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Is machine learning overhyped?Chemists weigh in on the technique’s possibilities and its pitfallsby Sam LemonickAUGUST 27, 2018 | APPEARED IN VOLUME 96, ISSUE 3409634-feature1-machineillus.jpgCredit: Shutterstock/C&ENMachine learning is totally overhyped. Machine learning is completely not overhyped. Machine learning is transformative. Machine learning is a tool like any other.Ask 10 chemists what they think about the promise of machine learning, and you’ll get 10 different answers. That might make for a lively Twitter debate, but the discussion also has serious implications.If machine learning is less valuable than it’s been claimed to be, says George Schatz, a physical chemist at Northwestern University, “people end up wasting time and effort” testing it in their labs. Scientists who invest training, lab time, and money into machine learning could find themselves in a difficult position if the tool doesn’t solve a problem as promised.On the other hand, if machine learning is the wave of the future, chemists who aren’t using it risk falling behind their peers.Sign up for C&EN's must-read weekly newsletterEmail AddressSubscribe »Contact us to opt out anytimeIt probably won’t be possible to definitively answer the question “Is machine learning overhyped?” without the benefit of hindsight. But after conducting dozens of conversations with chemists, C&EN has found that a consensus about the current state of machine learning emerges.Machine learning is a category of artificial intelligence that describes a computer’s ability to train on a set of data and then create rules or knowledge from that data. Chemists are often interested in the tool’s predictive power. For instance, if you give a machine-learning algorithm a list of 100 metal alloys and their melting points, can it predict the melting point of an alloy it hasn’t encountered before—potentially even one that’s never been synthesized?Despite all this promise—or perceived promise—one thing that machine learning isn’t is magic. “Let’s be realistic,” says George Dahl, a computer scientist at Google. “Machine learning is nonlinear regression,” a simple type of statistical analysis in which collected data are “fit” with model parameters. Dahl won a Merck & Co. machine-learning competition while a graduate student in Geoffrey Hinton’s group at the University of Toronto.Making machine learning sound like something it’s not yet could be bad for the technique itself. If it can’t live up to the bar that’s been set, funders and scientists may decide machine learning isn’t worth their time. “We need the most brilliant minds to feel enticed” to study it and explore its benefits for it to be successful, says Nuno Maulide, an organic synthetic chemist at the University of Vienna.To explore the space between what some have promised and what machine learning might actually deliver—and to discern among chemists a consensus about the much-ballyhooed tool—C&EN has examined some of the fields where it’s generating the most enthusiasm and skepticism.DRUG DISCOVERYPharmaceutical companies were natural early adopters of machine learning for a few reasons. Drug companies could afford computing power when it was still out of reach for many chemists, and they had reams of data about small molecules and biological targets with which to train algorithms.SPONSORED CONTENTTheory and Practice of LC Method Translations & Transfersby Mac-Mod Analytical, Inc.ADVERTISEMENTSCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENTThe industry had motivation in addition to means. Machine learning offered the same promise to speed up and improve drug discovery as combinatorial chemistry or high-throughput screening, whose stars have since waxed and waned. “Pharma is very hopeful for new technologies because drug development is extremely difficult, and practitioners are always seeking new ways of making success more likely,” says Robert P. Sheridan, a computational chemist recently retired from Merck & Co.SURVEY RESULTSC&EN RECENTLY SURVEYED CHEMISTS ONLINE ABOUT WHAT THEY THINK OF MACHINE LEARNING. HERE’S WHAT THEY SAID.30%Percentage of respondents that say they use machine learning regularly in their workWhat’s the area of chemistry in which you think machine learning has the potential to have the biggest impact?“In my experience, the availability of information is so overwhelming that it is hard to make sure that the conclusions that we obtain from the literature search are not biased. I think that machine learning will help to obtain statistically unbiased bibliographic information.”—Samuel Nunez-Pertinez, graduate student, University of Birmingham“It has the potential to see trends in data that humans tend to overlook. The tools provided by machine learning will aid the chemist in decision-making by providing suggestions that may spark new ideas.” —Thomas Struble, postdoctoral researcher, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyWhat’s the area of chemistry in which you think expectations for machine learning are the most unrealistic?