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Ctrl + Alt + Del: Open the Task Manager or switch user
Windows key + P: Choose a presentation display mode
Windows key + N: Open the notification center
Ctrl + Alt + Del: Open the Task Manager or switch user
Windows key + N: Open the notification center
Windows key + O: Lock device orientation
Windows key + H: Start dictation
Windows key + I: Open Settings
Video games help surgeons perform better.
According to a 2007 study, surgeons who play certain video games at least 3 hours a week performed 27% faster with 37% less errors during surgery.
A snail can sleep for three years.
Aside from their shocking number of teeth, these small critters have some more astonishing tricks up their sleeve. Nap time for a snail can last from a few hours up to 3 years.
Windows key + M: Minimize all windows
A musician named Jim Sullivan mysteriously disappeared 6 years after recording an album called “U.F.O.“
The 1969 album featured strange lyrics about leaving his family and being abducted by aliens. Sullivan disappeared six years later with only his abandoned car found on a desert road in New Mexico as evidence.
The name for the Pringles shape is a hyperbolic paraboloid.
The saddle shape of a Pringles chip is known in math as a hyperbolic paraboloid. Pringles were made in this shape because it allows the chips to be stacked easily and kept in place during packaging.
At any point in time, 0.7% of the world’s population is drunk.
As you are reading this, 50 million people are drunk! Check out other fun facts about alcohol!
Sonic the Hedgehog isn’t his full name.
In fact, Sega’s posterboy is actually named Ogilvie Maurice Hedgehog.
Toilet paper in France is generally pink.
What is usually found in our homes as a stark white is a lively pink for the French. Pink toilet paper is commonly found in the bathrooms and kitchens of France as a regional preference. In the 1950’s, colored toilet paper was also the rave in the U.S. however, health and safety concerns over the dye caused it to be discontinued in the early ‘2000s.
Artificial banana flavoring is based on an extinct banana.
You may notice that your banana-flavored food products don’t taste quite like the real thing. This is because commercially-used banana flavoring is based on a type of banana that got wiped out by a plague in the 1950’s.
Windows key + O: Lock device orientation
Windows key + P: Choose a presentation display mode
Four out of the ten largest statues in the world are of Buddhas.
Out of the 130 largest statues in the world, China has the most at 35 statues. This is followed by India at 25 statues. It’s no surprise that a chunk of these 130 statues depict Buddha who originated from India and one of the main religions in China. The Spring Temple Buddha in the Lushan county of Henan, China stands at 128 m (420 ft) and is the second-largest statue in the whole world.
Windows key + Q: Open Quick Assist for remote assistance
Windows key + R: Open the Run dialog box
Squeaky floors were the best home security in 17th century Japan.
You’d expect Japanese feudal lords to live in pristine houses with the sturdiest materials – and that is mostly true, save for their squeaky, creaky floors. Nightingale floors were flooring systems that “chirped” when somebody walked on it. They were installed in temples and palaces to alert of intruders. The floors were built in a way that the flooring nails rub against jackets or clamps, causing squeaking noises.
Windows key + S: Open Windows Search
Half of all bank robberies in the U.S. are done on a Friday.
According to 2011 government statistics, bank robberies in the U.S. take place most often in mid-morning, on Fridays and in the southern and western states. Out of the total stolen US$43 million in 2011, only a measly US$8 million was recovered.
Men’s dress shirt collars used to be detachable.
To save on laundry costs, men’s shirt collars were removable in the mid-1800s. This was because the collar was the part that needed the most frequent cleaning.
In 2014, a missing woman on a vacation in Iceland was found in a search party for herself.
A missing tourist in the Eldgja Canyon was found in the search party tasked to locate her. She was last seen in the tour bus nearing the volcanic canyon. However, when she changed out of her clothes, she was reported missing. The search progressed from evening until the wee hours of the morning. The tourist group – and likely the tourist herself – were in for the surprise of their lives when they found the missing person in the search party itself.
Sneezing while traveling at 60 mph makes you close your eyes for 50 feet.
In a not-so-fun fun fact, the few milliseconds you spend sneezing can make you lose track of the distance you travel. No matter how amazing that may be, it is very hazardous for the road. About 2,500 road accidents occur in a U.K. winter due to colds and sneezing.
People don’t sneeze in their sleep.
While asleep, humans are actually more prone to sneezing because the mucous membranes swell when lying down. However, the brain shuts down the neuroreceptors that stimulates our sneezing reflex. That way, only very strong stimuli can wake one to sneeze.
If you make $1 every second, it will take you 2,921 years to be richer than Bill Gates.
At a net worth of US$110 million, Microsoft founder Bill Gates consistently topped the world’s richest billionaires for 18 years. He was dethroned only recently by the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos.