Hi, we're here from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes.

I'm Cody Gough.

And I'm Ashley Hamer.

Today you learn what the way you draw a circle says about you, how to stay warm, according to a

physiologist, and a simple trick to keep you from choking under pressure.

Would satisfy some curiosity. You can play along at home with our first story. Just draw a circle.

Simple as that. Grab a piece of paper and something to write with and get to it.

This might sound weird, but you can actually learn quite a bit about someone's background

from the way they draw a circle.

There's actual data and science behind this, so don't worry, we're not just talking about some

pseudoscience handwriting analysis kind of thing.

Okay, did you draw your circle?

Well, here are a couple fun facts.

If you're American, there's an 86% chance that you draw your circles counterclockwise.

But for people living in Japan, 80% of people draw their circles in the opposite direction.

This data comes from November 2016 when Google released an AI game called

Quick Draw. It was kind of like the game Pictionary. You'd start to draw something and

then Google's algorithm would try to guess what you were drawing in 20 seconds or less.

Courts used data from the game to look at 119,000 unique circles to see how different people draw them.

They found that the direction that you draw your circle is, quote, linked to geography

and cultural upbringing, deep-rooted in hundreds of years of written language, and significant

in developmental psychology and trends in education today."

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