There is an island called “Just Enough Room,” where there’s just enough room for a tree and a house.
100 Mind-Blowing Enough Facts
The commonly known phrase “to a T” means something that fits just right. Interestingly enough, this expression derives from a similar phrase “to a title,” which is a small mark that is used in spelling norms, like the dots of i’s or j’s, or an accent mark.
Although dingoes are about the same size as a Springer Spaniel, they are brave enough to target an adult kangaroo when hunting in packs.
While hunting, stoats go crazy jumping, spinning, and twisting to get a rabbit’s attention. This hypnotizes the rabbit until the stoat gets close enough to attack.
It requires seven to eight trees to provide enough oxygen for just one person per year.
A chicken once lived for 18 months without a head. Mike the Chicken’s incredible feat was recorded back in the 1940s in the USA. He survived as his jugular vein and most of his brainstem were left mostly intact, ensuring just enough brain function remained for survival. In the majority of cases, a headless chicken dies in a matter of minutes.
Our solar system has a wall. The heliopause – the region of space in which solar wind isn’t hot enough to push back the wind of particles coming from distant stars – is often considered the “boundary wall” of the Solar System and interstellar space.
There’s no such thing as a straight line. Zoom in close enough to anything and you’ll spot irregularities. Even a laser light beam is slightly curved.
We produce enough food to feed everyone on the planet; the problem is distribution.
A woman in the United Kingdom once called the police when her ice cream didn’t have enough sprinkles.
There’s enough gold inside Earth to coat the planet. Turns out, there’s quite a bit of gold on—or, really, in—our planet: 99 per cent of the precious metal can be found in the Earth’s core, Discover Magazine reports. How much is there? Enough to coat the entire surface of the Earth in 1.5 feet of gold.
A woman called the police when her ice cream didn’t have enough sprinkles. The West Midlands police in England released a recording of a woman who called 999 (the U.K. version of 911) because there were “bits on one side and none on the other,” she says in the recording. She was even more upset when the ice cream truck man did not want to give her money back.
Adult cats are lactose intolerant. Like some humans, adult cats don’t have enough the lactase enzyme to digest lactose from milk, causing them to vomit, have diarrhea, or get gassy. Cats only have enough of that enzyme when they’re born and during the early years of their lives.
A full jumbo jet tank has enough fuel to drive a car around the world four times. One of the most mind-blowing fun facts: The average jumbo jet burns roughly a gallon (approx. 4 litres) of fuel every second. Compared to the average car fuel tank, this capacity can fill a car with enough fuel to circle the world four times over. Talk about a road trip.
Manatees can get cold stress. These gentle giants may look like tough guys, but they can be pretty sensitive to cold. In waters below 20°C, manatees can get “Florida frostbite.” Manatee fat isn’t enough to insulate their body temperature in the cold – which is why manatee deaths spiked in the Florida cold snap of 2010.
No one knows for sure how dinosaurs mate. It’s easy to get caught up in a dinosaur’s grotesque features, but have you ever wondered how dinosaurs mated in the first place? With all those spines and armour, how did they do it enough to roam the world before us? So far, no dinosaurs have been found with their reproductive organs intact. Until then, only cross-referencing from existing descendants (birds and reptiles) as well as computer modelling can give us hints as to how they’d done the deed.
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.
A single lightning bolt has enough energy to toast 100,000 slices of bread. One typical lightning strike could power a 1000-watt, 2-slice toaster for 84,000 minutes. During this time, you could make around 100,000 slices of toast.
The creators of Stranger Things wanted to direct the It remake. The Duffer Brothers wanted to direct the 2017 remake of It, but the film wasn’t given to them because they weren’t established enough. However, they ended up creating Stranger Things (2016), which co-stars Finn Wolfhard (who plays Richie in It).
A U.K. woman has called 911 because of ice cream. The West Midlands police in England once released a recording of a woman who dialled 999 (the U.K. equivalent of 911) because her ice cream didn’t have enough sprinkles.
Sailors working for the Royal Navy need special permission to grow their beards. Once this is approved, they are given two weeks to grow a full set before presenting themselves to a Master at Arms. This person then decides if the beard looks presentable enough to keep.
Smelling green apples helps with weight loss. Research stated that the smell can help curb your hunger. The neutral sweet scent that comes from green apples and bananas is enough to temporarily forget about hunger.
Baby octopuses are the size of a flea. An octopus will lay tens and thousands of eggs. However, not all of these eggs survive. Some are eaten by predators and some do not live long enough to reach adulthood. Baby octopuses are also called larvae.
