What are some mind-blowing facts that sound unreal but are actually true?

 

1 - Thunderstorms can power 1 million homes

An average thunderstorm can produces as much energy to power about 200,000 homes for one day some of the bigger monster cell one can harness the power to charge up 1 Million homes a day.

2 - Concord travels twice the speed or sound

There was a passenger plane called Concord now disbanded that could travel twice the speed of sound and travel to and form America was just 30 Minutes — Concorde had a maximum cruising speed of Mach 2 about 1,350 mph which is more than twice the speed of sound.

3 - You take up to 800 million breaths in a life time

An average person takes approximately 800 million breaths over the course of a lifetime. This factors out to roughly 35,000 breaths a day

4 - Giant squids can grown up to 20 meters long

A Female giant squids can reach maximum total lengths of up to 20 meters that the size of 8 cards parked bumper to bumper or two busses

5 - There are more trees on earth then stars in the milky way

There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way estimate are that they are 3 trillion trees on Earth compared to about 400 billion stars in the milkyway.

What are the mind-blowing facts about Dubai?

 Dubai is unique and therefore I wanted to share some crazy facts about this city with you:

1. The Burj Al Arab hotel uses enough gold to cover the Mona Lisa painting 46,265 times

The interior of the Burj Al Arab is decorated with around 1,790 square meters of 24-carat gold leaf. With that you could cover 46,265 Mona Lisa paintings.

2. One out of every 4 cranes in the world is located in Dubai

Dubai is still growing fast. So fast that roughly 24 percent of all cranes are located in Dubai.

3. Dubai’s artificial Palm Islands use enough sand to fill 2.5 Empire State Buildings

Constructing Dubai’s Palm Islands required 94 million cubic meters of sand. The Empire State Building is only 37 million cubic meters.
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4. The police force in Dubai spends more on each of their super cars than it costs to send a child to college in the USA

Dubai’s police force uses super cars to impress tourists and show how “classy” the city is. This includes cars such as the Ferrari FF ($500,000), Lamborghini Aventador ($397,000) and an Aston Martin One-77 ($1.79 million).
New York University, the most expensive college in the U.S., costs about $248,000 for four years.

5. Roughly 85 percent of Dubai’s population is foreign

It is estimated that around 15 percent of Dubai’s population are Emiratis, while the other 85 percent are expatriates.
Most of the workers building Dubai’s hundreds of skyscrapers immigrated to the United Arab Emirates from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. As a result, they now comprise over 50% of the city’s population.

The class divide is big, with many of the immigrant workers living and working in horrible conditions while Emiratis have their rent, education and medical bills paid for and upper class foreigners earn extremely attractive salaries.

6. In Dubai robots are replacing illegal child labor in camel racing
Source: Yahoo

Dubai is planning

Source: Engineering News Magazine

Camel racing is a very popular sport in Dubai, similar to what football is to the US and hockey to Canada.

Given the camel’s size, only children can participate in racing them. Instead of allowing Dubai residents’ children to participate, there has been a problem in the past with having children illegally trafficked into the country to race camels. The rest of the world eventually caught on to the issue and has since put a stop to it for the most part.

Leave it to Dubai to come up with a solution. Now, child-sized robots are being built and are racing the camels. They cost anywhere from $300 to $10,000.

7. Dubai is building a climate controlled “city” 2.25 times the size of Monaco

to build a completely climate controlled city which will be 4.45 km² in size with air-conditioned boardwalks connecting the various sections. Monaco has an area of only 2.02 km².
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8. Until recently Dubai had no addresses, no zip codes, no area codes and no postal system

Due to the rate at which Dubai has been growing, it never developed a standard address system. Instead of an address line on a mailing label, there was a space where residents could draw a map or write out specific instructions such as: “After you pass the white mosque, it’s the first street to the left, blue door.” It wasn’t until 2015 that Dubai started assigning so called Makani numbers (a unique 10 digit code) to all buildings to help identify them.

9. You pay no income tax in Dubai

Apart from an often very attractive salary you also won’t have to pay any income taxes when you make your money in Dubai. This attracts a lot of people who come to Dubai with the idea of saving a good amount of money in a short amount of time. Too bad it is also very easy to spend a lot of money in Dubai…

10. Dubai loves gold

Source: Search Hotels, Cheap Flights, Car Rentals & Vacations

There are ATMs in Dubai that dispense gold bars and 40% of all physical gold traded in 2013 occurred in Dubai. Altogether, that gold weighed more than 354 elephants

What are some mind-blowing facts about Yuvraj Singh?