“Since machine learning simply is interpolation within big data sets, it will remain difficult or impossible to use in areas where it is hard to generate large sets of reliable data, because extrapolation by machine learning can and will produce wildly wrong answers.”—Bernd Hartke, professor, University of Kiel“Analytical chemistry. It will be very difficult for chemists and legislators to rely on results from machines without knowing the exact process that led from sample to result.”—Andrea Leoncini, postdoctoral researcher, National University of Singapore“Just as density functional theory hasn’t replaced wave-function-based methods and neither has obviated the need to do experimental work, machine-learning methods aren’t going to replace quantum chemical methods. They do, however, have the potential to give a better return on the computations we do run.”—Marissa Estep, graduate student, University of GeorgiaWhat area of chemistry do you work in?Organic chemistry:23.3%Physical chemistry:17.3%Analytical chemistry:16.0%Inorganic chemistry:12.7%Biochemistry:10.0%Computational chemistry:7.3%Other:13.3%Total respondents = 150Note: Total does not equal 100% because of rounding. Not all respondents answered each question.Source: 2018 C&EN online pollPrecisely when drug companies first adopted machine learning depends a bit on how you define it. They’ve used artificial neural network (ANN) algorithms, a simple form of machine learning, in drug design for almost half a century. In 1973 a group of researchers in the U.S.S.R. demonstrated that an ANN could predict the bioactivity of substituted 1,3-dioxanes (Comput. Biomed. Res. 1973, DOI: 10.1016/0010-4809(73)90074-8).Starting in the 1990s, medicinal chemists used ANNs in quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) models. QSAR models make predictions about a molecule’s properties according to the known properties of other molecules to help decide whether it’s worth pursuing as a possible drug. Random-forest algorithms and support vector machines—also types of machine learning—have now largely replaced ANNs in QSAR modeling.From that perspective, Sheridan says, it’s not quite right to say that machine learning is overhyped. “ ‘Machine learning in chemistry’ in the sense of QSAR has been used for decades and is demonstrably useful,” he says. QSAR models aren’t perfect, but companies like Merck continue to use them because they can help chemists prioritize which sets of molecules to spend their time on, and that saves money and effort.Pharma has already been through the machine-learning “hype cycle.” Consulting firm Gartner introduced that term in 1995 to describe the way people view new technologies. At first, the innovation rapidly gains attention on the way to a peak of inflated expectations, then it sinks into a valley of disillusionment. As people sort out its limitations and actual abilities, the technology levels out on a plateau of productivity. People familiar with the pharmaceutical industry may recognize those ebbs and flows from hyped innovations of the recent past, like nanotechnology and combinatorial chemistry.Drug companies don’t seem to have developed any resistance to hype despite these repeated exposures. Deep neural networks are having their moment in drug discovery right now, approaching peak hype, according to Sheridan. Like ANNs, deep neural networks are built to resemble the brain: Information passes through a series of interconnected nodes akin to neurons. Each node analyzes pieces of information in a particular way, then passes them on to its neighbors. It’s how image-recognition software identifies shadows and shapes, then eventually eyes and ears, and finally an individual face. Deep neural networks have more layers of these nodes than their predecessors, and they’ve made possible huge advances in fields like image recognition and natural language processing.Deep neural networks’ ability to learn even from very complex data makes them especially attractive in pharmaceutical chemistry. Abraham Heifets is cofounder and CEO of Atomwise, which makes deep-neural-network-based software for predicting binding affinities of drug candidates to targets in the body. He calls the introduction of deep neural networks a fundamental change in machine learning.SPONSORED CONTENTFacing data management challenges in the labby WatersSome have accused Atomwise of overhyping machine learning’s capabilities. A 2015 TechCrunch article quoted the firm’s cofounder Alexander Levy as saying the Atomwise software allowed him to predict a cure for measles from his living room. In a response to a post about the article on the drug discovery and pharma blog In the Pipeline, Levy suggested the blame lay partly with the reporter: “Wouldn’t it be nice if Atomwise works even half as well as it sounds on TechCrunch?” he wrote. Levy left Atomwise earlier this year.Heifets seems cognizant of the reputation companies like Atomwise have gained. He’s clear that Atomwise is not predicting a cure for