Month: May 2016

Just try and think about a delicious hamburger. Do you have that image in your head? Well, some of you will have that mouth-watering feeling (especially those who are hungry). But why do our mouths fill with watery saliva when we see or think about food? Well, to understand this, we must tell you how saliva …

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Oh, coffee! The beverage made from those magic beans that makes our mornings wonderful and can even stop your wife/husband/mother/father from being a complete Grinch! But who discovered it and how did it happen? Read this article and find out! According to a legend, coffee was discovered by a 9th-century goat-herder from Ethiopia named Kaldi. …

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We have all seen airplanes flying across a blue sky, right? We can even remember how fascinated we were by them when we were young and how we used to trace an airplane’s path by following that white line that airplanes leave behind them. But here comes the question: what are those white lines? Well, …

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Do you ever have the feeling that someone is watching you? Even if that person is outside your field of vision, you just know! Don’t worry, it happens to all of us! This is not, however, a psychic ability. Just like the “doorway effect” that we have already talked about (here: http://justviral.eu/2016/05/13/the-doorway-effect-or-why-we-forget-things-after-we-enter-a-room/), the feeling that …

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According to Scientific American, 15% of people are left-handed. Males are twice as likely to be left-handed than females. Left-handers are more likely to be geniuses – 20% of all MENSA members report being left-handed. YAY! A study found left-handed men are, on average, 15% richer than right-handed men for those who attended college, and …

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