Surgeons who play video games at least 3 hours a week perform 27% faster and make 37% fewer errors.
100 Mind-Blowing Faster Facts
Some butterfly species are extremely fast; the Skipper Butterfly can fly faster than a horse can run.
Your nails grow faster in hot summer. This is probably due to increased blood supply to the fingertips. It could also be because you’re less stressed while on holiday so less likely to gnaw away at ‘em.
Fingernails grow faster than toenails.
Cats have fewer toes on their back paws. Like most four-legged mammals, cats have five toes on the front, but their back paws only have four toes. Scientists think the four-toed back paws might help them run faster.
Video games help surgeons perform better. According to a 2007 study, surgeons who play certain video games at least 3 hours a week performed 27% faster with 37% fewer errors during surgery.
Putting sugar on a cut will make it heal faster. Pour some sugar on top of the wound and wrap it with a bandage. The granules of the sugar crystals will absorb any moisture that bacteria thrive on. How’s that for some sweet treat?
A jiffy is a proper unit of time. It is exactly 1/100th of a second. This is slower than a Planck which is sextillion times faster.
Fake ambulances are hired in Russia by the wealthy. They use this as a taxi for a faster and more convenient way of getting to their destinations. These vehicles can be hired for approximately $200 an hour.
The metal studs found on denim jeans serve a particular purpose. These studs are placed on particular areas where the cloth is most likely to wear out faster. They act as a support for the cloth and make the jeans more durable. These studs are also known as rivets.
Your fingernails on your dominant hand grow faster. It also takes around half a year for a fingernail to grow from its base to the tip. These nails also grow faster on the bigger fingers rather than the smaller ones.
Pointing your car keys to your head helps you find your car faster. This is because your head works like a radio transmitter. This then increases the range of the car remote’s signal, thus allowing your car to respond faster.
We can detect taste faster than we can blink. It takes exactly .0015 seconds to detect taste. This is quicker than a tenth of a second a blink takes to complete.
Only hard-boiled eggs spin. Soft-boiled eggs and raw eggs do not spin like hard-boiled eggs do mainly because of their liquid inside. Hard-boiled eggs spin faster and more equally because the yolk inside is hard.
A fly will always launch backwards to get away faster. Fruit flies can turn midair by shrugging their shoulders. Research has also found that a fly can process information at a much faster speed compared to humans. The average fly can process the ongoings of its surroundings seven times faster than a human being can.
Bulls run faster uphill than downhill. This is mainly because they have longer hind legs than front legs. Their legs are also very powerful and can run at speeds of 35 mph.
Moisture causes superglue to dry. Exposure to humid conditions allows the glue to form a thin skin within seconds of contact. Water can also help this type of glue dry faster.
Flowers grow faster with music. We’ve all encountered the age-old question of, “Do plants have feelings?” Fellows with a green thumb would argue yes, but it’s still being studied in science. However, plants have been shown to respond to certain stimuli in the most interesting ways. For example, playing a lullaby to plants makes them grow faster. However, they tend to wilt or die with heavier music. Plants may or may not have feelings, but they sure are gentle souls.
Fire moves faster uphill. One of the fundamental rules of science is that heat rises. As such, a fire would move faster uphill than downhill or laterally. For example, a forest fire at the base of a mountain would spread faster towards the mountain incline rather than spreading around the base.
The thumbnail grows the slowest, the middle nail the fastest, nearly 4 times faster than toenails. Fingernails grow about 3.5 millimeters per month while toenails grow 1.6 mm on average.
Children tend to grow faster in the spring.
Children grow faster in the springtime.
Hot water will turn into ice faster than cold water. An observation conducted in which a liquid (typically water) that is initially hot can freeze faster than the other liquid which is cold under similar conditions.
A hippopotamus can run faster than a man.
Fingernails grow four times faster than your toenails.
Tornadoes typically travel between 10-20 mph but can move much faster.
Your nails grow faster in the summer. This is probably due to increased blood supply to the fingertips from the heat. After all, fingernails also grow faster in hot countries!
During the hot summer, our nails grow faster. This weird fact about the human body is because of the increased blood flow to our fingertips.
Animals with smaller bodies and faster metabolism see in slow motion.
But a cough is faster (60 mph) and a sneeze is fastest of all (over 100 mph).
Women’s hearts beat faster than men’s.
The Moon is getting farther away every year. The Moon exerts a pull on Earth, causing our planet to be slightly egg-shaped. It affects water even more, creating tides and causing the oceans to pile up towards one side of the planet, forming a ‘tidal bulge’. This bulge is dragged around with the Moon as it orbits. As Earth rotates faster than the Moon – 24 hours versus 27.3 days – the bulge moves slightly ahead of the Moon’s position in orbit. The Moon pulls back on it, effectively trying to slow it down and causing Earth’s rotation rate to gradually slow down over time as a result. As the two bodies interact through gravity, this tugging causes Earth to lose energy while the Moon gains energy. Because of this energy boost the Moon is slowly spiralling outwards, moving away from us by 3.8cm per year.
