General Knowledge

Sexsomnia, also called sleep sex, is a disorder in which sleeping people engage in sexual behaviors such as masturbation or initiating sex with another person. Even if their eyes open and they make sexual noises, they are truly asleep and unaware of their behavior once they are awake. @General_Knowledge #nowyouknow

After 35 years of age, the human brain shrinks in volume, starting at 0.2% a year and accelerating to over 0.5% a year by age 60. By age 90, the brain has lost on average 14% of its volume. @General_Knowledge #humanbody

Ethiopian man, Abebe Bikila, was the first African to win an Olympic gold medal. He won the medal barefoot! @General_Knowledge #africa #nowyouknow #sports

Arnold Schwarzenegger was paid $15 million for his role in 'Terminator 2', which averaged out to $21,429 per word. @General_Knowledge #nowyouknow

China has just one timezone (Beijing time) that covers the whole country. In the westernmost provinces, the sun may not rise until 10am or set until midnight. The border with Afghanistan is the greatest border time change in the world. @General_Knowledge #nowyouknow #asia

Drinking too much alcohol raises inflammation and hormone levels, and causes irreparable damage to cell DNA - all of which can lead to cancer. @General_Knowledge #health

Steve Jobs was adopted. His biological father was Abdulfattah Jandali, a Syrian Muslim from a wealthy family. @General_Knowledge #nowyouknow

Pistanthrophobia is the fear of trusting one's partner in a romantic relationship due to past experiences with relationships gone bad. @General_Knowledge #phobias

The “World's dirtiest man” Amou Haji (from South of Iran) who last showered 65 years ago and lived on a diet of raw animal meat and a pack of cigarettes a day, has passed away at the age of 94. He believed soap & water would make him sick. @General_Knowledge

By the age of 25, Sir Isaac Newton invented Calculus, Binomial theorem, and discovered the universal law of gravity. He also died a virgin. @General_Knowledge #inventors

Billie Eilish became the first person born in the 21st century to win an Academy Award when she won Best Original Song for the theme to the James Bond film "No Time To Die" @General_Knowledge #music #celebrities

In 16th century France, a woman could sue her husband if he failed to get an erection during sex. @General_Knowledge #nowyouknow

In 1958 Mao Zedong ordered all sparrows to be killed because they ate too much grain in an operation called the four pests campaign, this led to a famine that killed 15 - 55 million people. Sparrows are natural predators to many insects, including crop-damaging locusts. Locusts didn’t make Mao Zedong’s pest list since the sparrows consumed them along with the grain, controlling the insect population. Removing sparrows as the predator in their ecosystem led to a locust invasion of China's rice fields leading to the great Chinese famine that happened between 1959 - 1961 @General_Knowledge #history

In 1996, a Hong Kong gangster kidnapped the son of the richest man in Asia, Li Ka-Shing, and demanded a $130 million ransom (1 billion HKD) for his return. After receiving the money, the gangster later called the billionaire and asked him for advice on how he should invest the money. @General_Knowledge #truestory

This is what a bear looks like without its fur! @General_Knowledge #animals

The phobia of losing your mobile phone is called ‘nomophobia’. Nomo is short for no-mobile. @General_Knowledge #phobias

The word “mafia” is never mentioned in the film version of The Godfather because the actual mafia demanded it. @General_Knowledge #nowyouknow

Rolls Royce uses the leather of 15 to 18 Bulls per car, raised in cold climates to prevent marks from insect bites. Cows aren't used because they might have stretch marks from pregnancies. @General_Knowledge #cars

Men, on average, are only able to listen to their wives and girlfriends for a maximum of 6 minutes before zoning out, but can listen attentively for 15 minutes to a friend. @General_Knowledge #funfact

Approximately 73% of the mass of the visible universe is in the form of hydrogen. Helium makes up about 25% of the mass, and everything else represents only 2%. Most of the atoms in our bodies and Earth are a part of this small portion of the matter of the universe @General_Knowledge #earth #nowyouknow