DID YOU KNOW WITH JOE

  • Cats display the same main attachment styles as babies and dogs, a study found.

  • Drinking more coffee may reduce risk of developing gallstones, a 2019 study found.

  • People develop first impressions of you in a tenth of a second.

  • The pressure to feel upbeat can make you feel downbeat. Embracing your darker moods is better in the long-run, psychology researchers found.

  • McDonald's buys about 2 billion eggs every year for their U.S. restaurants alone.

  • Netflix is responsible for 15% of global internet traffic.

  • Within three days of death, the enzymes that once digested your dinner begin to eat you.

  • It snowed in the Sahara Desert in 1979.

  • In some birds, it is possible (albeit extremely rare) for it to be born half male, and half female.

  • The Apollo 11 had about 20 seconds of fuel left when it landed.

  • King Sobhuza II of Eswatini, who died in 1982, had 70 wives, who gave him 210 children.

  • The word ‘hundred' derives from ‘hundra' in Old Norse, which originally meant 120.

  • Testosterone evolved 500 million years ago — from estrogen.

  • Taking Pi to 39 digits allows you to measure the circumference of the observable universe to within the width of a single hydrogen atom.

  • Sri Lanka has a Ministry of Coconut Development.

  • People who think their opinions are superior to others may be most prone to overestimating their relevant knowledge and ignoring chances to learns more.

  • If you want to learn about monsters and ghouls in real life, you can get a PhD in Parapsychology at the university of Edinburgh.

  • All Bran (the cereal) is only 87% bran.

  • As global temperatures rise, flowers are emitting less scent.

  • In the summer heat, the iron in the Eiffel Tower expands, making the tower grow more than 6 inches.

  • A New York University study found that people with easier to pronounce names have higher status positions at work.

  • Movie popcorn is sold at 1275% markup (in the US, at least).

  • There is a unit for measuring mortality risk called the micromort. 1 micromort defines a one-in-a-million chance of death.

  • Dolphins are not automatic air-breathers like humans are. This means that every breath they make is a conscious effort.

  • The record holder for the hardest tongue twister is: 'The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick'.

  • In 1995, Nigerian scammers managed to sell an airport that didn't even exist for $242 million dollars.

  • The oldest company ever is Kongo Gumi (株式会社 金剛組 ) in Osaka. It was founded in the year 548 and lasted 1441 years until it got absorbed by another company in 2006.

  • Research found that kids aged 4-6 performed better during boring tasks when dressed as batman.

  • Quantophrenia is an obsessive reliance on statistics.

  • The “Latte Index”, developed by The Wall Street Journal, compares the cost of a tall Starbucks latte in dozens of cities around the world to estimate which currencies are overvalued and undervalued.

  • While most people know of the 4 blood types A, B, O, and AB, not many people know that there are in fact many, many other minor types of blood, for example, the Bombay blood type.

  • Corporatocracy is a term used to refer to an economic and political system controlled by corporate interests.

  • 'Minotaur' means 'bull of Minos'. The creature's name was actually Asterion.

  • There is a road in Brussels called 'Ceci n'est pas une rue' which means 'This is not a road.' This was in honour of artist Rene Magritte.

  • The sun holds 99.98% of our solar systems total mass.

  • Double Stuffed Oreos are only 1.86x more than regular Oreos.

  • To 'egrote' is to pretend to be ill to avoid work.

  • The average BBC viewer is over 61 years old.

  • A man once tattooed "Netflix" on his body and after tweeting a picture to the company he received a free year of service.

  • A Florida Man used a machete with the word 'Kindness' written on it, and threatened to 'Kill 'em with kindness.'

  • The Onomichi Museum of Art is notorious for having cats that try to get into the museum, only to be stopped by guards, because animals are not allowed in the museum.

  • A sophomaniac is a person who’s under the delusion that they are extremely intelligent.

  • According to the Washington Post, Trump made 2,140 false or misleading claims in his first year.

  • Stifling a sneeze by clamping your nose and mouth shut can rupture your throat. In conclusion, repressing a sneeze can kill you.

  • People are more honest when speaking in a foreign language.

  • In the Norwegian town of Longyearbyen, it is illegal to die.

  • In 2010, a group of 15 monkeys escaped a research institute in Japan by using trees to catapult themselves over a 17ft high electric fence.

  • Ghanaian soccer player Mohammed Anas accidentally thanked both his wife and his girlfriend in a speech after a match.

  • The only difference between fog and mist is visibility: if you can't see more than 100 metres ahead, it's fog, not mist.

  • Hundreds of people gathered in Australia in 2018 to say “wow”, in the actor Owen Wilson's style.