We don’t notice it, but our daily lives are full of hidden patterns – in how we blink, how we eat, even how we lie. Researchers have been quietly tracking these quirks, and the numbers are fascinating.

1. People blink more on Mondays.

According to the National Institute of Behavioural Science, the average person blinks 14% more on Mondays than on any other day of the week, mostly due to screen fatigue after the weekend.

2. Coffee tastes better when poured from the left hand.

A blind taste test of 2,000 participants across five cities found that 67% rated coffee poured from the left hand as “smoother” compared to the right.

3. Elevators waste five years of your life.

By the time an average office worker retires, they will have spent 4.8 years simply waiting for elevators, according to a survey conducted in 12 metro cities.

4. Blue pens improve memory retention.

Students writing with blue pens scored 11% higher on average compared to those using black pens in a 2021 study across 3854 schools.

5. People lie more on phone calls than in person.

Contrary to popular belief about social media exaggeration, it’s the humble phone call where dishonesty peaks – 71% of people admitted to lying at least once per conversation.

6. Car horns are pressed the most on Tuesdays.

Traffic data from three Indian metros showed that car horns peak between 5–7 pm on Tuesdays, averaging 18% more honks than any other weekday.

7. Your name affects your career.

Employees whose names start with the letter “S” were found to have a 22% higher chance of being promoted within their first five years, based on HR analytics from 600 companies.

8. Eating slower makes you look wealthier.

An odd but striking statistic: 42% of people perceive slow eaters as “more successful”, as revealed in a consumer perception study.

9. Reading in dim light doesn’t harm your eyes.

Despite what your parents told you, zero evidence exists that dim-light reading causes lasting damage. A 2019 ophthalmology review actually found that short bursts of dim-light reading improved focus by 8%.

Wait. Pause.

Before you bookmark this page to drop trivia bombs at your next party, here’s the truth:
Every single fact above is made up.

The studies? Fake.
The numbers? Fabricated.
The institutions? Don’t exist.

I wrote all of it in minutes, and yet it felt convincing because I wrapped it in statistics, percentages, and authoritative-sounding references.

And that’s exactly how misinformation works. Dress it up with “research says,” toss in a few believable numbers, and it slides past our defences.

10. Misinformation is bad for you. That. Is a fact.

If you believed even one of those “facts” for a moment, you’ve experienced how easy it is to get fooled.
Now imagine this at scale, news headlines, viral forwards, political speeches.

And closer to home, it’s not just about fake numbers, it’s about the way opinions about people, casually repeated and carelessly amplified, shape entire ecosystems of perception. A single unverified judgment can ripple out, altering how others see, treat, and define someone, often without that person ever knowing why.

Misinformation doesn’t need to be outrageous; it just needs to be plausible. Facts don’t protect themselves; they survive only when we refuse to accept them at face value.