1. A recent study showed that taxi and ambulance drivers have a lower risk of death from Alzheimer’s disease compared to more than 400 other professions.
That could be because they’re constantly using navigational and spatial processing. Those on-the-fly decisions may protect the drivers’ cognitive abilities. But it might NOT translate to Uber drivers . . . because the older drivers in the study mostly worked before GPS systems were widely used.
2. The country of Liechtenstein has won 10 Olympic medals, and all of them are in alpine skiing.
3. The day that Michael Jackson caught on fire while he was filming a Pepsi commercial was literally the halfway point of his life. It happened 9,282 days after he was born . . . and he died 9,281 days after it happened.
4. An old wives’ tale says a pregnant woman with heartburn is more likely to have a hairy baby. A study in 2006 tried to disprove it . . . but actually proved it TRUE. Heartburn and hairy babies are both linked to a woman’s estrogen levels.
5. There are only two documented cases in history of coyotes killing humans.