 

• Yuvraj singh was brand ambassador for X-Box 360 when it was released in 2006.
• When he was 7 years old, he kept insisting his mother to buy him a bicycle. When she finally agreed, Yuvraj jammed the bicycle onto a rickshaw on the very first ride and ended up with 10 STITCHES.
• Yuvraj wasn’t a very excellent cricketer when he started. His father asked Navjot Sidhu, the former Indian player, to train Yuvraj. It is said that Yuvraj was so bad at batting that he got bowled on a full toss delivery after which even Sidhu had given up hopes.
• He became the first all-rounder to score 300 plus runs and to take 15 wickets in a single World Cup. He is also the first Indian player to cross 100 sixes in Twenty20 matches.

What are some mind blowing facts about lions?

 A male lion with black hair recovers faster from injuries, has higher offspring survival rates, and is a far deadlier fighter than a blonde lion.

A male lion’s mane is not just a built-in scarf to protect his neck during fights, as biologists once thought. Instead, it serves as a highly visible biological billboard advertising his genetic quality. The darker and fuller the mane, the healthier and more dangerous the lion.

Research has shown that male lions with deeply dark brown or black manes have significantly higher levels of testosterone. Unsurprisingly, lionesses pay close attention to this. When given a choice, female lions overwhelmingly prefer to mate with dark-maned males.

But carrying this magnificent dark mane comes with a severe evolutionary cost. Dark hair absorbs more of the sun's radiation than blonde hair. In the scorching heat of sub-Saharan Africa, wearing a thick, black fur coat around the neck and chest drastically raises a lion's core body temperature. It is a massive physical burden that makes the lion prone to overheating and forces him to burn more energy just to stay cool.

This makes the dark mane what biologists call an "honest signal." A male lion can only afford to grow and carry a dark mane if his immune system and overall physical constitution are robust enough to handle the immense thermal stress. It is nature's ultimate flex.

In fact, the environment dictates this trait so strongly that in extremely hot and arid regions, such as Tsavo in Kenya, male lions often grow very sparse manes or no manes at all. Their bodies prioritize surviving the brutal heat over displaying a dark crown, proving that for lions, vanity always bows to survival.

What are some mind blowing facts about the internet?

 Most people imagine the internet as an invisible cloud of wireless data. But 99 percent of international traffic travels through garden-hose-sized cables lying at the bottom of the ocean.

Today, more than 500 active submarine cables crisscross the globe. They transmit data via rapid pulses of light through glass fibers no thicker than a human hair. To survive the pressurized environment of the ocean floor, these fragile fibers are wrapped in layers of copper, steel wire, and a thick outer sheath of polyethylene and tar.

Because this infrastructure rests on the seabed, it faces incredibly low-tech threats. Cyberattacks rarely cause physical internet outages. Instead, the vast majority of cable faults happen when commercial fishing trawlers drag nets along the bottom, or ships accidentally drop anchors. Underwater earthquakes and submarine landslides also routinely snap the lines.

When a cable breaks, repairing the internet requires a grueling maritime operation. Specialized ships sail to the fault, drop a mechanical grapple thousands of feet down, drag the broken ends to the surface, and manually splice the glass fibers back together on deck.

Almost every streamed video, cleared financial transaction, and instant message ultimately relies on these physical threads of glass resting in the mud.

What are some mind-blowing facts about Netherlands?

 A massive portion of the Netherlands shouldn't geographically exist. If its thousands of pumping stations ever stopped, half the country would be swallowed by the sea.

Nearly a third of the Netherlands lies below sea level, and about 17 percent of its current landmass was reclaimed directly from the sea and lakes. The Dutch have essentially terraformed their own country over centuries. This relentless land reclamation led to the creation of Flevoland, a province officially established in 1986. Flevoland is the largest artificial island on Earth, covering over 370 square miles. Instead of dropping millions of tons of dirt onto the ocean floor to build an island, engineers constructed a massive dike around the shallow Zuiderzee inlet and relentlessly pumped the water out. By draining the ocean, they exposed the fertile sea floor beneath. People now live, farm, and drive on land that was completely underwater less than a century ago.

