities in the country can be at roughly the same latitude, but experience sunrise hours apart, according to their clocks. In some parts of China, for example, the sun doesn’t rise until nearly 10 a.m.
Most Consumers Think That AI Will Improve Their Lives: According to a survey by Strategy Analytics, 41 per cent of the respondents in India, China, Western Europe, and the United States feel that emerging AI technologies will create a better life for them.