If you point your car keys to your head, it increases the remote’s signal range. All the fluids in your head act as a fantastic conductor, allowing you to extend the remote’s range by a few car lengths.
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Using tanning beds before age 30 increases your risk of developing melanoma by 75%. Tanning beds and lamps are in the highest cancer risk category.
Earth’s rotation is changing speed. It’s slowing. This means that, on average, the length of a day increases by around 1.8 seconds per century. 600 million years ago a day lasted just 21 hours.
Being bored is a ‘high arousal state’ physiologically. This is because when you’re bored your heart rate increases.
Football players spit so much because exercise increases the amount of protein in saliva. When you exercise, the amount of protein secreted into the saliva increases. A protein mucus named MUC5B makes your saliva thicker when you’re exercising which makes it more difficult to swallow so we tend to spit more. It may occur during exercise because we breathe through our mouths more. MUC5B could activate to stop our mouths from drying out, therefore.
Your brain burns 400-500 calories a day. That’s about a fifth of your total energy requirements. Most of this is concerned with the largely automatic process of controlling your muscles and processing sensory input, although some studies show solving tricky problems increases your brain’s metabolic requirements too.
The population of the United States increases by one person every 12 seconds. Every eight seconds, a person is born. Every 25 seconds, an immigrant is added, and a death occurs every 13 seconds.
Sleep deprivation makes it harder to lose weight. Lack of sleep can interfere with one’s hormone balance and decrease leptin. It also increases ghrelin which is the hormone that triggers hunger.
Mice typically only live for 6 months in the wild. This is mainly due to the number of predators that eat them. However, if they are kept as pets, their life span increases significantly by two years.
Pointing your car keys to your head helps you find your car faster. This is because your head works like a radio transmitter. This then increases the range of the car remote’s signal, thus allowing your car to respond faster.
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times You cover your ears from the natural air when you wear headphones which increases the production of bacteria by 700% in 1 hour. Your eardrum cannot bear an influx of bacteria in that much quantity so it starts to react by painting or hearing loss in the long term.
We are more creative in the shower. Here’s one of the most useful weird fun facts! If you’ve ever felt like you think better in a warm shower, you’re probably right! The warm water increases the flow of dopamine and makes us more creative.
Earth’s rotation is changing speed. The Earth is slowing down, which means that, on average, the length of a day increases by around 1.8 seconds per century. If you do the math, a day lasted just 21 hours if you lived on Earth 600 million years ago!
We are more creative in the shower. Warm water in the shower increases the flow of dopamine and increases creativity.
The rotation of the Earth is changing speed. The Earth’s rotation is slowing down. On average, every century the length of a day increases by 1.8 seconds.
If martial artists smile before a martial arts tournament, it increases the likelihood of losing. Doing so can convey weakness or submissiveness.
If you are struggling to maintain focus, then consider grabbing a piece of gum. Scientists at the British Psychological Society have found gum increases concentration.
DEFORESTATION RELEASES CARBON DIOXIDE THAT HAS BEEN STORED AS CARBON IN TREES, ROOTS AND SOIL, MAKING CLIMATE CHANGE WORSE. This creates a feedback loop, as climate change increases the likelihood of deforestation, as the risk of droughts, wildfires and pest infestations increases and stresses the forest ecosystem. There is simply no way we can fight the climate crisis if we don’t stop deforestation.
A “50% off” sign increases sales, even if shoppers don’t know the original price or what a reasonable price for the product would be.
78 per cent of companies expect annual increases in regulatory compliance requirements. (Thomson Reuters)