Facts You Probably don’t Need
- Neptune has surface winds that blow at around 1,500 mph.
- The “Great Red Spot” on Jupiter is so large that it can fit three Earths in it. It’s a giant storm that has been raging for over 400 years.
- Hummingbirds are the only birds on Earth that can fly backwards.
- At a depth of 10 meters underwater, there is no red light. This means if you were to bleed, it would appear green.
- Robert Ballard, the man who discovered the wreck of the Titanic, was secretly funded by the U.S. Navy because they wanted him to find their two sunken nuclear submarines first.
- The founder of FedEx, Fred Smith, once saved his company from bankruptcy by going to Las Vegas, gambling it’s last $5,000 on blackjack and winning $27,000. That was enough to keep FedEx going for another week while it secured additional funds.
- According to Herodotus, in the battle of Pelusium (525 BCE), the Persians used cats as shields because Egyptians were forbidden to kill cats.
- Olympus Mons, a volcano on Mars, is three times higher than Mount Everest.
