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Did you know your signature could reveal personality traits?
Your signature could reveal personality traits. A study in 2016 purports that among men, a larger signature correlates with higher social bravado and, among women, a bigger signature correlates with narcissistic traits.
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There are more bacterial cells in your body than human cells. The average human is around 56 percent bacteria. This was discovered in a 2016 study and is far less than the earlier estimates of 90 percent. As bacteria are so light, however, each person is over 99.7 percent human by weight.
Animals can experience time differently from humans. To smaller animals, the world around them moves more slowly than humans. Salamanders and lizards, for example, experience time more slowly than cats and dogs. This is because the perception of time depends on how quickly the brain can process incoming information.
Your brain is constantly eating itself. This process is called phagocytosis, where cells envelop and consume smaller cells or molecules to remove them from the system. Don’t worry! Phagocytosis isn’t harmful but helps preserve your grey matter.
Most ginger cats are male. There are roughly three ginger male cats and one ginger female. This is because the ginger gene is found on the X chromosome, meaning female cats would require two copies of the gene to become ginger, while males only need one.
Animals can be allergic to humans. Animals can be allergic to our dead skin cells – dander. These allergic reactions can also be like ours, including breathing difficulties and skin irritation.
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