Here are some random facts for you.
1. “Sugar rushes” aren’t real and are just psychological, or a “cultural effect of parental influence.” Sugar does not affect behavior or cognitive performance.
Sugar CRASHES are a real thing, but medically, it’s rare. According to doctors, only “about 5% of us experience sugar crash.” You’re more likely to experience it if you do a tough workout on an empty stomach.
2. There’s an urban legend that you swallow eight spiders a year while you sleep, but it’s not true, almost every single person will swallow ZERO in their lifetime. It was made up by a writer making FUN of stupid urban legends and gullible people.
3. An average of seven people DIE from spider bites every year in the United States, and three times that many people are killed by COWS.
4. Matt Groening wanted to make a live-action “Simpsons” spin-off in 1994. But one of the reasons it fell through was that the network said it would be too expensive to pay for a joke in the pilot featuring a bunch of trained beavers.
5. Nothing with less than 10% alcohol was considered an alcoholic beverage in Russia until 2011, it was classified as regular food. That included almost all beer.
(Mental Floss / Scientific American / Mashable / Wikipedia / BBC)
