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Guess What?

  • Emma Saltman
  • Jan 24, 2017
  • 2 min read

Below is a list of interesting and surprising facts that’s most people are unaware of. If you enjoy random information that you may or may not ever actually use then here you go….!

  1. 35% of people are born without wisdom teeth. Scientists believe that as humans continue to evolve that even fewer people will be born without them. They have also concluded that as we evolve people will start to be born without appendixes and even without little toes!

  2. 12% of people dream in black and white.

  3. The most shoplifted item in America is candy. In Europe it is cheese and in Latin America it’s meat.

  4. Some cats and dogs can actually be allergic to humans just like some people are to them. (My dog, Molly, is actually allergic to humans and when she’s around people she sneezes a lot)

  5. People are more likely to tell the truth the more tired they are. Your brain is also more creative when you're tired.

  6. Higher schoolers now a day have the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient in the 1950’s.

  7. It is actually physically impossible to multitask. Your brain doesn’t thinking of multiple things at once but instead switches back and forth really fast between the actions you are doing.

  8. Frankenstein is the doctor/scientist in the movie not the monster!

  9. Only 2% of the Earth’s population naturally has green eyes.

  10. When a male penguin falls in love he will search the entire beach and go through piles of pebbles to find the smoothest most perfect pebble in which he will give to the female penguin. If she accepts the pebble, and the penguin, she will put the pebble in her nest.

  11. The original purpose of a bridesmaid wasn’t for moral support or classy looks, it was to confuse evil spirits who wished to harm the bride.

  12. When howling together, no two wolves will howl on the same note; Instead they all howl at different pitches in order to create the illusion there is more of them then there actually is.

Works Cited:

http://animals.mom.me/penguins-love-life-6367.html

http://www.weddinglore.com/ceremony/bridesmaids.html

http://www.everythingwolf.com/wolftalk.aspx

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/02/health/02real.html

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/04/150411-dogs-cats-allergies-science-pets-animals/

http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2000/12/anxiety.aspx

https://www.fastcompany.com/3018084/work-smart/why-were-more-creative-when-were-tired-and-9-other-surprising-facts-about-how-our

https://www.aclens.com/Content/Display/323


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