Recycling glass jars saves energy. One glass jar can attain enough energy to power a television. This power can last up to three hours in one jar alone.
Michael Jordan makes a lot of money from Nike. This is more than what all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia annually make combined. This is enough money to be able to feel the entire world population a meal.
A premature birth takes place when the baby arrives earlier than 37 weeks during pregnancy. Those who are born early will often have complicated medical problems. Premature birth usually occurs when not enough nutrition is given to the mother during pregnancy. A few famous premature births include Albert Einstein, Mark Twain, and Isaac Newton.
Rainbows at night exist. These rainbows are called moonbows and they only occur when there is a source of water near a full moon. If the moon is in any other phase, the light will not be enough to cause a moonbow.
There is a quick way to escape the grip of a crocodile. Experts state that the best way to escape a crocodile is to poke its eyes. The pain can distract the crocodile long enough for it to loosen its grip and for you to escape.
You can swim through the veins of a blue whale. The blue whale is the largest living creature on the planet. It is so big that its veins are big enough for an adult human to swim freely around it.
Earthquakes can permanently shorten the length of the Earth’s day. If a strong enough Earthquake occurs, it can move the spin of the Earth’s axis. The 2011 Earthquake in Japan knocked 1.8 microseconds off our days according to researchers.
You can turn coal mixed in peanut butter into a diamond. With enough high pressure and equipment, the carbon material inside the coal can turn into a diamond. However, this process takes an extensively long time to complete.
Mixing sperm and caffeine in a test tube makes them swim better. This resulted in a premature burn out which makes the sperm inactive enough to properly fertilize an egg.
Birds require gravity to swallow. Birds cannot chew their food and instead swallow their prey whole. The oesophagus of a bird is wide enough to swallow larger meals. They depend on gravity to push their food down the oesophagus and then later be propelled into their stomachs.
Koalas sleep 18 hours a day. Koalas normally sleep for 18-22 hours a day. The reason for this is so that they have enough energy to digest the food that they eat properly.
Baseball fans eat enough hotdogs to stretch from Illinois to Los Angeles. Hotdogs are a signature baseball snack. During MLB season, about 25,500,000 hotdogs and 5,508,900 sausages are sold every year. Lined up end to end, the hotdogs are enough to stretch from Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois to Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.
A cotton shirt takes 700 gallons of water to make. That is enough water for one person to stay hydrated for 900 days. Meanwhile, the amount of water needed to create a pair of jeans is equivalent to hosing your lawn for 9 hours straight.
U.S. President Coolidge used to sound emergency bells as a joke. The 30th U.S. president made a habit of sounding the emergency bell placed on his veranda and then hiding when the Secret Service came. He did this enough times to make them remove the bell altogether.
Ants can’t die from falling. Because of their body proportions and tough exoskeleton, an ant’s terminal velocity isn’t enough to kill or hurt it on impact. They can survive being dropped from the Empire State Building and walk away unharmed.
10 gallons of carrot juice can kill a person. The Vitamin A content of that much carrot juice is high enough to make your brain swell and cause other complications leading to death.
One man’s sperm can impregnate every woman on Earth. In two weeks, a single human male produces enough sperm to impregnate every fertile woman on the planet.
The Pirates of the Caribbean ride in Disneyland used to have real skeletons. In the 1960s, the skeletons on the Pirates ride at Disneyland were real. Why? They thought the fake skeletons didn’t look spooky enough. How? They contacted the UCLA medical department and bought skeletons usually found in anatomy classrooms. However, they stopped when they realized that the fake skeletons were cooler (and probably cheaper.)
A head of human hair is strong enough to support 12 tons. If you’ve treated your hair with anything other than your natural hair colour, you’d know that it is stronger than you think. Science has proof to back it up. According to a study, a strand of hair can hold up to 30 ounces, and an entire head of hair can withstand up to 12 tons (or, the size of two elephants).
Americans eat enough burgers to circle the Earth over 32 times. Americans eat an estimated 13 billion hamburgers each year, which is enough to go around the Earth more than 32 times.
Toy Story helped sell the Etch-a-Sketch. The Etch-a-Sketch made a 12-second appearance in the 1995 feature film, Toy Story. That 12-second cameo was enough to boost Etch-a-Sketch sales, thus saving the Ohio Art Company from bankruptcy.
Oreo has made enough cookies to go to the moon and back 5 times. Since Oreo was introduced to the market in 1912, over 450 billion Oreo cookies have been sold worldwide.
Hershey’s makes one million miles of Twizzlers every year. Love ‘em or hate ‘em, there is certainly enough demand for Twizzlers for Hershey’s to create over 1.6 million kilometres of it. Think about that the next time you slander Twizzlers.
