🎓 Academic Closed

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Watching your favorite shows and movies, re-reading your favorite books, and listening to your favorite music over and over actually has benefits: it puts your mind in a state of ease. As humans, we have a limited pool of mental resources. When we're overwhelmed, we begin to have less self-control and less motivation for the tasks at hand. When you watch a rerun or listen to your favorite tunes, you don't have to exert effort to control what you're thinking, which means your brain can do a quick mental reset.

 

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Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.

 

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The Word "Robot" Originated From Czech Word for "Slave"

 

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Two of the greatest football players ever

PELE & MARADONA

Never won the most prestigious award in football - THE BALLON d OR during their career

 

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The word "robot" appeared in English in the 1920s, according to the Online Etymology Dictionary, based on the Czech word "robotnik," which meant slave, and which itself was rooted in the Old Church Slavonic word for servitude, "rabota." That fact should be especially ironic once we reach singularity and the robots become our overlords. And for info on how far we actually are into the robotic revolution,

 

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Trivia Question: What is the softest mineral in the world?
Answer: Talc

 

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During Kidney Transplants, Doctors Usually Just Add the Additional Kidney Without Removing Either of the Other Two

 

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Trivia Question: Lateral Epicondylitis is a condition commonly known by what name?
Answer: Tennis Elbow

 

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We imagine a kidney transplant would involve swapping out the unhealthy kidney for the healthy one. In fact, in most cases, surgeons will leave the kidney inside the patient's body and add the healthy kidney somewhere near their pelvis.

 

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Trivia Question: Who was the first female Prime Minister of Great Britain?
Answer: Margaret Thatcher

 

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There's a Name for that Feeling You Get When You're High Up and Think About Jumping

 

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Trivia Question: How many ribs are in a human body?
Answer: Twenty-four

 

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Whether at the top of an insanely tall building or looking over a steep drop from the highway, you've probably had that weird moment where you ask, "What if I jumped?" It turns out, you're not alone—so much so, that there is actually a name for the phenomenon; it's the "Call of the void" or "the high place phenomenon."

 

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Trivia Question: What is the world’s biggest island?
Answer: Greenland

 

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In 1973, a Detroit Tiger Brought a Table Leg to the Plate

 

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Trivia Question: Which country is known as the Land of White Elephant?
Answer: Thailand

 

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After three strikeouts, "Stormin" Norman Cash walked out to the plate with a table leg he had grabbed from the locker room, ready to swing. "Why not? I won't hit anyway," he responded when the umpire asked what he was doing, before tossing the leg aside.

 

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Trivia Question: What is the smallest ocean in the world?
Answer: The Arctic

 

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The AIDS Quilt Is the Largest Folk Art Piece in the World

 

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Trivia Question: What color eyes do most humans have?
Answer: Brown