Fascinating Facts and Trivia

The sharpest memories are from early adulthood.

Called “the reminiscence bump,” this psychological concept holds that as adults reflect on events of their lives, they remember more events from their teens and twenties than from any other time in their lives. According to psychologist Dan McAdams of Northwestern University, this phenomenon grows out of the fact that this period of one’s life is important in shaping one’s identity or “life story.”

The original Back to the Future time machine was a fridge.

The DeLorean was not always the way Marty McFly was supposed to travel to the past. As Slashfilm explains, in the original draft of Back To The Future, the time machine was attached attached to a refrigerator, and “taken to the Nevada desert test site for the atomic bomb, where it was strapped into the back of a truck and driven into the atomic explosion in order to harness the power from the nuclear explosion. Marty had to climb into the fridge as the truck barreled towards ground zero.”

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It is mathematically possible to build an actual time machine. What is holding us back is finding materials that can physically bend the fabric of space/time.

The brain literally starts eating itself when it doesn’t get enough sleep.

A mysterious blob of hot rock is building up underneath the Northeastern states of the US. Researchers found the vast mass to be originally welling up under Vermont but the mass has since spread to other subterranean regions in New England.

As a gas, Oxygen is odourless and colourless. In a liquid or solid state however, oxygen looks pale blue.

Only one letter (J) does not appear in the periodic table.

If you spin a ball as you drop it, it will fly through the air as it falls. This is called the Magnus effect.

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