Researchers have found that flossing your teeth can help your memory. Flossing prevents gum disease, which prevents stiff blood vessels, which cause memory issues.
100 Mind-Blowing Memory Facts
The Vatican had music that was forbidden to be copied and was only played twice per year. It was secret for almost 150 years until a 14-year-old Mozart heard it and transcribed it from memory.
Alongside Sudoku, chess has been named one of the best ways to improve the mind and memory.
Losing weight alters brain activity. Some records show that when women lose weight, their memory improves. Research has also linked obesity to poor memory, most especially those with pear-shaped body types.
Flossing your teeth improves memory. Here’s one useful random fact for you: Research suggests that if you keep your gums healthy and avoid gum disease, it will lead to the prevention of stiff blood vessels. Preventing stiff blood vessels also prevents memory problems.
LEGO has an underground vault with all the LEGO sets ever made. Yup, you read that right. One of the fun but still WTF facts: LEGO has an underground bunker that holds all the LEGO sets made since the company started in the mid-90s. The Memory Lane vault contains 4,720 sets.
The Holocaust survivors met the real Oskar Schindler. To honour the memory of the people he saved, Spielberg arranged for survivors and their descendants to meet the actual Oskar Schindler at a ceremony held in Israel.
The film was dedicated to the memory of the victims. Spielberg dedicated “Schindler’s List” to the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust, ensuring that their memory lives on.
First cellular/mobile phone ever. Motorola released the world’s first mobile phone, the DynaTAC 8000x, in 1983. This portable phone cost $3,995 upon release and offered 30 minutes of talk time. Charging the device required 10 hours, and it could only store 30 phone numbers in memory. Unsurprisingly, few people purchased the device, but it marked a breakthrough in mobile technology. Nowadays, cell phones and smartphones (no matter how cheap or expensive they are) are indispensable gadgets in people’s lives.
The Vastness of Linux Code: As of November 2023, the Linux kernel has over 36 million lines of code, by the latest stable version available at that time is – Linux Kernel 6.5. The vastness of code is because the Linux kernel is responsible for a wide range of tasks, including manageing the hardware, memory, and processes of a computer system.