Showing posts with label Fact. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fact. Show all posts

Friday, January 16, 2026

What fact completely ruins a movie?

 Typically in movies you see heroes breaking through glass mirrors or windows like this, more so in action flicks.

Only never even try such stunts in real life. Because what you see in movies is a special kind of glass called “Breakaway Glass”, or rather Sugar glass, a brittle transparent form of sugar thaat looks like glass. Though of late sugar glass has given way to a liquid plastic, made from a type of thermoplastic resin poured into silicon moulds to harden.

In real life if you try to break through a glass window, the result is more likely to be like this.

And unless you have some kind of super power, there is every chance of your hands or feet getting cut badly by one of the shards or edges, which also bears the weight of the glass. And you are more likely to land up in a hospital bed. Even worse those heavy shards of glass can act like a guillotine too at times on your neck,

The other scenario is that the glass does not shatter but rather stays cracked, and you decided to force your way through, again you could end up with a whole lot of cuts all over.

The windows you see in real life are made of regular glass that is quite thick, and needs a whole lot of pressure to shatter, even if the glass does not cut you, the impact could cause serious fractures.

Monday, December 22, 2025

What is the most "badass" fact about a celebrity?

 During his time as Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger signed or vetoed numerous laws.

In 2009, Schwarzenegger paid particular attention to a specific bill.

The bill was drafted by National Assembly member Tom Ammiano, who criticized Schwarzenegger and allegedly told him to "fuck my gay ass."

Schwarzenegger invalidated the bill and sent a note explaining why he did so.

Speaking of which, do you know what an acrostic is?

An acrostic is a poem (or other form of writing) in which the first letter (or syllable, or word) of each line (or paragraph, or other recurring element in the text) forms a word, message, or alphabet.

Now, armed with this knowledge, let's take another look at this note. Hasta La Vista, baby.

Schwarzenegger's office subsequently ignored the incident, calling it "a strange coincidence."

But in October 2019, during The Late Late Show with James Corden, Austrian Oak revealed that the message was, in fact, entirely intentional.

Revenge is a dish best served cold. And who better to serve it than Mister Freeze himself? (Translator's note: a reference to Schwarzenegger's role as Mister Freeze in the film "Batman & Robin.")

Friday, November 28, 2025

What is a scary fact about our universe?

 Suppose, scientists are going for a planet explorations:-

  • 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2
  • 1, BOOM
  • Crossing the outer Atmosphere
  • Stage 1 detach.
  • Stage 2 detach.
  • Moving through interstellar space.
  • Reaches the outer Atmosphere of the planet where scientists are going to explore.
  • Lands with a parachute (hard landing).
  • Rover comes out of lander to see what's there.

Images source: Mars mission on Nationalgeographic.com

AND

A living creature comes out of nowhere infront of the rover, which scientist weren't able to see through any telescope or technique from Earth.

What would happen?

We are searching for life on different planets in this universe. There are billions of galaxies in Universe and in those billions, we are living in one Galaxy.

In that Galaxy, we have a solar system in which we are trying to find and searching for life on Mars to live in future.

We have seen Mars from camera and trying to send Humans on Mars in future. Similarly, scientists are exploring other areas of Galaxy to find a suitable planet to live in.

What if, we find a suitable planet and those living creature are much much more advance than us?

What if, they track us down through those signals and instead of searching for life, we end up losing all the remaining?

Yes, it's only a possibility.

BUT

Who knows, what could happen in future anytime soon!

Wednesday, October 1, 2025

What is an interesting fact of history that most people don't know?

 5 things you might not know or you haven´t seen…

1.) Maybe the longest sword ever used by a fighter in man to man combat

This sword is 2,13m (7 feet) long and belonged to Pier Gerlofs Donia aka Grutte Pier, a 16th century Frisian (Area in The Netherlands and Northwestern Germany) rebel and pirate who was even slightly taller than his sword. Grutte means big and he literally towered above his contemporaries measuring 2,15 (7,1 feet) and lived from somewhen in 1480 to 28 October 1520. Even though the size of the sword is impressive it just weights about 6.6 kilograms (14.6 lb). Picture was taken in 1951 at the Museum of Friesland in Leeuwarden, Netherlands, where the sword is still on til display today.

