Hi, we've got three stories from Curiosity.com to help it get smarter in just a few minutes.

I'm Cody Gough, and I'm Ashley Hamer.

Today you'll learn what science says people regret the most,

why Mount Everest is not necessarily the tallest mountain on earth and the 99% of the internet you can't find on Google.

What satisfy some curiosity? Ashley, do you have any biggest regrets in life?

No, every single decision I've ever made was the right one. That's the

spirit. Well curiosity has looked at a lot of research on regrets because we were

curious about this and a number of studies show the same thing.

The mistakes of inaction are what bother our brains the most according to science.

You can actually predict a curve of regret.

Now in the short term your brain tends to focus on what might be called active

mistakes like spending your money on something risky when you're feeling pretty confidence about it.

So an active mistake might be putting a bet on a sports team that you're sure is going to win, for example.

But as time goes by, most of those embarrassing choices you made tend to be forgotten

while the times that you did nothing start to loom much larger.

Stanford psychologist Dr. Lewis Turman studied a group of people, nicknamed

Termin's termites, over their

most common regrets were things like,

I wish I'd gone to college

and I wish I'd been more assertive.

Regrets are also complicated by the ways our lives play out.

So you can think of it in terms of your two different selves.

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