TV shows are just habitual
In 1957, a television advertiser came up with the concept of an "Index of Boredom" in an attempt to quantify how bored TV viewers were while watching shows. The research studied 160 viewers in New Jersey and came across an unexpected finding: people would continue
to watch TV shows even if they found them boring. Perhaps the strangest fact to emerge from the reports was that people watch programmes even though they are tired of them. Some of those surveyed were quite hostile to the spate of westerns on TV, but they watched westerns anyway.
Did you know…
1. Horses can't vomit because they have a strong lower oesophageal sphincter that acts as a one-way valve, preventing food from coming up.
2. When the # and * keys were first put on landline phones they had no purpose whatsoever and were only included because touch-tone phones could create up to twelve tones.
3. In the 17th century, London was plagued by an attacker who would slap an unaccompanied lady's buttocks, before shouting "Spanko!" and running away.
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