There’s not much you can do with trivia facts, but they may come in handy on your next pub quiz or trivia night with your friends or as a conversation catalyst around the dinner table. You might also learn something about yourself or the world we live in that you haven’t considered before. Besides, it’s nice to scroll through the internet and find information that is not bad but simply entertaining—and that’s what the Mind-Blowing Facts Facebook page provides us with. We’ve collected some of the most interesting facts from the page to help you see what we mean.
#1: What “Wetness” Feels Like
Jerry Seinfeld jokes that humans hate rain because we only like getting wet on our terms—we don’t mind getting wet in the shower or when we go swimming, but water falling from the sky is unacceptable. As it turns out, human skin doesn’t actually sense “wetness”—we only grasp the concept of getting wet.
While our skin doesn’t actually sense wetness, our brain creates this illusion of what being wet feels like based on prior experience and similar stimuli. Wetness is an illusion. You can read all about the science behind this in different research- but you’ve got to admit it’s pretty mindblowing!