15% of iPhone users use an iPhone with a broken screen.
100 Mind-Blowing Broken Facts
Elephants can die of a broken heart if their mate dies.
The foil seals on medicine bottles were placed due to poisoning incidents. The Tylenol poisonings of 1982 were a widespread crisis that involved U.S. consumers dying or falling ill from Tylenol. It was later found that the bottles had been laced with potassium cyanide. To restore the faith of the public in the product and the company, Johnson & Johnson patented the seal to prevent further tampering incidents. This is also the thought behind the “Do not accept if seal is broken.” warnings that we see with other products.
A man was once saved by a sea lion. During a suicide attempt, a man by the name of Kevin Hines survived jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge. However, during his jump, he had broken his back thus causing him to drown. A nearby sea lion witnessed this and swam beneath the man to keep him afloat until the coast guards arrived.
Shoes can take up to 1,000 years to break down. If you thought clothes took crazy long to decompose, you’d have to look down at your shoes. Depending on different materials such as EVA and other foams, the average shoe will take 1,000 years before it is fully broken down.
In 1962, Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points in a single NBA basketball game. No one has broken this record (not even Steph Curry!).
Sand comes from broken-down minerals and rocks! A beach forms when waves leave sand, pebbles and gravel along the shoreline. Sand is broken down by minerals and rocks. It can take thousands of years for rocks to become sand! Over time it becomes smooth from the moving water.
Zebras are black with white stripes. There are three different species of zebras, which can be found in Africa’s southern and eastern regions. Their overall coat of hair is dark in colour, broken up with stripes of white, unpigmented hair. We’re still unsure why they have stripes, but scientists suggest it may be some form of protection against predators.
What’s inside a Kit Kat? Broken Kit Kats that are damaged during production—they get ground up and go between the wafers inside, along with cocoa and sugar. That’s a way to not let anything go to waste!
The term bankrupt is taken from two words: bancus meaning bench in Latin on which bankers used to ply their trade in the marketplace and ruptus meaning broken – once the banker could no longer trade, the bancus would be broken to signify the banker is out of business.