15 Spectacular Facts We Can Never Unlearn

People often think of blackouts as forgetting what happened the night before, but it's actually much more complicated than that. Drinking too much alcohol can cause a person to have a blackout by preventing memories from being transferred to long-term storage. Alcohol-related blackouts happen when ethanol blocks the transfer of memories from short-term to long-term storage in the hippocampus, which is especially likely to occur when people quickly drink enough alcohol to reach peak blood alcohol content levels. Blackouts are more likely to occur for females because they generally take in higher amounts of ethanol and reach peak BAC levels more quickly than males do.

Although it's been over two decades since he was last seen, Richey Edwards' bandmates still talk about him like he might come back home any minute. The Manic Street Preachers set aside royalties for their missing guitarist in case he ever returns to their hometown Wales so that he'll be able to provide for himself and his family.