Intelligence Facts

Poor eyesight (myopia) is associated with higher IQ.

Studies have found that hair samples from people with higher IQ scores tend to contain greater concentrations of zinc and copper.

The average IQ is designed to be exactly 100, with scores above 130 considered gifted and above 145 typically classified as genius-level.

Sheep can recognize other sheep from pictures!

Neanderthals had an average brain size up to 100cc larger than modern humans, yet this didn't translate to greater intelligence.

Research shows that verbal intelligence is positively correlated with worry and rumination. Brain scans reveal that both high intelligence and excessive worrying share similar patterns of neural activity in the brain's white matter.

In the US, a court ruled that police departments can legally reject applicants for scoring too high on intelligence tests, after a man was denied a job for being 'too smart.'

A 1996 study suggested a link between body hair in men and higher intelligence, though the findings remain disputed and the correlation was modest.

People who are more likeable and attractive are generally perceived as more intelligent. This is called the “Halo Effect.”

Before he played Dracula, Saruman, and Count Dooku, Christopher Lee served as an RAF intelligence officer attached to Britain's Special Operations Executive - and spent the final months of the war hunting Nazi war criminals. He was fluent in five languages, sworn to secrecy for life, and once corrected Peter Jackson on how a stabbing actually sounds. The man who played 200 villains had hunted real ones.

Christopher Hutton, a British MI9 spy, hid real escape kits inside Monopoly sets sent to Allied POW camps in WWII. He chose Waddingtons - the only UK firm that made Monopoly AND printed on silk - to hide silk maps, a compass, a file, and real foreign cash inside each box. A red dot on Free Parking told captured RAF pilots which sets held the tools.