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100 Mind-Blowing Minutes Facts
New Jersey had 4 Governors in 8 days in early 2002. The shortest term of those was served by John Farmer Jr. for 90 minutes.
In the popular 2014 movie “Godzilla,” the Godzilla portrayal was only seen for about 8 minutes in the entire film.
It snowed in the Sahara desert for 30 minutes on February 18, 1979.
Each day on Neptune lasts for around 16 hours, 6 minutes, and 36 seconds.
In Cambodia, rats are being trained to sniff out land mines. They can clear 200 square meters in less than 35 minutes, which usually takes 2-3 days with a de-miner.
The whole Harry Potter series contains 199 chapters, 4,224 pages, and 1,090,739 words and has been made into 19 hours and 39 minutes of the film.
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.
The longest anyone has held their breath underwater is over 24.5 minutes. The world record for breath-holding underwater was achieved by Croatian Budimir Šobat on 27 March 2021, who held his breath for a total of 24 minutes and 37 seconds. On average, a human can hold their breath between 30-90 seconds.
The Anglo-Zanzibar War (1896) was the shortest war ever – lasting just 38 minutes!
It would take 19 minutes to fall to the centre of the Earth.
The first commercial passenger flight lasted only 23 minutes.
The longest time someone has spent holding their breath underwater is 24 minutes and 37 seconds.
It takes sunlight eight minutes and 20 seconds to travel from the sun to Earth.
The world’s first animated feature film was made in Argentina. Even if you know a lot of Disney trivia, you might assume that the honour of the first animated feature film belongs to Walt Disney’s 1937 movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. But 20 years earlier, a full-length animated feature film was made in Argentina. It was a political satire called El Apóstol made up of 58,000 drawings and had a running time of 70 minutes, according to the Guinness Book of World Records.
The first commercial passenger flight lasted only 23 minutes. In 1914, Abram Pheil paid $400 (which would be $8,500 today) for a 23-minute plane ride. The Florida flight flew between Saint Petersburg and Tampa, where only 21 miles of water separated the cities. Pheil, a former mayor of Saint Petersburg, and the pilot, Tony Jannus, were the only passengers. This momentous flight paved the way for air travel as we know it.
Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can. By slowing their heart rates, sloths can hold their breath for up to 40 minutes. Dolphins need to come up for air after about ten minutes.
The shortest war in history lasted 38 minutes. When the sultan of British-protected Zanzibar died and a new one took over without British approval in 1896, the Brits were not happy. Tension escalated when Sultan Khalid bin Barghash refused to step down, but the British warships spent less than 40 minutes bombarding the palace before Khalid fled, marking the (very quick) end of the Anglo-Zanzibar War.
William McKinley was shot right after giving away his good-luck charm. President McKinley always wore a red carnation for good luck but sometimes gave it out as a memento. When greeting the crowd in 1901, he handed a 12-year-old girl, Myrtle, his the bloom off his lapel, saying “I must give this flower to another little flower.” Minutes later, he was fatally shot by a man in the crowd.
It would take 19 minutes to fall to the centre of the Earth. Scientists have worked this out, they haven’t tried it in real life.
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.
Nebraskan drivers had the flashiest traffic situation back then. In 1912 a Nebraska law stated that night drivers must do the following: stopping every 150 yards, sending up a skyrocket, then waiting eight minutes for the road to clear before proceeding – while blowing their horns and shooting off flares.
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 Titanic film runs for as long as the ship sunk. Minus the present-day scenes and opening/ending credits, Titanic is 2 hours and 45 minutes long – which is also the time it took for the ship to sink in 1912. Additionally, the collision scene lasted 37 seconds, which is also how long the ship collided with the iceberg in real life.
Indians read the most out of any nationality. Indians spend an average of 10 hours and 42 minutes a week reading, which is more than any other country in the world. Other countries that read the most are Thailand, China, the Philippines, and Egypt.
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.
Kids ask about 300 questions a day. A 2013 study showed that the average kid asks one question every 2 minutes and 36 seconds. Of all types of children, girls aged four are the most curious, asking 390 questions per day. Interestingly, 82% of children would ask their mother first before their father.
The first commercial aeroplane flight lasted 23 minutes. In 1914, Abram Pheil paid $400 (the current equivalent of $8,500) for a 23-minute plane ride. Pheil flew between St. Petersburg and Tampa, Florida, which was only 21 miles away from each other.
Sloths hold their breaths longer than dolphins. On the rare occasions that sloths leave their trees to go for a swim, they hold their breath underwater for up to 40 minutes. This is 30 minutes longer than the average dolphin’s record.
The average male will become bored after 26 minutes of shopping. However, a study found that most women will not get bored until two hours later. Maybe next time you should just leave your boyfriend or husband at home.