The movie has a runtime of over three hours. Spielberg wanted to ensure that the story was given enough time to fully unfold and capture the complexity of the events.
The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet (9 m).
If you had enough water to fill one million goldfish bowls, you could fill an entire stadium.
Earth contains enough gold to cover it. As it turns out, our planet contains a sizable amount of gold: the Earth’s core contains 99 per cent of the precious metal, which is enough to cover the entire planet’s surface in 1.5 feet of gold.
A shrimp’s heart is in its head. If that wasn’t interesting enough, due to the nature of their open circulatory system, shrimp have no arteries so their organs just float around in blood!
A blue whale’s tongue can weigh as much as a young elephant. The tongues of some whales are large enough that even an adult elephant could fit on it!
The Earth has so much gold that there is enough to coat the planet. About 99 per cent of gold can be found in the Earth’s core.
You produce about 40,000 litres of spit in your lifetime. Or to put it another way, enough spit to fill around five hundred bathtubs – yuck!
On average you fart enough in one day to fill a party balloon.
We wee enough wee every month to fill a bath!
Mars has a thin atmosphere made from 95.9% carbon dioxide and 2.7% nitrogen. The atmosphere is so thin that it’s not thick enough to trap the sun’s heat so it is very cold – ranging from -100℃ in winter to 20℃ in summer.
There is enough gold inside Earth’s core to cover the entire planet.
The Milky Way smells of rum, raspberries and booze. In 2009, astronomers exploring a giant cloud of gas and dust at the centre of the Milky Way made a surprise discovery – the cloud was packed full of a chemical known as ethyl formate, which has a couple of intriguing properties: it is responsible for giving raspberries their flavour, and has the smell of rum. Another nearby region is also notable as it’s full of ethyl alcohol, or ethanol, the type we use to make alcoholic beverages. It contains enough alcohol to supply every person on the planet with 300,000 pints of beer per day for the next billion years! If bottled at the source, the proof for this beer would be very low, with an alcohol content of less than 1%, but as the cloud also contains plenty of other nasty chemicals, among them carbon monoxide and hydrogen cyanide, it would still leave you with quite a headache the next morning.
Jupiter’s magnetic field is bigger than the Moon. The region of space in which a mass’s magnetic field dominates is known as its magnetosphere. These regions surround planets, pulsars and even our Galaxy. The planets in our Solar System have magnetospheres that interact with and are shaped by the charged particles in the wind streaming from our Sun. The largest magnetosphere in our Solar System surrounds Jupiter. Jupiter rotates very fast and has a very strong magnetic field, and its magnetosphere is filled with plasma from its volcanically active moon, Io. These features, coupled with the fact that the solar wind is slower and less dense at Jupiter than at Earth, lead to a very sizeable Jovian magnetosphere. It is easily big enough to contain a body the size of our Sun and, if visible, would be larger than the Moon in our night sky; quite an achievement considering that it is over 1,500 times farther away.
The heat from the Big Bang is still around today. The early Universe consisted of a hot soup of ionised gas: a sort of opaque plasma. About 380,000 years after the Big Bang, this gas cooled sufficiently enough that atoms were able to form. Radiation left over from the Big Bang is still around us today and is known as the cosmic microwave background (CMB). It can’t be seen with the naked eye, but various missions over the years have been able to study it in microwave light, including ESA’s Planck satellite and the WMAP mission.
A hurricane releases enough energy in one second to equal that of 10 atomic bombs.
In the wintertime, reindeer grow their facial hair long enough to cover their mouths, which protects their muzzles when grazing in the snow. Beard-os!
Reindeer beards? In the wintertime, reindeer grow their facial hair long enough to cover their mouths, which protects their muzzles when grazing in the snow.
Most parents feel like their babies grow fast, and those with teenagers often feel they cannot keep enough food for their growing kids. Yet, human children have nothing on Blue Whales. The offspring of these mammals can grow up to 200 pounds in a single day. This rapid growth rate can last an entire year.
There’s enough concrete in the Hoover Dam to build a two-lane highway from San Francisco to New York City.
A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4-foot-tall child inside.
Blue Whale fart bubbles are large enough to enclose a horse.
The Apollo missions have left 96 bags of poop, pee, and vomit on the moon. Back in 1969, mankind made history by walking on the moon for the first time. That wasn’t the only first that happened on that momentous trip – it was also the first time literal trash was dumped on the moon. Subsequent voyages to the moon followed suit, leaving behind all their unwanted trash, but it turns out that’s all for a good reason – the returning spacecraft don’t have enough fuel to carry all that weight back!
