The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.
479
According to an assistant professor of psychology and marketing at NYU, wearing red increases your chances in things like dating and hitchhiking.
12
Ice isn't slippery. What makes people and things slip on ice is water. A thin layer of ice melts when pressure is applied to it and it is this wet layer on top of the ice that is slippery.
153
Déjà vu occurs when your brain tries to apply a memory of a past situation to your current one, fails, and makes you feel like it's happened.
12
The WD in WD-40 stands for Water Displacer.
30
The mile is Latin for 1,000. The number of paces it took the average Roman!
36
There are 2,500,000 rivets in the Eiffel Tower.
98

