World Weird Facts

 Memories start forming in the womb  It uses 20% of the body’s total oxygen and energy  It’s composed of 73% water  Sweating can temporarily shrink the brain  Five minutes without oxygen can cause brain damage  It generates 12-15 watts of electricity  Neurons travel 150 mph in the brain  It has an average of 50,000-70,000 thoughts a day  More than 100,000 chemical reactions take place in the brain every second  It starts slowing at around 24 years old  95% of all decisions are subconscious  Vitamin B1 can help improve short- and long-term memory  Memories are stored for both short-term and long-term use at the same time.

Snakes can predict earthquakes. R esearchers in China have found that many animals are actually able to predict earthquakes to varying levels of success. It’s come to light that snakes are the most reliable, sensing earthquakes from as far as 75 miles away (121 km). What’s more impressive is that they can sense an earthquake as many as five days before it actually occurs! When a snake senses an earthquake, it will run (or slither, in this case) away from its nest, even in the darkest days of winter.   Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun. L ong have philosophers pondered the humble banana, arguing until the sun goes down as to why they’re curved. It turns out that bananas go through a process called “negative geo-tropism,” which causes them to grow upwards towards the sun instead of towards the ground. This, in turn, gives the banana its familiar curved shape. The original London Bridge is now in Arizona. T he London Bridge, originally constructed in 1831, was ...