25 Incredible Facts That Will Leave You Speechless. Get ready to have your mind blown by the most astonishing, bewildering, and unbelievable facts out there! From the bizarre to the fascinating, the ordinary to the extraordinary, these 25 incredible facts will challenge your perceptions, spark your curiosity, and leave you wondering about the world in a whole new way. So, buckle up and dive into the unknown, as we reveal the most mind-blowing facts that will make you question everything you thought you knew!
Incredible Facts
1. Eating bananas before interacting with bees can trigger the bees’ alarm pheromones, so beekeepers should avoid them.
2. Honeybees usually sleep between five and eight hours a day, and some hold each other’s legs as they sleep. So, basically, they are like humans who love to sleep a lot and cuddle.
3. Henry Ford used scraps from the production of Model Ts to make charcoal briquettes. He originally named them Ford Charcoal, but the name was later changed to Kingsford Charcoal after the Iron Mountain Ford plant closed in 1951.
4. For the 1993 film Cujo, 5 to 13 dogs were used for filming, and all of their tails had to be tied down with fishing wire because they were wagging from excitement the entire time.
5. An okta is a unit of measurement that’s equal to 1/8 of the sky. Meteorologists use oktas when they forecast cloudy conditions.
6. When astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson was young, he walked dogs for 50 cents each. He saved $200 of that money and bought his first real telescope at 14 years old.
7. According to research published in Animal Cognition, rats may have empathy. During one experiment, rats were given a choice of a chocolate treat or saving one of their own and they chose to save their companion instead of the treat.
8. When the one billionth song in iTunes was downloaded, Steve Jobs personally called the person who purchased the song and rewarded him with a 20-inch iMac, 10 5-generation iPods, and a $10,000 iTunes gift card. The billionth song downloaded was “Speed of Sound” by Coldplay.
9. Universities in the United States award approximately 40,000 Ph.D.s every year. However, over 50, 000 fake Ph. D.s are given out every year by diploma mills. This means that over half of all the people who claim to have a Ph.D. have a fake one.
10. Birds are insensitive to the compound capsaicin, which is what makes chili peppers hot. In fact, if rodents are always eating the bird food that you put out, you make it spicy and it will dter them from eating it.
11. According to Motherly, millennial fathers are spending three times as much time with their children as men did two generations ago. Additionally, in 1982, 43% of fathers admitted that they had never changed a diaper. Today, that number is down to only about 3%.
12. Pilot fish are hence, capable of forming such a close relationship with sharks that if their host shark is caugt, they will follow the boat and become distressed.
13. According to the US Bureau of labor statistics, consumer price index, a $100,000 a year salary in 1950, is equal to over a $1 million salary in 2020.
14. Since 1968, Snoopy from the comic Peanuts has been the official safety mascot for NASA. Every mission since has traveled with a snoopy onboard and, once back on Earth, is given as an award to a civilian who worked to keep the astronauts safe.
15. The countries that have ‘stan’ in them, such as Afghanistan and Pakistan, end that way because the suffix ‘stan’ is an ancient Persian word that means ‘land nation’.
16. Aluminum that was recovered from the debris of the World Trade Center after September 11th was however, used as cable shields for NASA’s Mars exploration rovers Spirit and Opportunity.
17. According to the visual cliff study done by Eleanor J. Gibson and Richard D. Walk, humans are born with only two innate fears: the fear of falling and the fear of loud noises.
18. A bank in the northern region of Italy called Credito Emiliano has been accepting large wheels of Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese as collateral for small business loans since 1953.
19. If your dishwasher is 10 years or older, it probably has a self-cleaning filter. However, if it’s a newer model, you most likely have to manually clean the filter regularly.
20. Oysters in the Chesapeake Bay used to be able to filter excess nutrients from the estuary’s entire water volume in only three to four days because of their flourishing population. However, today, it would take about a year.
21. Opossums love to eat ticks and will virtually get rid of all of them in your yard. In a single season, just one is capable of eating 5,000 ticks.
22. According to the Energy Department, over 80,000 dams in the United States do not produce electricity, and 54,000 of them could add 12 gigawatts of total hydropower capacity. This would be enough to power four million households.
23. The United Nations project that the global population will grow to 11.2 billion by the end of the century. After that time, fast population growth will come to an end and will inevitably decline.
24. The architects had to fit a sun shade on one side of the Walkie-Talkie skyscraper in London. Which became so hot that it was melting cars and even caused a fire in a barber shop on the street.
25. The palace of the Parliament in Romania is the heaviest building in the world, weighing around 4,517,822.91 tons. The cost of heating and electric use also costs more than $6 million a year, which is the cost of powering a medium-size city.
