If Your Head Is Full of Obscure Facts, It Means Your Brain Is Exceptional

(Newswire.net — May 22, 2020) — Fun fact: Playing trivia can provide a dopamine rush with positive effects only.

QuizzClub community of quizzes has many years of experience in playing trivia. The site gives people an opportunity to create their own trivia questions and to pick out the best of them. They get more general knowledge about the world to impress people they know.

We are ready to share with you 10 surprising facts that our trivia-fans liked most. Try to guess whether they are true or not. You’ll find the answers at the end of the article.

1. It’s possible to swallow food standing on your head.

2. An octopus has four hearts.

3. The Great Wall of China is visible from space.

4. Saturn is the only planet with rings in the Solar system.

5. Starfish can regrow their arms.

6. Dogs sweat by salivating.

7. Alcohol kills brain cells.

8. Pineapples take more than 18 months to grow.

9. Ninjas wear only black.

10. Spartans throw weak babies off a cliff.

There are plenty of advantages in playing trivia games. Answering trivia questions can be quite satisfying. It doesn’t matter whether you participate in trivia games at bars or play trivia online. Everyone enjoys giving correct answers to tricky questions — it can be an excellent chance to test your knowledge.

Retaining information about random facts is an exercise for the frontal cortex of the brain. People who are interested in trivia are usually recognized as smart and tend to have a higher IQ. 

Hope you’ve had enough time to think about the facts. Here are the right answers:

1. True. Gravity has little to do with the process of swallowing. The pharyngeal muscles work a lot to push food and liquids into the esophagus. Food doesn’t simply fall down the throat. Anyway, don’t try to swallow food standing on the head, it can be dangerous.

2. False. This is a widespread myth. Octopuses have only three hearts. The first one circulates blood around the body, and the other two hearts (branchial hearts) pump it through the gills.

3. False. There is a popular legend that the Apollo astronauts saw the Great Wall from the Moon, but in reality, it’s hardly visible even from a low Earth orbit. In fact, all you can see from the Moon is the white and blue marble of our home planet.

4. False. Saturn has the most extensive ring system of any planet in our solar system. However, Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune have their own ring systems as well.

5. True. Actually, starfish are unique creatures. They are famous for their ability to regenerate limbs. It can take months, even years to fully regenerate. Some of them can even regrow a complete body from a single arm.

6. False. Dogs do have sweat glands but the tongue isn’t one of them. Salivating helps to lower their body temperature. However, dogs actually sweat through their paws.

7. False. Alcohol doesn’t kill brain cells. However, it doesn’t mean that drinking alcohol is safe. It damages some brain cells.

8. True. It takes about 18 to 36 months for a pineapple plant to get ready for harvest. A pineapple plant yields only a single fruit. Once harvested, it stops ripening.

9. False. The stereotype of ninjas wearing black most probably originated from early drawings. They were shown in black attire. However, it was only done to portray a sense of invisibility. Most ninjas were dressed as civilians.

10. False. Spartans didn’t throw weak babies off a cliff. As it turns out, there is no evidence that ancient Spartans were that cruel. There might have been a couple of incidents, but only criminals and traitors were regularly put to death this way.

How many did you get right? Which facts surprised you most? You’ll find even more  curious and unbelievable facts on QuizzClub. Boost your general knowledge with daily trivia questions and personality tests.