Did You Know?!
- Nov 10, 2014
- 2 min read
Today's "Did You Know?!" featured some truly remarkable stuff...see below and tell me you don't agree!
Applying male underarm sweat to a females lips can help relax women, boost their mood and help regulate their menstrual cycle
94% of people cite WiFi as the most important hotel amenity.
New York City plans to turn all of it's old phone booths into wifi hot spots.
Scientists have used artificial nerves to allow people with prosthetic hands to feel what they are touching.
A baby elephant will suck on its trunk like a baby sucks its thumb for comfort.
Dogs have been a pet of mankind for over 14,000 years.
Taking a 60 minute nap will give you about 10 hours of alertness.
There is a mineral named Cummingtonite.
Higher intelligence is actually associated with worrying too much – People who overthink tend to have higher IQs.
The locations of the world's tallest and oldest trees are kept top secret to avoid tourist crowds damaging them and their surroundings.
The term "devil's advocate" was originally the church official appointed to argue against a candidate for sainthood.
Scientists have genetically altered chickens to express DNA that their dinosaur ancestors once possessed. Eventually, they grew teeth.
America's first female self-made millionaire was a black woman. (Madam C. J. Walker, was an American entrepreneur and philanthropist, regarded as the first female self-made millionaire in America. She made her fortune by developing and marketing a successful line of beauty and hair products for black women under the company she founded, Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company.)
In 1991 a woman was kept "alive" although she was braindead because she was pregnant. The baby was born alive.
Russians have a word "Zapoi" to describe several days of continuous drunkenness during which one withdraws from society.
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