There exists a plankton, Dinoflagellates, which, if consumed, reverses your feeling of hot and cold – as well as hallucinations. Symptoms can last from weeks to years.
100 Mind-Blowing Feeling Facts
Victoria’s Secret was originally supposed to be a store for men to shop for their female partners without feeling embarrassed.
You inhale 50 potentially harmful bacteria every time you breathe. Thankfully, your immune system is working hard all the time, so virtually all of these are promptly destroyed without you feeling a thing. Phew.
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.
You share your birthday with around 19 million people. Yep, not feeling so special now as given the global population of around 8 billion, there are at least nearly 20 million people who were born on the same day as you.
There’s a plankton that reverses your feeling of hot and cold. Dinoflagellates are marine plankton that can alter as well as hallucinations. These trippy symptoms can last from weeks up to years.
Two-thirds of millennials go to sleep naked. According to a 2018 survey from MattressAdvisor, more than 60% of millennials regularly sleep in the nude. This is mostly due to the comforting feeling of skin against sheets. Are you part of this group?
The feeling of falling when half asleep is called a ‘hypnic jerk.’ It sounds like an insult, but I’m sure we’ve all experienced being startled awake because of the feeling of falling. Scientifically, there is still no explanation for why we get hypnic jerks. However, anxiety, caffeine and physical activity close to bedtime make a hypnic jerk more likely. They are also more frequent in younger people.
Grass flip-flops are an actual product you can buy. The Australian company KUSA makes artificial grass flip-flops that simulate the feeling of walking on fresh grass. See for yourself if these grass flip-flops are as comfy as they say so.
Ice cream warms the body. It might make perfect sense to eat ice cream when you’re feeling hot, but it does the opposite to our bodies. The high-fat content in ice cream warms us up rather than cooling down the body as it metabolizes.
There is gravity on the International Space Station. Footage of astronauts on the International Space Station may give the impression of a gravity-free environment, but onboard gravity is only 10-11% weaker than it is on Earth’s surface. This particular one of our facts relates to the common belief that there’s no gravity in space. Astronauts float freely due to the Space Station’s continual state of free-fall, the same effect experienced by skydivers. The difference with the ISS is that it also has horizontal motion. As the ISS moves ‘sideways’ and falls towards Earth, the horizon curves away beneath it at the same rate, keeping the ISS in orbit and simulating a feeling of weightlessness for anyone on board.
Manatees use their flippers to walk along the bottom of the body of water, feeling for food. When they find it, they scoop it up toward their mouths with their flipper.
There’s a restaurant in New York that employs grandmas instead of chefs. The menu at Enoteca Maria is a little unconventional, as half of it is a fixed Italian menu while the other half changes daily. This is because a different grandmother comes in every day with not just a new menu but a completely new cuisine! The owner decided to run his restaurant like this as he had lost all maternal figures in his life and wanted to re-create the feeling of eating in his grandmother’s kitchen.
Google’s first tweet was gibberish. To a normal human, Google’s first-ever tweet on Twitter was nonsense! It reads, “I’m 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010”. Translated from binary to English, this tweet says, “I’m feeling lucky.”