Fun Fact: Not everybody dreams in colour.
About 15% dream in B&W. However, back between 1915 and 1950 studies confirmed that most people dreamt in Black and white. Then after 1960 this number fell, and now only 4% of adults under 25 do. This is thought to be a result of movies transitioning to colour after 1960. Interesting stuff :)
1. When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go — the first is usually sight, followed by taste, smell and touch
2. A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it has been decapitated
3. 100 people choke to death on pens each year. One is more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a spider
4. Alexander’s funeral would have cost $600 million today. A road from Egypt to Babylon was built to carry his body
5. When inventor Thomas Edison died in 1931, his friend Henry Ford captured his last dying breath in a bottle
6. Over 2500 left-handed people are killed each year from using products made for right-handed people
7. It takes longer than ever before a body to decompose due to preservatives in the food that we eat these days
8. An eternal flame lamp at the tomb of a Buddhist priest in Nara, Japan has kept burning for 1,130 years
9. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry is the first person to have his ashes put aboard a rocket and ‘buried’ in space
10. Japanese factory worker Kenji Urada became the first know fatality caused by a robot in July, 1981, in a car plant.
Our psychological state allows us to see only what we want/need/feel to see at a particular time. What are the first five words that you see?
Lust, Lies, Passion, Coke, Suicide
….Apparently my mind houses a Rockstar!
How many people are introvertsAbout 25 percent. Or—my favorite—”a minority in the regular population but a majority in the gifted population.”
The worst of it is that extroverts have no idea of the torment they put us through. Sometimes, as we gasp for air amid the fog of their 98-percent-content-free talk, we wonder if extroverts even bother to listen to themselves. Still, we endure stoically, because the etiquette books—written, no doubt, by extroverts—regard declining to banter as rude and gaps in conversation as awkward. We can only dream that someday, when our condition is more widely understood, when perhaps an Introverts’ Rights movement has blossomed and borne fruit, it will not be impolite to say “I’m an introvert. You are a wonderful person and I like you. But now please shush.”
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Interesting little article I read while surfing Reddit (seriously makes hours disappear!). Its all about Introverts - I never knew I was so stereotypically one, quiet as I may be, sometimes I thought my inability to endure smalltalk, and my appreciation for mutual silences were character flaws. Apparently I’m not alone on this matter!
