According to an extensive, 2011 study by National Geographic, the average human is a 28-year-old, right-handed, Han Chinese man who makes under $12,000 a year and owns a cell phone, but has no bank account.

In 1930, a patent was issued to Helene Shelby for a giant skeleton with glowing eyes designed to make criminals confess.

‘Doppelgänger’ is an old German word that originally referred to an apparition of a living person, like if the ‘ghost’ of your grandmother walked past you even though she wasn’t dead at the time. It was also believed that seeing your own doppelgänger was a sign of your imminent death.

The streets are usually wet in movies at night.

Wet pavement is not only more cinematic, but in the same way that it’s harder to see road markings when you’re driving in the rain at night, the water diffuses reflections and helps eliminate shadows caused by filming equipment and multiple light sources.