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Discover strange, fascinating, and completely unexpected facts about science, history, nature, and people.
Fact of the day
#0040 · 𧬠Human Glitch
People with low competence in a field often overestimate their own skill the most, simply because they lack the knowledge needed to spot their own gaps.
This is the Krulicza Nora β one fact leads to the next.
Hearing laughter activates the smiling regions of your brain before you've consciously judged whether anything is actually funny.
Learn more βHuman memory doesn't work like a video recording β every time you recall a memory, you slightly distort it and save over the original.
Learn more βStudies on so-called open-label placebos show that the mere ritual of taking an "empty" pill can genuinely ease symptoms, even when the patient is fully aware there's no drug in it.
Learn more βSpace, physics, time, the universe.
Body, brain, psychology.
Animals and nature.
Death, disasters, dark history.
Strange historical events.
Science that sounds like science fiction.
Economics, money, business.
Geology, climate, unusual places.
Phenomena we still can't fully explain.
The dance that killed
The 1859 solar storm
The star with a black hole inside
The Whippet β something survived a black hole
The Grand Canyon: the missing billion years
