Approximately one-quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet.
100 Mind-Blowing Quarter Facts
Only a quarter of the Sahara Desert is sandy. Most of it is covered in gravel, though it also contains mountains and oases. And here’s another geography fact that everyone gets wrong: It isn’t the world’s largest desert. Antarctica is.
The British Empire was the largest in world history. The British Empire was most powerful in the 1920s, when it controlled 23 per cent of the world’s population and approximately 13.7 million square miles of territory—or nearly a quarter of the Earth’s land area, according to a report from Statista.
A quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet.
There are 119 grooves in a quarter.
Apples float because they are one-quarter air!
One-quarter of your bones are in your feet.
Trees are breathers. Trees are one of the most effective tools we have to combat climate change. Forests are home to around 80% of biodiversity on land and tropical forests alone produce over 40% of the oxygen we breathe. Covering around 30% of Earth’s land surface, we depend on forests for our survival. Forests absorb around 8 Gigatonnes a year of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and play a crucial role in the carbon cycle and climate system. However, climate change, forest degradation and deforestation are causing much of this stored carbon to be released back into the atmosphere. Recent research found that recovering tropical forests was only successfully combating a quarter of the current carbon emissions which indicates the importance of preserving and restoring our tropical forests. To better understand the role of trees in regulating our planet’s carbon cycle, ESA’s upcoming mission called Biomass will use advanced radar technology to measure the amount of carbon stored in Earth’s forests and other biomass, providing a more accurate assessment of carbon storage and uptake than ever before. By monitoring changes in biomass over time, scientists will be able to assess the effectiveness of forest conservation efforts and better understand the impact of deforestation on our climate.
Newborn babies are incredibly different from what they will grow up to be. At birth, a baby’s head is approximately one-quarter of its body weight. The baby’s brain will also double in size in one year. Babies also have 300 bones while adults have 206.
Almost a quarter of the land area of Los Angeles is taken up by automobiles.
There’s a species of wolf that lives almost exclusively off seafood. Found on the coast of Vancouver Island, these sea wolves are truly unique in their hunting practices. Unsurprisingly, they have adapted to become excellent swimmers, which allows them to access food other wolves wouldn’t normally attempt to catch. Salmon constitute up to a quarter of their diet, with various shellfish, seals, bird’s eggs, and even whale carcasses making up the rest.
About a quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet.
With 3.572 billion viewers, half the world’s population watched the 2018 FIFA World Cup of soccer (or football, as many international fans call it), which is held every four years. That number is on par with the 2016 Summer Olympics, but only a quarter of the world watched the less-popular Winter Olympics in 2018.
Iran is the Country Most Impacted by Malware Infections Shared by Mobile. A Kaspersky Labs research showed that Iran had the highest number of malware attacks in the second quarter of 2022 out of all its mobile antivirus users.
Application-layer DDoS attacks increased by 15 per cent in the second quarter of 2023. (Cloudflare)
Incidents aimed at cryptocurrency firms surged by a staggering 600% in the first quarter of 2023, coinciding with a notable 15% upswing in HTTP DDoS attacks. (Cloudflare)
Hacking attacks increased significantly during 2020 (Iomart): According to studies from Iomart, the number of cyberattacks, hacking, and their resulting costs have increased significantly during 2020. The number of breaches increased by around 273% during the first quarter of 2020, compared to the same period in the year before. Not only has the number of attacks increased, but the severity of the hacks is higher too. According to Japanese brand, Honda in June, a hacking attack hitting internal production systems cost the company around $250,000 in bitcoin.
The great plague which lasted in London from 1665 to 1666 killed almost a quarter of London’s population.
In Ireland, we are moving out of money and into debit and credit cards. For the quarter up to June 2024, 85.5% of point-of-sale payments were contactless. In 2023, there were 4.1 billion payments made – 11 million payments per day – the majority of which were through payment cards and mobile and online banking, while cheque usage in 2023 fell to less than half the volume in 2019.
Between 2010 and the first quarter of 2020, venture funding in AI hit a mind-blowing $61 billion. Most of this investment went to companies in the USA and China.