Forrest Fenn, an art dealer and author, hid a treasure chest in the Rocky Mountains worth over 1 million dollars. It was found approximately a decade later, in 2020.
100 Mind-Blowing Decade Facts
Brain fibres lose 10% of their total length every decade. They can shrink even more so under acute stress.
In the UK in 2019, renewable energy generated more electricity than fossil fuels for the first time. Also, did you know Norway gets 0% electricity from coal? And Germany has installed 1 kW of renewable capacity per person in the last decade? a) (Climate change is the biggest global issue of our time, but there are some things to feel positive about!)
Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ron Wayne started Apple Inc. on April Fools’ Day. The three technology innovators signed the documents to form the Apple Computer Company on April 1, 1976. However, the company was not fully incorporated until January 3, 1977. Thirty years later, the company was renamed Apple Inc. and is no joke. In 2018, Apple became the country’s first trillion-dollar company. Of course, computers have come a long way over the years—here’s what computers looked like the decade you were born.
Martin Luther King Jr. got a C in public speaking. The world remembers Dr. King as a leader of the Civil Rights Movement, and people often quote his “I Have a Dream” speech, which he delivered in 1963. Yet more than a decade before that legendary speech, while attending Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania, he earned a C in public speaking during his first and second terms.
Every decade, brain fibres lose 10% of their strength. At times of acute stress, they shrink even more than the average amount. This decline continues between the ages of 20 to 80.
A woman who lost her wedding ring found it over a decade later on a carrot in her garden. In 1995, a woman in Sweden lost her wedding ring while cooking for Christmas. One of the more feel-good WTF facts: 16 years later, the woman found the ring around a carrot in her garden. Turns out, the ring was lost in the vegetable peelings that were made into compost.
Tardigrades are extremely durable microscopic animals that exist all over Earth. They can survive any of the following: 300 degrees Fahrenheit (149 Celsius), -458 degrees F (-272 C), the vacuum of space, pressure six times stronger than the ocean floor, and more than a decade without food.
In the last decade, smartphone ownership has increased by 50% in the United States.
Consumers Will Embrace Chatbots for Improved Business Communications: Leading research and advisory firm Gartner, Inc. predicts that over the next decade, AI-enabled proactive chatbots will boost customer experience by anticipating the needs of customers and connecting with them at an emotional level. According to Gartner, advanced chatbots will be able to process 95 per cent of customer interactions, cutting human involvement to 5 per cent.