We forget why we have entered a room because passing through doors creates an ‘event boundary’ causing the brain to file away what we were just thinking about.
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Not swinging your arms when you walk increases the effort of walking by 12%, the equivalent of walking 20% faster or carrying a 10 kg backpack.
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It has been calculated that every 2 minutes, we take more pictures than all of humanity in the 19th century.
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'X' became symbolic for a kiss because in the middle ages when alot of people were illiterate and they used to sign documents with an X and then kiss it for sincerity.
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The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!
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The New York Stock Exchange started as a coffee shop!
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