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.
The "Uncanny Valley" is the point at which something becomes too realistic and starts to look creepy.

Mayor's dating pool solution: “ugly ducklings,” move here!

A 70-year-old albatross just had a baby.

There are villages in England and Wales that lost no men in World War I.

Submarines were key to the U.S.'s WWII victory, but at a cost of over 3,000 lives.

Cigarettes were once a part of everyday life, even in hospitals and airplanes.

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Richey Edwards’ bandmates never gave up hope that he will come back home.

The NFL is using RFID tags to track players and collect data.

Celebrate Leif Erikson Day on October 9th!

The Flynn Effect is the finding that intelligence test scores have been rising across generations.

The game 'Secret Writer's Society' became infamous for its text-to-speech feature that would read back a list of obscenities instead of what was written.

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Drinking lots of alcohol can cause blackouts by preventing memories from being transferred to long-term storage.

Inmate James Washington confesses to 1995 murder after suffering seizures in prison.

Babies under one shouldn't drink water -- it's dangerous.

Buzz Aldrin didn't end up being the first person on the Moon because NASA thought someone like Charles Lindbergh would be better.
