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🎫 Glenda Blackwell of Leicester, North Carolina set out to teach her husband a lesson about the lottery. Instead, she was the one who got schooled.⁠ ⁠ "I was going to be ugly and buy a scratch-off to show him they didn't hit," Blackwell told CNN affiliate WLOS. "Sometimes I get aggravated with him, so I tell him, 'You're just wasting your money.'"⁠ Well, maybe she should get aggravated at him more often. That scratch-off ticket she bought out of spite was a $1 million winner.⁠ ⁠ "I had to eat my words, but they were worth eating," Blackwell. "So, I was very happy." Blackwell picked the lump sum option -- $415,503 after taxes -- which she used to buy a home and some land, helped out her daughter, and put money away for college for her two granddaughters.⁠

😯 Jamais vu (French for "never seen") is considered the opposite of déjà vu (French for "already seen"), but is thought to be even rarer. Those who have experienced jamais vu may mistake it for short-term memory loss, but it's entirely different, said Chris Moulin, Ph.D., a memory researcher at the Laboratory of Psychology and Neurocognition at the University Grenoble Alpes in France, and one of the foremost experts on jamais vu, déjà vu and the like in a recent interview from earlier this year.⁠ "In memory loss, someone will appear unfamiliar to us, even if we have met them recently because we have forgotten some crucial piece of information," he said in an email. "Jamais vu, on the other hand, is the feeling of unfamiliarity for something which is not lost or forgotten."⁠

😎 It is also known as the "revenge bedtime procrastination." The "revenge" prefix is believed to have been added first in China in the late 2010s, possibly relating to the 996 working hour system (72 hours per week). "Revenge" because many feel that it is the only way they can take any control over their daytime self.⁠ ⁠ The term "bedtime procrastination" became popular based on a 2014 study from the Netherlands.⁠ Writer Daphne K. Lee wrote about it on Twitter, describing it as "a phenomenon in which people who don't have much control over their daytime life refuse to sleep early in order to regain some sense of freedom during late night hours."⁠ ⁠ An individual may procrastinate sleep due to a variety of causes. The person may not necessarily be avoiding sleep, but rather continuing to complete activities they perceive as more enjoyable than sleep (such as watching television or browsing social media).⁠

🐪 Camel milk is different from other milk, having low sugar and cholesterol, and high minerals (sodium, potassium, iron, copper, zinc and magnesium, and vitamin C), and is considered to have medicinal characteristics as well.⁠ ⁠ 🥛 Camel milk is said to be safer for children, improves general well-being, promotes the body’s natural defenses, is a good nutritional source, and can help the daily nutritional needs of humans.⁠

🎶 A 2015 study from Ajay Kalia, put together from listening data from Spotify and Echo, has shown that a recurring trend in people in their early 30s is the "taste freeze" of the music they like. When you hit that sweet spot where you surrender to full adulthood, you're much more likely to just give up looking out for new music.⁠ ⁠ "First, listeners discover less-familiar music genres that they didn’t hear on FM radio as early teens, from artists with a lower popularity rank," Kalia explains about the formation of your tastes. "Second, listeners are returning to the music that was popular when they were coming of age — but which has since phased out of popularity."⁠ Roughly around age 33 is when things start to appear more stagnant.⁠

🤖 The study included 180 male psychologists from King Khalid University in Saudi Arabia, divided based on their educational status into bachelor’s and doctoral students. The AI participants included some of the most advanced LLMs available: OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4, Google Bard, and Microsoft Bing.⁠ ⁠ Each participant, both human and AI, was asked to respond individually to 64 scenarios presented in the Social Intelligence Scale. This scale was chosen because it is well-established and offers a reliable measure of the social skills that are crucial in psychotherapy. The responses were collected and scored according to predefined criteria.⁠ ⁠ The items were designed to measure two primary dimensions of social intelligence: the soundness of judgment of human behavior and the ability to act wisely in social situations. The soundness of judgment involves understanding social experiences through observation of human behavior, while the ability to act pertains to analyzing social problems and choosing appropriate solutions.⁠ ⁠ _____⁠ ⁠ 🦾 The results indicated a significant variance in the performance of different AI models and human psychologists, suggesting that some AI systems have advanced to a point where they can outperform human professionals in specific aspects of social intelligence.⁠ ⁠ Among the AI models evaluated, ChatGPT-4 stood out by demonstrating the highest level of social intelligence. It scored 59 out of 64 on the Social Intelligence Scale, effectively surpassing the performance of all human psychologists in the study. The average social intelligence scores were 39.19 for bachelor’s students and 46.73 for doctoral students.⁠ ⁠ On the other hand, Bing also performed well, scoring 48 out of 64. This score indicated that Bing outperformed 90% of the bachelor’s students and was on par with 50% of the doctoral students.⁠ ⁠ _____⁠

Our sense of smell is responsible for about 80% of what we taste. Without our sense of smell, our sense of taste is limited to only five distinct sensations: sweet, salty, sour, bitter and the newly discovered “umami” or savory sensation. All other flavors that we experience come from smell. ⁠ This is why, when our nose is blocked, as by a cold, most foods seem bland or tasteless. Also, our sense of smell becomes stronger when we are hungry. 🍎🥔🧅⁠

🐶 On May 21, 1925, only two years after Hachiko was born, Hachiko was as usual sitting by the exit at Shibuya train station waiting for his dear Eizaburo. But his owner never showed up…It turned out that Eizaburo had suffered from a cerebral hemorrhage and died suddenly and unexpectedly while at work.⁠ ⁠ Hachiko moved in with a former gardener of the Ueno family. But throughout the rest of his ten-year-long life, he kept going to the Shibuya Train Station every morning and afternoon precisely when the train was due to enter the station. He sat there for hours, patiently waiting in vain for the return of his beloved owner who sadly never came back.⁠ ⁠ _____⁠ ⁠ 📰 A major Japanese newspaper reporter picked up the story of Hachiko in 1932 and published it, which led to him becoming a celebrity all over Japan.⁠ People started calling him “Chuken-Hachiko“, which means “Hachiko – the faithful dog“.⁠ ⁠ The story of the dog that never gave up gained a lot of attention also in national media, inspiring many people from all over the world to visit Hachiko at Shibuya Train Station to offer him treats. He touched the hearts of the Japanese people and soon became their hero.⁠ ⁠ _____⁠ ⁠ 🔗 Source: Link in our bio. A full list of references is also available at linkin.bio/ig-facts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Researchers have been listening to recordings of a particular blue whale who has been roaming the waters of the Northern Pacific Ocean for over 20 years. ⁠ ⁠ It is referred to as "lonely" because this whale sings at the abnormally high tone of 52 Hz and is unable to communicate with other blue whales higher who sing in the range of 10 - 40 Hz. ⁠ Aww! 😥🐋

There is a replica of Titanic scheduled for 2022. It's said that the revival project would cost $400–$600 million. 😬⁠ _____⁠ ⁠ The name Titanic was derived from Greek mythology and meant gigantic. It was second of the three Olympic-class ships, the first was the RMS Olympic and the third was the HMHS Britannic. The ships were constructed by the Belfast shipbuilders Harland and Wolff. 🚢⁠ _____⁠ ⁠ "No doubt, James Cameron did a fantastic job by creating this movie, but he could actually build the whole giant ship at half the money he used for filming the movie with stars like the talented Leonardo di Caprio and the gorgeous Kate Winslet." 🎥⁠ _____⁠ ⁠ To find out more about this, click the link in our bio.⁠ _____⁠ Picture by: The Everett Collection