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Wednesday, March 1, 2017

The Science Behind Why Your Facebook Friends Ignore Facts

I’ve long believed that humans are rational beings. That is to say, that people use logic and evidence to make decisions and determine what’s true. As it turns out, a wealth of cognitive research proves I was decidedly wrong.

We live in a world where more information is flooding our brains than ever before. Advertisers have long battled for our attention. But now, software developers battle for it too, and then sell it back to the advertisers. The more effectively Google and Twitter and Medium can capture our attention, the more money they make.

Random Facts

Having bridesmaids in a wedding wasn’t originally for moral support. They were intended to confuse evil spirits or those who wished to harm the bride.
Only 2% of Earth population naturally has green eyes.
When a person cries and the first drop of tears come from the right eye, its happiness. if it from left eye, it’s pain.
A bolt of lightning is six times hotter than the sun.
When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.
Brown eyes are blue underneath, and you can actually get a surgery to turn brown eyes blue.
It is illegal to climb trees in Oshawa, a town in Ontario, Canada.
Whenever a pregnant women suffers from organ damage like heart attack, the fetus sends stem cells to the organ helping it to repair.
New Zealand will deny people residency visa’s if they too high of a BMI and there are cases where people have been rejected because of their weight.
When a male penguin falls in love with female penguin, he searches the entire beach to find the perfect pebble to present to her.