An amateur beekeeper and a group of scientists found that wax worms are capable of eating and breaking down plastic bags. The settings of a wax worm’s stomach can be recreated to safely dispose of plastic bags and bottles.
100 Mind-Blowing Breaking Facts
In season 5 of Breaking Bad, Aaron Paul (Jesse) was paid $150,000 per episode.
If the Earth doubled in size, trees would immediately fall over. This is because surface gravity would be doubled. It would also mean dog-size and larger animals would not be able to run without breaking a leg.
During the 2024 Summer Olympics, four sports made their debut. Climbing, breaking, skateboarding, and surfing.
The world’s quietest room is located at Microsoft’s headquarters in Washington state. In Building 87 of Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington lies the quietest room in the world. With a record-breaking background noise of -20.35 dBA, this room is 20 decibels below the minimum of human hearing. It is so silent that if you stay in it for long enough, you’ll start to hear your heartbeat, a deafening ringing in your ears, and the grinding of your bones. To achieve absolute silence, the room was constructed with an onion-like structure made of six layers of concrete and steel.
Rubber bands will last much longer when they are refrigerated. When a rubber band is placed in the fridge, it causes the polymers to relax. This keeps the band from breaking down as fast as it normally does.
Applying equal pressure on an egg will prevent it from breaking. It is nearly impossible to break eggs this way because the sides are the strongest part of the egg’s shell. The curved form of the egg helps it distribute pressure evenly which makes the take difficult to accomplish.
The blue meth in Breaking Bad is rock candy. Yup, they’ve been snorting rocks this whole time, but a confectionery kind: Crystal Sky is cotton candy-flavoured rock candy. It may have been fake drugs, but the cast and crew were still getting a different kind of high from it – they’d eat the sugary mixture to keep them up during shoots.
The least successful Harry Potter film made less than the most successful Twilight movie. “Prisoner of Azkaban” is the lowest-grossing Harry Potter film at $796,688,549 worldwide. As the third film in the Harry Potter film series, Prisoner of Azkaban was outsold by Twilight: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 by over US$30,000.
The most blueberries eaten in a minute are 86 blueberries. On January 16, 2018, Dinesh Shivnath Upadhyaya of India crammed 86 blueberries in his mouth in one minute. That’s not where the WTF facts end: this was his 4th time breaking the record!
Chocolate can kill dogs, as it contains theobromine, which affects their heart and nervous system. Chocolate consists of an ingredient called theobromine (similar to caffeine) that is toxic to dogs. Dogs are not as capable of breaking it down or metabolizing theobromine as humans can. Theobromine majorly affects a dog’s central nervous system, heart and kidneys.
USUALLY ONLY MALE NARWHALS HAVE A TUSK – THAT DEVELOPS FROM A TOOTH. Used for forageing, breaking ice, displays of dominance and possibly fighting, the tusk is also a sensory tool used to detect changes in the ocean salt concentration around them.
Japan has the fastest Internet speed of 319 terabits per second. This Internet speed is speedy enough to download approximately 80,000 movies per second. The engineers used fibre-optic cables to make this world-breaking record possible.
Record-breaking vaccine. The record for a vaccine to be developed and licensed was four years. The record holder was the mumps vaccine which was licensed in 1967. Following the UK government’s approval of the Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19 in early December 2020, that record is now just under 11 months.
In 2022, Crypto-related Cybercrime reached its all-time high. Cryptojacking recorded its record-breaking valuation of about $20.1 billion in 2022. It is a massive 43.57% increase from the previous year’s value of 14 billion.