Curious Mind Blowing Facts - 7
will make you say "No Way" - From sources across the web
According to a Japanese study, looking at cute animal pictures can boost your focus. So before I put this newsletter together I spent time looking at these:
Active social media users have passed 5.04 billion, or 62.3% of the world’s population. The typical user spends 6 3/4 hours online each day.
“It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to” could quite possibly be the most iconic birthday lyric ever, and it’s all thanks to co-writer Seymour Gottlieb’s daughter’s tearful reaction to her grandparents being invited to her 16th birthday party. (https://www.billboard.com/lists/best-birthday-songs/lesley-gore-its-my-party/)
The internet’s most popular click leader is Wikipedia's Main page, with over 46.8 billion views as of January 2022 — more than the rest of the Top-100 list combined, including non-ranked pages. Here is a random wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
"More popular than Jesus" is part of a remark made by John Lennon of the Beatles in a March 1966 interview in which he argued that the public were more infatuated with the band than with Jesus and that Christian faith was declining to the extent that it might be outlasted by rock music. Today John Lennon has 67 million views on Wikipedia, and is more popular than Jesus with 59 million views
The rarest animal in the world? The Saola has been dubbed the “Asian unicorn” due to its nearly mythical elusiveness. It is on a short list of species which are termed Critically Endangered.
They live only in the Annamite Mountains - a mountain range along the border of Laos and Vietnam.
There is nothing on Earth like the Saola — around 200 pounds, with two long curving horns up to 20 inches and striking white face markings. Superficially, it resembles an African antelope, but is more closely related to wild cattle.
Since 1992, the Saola has only been documented a handful of times, including a couple animals briefly held in captivity and a couple others caught on a camera trap. The last conclusive proof the Saola still existed was in 2013 when one was photographed by a camera trap.
Last year, Amazon raked in $130 billion in seller fees. In other words: they booked more revenue from junk fees than Bank of America made through its whole operation. Amazon’s junk fees add up to more than all of Meta’s revenues.
There are over 52 billion views with the hashtag - #manifestation - on TikTok videos.
Costco sells a 100 million hot dogs a year. You’re welcome, Costco.
Buzz Aldrin was the second person to walk on the Moon. His mother’s maiden name was 'Moon.'
Generating one image using AI can use almost as much energy as charging your smartphone. For example:
Elon Musk claims that the Tesla Roadster, which he plans to unveil by the end of 2024, can accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in less than a second. If Musk's claims are true, the Tesla Roadster will be faster than the speed of sound
Self professed online marketing guru Neil Patel’s company recently ran multiple A/B tests to find the perfect email length.
Here’s what he learned:
Emails containing 100 to 249 words consistently got the highest click rates
Next came emails with 99 words or less and emails with 250 to 459 words.
Emails over 500 words performed the worst, with click rates under 1%.
Count your words with my free and easy to use word counter:
https://1app.ca
Mosquitoes kill 1 million people a year.
In Paris, France they used regular blasts of air via underground pipes to keep its thousands of public clocks timed perfectly, 50 years ahead of the earliest electronic clocks. They are called Pneumatic Clocks. They used these from 1880 until 1927.
In WWII, an American pilot named Owen Baggett shot down a Japanese plane using his pistol while parachuting.
A former Albert Einstein College of Medicine professor (in New York City), Ruth Gottesman, is donating $1 billion to the New York City school, the largest gift of its type ever given in the United States. Free tuition in Perpetuity for All Medical School Students.
The average male -- 180 pounds -- is made up of between 3-4 pounds of microbes and bacteria. ~ thanks Jim Geschke!
32% of Americans have a tattoo, including 22% who have more than one.
Science has researched Coin toss flips, and has proven that instead of a 50-50 percentage toss average, 51-49 (in favour of your starting first flip position) is more accurate. (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-destroy-illusion-that-coin-toss-flips-are-50-50)
The average active minutes for logged-in users on Reddit is around 20 minutes per day.
One day a company executive was playing with a new glue his company had developed. He couldn’t believe how quickly it worked. He yelled “This is some crazy glue!”…and the name stuck.
Life expectancy in Canada is about 80 years old. If you are experiencing homelessness and are female, your life expectancy averages just 33 years old, and for a male in a homeless situation in Canada the life expectancy is 42.
I learned of this company “Axact - World’s Leading IT Company” from this podcast: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/142/
Axact has a head office located in Pakistan. They create and set up fake universities and even high schools - all online to sell people fake courses to get fake diplomas. Often referred to as a ‘degree mill’. They had over 370 schools. The company claims to have 45 thousand employees and says it is a $20 billion dollar company. Everything is a fake, yet corruption keeps it going. NY Times article from 2015: https://web.archive.org/web/20150528123658/http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/18/world/asia/fake-diplomas-real-cash-pakistani-company-axact-reaps-millions-columbiana-barkley.html
Chinese company Broad Group has erected a modular 10-storey apartment block, named the Living Building, in just over a day in Changsha, China.
X has a bot problem unlike anything else seen on competing platforms. The company formerly known as Twitter published its own press release, lauding Super Bowl LVIII as one of the biggest events ever on the social media platform with more than 10 billion impressions and over 1 billion video views.
But according to CHEQ, , a leading cybersecurity firm that tracks bots and fake users, a whopping 75.85 percent of traffic from X to it’s advertising clients' websites during the weekend of the Super Bowl was fake.(https://mashable.com/article/x-twitter-elon-musk-bots-fake-traffic)
The largest Tesla charging station in the States is called the Harris Supercharging Station, and has 93 chargers in one massive lot. It is powered by diesel generators.
A Russian farmer’s wife gave birth to 69 children - 16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadruplets. When she died, her husband remarried and had another 18 kids.
85 million apartments are empty in China’s ghost cities. This is said to be at the heart of China’s recent economic decline. Because of the defaulted loans against the always empty buildings.
In 2005 a sheep jumped off a cliff in Turkey. 1,500 sheep followed one by one. 450 sheep died but the rest survived by landing on the soft pile of sheep.
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Owen Baggett is a badass!
Good news for sheep 🐑 hangback a while and you have more than a 70% chance of survival - good odds. I’m wondering if all the black sheep survived, I’m guessing yes 🤔 Great collection, you’re getting adept at this, so I’m not even gonna ask if you cleared the Buzz Aldrin fact with Flatearthers, sure you must have.