There’s a social anxiety called parthenophobia where you have an abnormal and persistent fear of young girls.
If you have an injury to your hands or fingers and there’s nerve damage, your fingers won’t wrinkle when submerged in water.
The fastest healing part of the human body is the tongue. This is due to the rich supply of blood the tongue receives, making it able to heal twice as fast as any other body part.
Dyslexics see numbers and letters backward. It’s a reading disorder, not a vision or seeing disorder, which means that Braille readers can also be dyslexic.
According to a study done by National Geographic, the same gene that gives humans the urge to travel is also responsible for ADHD and thrill-seeking behavior.
According to a study published in the Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, mood can affect how we walk and vice versa. We walk slump-shouldered if we’re sad and bouncing if we’re happy. Making people imitate a happy walk actually made them feel happier, and sadder if they were imitating a sad way of walking.
The reason that paper cuts hurt so much is that the cut often bleeds very little or not at all, leaving the skin’s pain receptors open to the air.
Every time that you recall an event, your brain distorts it just a little bit. Basically, when you remember something that happened in the past, you’re actually just remembering the last time that you remembered it, and so on.
Bruises turn colors because your body is breaking down and reabsorbing the hemoglobin that leaked from the broken blood vessels in your body.
You are most likely to come up with a great idea when doing monotonous tasks such as exercising, driving, or showering. This is because we are the most relaxed and least distracted, so dopamine is flowing through our bodies and triggering our thoughts.