Pregnancy tests date back to 1350 B.C.E. According to a document written on ancient papyrus, Egyptian women urinated on wheat and barley seeds to determine if they were pregnant or not, reports the Office of History in the National Institutes of Health. If wheat grew, it predicted a female baby. If barley grew, it predicted a male baby. The woman was not pregnant if nothing grew. Experimenting with this seed theory in 1963 proved it was accurate 70 per cent of the time.
100 Mind-Blowing Predicted Facts
A fortune cookie once predicted the lottery, and 110 people won. In 2005, a shocking 110 people won second place in a Powerball drawing, with each one describing a fortune cookie for their lucky digits. Usually, only 4 or 5 people win second place. However, upon investigation, no foul play was involved.
Edgar Allan Poe may have predicted the future. The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838) was a novel about 4 shipwreck survivors who killed and ate a cabin boy named Richard Parker. In 1884, a boat got stranded with only 4 survivors. 3 of the crew killed and ate the cabin boy, who was also named Richard Parker.
Global online sales are predicted to reach 22% of all retail sales in 2023.
Prediction of death. Mark Twain kind of predicted his death. In 1909, he said: ‘I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don’t go out with Halley’s Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt, “Now there are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together”.’ He died of a heart attack on 21 April 1910 – one day after the comet had come again and appeared at its brightest. Halley’s comet only passes by Earth approximately every 76 years and has been the subject of a string of predictions since 1705.
Global spending on cybersecurity products and services is predicted to reach $1.75 trillion cumulatively for the five years from 2021 to 2025. (Cybersecurity Ventures)
Cybersecurity employment for positions like information security analysts is predicted to grow 35 per cent by 2031. (ISACA)
Tourism Triumph: Tourism, the UK’s fastest-growing sector, is predicted to be worth £257 billion by 2025.
In 2020, Elon Musk predicted that AI would overtake humans and grow more intelligent than our species by 2025.
‘’…according to artificial intelligence expert Dr. David Levy, in a few generations, we won’t just be having sex with robots, we’ll be marrying them.” He predicted that human-robot marriages will be legal by the year 2050. – CBC Radio
With the aid of AI, Canadian startup BlueDot predicted the coronavirus pandemic before the world knew what was going on – and about to happen.