Minnesota has the world’s quietest room. The noise in this room is measured in negative decibels. It is so quiet, that you can hear your heartbeat as well as the sound of your bones moving. People say that this room is so quiet that it can also drive you crazy within 45 minutes.
Saltwater takes 10 minutes to drown a person. This kind of water is hypertonic to the ion concentration in lung cells. This means that if you swallow the water, it will enter your bloodstream which will enter your lungs.
Twilight was as intense as you remember. If you splice the quiet staring in all 5 films together, there are exactly 26 minutes of intense silence.
Forrest Gump has more CGI than Jurassic Park. When Forrest ran through a jungle in Vietnam, and showed his table tennis skills, that was CGI. Even the feather in the opening scene is computer-generated. Overall, Forrest Gump has more minutes of CGI screen time than Jurassic Park. Another one of those funny facts that are hard to believe.
If the sun exploded, you wouldn’t know until eight minutes later. Light from the Sun reaches the Earth at 8 minutes and 18 seconds. This is the same amount of time it’ll take for us to see any changes in the sun.
Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins. Sloths can slow their heart rates. When they do, sloths can hold their breath for up to 40 minutes. On the other hand, dolphins need to come up to the surface to breathe after 10 minutes.
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 world’s longest fart lasted over a minute long. Bernard Clemmens broke the world record for the longest fart when he farted for 2 minutes and 42 seconds straight.
The longest kiss in the world lasted almost 60 hours. Ekkachai and Laksana Tiranarat of Thailand hold the world record for the longest kiss — clocking in at 58 hours, 35 minutes and 58 seconds.
The pig has the longest orgasm observed in mammals. The domestic pig (Sus scrofa domesticus) has the longest orgasm of any known mammal, lasting an average of 30 minutes. However, pig orgasms can peak at 90 minutes in some cases. Talk about pure bliss.
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.
Some lions mate over 50 times a day. When lions are in heat, they mate every 20–30 minutes, mating almost 50 times per day.
Standard CDs are always 74 minutes long. Sony and Philips set the standard CD length in 1980 as 74 minutes based on Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. The executives decided that the standard CD should be able to fit the Ninth Symphony, giving it a 74-minute length.
Ants rest for around 8 Minutes in 12 hours. Yes, surprising right? But not in the way we interpret sleep. James and Cottel have conducted research which shows that ants have a cyclical pattern of resting periods where each nest respites collectively which lasts for around eight minutes in 12 hours.
Argentina produced the first animated feature film ever. Even if you are well-versed in Disney history, you might suppose that Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, a 1937 Walt Disney production, holds the distinction of being the first animated feature film. However, Argentina produced a full-length animated feature film 20 years earlier. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, El Apostol, a political satire, had a running period of 70 minutes and was composed of 58,000 drawings.
Emperor penguins can last 27 minutes underwater and can dive as deep as 500m.
Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins. Dolphins need to come up for air every 10 minutes, but by slowing their heart rate, sloths can hold their breath for 40 minutes!
You could fall through the centre of the Earth in 42 minutes. Thankfully, no one has tried this yet.
Someone held their breath underwater for almost 25 minutes. On March 27, 2021, Budimir Šobat of Croatia held his breath for a total of 24 minutes 37.36 seconds.
The shortest war in history lasted only 38 minutes. It was between Britain and Zanzibar on August 27, 1896.
Every 10 minutes dolphins need to come up for air, but sloths can hold their breath for 40 minutes.
Argentina is where the world’s first animated feature film was created. Before Disney’s Snow White was made in 1937, Argentina was home to the first full-length animated feature film called El Apóstol. It was a political satire consisting of 58,000 drawings and running for 70 minutes.
The first commercial passenger flight lasted 23 minutes.
A day on Mars lasts 24 hours and 37 minutes.
You could survive for a couple of minutes in a leaky spacesuit. Although films such as Total Recall show instant explosions and rapidly puffed-up spacesuits, the effects of being exposed to space are slightly less dramatic. Although it would be unpleasant, you could survive for a couple of minutes. After around 10 seconds, you would lose consciousness. The lower pressure of the vacuum would cause your blood to boil, along with other body fluids (the moisture on your tongue, for example) – but this boiling alone would not be fatal due to the pressure maintained by our blood vessels themselves. Gas bubbles would form in your bodily fluids, causing your body to swell up and bloat. The low humidity of space would cause you to cool down rapidly, and your eyes may freeze over. Within one to two minutes, the lack of oxygen would be deadly. The stress of the situation may make these symptoms worse – you would become oxygen-deprived more quickly. A rapid decompression would cause damage to your lungs, eardrums and sinuses, along with bruising and bleeding from soft tissues.
It takes eight minutes and 19 seconds for light to travel from the sun to Earth.
Baby elephants can stand within 20 minutes of being born.
Manatees live in the water but they need air to survive. They surface every few minutes when active and can stay under for as long as 20 minutes if still.