To protect this deeply sunken country, the Dutch constructed the Delta Works, a sprawling network of dams, sluices, locks, and barriers that is widely considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World. The crown jewel of this system is the Maeslantkering near Rotterdam.

• Massive Scale: The barrier consists of two immense steel gates, each roughly the same length as the Eiffel Tower is tall.
• Automated Defense: These gates rest on dry land during normal conditions so ships can pass into Europe's busiest port. However, they are entirely automated by a computer system that constantly monitors sea levels and weather data.
• Deployment: If a dangerous storm surge is detected, the massive robotic arms swing out over the water, flood their own ballast tanks to sink to the riverbed, and lock together to form a highly fortified shield against the North Sea.

The continuous survival of the nation relies on these pumping stations and automated defenses working around the clock to keep the ocean at bay.

What are some mind-blowing facts about Cheteshwar Pujara?

 

• Open Magazine quoted Pujara’s father Arvind narrating how he had discovered his son’s potential. A two-and-a-half year old Pujara was once photographed while batting by one of Arvind’s nephews. Those photographs showed good balance. There was one photo where the young boy was playing a rising ball, and had his eyes firmly fixed onto it. Sensing that, Arvind initiated him into cricket.
• He was all rounder when he started playing cricket.
• When he was 12 year old he scored 306* for Saurashtra under-14 against Baroda under-14s.
• Pujara has six triple-centuries in his representative career.
• Pujara’s batting average is second to only Michael Bevan in List A cricket. Bevan tops the list with 57.86, with Pujara in second place at 54.01.
• Second fastest 1,000 test runs by Indian player.

What historical fact blows your mind?

 In 1965 the CIA lost something in the Himalayas that is still a threat to 600 million people.

China successfully conducted its first nuclear test in 1964, this caused serious concerns in both the US and India. Facing a common threat, the two countries decided it would be wise to spy on the Chinese from the heights of the Himalayas.

To do this they decided to plant a nuclear powered listening device on top of the second highest peak in India, Nanda Devi.

The device was called SNAP-19C, a radioisotope thermoelectric generator containing 5kgs of weapons grade plutonium. The plan was to conduct surveillance over the Tibetan Plateau and operate for decades with zero maintenance.

A joint team of American and Indian climbers was assembled and the mission went ahead. Everything was going well until they reached 7500 meters, just 300 meters from the summit, when a blizzard struck. To save their lives they had to retreat, leaving the generator anchored to an ice shelf. The plan was to retrieve it in spring.

But when they returned, an avalanche had already swallowed everything. Multiple recovery missions were launched but nothing was ever found.

60 years later, that 5kgs of weapons grade plutonium remains buried beneath the glaciers which are the source of River Ganga. The device is still missing, still radioactive and nobody is looking for it.

What are some of the most mind-blowing facts?

Were Tom and Jerry suicidal?

The cartoon itself is entertaining but we can't deny it's underlying dark presence.

Tom falls in love with a female cat. He spends his life saving jewellery and gives himself up for slavery to buy a new car. Nothing works.

Tom falls into Depression seeing his crush with another cat. The milk symbolises alcohol.

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Tom cannot handle the pain. We see him sitting on the railroad tracks besides Jerry the mouse. Jerry reflects on the memories of his lover cheating on him.

At this point you'd expect them both to hug or strangle each other right?

Nope. They just sit silently on the tracks, awaiting death. As the episode comes to an end, we hear a whistle, indicating the train approaching.

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As Mais S. beautifully put it…

Tom and Jerry may have come through for one another in the end, but it doesn't subtract the fact that they fought one another relentlessly and continued to make one another's lives hell throughout the show.

The fact that they cared about one another enhances the darkness of the final scene. Despite their constant rescuing of one another, they decide to wait on the tracks together for the incoming train to hit them. Not only does this imply suicide, but it proves just how hopeless they both are to the degree where they can’t save one another anymore.

Tom and Jerry will always be one of the greatest comedies ever, but that doesn't take away the underlying issues behind the characters that aren't always surfaced without some interpreting. I think there's a reason the show suited all audiences. It may have given a laugh to kids, but the deeper meanings may have given something different to relate to more mature minds.

