Crows can remember the faces of individual humans. They can also hold a grudge.
100 Mind-Blowing Remember Facts
When you remember a past event, you are remembering the last time you remembered it, not the event itself.
You remember more dreams when you sleep badly. Research suggests that if you sleep badly and wake up multiple times throughout the night you will be more likely to recall the content of any dreams you had. You are also more likely to remember a dream when woken from one.
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.
Ben & Jerry’s made a graveyard for their former flavours. These flavours all consist of discontinued ice cream flavours. Each flavour has its photo as well as its life span. Each one even has its epitaph for people to remember it by.
August 17th celebrates Black Cat Appreciation Day. This was declared by Wayne Morris as a way to remember his sister and her black cat. This day is meant to symbolize the bond between black cats and their owners.
‘Metrophobia’ is the fear of poetry. If you don’t remember your literature classes as a good time, you may have had this phobia. The prefix metro- comes from the meter, which refers to the standard structure of a poem.
Most of your house dust is your dead skin. The next time you get mad at all the dust in your place, remember that it’s your fault. Humans lose 30,000 to 40,000 dead skin cells each minute. So, aside from the dust from the streets, most of the dust bunnies gunking up your house probably came from you. How’s that for interesting facts that’ll change your perspective?
Twilight was as intense as you remember. If you splice the quiet staring in all 5 films together, there are exactly 26 minutes of intense silence.
There’s a company you can pay to kidnap you. The Ultíme Réalité is a French company that offers kidnapping services. If you pay them a fee, they will come to kidnap you when you least expect it – ropes, binds, and all. They won’t do it immediately, though. They’ll wait for a certain period so you won’t remember that you paid someone to kidnap you.
Watermelon is Oklahoma’s state vegetable. Here’s another case of “Are tomatoes fruits or vegetables?” You may remember differently from preschool, but watermelons are classified as a fruit and a vegetable. Watermelons came from the cucumber and gourd families, which are vegetables. So, in 2007, Oklahoma declared the watermelon as their state vegetable. Their state fruit? Strawberries.
Super Mario Land is darker than you thought. Remember all those squares you need to hop on while playing the OG Mario? Well, those are the people of the Mushroom Kingdom turned into blocks by the Koopas.
The heart symbol was inspired by ancient birth control. Do you remember how shocked you were when you discovered in biology class that our hearts weren’t shaped like the cute symmetrical shape we see everywhere? Your next question probably would’ve been, “Well, how did they come up with that butt shape?” A theory suggests that the shape came from the silphium, a type of now-extinct plant that the ancient Greeks and Romans consumed for medicine, food, and birth control. Silphium seeds were shaped like our modern heart icon.
The human nose can remember 50,000 different scents.
The word “lethologica” describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
You’ll more likely remember your dreams better after a bad sleep than a good one. If you sleep poorly and wake up throughout the night, you’re more likely to remember your dreams when you wake up.
If you have seen the movie Titanic, then you likely remember the charcoal sketch of a nude Kate Winslet. None other than director James Cameron himself drew the sketch.
You remember more dreams when you sleep poorly.
53% of users haven’t changed their password in the last year (LastPass): Despite numerous reports in the last couple of years highlighting the impact of a poor password on data security and hacking issues, 53% of users worldwide haven’t changed their password in a year. 42% of customers say they believe a password should be easier to remember, rather than secure. 80% of users in this study said they’d be concerned if their password was compromised, but 48% wouldn’t change their password if it wasn’t required. When asked where they’d be tempted to create strong passwords, 69% of users said they would do so for financial accounts, and only 29% said they would create a strong password for work-related accounts.
In 1966, the bank patented the first ATM. Scottish engineer James Goodfellow invented the PIN code to identify customers. It is not known for certain, but initially, the PIN code was six digits. However, the inventor’s wife could only remember 4 digits, so Goodfellow shortened the code.
Remember “Charlie bit my finger?” The video racked up so many views that the family was able to purchase a new home with over $1.3 million in royalties and ads as of 2017.