A wildlife technician, Richard Thomas, took the famous tongue-twister “How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood” and calculated a rough estimate of what the answer would be. It came out to be around 700 pounds.
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A 73-year-old bottle of French Burgundy became the most expensive bottle of wine ever sold at auction in 2018, going for $558,000 (approx £439,300). The bottle of 1945 Romanee-Conti sold at Sotheby for more than 17 times its original estimate of $32,000.
The Big Ben in London is leaning so much that the incline is visible to the naked eye. Weathering has not been kind to the Big Ben. Experts estimate that it will have the same incline as the Leaning Tower of Pisa in 4,000 years.
You can estimate the temperature through cricket chirps. If you count how many chirps a cricket makes in 15 seconds and then add 37, you’ll get a rough estimate of the temperature.
7,641 islands make up the Philippines. A group of islands, especially 7,641 islands, make up the archipelago that is the Philippines. Many sandbars and other landforms that appear at low tide, numbering in the thousands, are not included in that estimate.
Planets can wander through space without a parent star. Not all planets form and stay around stars: astronomers estimate that there could be more than 200 billion of them floating free and drifting through our Galaxy. These ‘rogue’ planets were thought to have been kicked out of their home systems. While this is true for some, other planets may have formed completely independently of an accretion disk (as was the case for our Solar System) instead of forming from the collapse of tiny, cold clouds known as globulettes.
Space junk is any human-made object orbiting Earth that no longer serves a useful purpose. Scientists estimate there are about 500,000 pieces of space junk today, including fragments from rockets and satellites, and everyday items like spanners dropped during the construction of the International Space Station!
During Prohibition, the United States government became so frustrated citizens still consumed alcohol, that leaders took drastic measures. Bootleggers often stole industrial alcohol, so the government poisoned these alcohols. By the end of Prohibition, scientists estimate nearly 10,000 people died from this tactic.
WE STILL DON’T KNOW ALL THERE IS TO KNOW ABOUT OUR FORESTS. We don’t know how many tree species there are on Earth, but scientists estimate there are about 63,000 known species. There could be as many as 9,000 tree species still unknown to science.
Termite queens live longer than any other insect. Some scientists estimate that they can live as long as 100 years.
Only 8% of the world’s currency is in cash: The vast majority of the world’s currency exists in electronic form. Economists estimate that coins and banknotes make up just 8% of the world’s currency. The rest sits on a computer hard drive in electric bank accounts all over the world. Because of the worldwide acceptance of the Internet and online payments, people are making and spending money without actually touching it.
Most Americans Hoard Their Spare Change: One recent survey by MyBankTracker.com found that 55.5% of people do nothing with the loose change they’ve accumulated. Interestingly, 60.3% of the male respondents said they were more likely to leave their extra coins untouched compared to 51% of the female respondents. Another survey from Coinstar says people estimate they’ve got an average of $113 worth of coins in and around their homes.
Only 8% of the World’s Currency Is Physical Money: Interesting money fact: With mobile banking and electronic payments becoming more and more common, people are earning and spending money without having to even touch it. Economists estimate only 8% of the world’s currency is literal cash with the rest existing on computer hard drives in electronic bank accounts.
By 2025, global AI software is expected to hit $100 billion. Others estimate that the market value by the same year would reach $126 billion.