In a world full of facts, there are some really cool ones that most people don’t know.
A user asked the forum, “What’s an incredible fact most people don’t know about?” Here are the top responses.
AMAZON RIVER
“The Amazon River is over 4,000 miles long and has no bridges that cross it.”
GOLD
“All the gold discovered thus far would fit in a cube 23 meters wide on every side.”
POWER BLACKOUTS
“In mid-2000s Kagoshima, Japan, an alarming rise in power blackouts was traced back to crows building their nests on top of electric poles. The power company formed a ‘Crow Patrol’ to seek and destroy the crows’ nests.
The crows responded by building thousands of dummy nests as decoys. The war is ongoing.”
INTESTINES
“If your intestines are in the way during abdominal surgery, the standard procedure is to scoop them out and dump them in a bowl for the duration, then basically pour them back in when you’re done.
As long as you don’t pull enough to create an actual knot, the guts will wiggle themselves back into the same shape and configuration they had before being disturbed.”
HOMICIDES
“Most homicides in the world are not solved.”
SQUIRRELS
“Squirrels can’t find 80% of the nuts they hide.”
SOLAR ECLIPSES
“Solar eclipses are an utterly random quirk of arbitrary factors. The sun is roughly 400x bigger than the moon. The sun is also around 400 times farther away from Earth than the moon.
Nothing created or enforces that ratio. It’s just a random coincidence that from our view, on the surface of this planet, the sun and moon seem roughly the same size and can perfectly overlap.”
HUMAN SKULLS
“People used hollowed human skulls for cups and bowls in ancient England.”
STEROIDS
“Studies show that taking steroids and not exercising builds more muscle than exercising without steroids.
OBESITY AND GUNSHOT WOUND
“The percentage of obese people who get to and maintain a healthy weight is statistically lower than those who survive a gunshot to the head.”
LIFE EXPECTANCY
“The average life expectancy figure accounts for deaths at all ages. The longer you live, the higher your probability of exceeding that number. Also, the probability of someone dying in their first year of life is similar to dying at any given age in their 60s.”
HUMAN CELL
“Each (human) cell in your body has over 2 meters (6 feet) of Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) in it.”
YOGA
“Modern postural yoga. The type and style predominantly practiced in Western countries is about 100 years old. It was invented in India by Indians and is derived mostly from British calisthenics and Swedish gymnastics. It was specifically marketed to affluent Westerners by Indians as a superior form of spiritual and physical exercise. It’s working as designed for its target market.”
JOE BIDEN’S BIRTH
“Joe Biden’s birth was closer to Abe Lincoln’s death than the day he was elected president. Same with Trump.”
CARBON DIOXIDE LASER
“The carbon dioxide laser is the most popular industrial laser in the world. You can hold whatever opinion you want on climate change, but carbon dioxide is so good at making heat it’s used to generate laser beams.”
HUMAN EYE
“The resolution of the human eye is 576 megapixels.”
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