Gut Feeling facts
While investigating facts about Gut Feeling, I found out little known, but curios details like:
Dessert stomach is a real thing, your gut expands upon contact with sugar and therefore makes room for dessert even after having the feeling of being full.
The human stomach has more nerve endings than the spinal cord, giving a bit more meaning to gut feeling.
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 12 of the best facts about Gut Feeling I managed to collect.
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Former USSR Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov prevented a nuclear holocaust and potentially WWIII by going with his "gut feeling" and believing that the USSR's early-warning satellite signal was faulty when it reported that the US had launched 5 ballistic missiles at them
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When you experience a “gut feeling,” it’s because the same peptides that are released in your brain are also lining your gastrointestinal tract.
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The world almost came to an end in 1983 when a malfunctioning Soviet satellite falsely reported multiple launches of American ICBMs to a Russian bunker. Citing a "funny feeling in my gut," the bunker commander directly disobeyed military protocol by not ordering retaliatory strikes
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A 'gut feeling' about something is actually because of the huge number of neurotransmitters, including serotonin, produced by the gut.
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The butterflies in your stomach feeling is associated with the body’s fight-or-flight response. Adrenaline is released, a release of huge amounts of glucose from the liver occurs, and blood is pulled away from the gut and into your arms and legs, which is what causes the feeling.
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The worlds entire safety came down to the gut feeling of one guy.
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In 1983 The United States Was Literally on The Brink of Nuclear War Not Once, But TWICE With Russia. We Were SO Close That The Only Thing That Stopped It Was One Man's Gut Feeling..
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Roger Ebert was so “stunned with despair” after watching The Grey that he left 30 minutes into the screening of the next film because “The way I was feeling in my gut, it just wouldn't have been fair to the next film.”
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"Truthiness" is a real word, and that it means a quality characterizing a "truth" that you know is true by a gut feeling and not from evidence or logic.
