Breaking eye contact makes you a better conversationalist.

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.

It’s forbidden to die in Longyearbyen, Norway. The town’s only cemetery closed over 80 years ago because it’s so cold bodies don't decompose.

Boy dolphins often try to impress girl dolphins by giving them a sponge as a gift. They also work in pairs with other males, making them one of the only species besides humans that use ‘wingmen’.

Studies show humble bragging comes off as insincere and makes people like you less than if you just shamelessly self-promote.

In the movie Titanic, the story of the old couple who died together in bed was based on real people.

When you move your eyes, your eardrums move too − even in the absence of sound.