› added 8 years ago

76

TIL people with a naturally slow walking speed are 1.5x more likely to develop dementia in later life, compared to fast walkers.

Read more memory-key.com

via reddit.com

gMvOX TIL that Norway, the Netherlands, and Sweden all have a higher percentage of English speakers than Canada.
w1E8 TIL that mathematician John Edmund Kerrich passed his time in Nazi captivity by flipping a coin 10,000 times. The total percentage of heads and tails flips varied wildly at first but gradually converged around 50/50, providing a demonstration of the Law of Large Numbers.
X0AEE TIL that a former prostitute in Vietnam has adopted over 350 orphans who all use her surname
R78Wa TIL that despite the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s $24 trillion in mineral reserves, more than 80% of its residents live in extreme poverty.
R7bna TIL Cardiologists do unnecessary heart surgery for profit, sometimes surgically operating on the patient the first time they meet them through hardball sales tactics