Some tornadoes can be faster than Formula One race cars!
Fingernails can grow 4x faster than toenails.
Earth has a squishy interior. Earth’s interior is not solid but rather has a semi-solid or ‘squishy’ consistency owing to high temperatures and pressures. This squishy consistency allows the mantle to flow and move over geological timescales, which is responsible for phenomena such as plate tectonics, volcanic activity and Earthquakes. One consequence of this squishy interior is a process known as post-glacial rebound. During the last ice age, large portions of Earth’s surface were covered by glaciers, causing the underlying mantle to deform and sink. As the glaciers melted and receded, the mantle slowly rebounded back to its original position over thousands of years, causing the land above it to rise. This process is still occurring today in places such as Canada, Scandinavia, and Greenland, where the land is still rebounding from the weight of the glaciers that once covered the region. Recent research has found that West Antarctica is rising faster than anywhere else in the world, thanks to data from ESA’s GOCE gravity mission. The study of post-glacial rebound provides important insights into the structure and behaviour of Earth’s interior, and how it responds to changes in the surface environment over long timescales.
Your nails grow faster during a hot summer.
The Dvorak keyboard was designed to make typing much faster. However, the QWERTY keyboard became much more popular.
Study Reveals Surgeons Need To Play More Video Games, But Why? Beth Israel Medical Centre in New York recently carried out a study with 33 of its surgeons. The surgeons took a surgical skills test in Laparoscopy that lasted almost two days. In the study, researchers tracked performance in the skills test on an individual level. They then recorded each surgeon’s habits about playing video games. Nine of 33 surgeons played an average of three hours of games per week. They outscored surgeons that never played video games in various categories. For instance, they committed 37 per cent fewer errors and completed the test 27 per cent faster. The study concluded a strong correlation exists between surgical skill and Laparoscopy performance.
People read faster or slower depending on what they read. Not only do you blink less when you’re on a computer, but reading from a screen also slows you down. On average, people read 10% slower from a screen than from paper! As for the blinking part, did you know that during everyday life, people normally blink at a rate of twenty times per minute? But put them in front of a computer, and that number drops way down to seven times per minute!
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.
Technical degrees are almost useless by the time you graduate. A degree looks good on paper, but in fact, technology is advancing faster than ever. The amount of technical information doubles every two years. So, if you start a four-year degree, then half of what you learn by the time you finish will be obsolete.
Until 2010, carrier pigeons were faster than the Internet. When comparing upload speeds, a test was done to fly a carrier pigeon with a USB stick 50 miles to an Internet provider while racing against an Internet upload. The pigeon made it in just over an hour, while the upload took over two hours.
We can thank Albert Einstein for a lot of our current understanding of the physics of time. Rather than viewing time as a set order, he proved that it’s relative. For example, according to Einstein’s theory of special relativity, there’s an inverse relationship between your speed and the speed of time. The faster you move, the slower time moves. This is why someone blasting through space will age slower than the people still hanging out on Earth: Astronaut Scott Kelly was born several minutes after his twin brother, Mark, but after Scott spent 340 days living on the International Space Station, he returned to Earth around an extra 5 milliseconds younger than his “big” brother. Had Scott been travelling at a speed close to the speed of light, that age difference would have become much more pronounced.
Gravity is also the reason why our days are getting longer. Over a billion years ago, a day on Earth lasted around 18 hours. Our days are longer now because the moon’s gravity is causing Earth’s spin to slow down. In Earth’s earlier days, the moon wasn’t as far away, which caused Earth to spin much faster than it currently does. Longer days also mean shorter years—kind of. The time it takes the Earth to orbit the sun hasn’t changed, but the amount of days within a year has. Back when the dinosaurs ruled 70 million years ago, days were only around 23.5 hours long, and a year was made up of 372 of those slightly shorter days.
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.
Before it becomes completely unusable, a bill manages to pass through the hands of 30-50 thousand people. By the way, the smaller the denomination of a banknote, the faster it wears out.
ChatGPT 4o, also known as GPT-4o, is an updated version of the underlying large language model technology that powers ChatGPT. It was released in May 2024 and is touted as a “natively multimodal” model that can reason across audio, vision, and text in real-time. This new version is significantly faster than its predecessors, with response times as low as 232 milliseconds for audio inputs, which is comparable to human response times in conversations.
Google claimed to have developed AI that can design chips for computers much faster than humans. The AI needs less than 6 hours to design the chips, while it takes its human counterparts months to do the same. This is why people worry that AI will take over human jobs. Not all AI facts are as exciting!