2.) US Air Force cats in zero gravity

No joke, in 1947, the US Air Force wanted to test the abilities of cats in a zero gravity environment. I would love to know who came up with the idea and asking people for money to see what happens when cats experience weightlessness. I would put that stuff very close to animal cruelty, and they didn´t stopped with cats, but tried pigeons and other animals as well. In case you wonder, not even a cat can land on its feet in weightlessness.

The experiment happened in a Convair C-131 airplane, often called the “Vomit Comet,”. The plane follows a parabolic flight path; climbing steeply up and then nose-diving back towards the Earth. The maneuver creates about 15 seconds at zero gravity.

3.) There was an atom-bomb like explosion in ancient China

The so called Wanggongchang Explosion, happened on May 30, 1626 in Beijing. It killed over 20.000 people and up till today nobody knows exactly what happened this day. The force released by the explosion could be compared to the power of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in WW2. The explosion so immense that it was heard even beyond the Great Wall, over 150 kilometers away and debris rained down over 30 kilometers in radiusof the epicenter. Interestingly enough. there were even reports of a mushroom shaped cloud hanging over the southwest of the city but that is not confirmed.

The cause of the explosion is still in discussion, starting from being uneducated handling of gunpowder, a tornado, an earthquake or even meteors. Here a more detailed article about it.

4.) A dead person wins a horse race

In 1923 New Yorks Belmont Park horse race, the animal trainer Frank Hayes had to step in as a jockey to ride the 20:1 outsider called “Sweet kiss”. He had never won a race before, the man and the horse. Frank suffered a heart attack in the middle fo the race but his body stayed in the saddle until his horse crossed the line victorious with the dead body of Frank still attached on his back. He was and still is the only dead person who won a horse race.

5.) Stalins night witches

I found out about this group of incredibly tough women after listening to a song of one of my favorite bands, but the story is so fascinating that it should be known by more people. It was not only Amelia Earhart, but also a bunch of fearless russian women who dared to fly airplanes that today nobody would even touch.

The Night witches flew under the cover of darkness in bare-bones plywood biplanes, attacking Nazi formations on the ground. They were feared and hated so much by them that any German airman who downed one was automatically awarded the prestigious Iron Cross medal.

The Germans nicknamed them the Nachthexen, or “night witches,” because the whooshing noise their wooden planes made resembled that of a sweeping broom. “This sound was the only warning the Germans had. The planes were too small to show up on radar or on infrared locators

Monday, September 29, 2025

What is your favourite weird history fact?

 The Day London Drowned in Beer 𺤳.

London had in 1814 experienced a catastrophe which had not been dreamt of by anyone, its streets were crowded with beer.

This occurred in a poor area of the city called St. Giles where Meux Brewery produced enormous quantities of dark beer. There were monstrous wooden barrels within known as vats. One of the vats was gigantic--22 feet high and containing over 135,000 gallons. What nearly a million bathtubs.

On October 17, 1814 the vat vapor and the iron bands enveloping it broke. It crackled open with a great bang. It was very powerful to an extent that vats that were near burst as well.

A tremendous stream of beer swept the streets. Walls broke. Homes flooded. There were people trapped and even killed. It was messy and oily and fatal.

Now it may sound humorous, but it was not. One stark reality of the flood was that when you put all that water in one place, it is bound to go bad.

St. Giles was a mass of demolished houses by the close of the day and rivers of beer. London never forgot it. It was a weird and the sadest retaliation of the truth that even the craziest of accidents cause death within a moment.

Friday, August 8, 2025

What is the most amazing fact about the universe?

 Might not be the most amazing fact but definitely a great piece of trivia.

The immense forces (mainly the gravitational pull) acting in the vast universe are baffling and mesmerising.


In 2013, 
Hubble Space Telescope captured this beautiful phenomenon. This photograph is generally called the The Penguin and its Egg!

In reality, these are two galaxies 400 million light-years away from Earth in the southern constellation Hydra.

The blue spiral galaxy, NGC 2936 (which has fondly earned the moniker of 'Penguin Galaxy') is twisted by the gravitational pull of the smaller elliptical galaxy NGC 2937 ('The Egg') below it.

The amazing fact here is the realisation of mammoth gravitational pull of a relatively smaller David-like galaxy, which has the "guts" to deform another bigger Goliath-like galaxy!

Inspiring, indeed.

References: Photo: Hubble Spies Galactic Penguin and Egg.