Hearing a loved one’s voice on the phone releases oxytocin and lowers stress hormones just like a physical hug, but texting the same person has zero hormonal effect, stress levels stay as high as having no contact at all.
Wrapped artworks. The artist paints pictures that appear to be wrapped in cellophane wrap. https://v.redd.it/3i9r1l7bb3mg1/CMAF_1080.mp4
On August 19, 1961, in Lysekil, Sweden, a driverless (not on purpose) Volvo PV544 rolled downhill, crossed a street, and crashed into the docked Swedish Navy submarine HSwMS Bävern. This incident is often cited as the only recorded car-submarine collision.
Inside the World’s Most Expensive School
If you think private school is pricey, Switzerland takes it to another level.
Institut Le Rosey is widely seen as the most expensive school on the planet. Annual fees now sit around $160,000 to $175,000 USD per student.
That price buys more than classes.
This prestigious Swiss boarding school serves students aged 8 to 18. The curriculum is fully bilingual, with students studying in both English and French.
Students live a two-campus life. Fall and spring are spent at a lakeside château in Rolle. Winter moves to Gstaad, where school includes skiing in the Alps.
The setup is tight. About 400 students. Over 60 nationalities. No country gets more than 10% of the student body. Small classes. Roughly a 1:3 teacher ratio.
Facilities feel closer to a luxury resort than a school with an equestrian center, Olympic pool, private yacht, and a $60+ million concert hall.
It’s earned the nickname “School of Kings” for a reason.
The alumni list reads like a global power roster:
* Royalty:
* King Juan Carlos I of Spain
* Prince Rainier III of Monaco
* King Albert II and King Baudouin of Belgium
* The Shah of Iran (Mohammad Reza Pahlavi)
* Aga Khan IV
* Entertainment & Pop Culture:
* Sean Lennon (musician and son of John Lennon)
* Tracee Ellis Ross (actress and daughter of Diana Ross)
* Julian Casablancas and Albert Hammond Jr. (of the band The Strokes)
* Dodi Fayed (film producer and partner of Princess Diana)
* Business & Politics:
* John Casablancas (founder of Elite Model Management)
* Richard Helms (former CIA Director)
* Members of the Rockefeller, Rothschild, and Du Pont families
So if you have a future king in the family, then now you know which school they should go to.
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Tiger Woods’ real name is not Tiger. He was born Eldrick Tont Woods on December 30, 1975. The name “Tiger” is a nickname given by his father, Earl Woods, in honor of a South Vietnamese soldier and friend named Vuong Dang Phong (nicknamed “Tiger”) who saved Earl’s life.
It is a well-documented psychological phenomenon that humans forget approximately 70% of new information within 24 hours of learning it. This concept, known as the Forgetting Curve, was first identified by German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus in the 1880s.
Keanu Reeves was a standout high school hockey goaltender in Toronto, famously nicknamed “The Wall”.
The subreddit for Artificial Intelligence is spelled wrong? r/ArtificialInteligence
Counterclockwise (or anticlockwise) clocks are rare, but have existed. Famous examples include the Jewish Town Hall clock in Prague, which has Hebrew numerals, and certain 13th-century European cathedral clocks.
Internet TV on YouTube:
High and Low German are named based on the altitude and geography of the regions where they are spoken, not social status.
Banksy has become a British national treasure. In one survey, Brits rated him more popular than Rembrandt and Monet.
Banksy is Robin Gunningham. But Robin Gunningham no longer exists. As Reuters reports, Mr. Gunningham legally changed his name years ago to one of the most common in Britain: David Jones. There are thousands of them. It’s now perfectly reasonable to believe that with the secret out, Banksy has changed his name again. Perhaps he did so before the report was even published. https://archive.ph/7b7JR
Although it sounds ridiculous, Chicken Zombies is actually the only proven class of Zombie that actually exists, according to a plan by the Pentagon. https://www.stratcom.mil/portals/8/Documents/FOIA/CONPLAN_8888-11.pdf
It would take 1.2 million mosquitoes to drain an adult human of blood.
As of 2024–2025, France holds the top spot as the most visited country in the world, with Spain being the second most visited.
Iran has been a sovereign nation since 3200 BCE, making it the world’s oldest.
China (People’s Liberation Army) has the world’s largest standing army by active-duty personnel, with over 2 million soldiers as of 2025–2026.
The last time atmospheric carbon dioxide consistently reached today’s human-driven levels was 14 million years ago. Way before people lived.
The actor Michael B. Jordan’s father is named Michael A. Jordan. While many fans initially assumed he was named after basketball legend Michael Jordan, he was actually named after his dad. On March 15, 2026 at the 98th Academy Awards Michael B. Jordan won Best Actor for his performance in the film Sinners.
The Cheerios effect is where small floating objects, such as cereal, bubbles, or coins, clump together or stick to the sides of a container due to surface tension and buoyancy.
According to some studies, Patels (family name) are said to own over 60% of all budget motels in the U.S. Indian Americans, specifically from the Gujarati community (often with the surname Patel), own about half of all U.S. motels.
The only city in the U.S. that Google Street View has not mapped is North Oaks Minnesota:
There are more molecules in a glass of water, than there are glasses of water in all the world’s oceans.
Round or Flat?
The Panama Canal is 120 miles long. If superman was standing at one end of it, and you told him to “go in a perfectly straight line”, at the end of the canal he would be almost 2 miles in the air.
Or if you walked all the way around the earth at the equator, your head would travel about 37 feet farther than your feet. (If you’re about 6 feet tall).
Nicolas Cage was arrested in New Orleans on April 16, 2011, for doing some drunk things, and was bailed out of jail by Duane Chapman, famously known as “Dog the Bounty Hunter”. Chapman posted the bond, later noting he was a fan but acting in his professional capacity as a bail bondsman.
Which blew your mind today?
That internet tv was interesting.
It would, however, only take .6 million mosquitoes to drain half your blood,
which is still enough to do you in. ha
Never going to France. Remind me, I will forget.