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.
100 Mind-Blowing Incredible Facts
The movie is based on the novel “Schindler’s Ark” by Thomas Keneally. Keneally’s book, which won the Booker Prize in 1982, served as the inspiration for Spielberg to bring this incredible story to the big screen.
A chicken once lived more than a year without a head. It survived an incredible (and sad?) 18 months.
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.
The 2007 video game Halo 3 was so popular that film executives blamed its creators for a drop in cinema attendance the week it was released. When it was released, the game was so popular that it broke previous sales records, raking in an incredible $170 million in the first day alone. The weekend the game was released, box office numbers were down 27%, something which Microsoft wasn’t even surprised about. Microsoft advertised the game similarly to a movie, targeting the same demographic (18-34) that frequent cinemas the most.
The most popular car model in the world is the Toyota Hilux. This rugged pickup truck is known around the world for its incredible versatility. With that said, it should come as no surprise that half of the top-selling countries for Hiluxes are in Africa, where the true mettle of the cars is tested on a day-to-day basis. Four out of the top six car models worldwide are Toyotas – the other three are the Toyota Corolla, Rav4, and Land Cruiser.
The fastest insect on Earth is the Australian tiger beetle, Cicindela hudsoni. Clocking in at 5.6 mph, this incredible insect runs so fast, it has to slow down to see anything.
The Incredible Hulk was initially supposed to be grey, but according to Stan Lee, an issue with the printer turned the Hulk green.
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.