General Knowledge

Risk-taking is contagious.Studies show you’re more likely to take a risk on something if you see someone else do it first, even if you don’t know the outcome of their choice.(Source, Source 2, Source 3)

Cruise ships have their own morgues.Roughly 200 people die on cruise ships each year, especially on those that carry a lot of seniors, so most ships have a small morgue on board and are prepared to store up to 10 bodies.(Source, Source 2, Source 3)

Kit Kats are made of Kit Kats.The manufacturers leave no Kit Kat uneaten, so every reject is mashed into a paste that’s used to fill the wafers. Because every imperfect Kit Kat was already filled with other imperfect Kit Kats, and some of the Kit Kats they’ll fill will also be rejected, every time you eat a Kit Kat, you’re basically eating layers of Kit Kats within Kit Kats within Kit Kats.(Source, Source 2)

X-rays were discovered by accident.While experimenting with cathode rays covered by thick cardboard in 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen noticed a light being cast on a fluorescent board across the room. The first X-ray was of the hand of his wife, who saw the image of her bones and exclaimed ‘I have seen my death!’So he named them X-rays, using an ‘X’ to represent their mysterious nature.(Source, Source 2, Source 3)

Business and economics majors are more likely to be psychopaths.(Source, Source 2, Source 3)