Standing around burns calories. On average, a 150-pound person burns 114 calories per hour while standing and doing nothing.
100 Mind-Blowing Hour Facts
To protest the high tariffs enforced by a U.K. censorship board, a filmmaker sent in a 10-hour “movie” of white paint drying. They had to watch the entire film.
Roselle, a guide dog, led her blind owner down 78 flights of stairs during 9/11. The descent took about an hour, and they both safely made it out.
The first roller coaster was used to transport coal down a hill. After people found that it could reach speeds up to 50 miles per hour, tourists asked to ride on it for a few cents.
Anna Bagenhold fell through a frozen stream while she was skiing and was stuck for over an hour. She made a full recovery and became the person to survive the lowest body temperature ever recorded at 56.7 °F (13.7 °C), even though she was clinically dead.
Dead skin cells are a main ingredient in household dust. Here’s an interesting science fact for you: According to researchers at Imperial College London, humans shed around 200 million skin cells each hour—and they have to go somewhere when we’re indoors. If the idea of skin dust isn’t sitting well with you, you should know that a report from the American Chemical Society found that a skin oil called squalene naturally helps reduce indoor ozone levels by up to 15 per cent.
A filmmaker once created a 10-hour “film” of paint drying. One of the pettiest yet wittiest fun facts: To protest high tariffs, filmmaker Charlie Lyne submitted a 10-hour “movie” of drying white paint to the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC). The board had to watch Paint Drying in its entirety – all 10 hours and 7 minutes of it.
Cats sleep for ⅔ of their lives. People have a love-hate relationship with cats. It’s somewhat understandable since cats tend to be the exact opposite of the warm, eager demeanour loved by many in dogs. Another stark difference is that cats spend a lot of time asleep. Like, a 15-hour average is kind of a lot. Cats sleep mostly during the day and only become active around twilight.
There are more than 24 time zones around the world. If the Earth’s time zones were only one hour apart, then we would have 24 time zones. However, many time zones only differ by 30 to 45 minutes. This means that there must be more than 24 existing time zones.
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.
You can burn calories just by standing. The average 150-pound person can burn 114 calories an hour just by standing still. Did this motivate you a little?
Driving to space would only take an hour. Theoretically, this is possible if you were to drive in a straight line upwards into the atmosphere at a speed of 60 mph.
Every three seconds, there is a birth taking place somewhere in the world. There are approximately 360,000 births that take place per day. This is around 15,000 births per hour.
The most common cause of death among babies is Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). Each year, over 7000 babies are lost to this phenomenon in the U.S. These equivalent to almost 1 baby dying each hour.
Certain fruit flies are resistant to getting drunk. However, this is only so if they have an inactive version of what scientists call the ‘happy hour’ gene. Scientists have found that this gene can be used to treat alcohol abuse in humans.
The Dead Sea is an inland lake. It runs along Jordan’s western edge and can be travelled to within an hour from Amman. The Dead Sea is also linked to Aqaba by the highway which makes it accessible to most people living nearby the area.
Your lungs could cover an entire tennis court. The average adult has 300 million bronchi in each lung, which can cover an area of 180 m2. A tennis court has an area of 195.63 m2. Our lungs have such a large area because it needs to pump 160 litres of blood per hour.
A man once wore 60 shirts and 9 pairs of jeans to the airport to avoid extra fees. On a flight from China to Africa, a man wore 60 shirts and nine pairs of jeans because he didn’t want to pay for extra baggage. He wore it throughout an 11-and-a-half-hour flight.
A man once hired someone to slap him to avoid checking Facebook. Maneesh Sethi hired a woman to slap him in the face every time he tried checking Facebook at work. He paid the woman $8 an hour.
Norway’s reality TV is very different. Although reality TV in the U.S. is saturated with Kardashian-brand drama, it’s very different in Norway. Norway’s first significant “reality” TV show was a broadcast showing the Bergen Line. About 20% of the population watched the train for its entire 7-hour journey. This popularized “slow TV.” Now, Norwegians would watch coastal cruises, people knitting, and bird feeding. I guess that’s their ASMR.
A sound engineer once got accidentally high on LSD while cleaning an old radio. When Eliot Curtis tried to restore an old Buchla Model 100 synthesizer, he ended up tripping on 50-year-old LSD. He only noticed a crystalline substance that had gathered on the radio, which he wiped off. Since he found it in a dark closet at a university, the psychedelic components were preserved. The LSD residue dissolved in his hands and got him into a 9-hour trip. How’s that for wild funny facts?
The shortest war in history lasted less than an hour. When the sultan of Zanzibar died and a new one took over without British approval in 1896, the Brits saw it as disrespect. When the unofficially appointed Sultan Khalid bin Barghash refused to step down, British warships spent 38 minutes bombing the palace before Khalid fled. This marked the end of the Anglo-Zanzibar War.
The longest TV ad of all time is 14 hours long. Created for a product that supposedly “lasts forever,” this Old Spice commercial features actor Terry Crews and is airing for “an eternity” online. Since TV airtime is particularly expensive, a 14-hour version was aired in Brazil, on December 8, 2018, and earned the Guinness World Record for the longest TV ad ever.
