The compulsive desire to look at something that horrifies you, like a horror film or an injury, is called cacospectomania.
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Last image of French diver Paul Henry Nargeolet who saw the Titantic 37 times before he died on his 38th trip on OceanGateโs submersible 'Titan'.
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At around age 23, the average person falls off what the researcher Jennifer Aaker calls โthe humour cliffโ: we start to laugh and smile less and less. The average 4-year-old laughs and smiles 300 times a day, the average 40-year-old โ 300 times every 75 days.
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In 2002, Jason Padgett was brutally beaten outside a karaoke bar, resulting in a brain concussion and a severe case of PTSD.
But this may have actually been the best thing that happened to him because he now has Acquired Savant Syndrome - Savant syndrome is a condition in which a person demonstrates profound and remarkable knowledge after suffering a physical or psychological trauma.
Savant skills are usually found in one or more of five major areas: art, musical abilities, calendar calculation, mathematics, and spatial skills and as many as 50 cases of sudden or acquired savant syndrome have been reported, thought likely many more go unreported.
But even so, the syndrome is extremely rare, and for someone to develop sudden mathematical skills, that's even rarer.
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But this may have actually been the best thing that happened to him because he now has Acquired Savant Syndrome - Savant syndrome is a condition in which a person demonstrates profound and remarkable knowledge after suffering a physical or psychological trauma.
Savant skills are usually found in one or more of five major areas: art, musical abilities, calendar calculation, mathematics, and spatial skills and as many as 50 cases of sudden or acquired savant syndrome have been reported, thought likely many more go unreported.
But even so, the syndrome is extremely rare, and for someone to develop sudden mathematical skills, that's even rarer.
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When red pandas ๐ผ feels threatened, they will stand up straight and extend their claws in an attempt to look more intimidating.
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Nomophobia is the fear of being without a mobile phone or not being able to use it, which causes anxiety or stress.
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A place where you can hear the whisper of your interlocutor at a distance of more than 100 meters.
The semicircular dam on the Barossa Reservoir in Australia has earned the nickname "Whispering Wall" for its acoustic properties.
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The semicircular dam on the Barossa Reservoir in Australia has earned the nickname "Whispering Wall" for its acoustic properties.
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The human brain has enough memory to hold three million hours of television. The brain's memory is 2.5 petabytes. You would have to leave the TV running continuously for more than 300 years to use up all that storage.
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