This thread is about interesting things in the world you probably don't know about

1. do you know that you share your birthday with 9 million other people in the world

2. One in five CEOs is a
psychopath. According to
forensic psychologist
Nathan Brooks, a study of
261 corporate
professionals found 21%
had psychopathic traits.
Another population where
one in five people is a
psychopath

3. We’re running out of wine.
Climate change is
affecting the crops, they
aren’t adapting quickly
enough, and, in 2016, wine
production plummeted to
the lowest rate it’s seen in
20 years

4. Humans have a maximum
lifespan, and we’ve already
reached it. Recent studies
show our maximum age
hasn’t really risen since
the 90s, suggesting that
we probably can’t live
longer than 115 years. The
rare people who do are
seen as extreme cases....

It would take you 76 full workdays to read all the privacy policies and terms & conditions you agree to in a year

6. Retired basketball sensation Michael Jordan
makes more money from Nike each year than
all the Nike factory workers in Malaysia
combined.

7.The Olympic flag's colors are always red,
black, blue, green, and yellow rings on a field
of white. This is because at least one of those
colors appears on the flag of every nation on
the planet.

In 18th century England, gambling dens employed someone whose job was to swallow the dice if there was a police raid.

9. A Costa Rican worker who makes baseballs
earns about $2,750 annually. The average
American pro baseball player earns $2,377,000
per year.

10. In Calama, a town in the Atacama Desert of Chile, it has never rained.

In space, astronauts cannot cry because there is no gravity and tears can't flow.

12. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

13. The main library at Indiana University sinks over an inch a year. When it was designed engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

A rainbow can be seen only in the morning or late afternoon. It can occur only when the sun is 40 degrees or less above the horizon.

15. Women blink nearly twice as often as men

16. There are more living organisms on the skin of a single human being than there are human beings on the surface of the earth.

17. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times

18. A kiss stimulates 29 muscles and chemicals
that cause relaxation. Women seem to like
light and frequent kisses while men like them
more strenuous.
Source : https://owlcation.com/misc/Over-200-Odd-Facts-Did-You-Know-Them

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