Wearing headphones for an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear 700 times. Guess that’s what they mean when they call songs an earworm.
A second is called a second for a reason. The first division of an hour is by minutes. If you divide minutes, the next measurement is by seconds. The term “seconds” derives its name from being the second way to split an hour.
Every human spends about half an hour as a single cell.
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times You cover your ears from the natural air when you wear headphones which increases the production of bacteria by 700% in 1 hour. Your eardrum cannot bear an influx of bacteria in that much quantity so it starts to react by painting or hearing loss in the long term.
Lions are skilled hunters and can run up to 50 miles per hour (80 kilometres per hour) in short bursts while chasing prey.
It would take only one hour to drive to space.
Headphones can increase the bacteria in your ears. Wearing headphones for just an hour could increase the bacteria in your ears by 700 times. (Ew!)
In your house, dead skin cells are the main factor in dust. According to research at Imperial College London, humans shed roughly 200 million skin cells per hour.
Babies need help getting up to the surface for their first breath. Shortly after birth, they can swim on their own: usually within an hour.
It would only take one hour to drive to space if you could go straight up in the air.
Antarctica is home to the largest ice sheet on Earth. More than six times as large as Greenland, Antarctica is the southernmost continent and is the coldest and windiest place on Earth – with temperatures that can drop as low as -89.2°C and winds that can exceed 320 km per hour. Antarctica is home to the largest ice sheet on Earth, containing a staggering 30 million cubic kilometres of ice. This represents an incredible 70% of Earth’s freshwater and 90% of its ice. As a result, changes to the Antarctic ice sheet can have significant implications for global sea levels and ocean currents. Monitoring the Antarctic ice sheet is therefore of paramount importance and satellite data plays a crucial role in this effort. Data from satellites such as CryoSat, ESA’s ice mission, allow scientists to track changes in the thickness and movement of the ice sheet over time, providing insights into how it is responding to a changing climate. ESA has recently teamed up with NASA and the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) to carry out an ambitious campaign in Antarctica which involved taking simultaneous measurements of sea ice from ESA’s CryoSat and NASA’s ICESat-2 satellites. This research is essential for informing policy decisions on issues such as climate change and sea level rise, and for developing strategies to mitigate their impact on coastal communities around the world.
If you have ever received a speeding ticket, it was likely a bit higher than 8 miles per hour, which was the first recorded speeding ticket in 1896.
Huskies can run at speeds of around 31km per hour (20mph), but their key skill is endurance.
Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour. By age 70, humans lose an average of 105 pounds of skin.
The world’s first Guinness world record for push-ups was 6,006. Charles Linster took home the first Guinness World Record in this category when he completed all 6,006 push-ups non-stop back in 1965. There are plenty of different record categories for push-ups these days, ranging from the most completed in one hour (2,806) to the most consecutive one-finger push-ups (124).
Sneezes regularly exceed 100 miles per hour.
Wearing headphones for just an hour could increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
Kids who are on social media for 1 hour a day have less chance of being happy. This is probably not much of a surprise, but studies have shown that the more time kids spend on social media, the less likely they are to be happy with their overall life by 14%. By comparison, this is three times higher than the effects of living in a single-parent household.
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.
College of the Ozarks doesn’t charge tuition. Instead, students work on campus at least 15 hours a week and have two 40-hour work weeks.
The Churchill myth. Of Winston Churchill’s most famous 1940 speeches: ‘Blood, toil, tears and Sweat,’ ‘Fight Them on the beaches’, ‘Finest Hour,’ and ‘The Few,’ only one, ‘Finest Hour’ was broadcast on the radio at the time. All of them were delivered to the House of Commons, but only after his ‘Finest Hour’ speech did Churchill record a version later for the BBC. The other speeches he only recorded in 1949.
Daylight saving time ended on a national level after the war, but individual states and municipalities kept it going until World War II. At the end of World War I, the entire nation went on what was effectively a year-round daylight saving time. After World War II, the entire nation was again picking and choosing daylight saving time. It’s been reported that in Iowa, back in 1964, there were 23 different combinations of dates that communities turned on and off daylight saving time. In 1966, the government officially mandated a standardised daylight saving time for the entire United States, though individual states could opt out. Until 2007, daylight saving time ended in October. It’s been reported that the candy industry lobbied to wait until after Halloween to change the clocks back an hour.
Daylight saving time does more than make people lose an hour of sleep. It can have some pretty concerning health effects. Studies have linked daylight saving time with an uptick in heart attacks, car crashes, and mining injuries. The extra hour of daylight is good for koalas, though: Researchers found that koala-car collisions went down by up to 11 per cent during daylight saving time.
The Linux development community is incredibly active. Changes to the kernel were merged at an average rate of 7.8 patches per hour over the past 15 months, according to numbers crunched by the folks at the non-profit The Linux Foundation (who pay Linus’ salary).