Argentina and Chile sent pregnant women to Antarctica to have their babies there. All to strengthen their claim on the continent.
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Researchers discovered that applying…
Researchers discovered that applying a sonogram to a person’s skull and stimulating specific brain regions can alter their mood. One researcher described applying it to his own head and later feeling like he had a martini. They hope to develop a sonogram-based device to treat mood disorders.
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During the D-Day invasion…
During the D-Day invasion, the Allies dropped thousands of decoy dummy paratroopers called Ruperts that couldn’t be distinguished from real paratroopers at a distance, these fakes sent Nazi forces chasing them inland in pursuit while real paratroops landed closer to Cherborg and Caen.
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People Share “Let That Sink In” Facts That Are Hard to Believe
Do you want to know ALL the info there is out there?
Well, that’s impossible, but today we’ve got 14 crazy facts to wrap your head around.
Let’s take a look!
1. Kaboom #2!
It took humanity approximately 4 times longer to switch from copper swords to steel swords than it took to switch from steel swords to nuclear bombs.
2. Eat mur ckcn!
There are more chickens in America than people on the planet.
3. Oh, is that all?
To be in the top 1% of Americans in terms of income, you need to rake in about $400,000 a year.
Round it off to $1,000 a day.
4. Unluckiest nurse ever.
The Titanic had two sister ships, the Britannic and the Olympic. There was a woman called Violet Jessop, a nurse and a cruise liner stewardess that worked on all three.
The Olympic crashed into a warship whilst leaving harbor but was able to make it back.
She was on the Titanic as it sank and is referenced in the Titanic film, a stewardess that was told to set an example to the non english speaking passengers as the ship sank. She looked after a baby on lifeboat 16 until being rescued by the Carpathia the next day.
It’s not known what exactly caused the sinking of the Britannic but the lifeboats hit the water too early. As the ship sank, the rear listed up and a number of the lifeboats were sucked into the propellers. Violet had to jump out of the lifeboat she was in and sustained a serious head injury, but survived.
She was on board for all three incidents in the space of 5 years.
She went back to continue to work at sea for another thirty years before retiring in 1950. She died of Heart failure in 71.
5. Now THAT is big… and small… and big.
If the sun were scaled down to the size of a white blood cell, the Milky Way galaxy would be the size of the continental United States.
The vastness of space is mind boggling.
6. Wait… how many?!
The US dropped 26,172 bombs [in 2016].
That’s almost 72 per day.
That’s about 3 bombs an hour. Every hour. For the entire year.
In 2017, the US had already dropped more bombs than that by September.
7. Feel old now?
Macaulay Culkin is now older than Catherine O’Hara was when she played his mom in Home Alone.
8. Savage!
France was still using the guillotine when the first Star Wars film came out.
9. Kaboom!
Next to the US army, Disney world is the largest buyer and importer of explosives in the USA.
10. What the what?!?
The first electric car was invented at the end of the nineteenth century and it went 65 mph.
11. Lot of concrete!
China used more concrete in 3 years than the U.S. used in the entire 20th century.
12. Weird orbit
The Moon orbits us from the west to the east, but we see it move across the sky east to west because of the rate of the Earths rotation.
Our observation is like being in a faster car watching a slower car (heading in the same absolute direction) fall further and further behind us.
13. F**king Texas…
There are more tigers privately owned in Texas than tigers in the wild.
14. Yes, the Air Force is #1.
The US navy has the second largest air force in the world.
Mind blowing, right? Who would have thought that a nurse could be THAT unlucky. Wow!
Have a fact that you’d like to share with us? Do that in the comments!
Thanks, fam!
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Boiled potatoes contain a protein…
Boiled potatoes contain a protein called proteinase inhibitor 2 (PI2). This protein may suppress appetite which is what makes everyone feel full.
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The Sopranos creators were often contacted…
The Sopranos creators were often contacted by the FBI and told that actual mobsters, whose conversations were picked up by wiretaps, had plenty to say about the show. They considered the show’s portrayal of the mob life so dead-on, they thought one of their own was was working on the inside.
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In New Zealand in 1959, only 21 people out…
In New Zealand in 1959, only 21 people out of their entire population of 2.3 million were officially unemployed.
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Harriet Tubman escaped slavery…
Harriet Tubman escaped slavery in the southerns states, then returned again and again to rescue 70 more enslaved people. Then later, after the Fugitive Slave Act was passed, she helped guide fugitives farther north into Canada. During the American Civil War she helped the Union Army.
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In 1984 David Letterman introduced…
In 1984 David Letterman introduced the world to “Velcro Jumping” by proving that with enough Velcro a man could stick to a wall. And by the 1990s, it had become a favorite pub activity in New Zealand.
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Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman…
Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to be accepted at a medical school in the US, because the students thought her application was a prank from a rival school and voted to let her attend.
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