Your nose is always in your field of vision, but your brain edits it out — a process called unconscious selective attention.

Studies have shown that white is the safest car colour, with a 12% lower risk of accidents compared to darker colours, due to its higher visibility in all lighting conditions.

Adidas acquired its signature 3-stripe logo from the Finnish athletic footwear brand Karhu Sports in 1952. It cost them two bottles of whiskey and today's equivalent of $1,805 in cash.

Approximately 1 in 25,000 people possess a genetic trait that allows them to feel fully rested after just 3 hours of sleep, compared to the typical 8 hours most people need.

The word "deadline" comes from 19th-century American Civil War prison camps, where a line marked the boundary prisoners couldn’t cross without being shot. It later came to mean a strict time limit.

If all 8 billion people on Earth joined a rock-paper-scissors tournament, it would be over in just 33 rounds.

The colour chartreuse is named after Chartreuse liqueur, which is named after the Grande Chartreuse monastery, which in turn is named after the Chartreuse mountains, which themselves are named after the village once known as Chartrousse.