Working from home often involves balancing official duties with kids. Studies have found that kids can ask 300 questions a day on average. That is one question every 2.5 minutes!
A vampire bat’s teeth are so sharp that its bite may not be felt at all. Their saliva dulls any pain, so a bat may drink its victim’s blood for up to 30 minutes.
Emperor penguins can stay underwater for up to 27 minutes and dive as far as 500m deep.
Listening to your favourite music for just 15 minutes a day lowers stress levels, anxiety, sadness, and a depressed mood.
In an average NFL football game, there are only about 12 minutes of actual play time.
A company in Japan awards non-smokers an extra six days of paid leave each year. It was brought to the marketing firm’s attention that employees who went for smoke breaks had more than 15 minutes of extra time away from their desks each day. Instead of penalising smokers, they came up with a creative incentive to quit smoking while keeping their non-smoking employees happy in the process!
Just 30 minutes of daily complaining can physically damage your brain. Listening to someone constantly complain also negatively affects brain function.
A British man found £100,000 of Roman gold coins 20 minutes after buying his first-ever metal detector.
The longest time someone has held their breath underwater is 24 minutes and 37 seconds.
The quickest commercial flight in the world is in Scotland and lasts typically under two minutes.
The longest tennis match in history took 11 hours and five minutes, spanning over three days.
According to statistics, Americans spend two hours and 54 minutes using their mobile phones per day.
First cellular/mobile phone ever. Motorola released the world’s first mobile phone, the DynaTAC 8000x, in 1983. This portable phone cost $3,995 upon release and offered 30 minutes of talk time. Charging the device required 10 hours, and it could only store 30 phone numbers in memory. Unsurprisingly, few people purchased the device, but it marked a breakthrough in mobile technology. Nowadays, cell phones and smartphones (no matter how cheap or expensive they are) are indispensable gadgets in people’s lives.
Monthly Amazon Web Visits Reach 2.9 billion. How many times have you signed into your Amazon account this month? Shopping on Amazon was already hot before the pandemic struck. Amazon’s monthly visitor totals averaged around 2.5 billion in September 2021 alone. That number rose to 2.8 billion in October and 2.9 billion in November. During these virtual visits, browsers spent around 7 minutes perusing more than 9 pages of products each before they finally made buying decisions. Amazon recommendations help drive sales, as do positive and negative reviews from shoppers. The addition of the membership program Amazon Prime to the consumer shopping experience has further boosted visitor numbers seeking membership perks.
The first camera needed an incredibly long exposure. The first photograph ever taken in 1826 took 8 hours to expose! The creator of that camera, Louis Daguerre, was able to lower that time drastically to just 15 minutes in 1839.
“Weird Al” Yankovic wrote “Albuquerque” as a joke specifically to “annoy people for 12 minutes.” It ended up becoming one of his most popular songs.
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.
There are two ways to think of the length of a day on Earth. Though you probably learned that one day on Earth is 24 hours, it takes the planet 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4.0916 seconds to rotate on its axis. This is the difference between a solar day and a sidereal day—a solar day is 24 hours, whereas a sidereal day is roughly four minutes shorter. We measure solar time based on the sun’s position in the sky; a sidereal day is measured based on the location of the “fixed” stars. In other words, a sidereal day is the time it takes for a distant star or constellation to appear on the same meridian.
But Sosigenes made a bit of a miscalculation, so the calendar continued to be a little off. He thought a year lasted 365.25 days. It’s around 365 days, five hours, 48 minutes, and 45 seconds, equivalent to about 365.242 days. This tiny error had some pretty big consequences: By 1577, the Julian calendar was off by 10 days, meaning key Christian holidays were being celebrated on incorrect dates. Pope Gregory XIII took issue with this and established a commission to get the calendar back on track. In 1582, the Gregorian calendar was created. Rather than having an extra day every four years without exception, years that are divisible by 100—like 1700 or 1900—skip leap year. Unless the year is also divisible by 400, like the year 2000, in which case the Leap Year is back on! Even this system isn’t perfect, though: It has an error of one day in 3236 years.
New clocks are set at 10:10 for a reason. If you’ve bought a new clock or watch recently, you may have noticed that the default setting was 10:10, give or take a few minutes. There are various theories behind this particular choice of time, but really, it all comes down to aesthetics. Setting the time to around 10:10 allows the hands of an analogue clock to be displayed in a neat, symmetrical way that doesn’t obscure any logos in the centre of the clock’s face. Clocks were once set to 8:20, and occasionally still are, but the hands’ downward angles can make it look like the timepieces are frowning.
The Anglo-Zanzibar War between the United Kingdom and the Zanzibar Sultanate is believed to be the shortest war that ever happened, lasting a mere 38 minutes.
The London Eye is the highest observation wheel in the world and it takes almost thirty minutes to complete one round of the wheel.