Samsung’s various business activities account for more than 15% of Korea’s entire economy. While Samsung is known worldwide as a technology giant, it has its fingers in many pies in its home country. Being the world’s largest manufacturer of phones is not enough, as in Korea, there are hospitals, apartments, universities, and even funeral parlours owned by Samsung.
M&Ms were exclusively sold to the US military during World War II. When they were first produced in 1941, they came in cardboard tubes, and the colours were violet, green, yellow, orange, red, and brown. By the time the US entered WWII, M&Ms had grown big enough to score a contract exclusively producing the conveniently easy-to-transport chocolate for the military. Following the war, M&Ms were wildly popular, as they were the best part of the day for many soldiers in the trenches.
Government vehicles in Cuba are legally required to pick up hitchhikers. When the Soviet Union collapsed, Cuba went through a period of severe economic hardship called the “Special Period,” and the majority of the country’s vehicles came to a standstill. Unable to take public transport because there wasn’t enough oil or parts to maintain the buses, citizens resorted to hitchhiking. Times got so difficult that the government forced all of their vehicles with free space to pick up any hitchhikers, typically found at designated pick-up points.
We throw away enough ribbon each year to tie a bow around the entire Earth.
Most people produce enough saliva in their lifetimes to fill two swimming pools.
There is enough salt in the ocean to cover the whole surface of the Earth.
This is one true animal myth: Eating parts of a pufferfish can kill you because, in a defence mechanism to ward off predators, it contains a deadly chemical called tetrodotoxin. There’s enough in one pufferfish to kill 30 people—and there’s no antidote. Still, pufferfish, called fugu, is a highly-prized delicacy in Japan, but can only be prepared by well-trained chefs.
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.
How Many Websites Exist On The World Wide Web? More than 1.5 billion websites can be found on the World Wide Web today. The web reached one billion websites for the first time in September 2014. Surprisingly enough, about three-quarters of all websites are inactive, meaning there are about 200 million active websites. Inactive websites include parked domains and similar situations.
1 Million Recycled Laptops = Energy Savings of 3,500 Homes. Most laptops reach landfills rather than the recycling bin. Americans need to recycle as much electronic waste as possible, including laptops. Doing so comes with significant energy savings. For example, a million recycled laptops save enough energy to power 3,500 homes for a year. That’s an incredible energy savings and cuts back on further production of new laptops from new materials.
The first online gaming was before the year 2000. Sega Dreamcast was the first 128-bit console to hit the market. Released in 1999, it was the first console that allowed real-time online play. Unfortunately, it was a little too early for its time, as back then, most Internet connections were not reliable enough.
You’re in good hands if your surgeon was a gamer. Oddly enough, surgeons who grew up playing video games more than 3 hours per week make 37% fewer errors! Not only that, but they also had a 42% faster completion rate when it came to performing laparoscopic surgery, as well as suturing.
NASA’s Internet speed is 91 GB per second. The average household Internet speeds are roughly 25 MB per second, which is usually fast enough to watch Netflix with no buffer time. And let’s face the fact; if there’s any tech company that would make good use of their Internet speeds, it’s NASA.
Using a thinner font can save printer ink. To a standard user, this difference isn’t big enough to care about. But if you use a lighter font with thinner lines, you’ll use slightly less ink. This is all based on inkjet printers that use old-style cartridges. Overall, it will only save you about 10% of your ink by using a lighter font.
Travelling back in time is possible—theoretically, at least. According to Einstein’s theory, you could travel back in time by moving faster than the speed of light, as long as you could somehow have infinite mass. Since that probably won’t work, you could create “wormholes” between two points in space-time. (This would also be tough since humanity still hasn’t invented the technology to build a wormhole.) Or you could try bending space-time by plucking some “cosmic strings.” Two of these theoretical strings, which are thin streams of pure energy that are moving in opposite directions at very near the speed of light, could theoretically warp space-time enough to create a closed time-like curve—also known as a time machine.
54 per cent of companies say their IT departments are not sophisticated enough to handle advanced cyberattacks. (Sophos)
There are 3.5 million unfilled cybersecurity jobs globally in 2023, enough to fill 50 NFL stadiums. (Cybersecurity Ventures)
The infamous serial killer Jack the Ripper was active in London in the year 1888. Strangely enough, he never got caught and his identity remains a mystery to the world.
There was a time when suicide was considered illegal in the UK and those who survived such attempts were strangely enough hanged as a punishment. Suicide was decriminalised in the year 1961.
Americans just can’t get enough of YouTube! With 81% of adults in the US visiting the streaming platform to consume content as of 2021.