Ten mind-blowing facts about humans that everyone should know
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Most morning Darren Maule shares some fun, informative and mind-blowing facts about anything and everything in the world.
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- When restaurants play classical music in the background, diners spend 10% more per person. When they play pop music, diners spend 10% less.
- If you are listening to something boring, doodling while you listen will improve your recall by 30%.
- One horse produces 15 horsepower. A human produces one horsepower.
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- Humans can recognise the body odour of close family members but prefer the smell of people they aren’t related to.
- Humans used to sleep in two shifts. Around a third of the population have trouble sleeping, including difficulties maintaining sleep throughout the night. Anthropologists have found evidence that during preindustrial Europe, bi-modal sleeping was considered the norm.
- Fire poles in fire houses were originally installed to allow for faster descent than the houses' narrow spiral staircases, which were themselves installed because horses kept climbing to the second floors and getting stuck.
- In 1944, 40 years after the Wright Brothers completed their historic flight; Orville Wright took his last ever flight on a Lockheed Constellation. The wingspan of the Constellation was longer than the distance of his first flight.
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