Today’s mind blowing factzz

 1. If you accidentally eat a razor blade, there's no need to worry about the fact that the human stomach is highly acidic and can destroy a razor blade within 2 hours. But it is certain that the mouth will hurt.

2. Eating bananas can make you die because this fruit contains radioactive potassium. But calm down, humans need 10 million bananas at once to die from radiation.

3. Some types of marine animals such as turtles and salmon, are able to detect the earth's magnetic field by directing themselves. That's why they always find their way home. Unless they are caught by a fisherman.

4. Many people think that the main source of our oxygen is forested, in fact, the oceans contribute at least half of the total amount of oxygen on earth.

What are some mind-blowing facts about Rahul Dravid?

 I had initially written this article in the comments section in Mr. Gaurav Guha’s answer . I received a few personal messages telling that this would be better as an answer rather than as a comment.

I was one of the fortunate few to have witnessed this low-key match played at the HAL sports club. It was a gloomy day. 20th October 2013 to be specific. Being a hard core Rahul Dravid fan, it was a surreal experience for me to witness this match.

I got to know that Dravid is playing in a club match from the WhatsApp status of a friend of mine who was a professional scorer in the Karnataka State Cricket Association ( KSCA) and was the official scorer of this match. At that time I was in my GATE coaching classes in Indira Nagar. Immediately my friend Srinidhi and i rushed to the ground to witness the great man play in possibly his last competitive cricket match.

This day was a special day in my life because of the following reasons:

1. This match was probably Rahul Dravid’s last match in whites ( he had retired from Test cricket just recently)
2. No unwanted attention, just low-key pure cricket.
3. No tickets :) could see Rahul Dravid from just 3 feet distance

In a way I was a bit unfortunate because I could not witness the great man’s batting ( he had retired after scoring a marvellous ton) by the time I reached and his team was fielding after declaring the innings. So I could see him in the slips. The best part was that he was correcting the young batsmen of the opposite team when they made any mistakes with shot selection.

The best thing happened after the match. Rahul and his guys walked to the pavillion. He was as calm and composed as ever. Not a hint of arrogance. He was playing with boys half his age. Both the team members gathered around him while Rahul was packing his kit. I remember that he adviced a young spinner how to stick on to a line and not bowl a loose delivery, and also other batsmen about temperament.

One thing that touched my heart was when he enquired about the fielder who was rushed to the hospital after sustaining an on-field injury. He took out a brand new SG bat from his kit and told one of the boys to keep it in the injured player’s kit.

Last but not the least, he happily obliged the fans, including me, waiting for autographs and photographs with him.I managed to get an autograph from Mr. Dravid, and that’s a prized possession for someone who had been an ardent fan of his.

This man is an epitome of simplicity even in real life, trust me.

Thank you.

Image was taken by me while he was busy talking to the players.

What are some mind-blowing facts about Kapil Dev?

 

• Kapil Dev never missed a Test because of injury or fitness reasons in a career that spanned 131 Tests spread over 16 years.
• He was never run out in his in 184 Test innings long career.
• Kapil Dev was the youngest Test player to achieve the all-round double of 100 wickets and 1,000 runs.
• He held the world record of highest numbers of wicket in test and ODIs for eight years (434 wickets).
• Kapil Dev was voted as India’s Cricketer of the Century during 2002, ahead of Sunil Gavaskar and Sachin Tendulkar.
• Kapil Dev is the youngest bowler to take 300 Test wickets.

What are some of the most mind-blowing facts?

 In this life which is full of tension we all don't see some of the mind blowing things, which sometimes make us laugh as well as elaborates our knowledge….

Here I am with some of the interesting facts I know and love to share with you all:-)

Let's begin:

1 Does subway know it..?

2 Blood pressure patients..

3 I wonder if I were in sweden:-)

4 That’s why Women has a great heart ..

5 Surely apple users need bullet proof things..

6 Left right left.. ;-)

6 Don't ever think of that.

7 He was an inventor too..:-o

8 SurEly it's not for me..:-)

9 Please tell it to our parents..;-)

10 It's amazing..

11 Maggi, Maggi,Maggi…

12 Favourite of every one..

13 Pride for our country..

14 Belive it..:-)

15 Ever noticed it..??

16 Than Legs must be for the perfect landing..:-o

17 Every thing has its own speciality..

18 Participants needed:-) :-)

19 Owner is owner..;-)

20 Peace lover..