One of the quickest ways to impress someone is to share a rare and fascinating fact about life. Besides, this is a great way to start an interesting conversation and share some new and thought-provoking things.
Here are 5 impressive fun facts about life that easily makes you the life of the party.
- People with many moles on the body live longer.
People who have more moles have longer telomeres. Telomeres are parts of DNA that are responsible for reproduction. So, the longer a telomere is, the slower a person ages.The researchers at King’s College in London conducted a study and invited 900 pairs of volunteers. They studied their cells and tissues and compared their physical state with the number of moles on their bodies. It turned out that people who had from 100 to 400 moles were much younger, physically than those who had almost no marks on their bodies.
- Tangerine slows down ageing process.
Another way to slow down ageing is to eat tangerines. The pulp of tangerines contains a huge number of antioxidants which help to remove toxins from the body. They protect the skin from UV light and decrease the number of wrinkles and pigment spots. And also, tangerines are great anti-depressants that decrease anxiety and fatigue.
- 7000 people die yearly because of the doctor’s illegible handwriting.
Doctors’ illegible handwriting kills more than 7,000 people per year. This also causes mistakes with medicine which harms 1.5 million people every year. And these are only the U.S. statistics that are given by the National Academy of Science’s Institute of Medicine (IOM).
- Pilots are not allowed to keep facial hairs.
Pilots can’t have facial hair any longer than 0.3 inches. This rule was created by the fact that facial hair prevents oxygen masks from being tight on pilots’ faces. This will in turn put everyone on board the plane in mortal danger. - How to detect a spy mirror.
It’s very easy to tell the difference between a real mirror and a transparent one: place a finger on the surface of the mirror. If you see space between the surface and the reflection, it means that the mirror is transparent.
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