anything. “Our focus is binding affinity. Binding is not a drug,” he says.Others in the field echo that sentiment. Even if machine learning can accurately predict molecules that have high binding affinities to targets—and even if it can do that better than humans—there are still many other steps to creating a profitable new drug. “The drug discovery pipeline is long,” Google’s Dahl says. Adding machine-learning tools to the discovery process could be like developing a better microscope or assay, he adds: It would have a small but real impact.Big pharmaceutical companies are nonetheless enthusiastic about deep neural networks, though like Heifets they’re careful to temper expectations. “To imagine AI or machine learning would solve all of the problems is not the way we think about it. It is powerful at discrete tasks,” says Jeremy Jenkins, head of chemical biology and therapeutics data science at Novartis.Still, chemists are seeing deep neural networks as a way of taking drug discovery to a new level, by unraveling complex data collected from the biology happening inside the human body. “Often, biology is so complicated that it’s difficult to wrap one’s head around,” says Vijay Pande, a general partner at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and a computational chemist at Stanford University. He thinks we humans may have reached our limits of understanding biological data but that machine learning will be able to make sense of the interface where drug chemistry meets the body’s biology.Jenkins says that ability could let machine learning suggest a molecule or molecules for medicinal chemists to focus their efforts on and get them to potential drugs faster. That sounds a lot like what proponents of earlier iterations of machine learning have promised, and some are skeptical that deep learning will be any different. Sheridan says when his group compared deep neural networks with other machine-learning methods, they found statistically significant improvements in predictive ability. But he says the benefits were almost always modest in the context of the entire drug discovery pipeline.ADVERTISEMENTIt may be that while machine learning can benefit drug discovery, it will have greater impacts in other areas of chemistry.MATERIALS RESEARCH“The reason machine learning for drug discovery is hard is because the question is ill posed,” says Leroy Cronin, a chemist at the University of Glasgow. Machine learning has proved it does well with a defined goal, like recognizing a face. But Cronin explains that because humans don’t fully understand what makes a drug successful—as opposed to what constitutes, say, a face—we don’t know what data to give a machine-learning algorithm to make it successful. It’s possible that deep neural networks’ ability to deal with more-complex data sets could set them apart, but that remains to be seen. Cronin and others think machine learning is likely to have a bigger impact sooner in materials research.“How does the chemistry affect the material’s property? There’s a direct connection,” says Jillian Buriak, a materials chemist at the University of Alberta and editor in chief of Chemistry of Materials. A crystal’s hardness is a consequence of how its atoms bond to one another, for example. That means machine learning is likely to be more immediately useful for materials research, she explains.Materials science came later than medicinal chemistry to machine learning, embracing it only in the past decade or so. Still, a number of papers have already shown that machine-learning algorithms can predict molecules or materials with desired properties, sometimes to humans’ surprise. Algorithms have discovered spin-crossover complexes, which are inorganic complexes that might act as switches and sensors (J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2018, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b00170), and they’ve found metallic glasses made with alloys that hadn’t previously been theorized (Sci. Adv. 2018, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaq1566).Like in pharma, materials research has long been using techniques that now would be called machine learning. Heather Kulik, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology chemical engineering professor who led the spin-crossover complex research, says that when she started her lab four or five years ago, she told people her goal was to extend what worked in organic cheminformatics to inorganic chemistry. “These days I’d never say that,” Kulik says. “These days I’d say we’re accelerating inorganic discovery with machine learning because that’s something that funders and people who read papers are going to be more responsive to.”Buriak agrees that materials researchers have been quietly using machine learning for years, even if they didn’t call it by that name. Buriak points to projects like the Materials Genome Initiative, a $500 million collaboration between several federal agencies that started in 2011 to find and produce new materials faster. MGI collected and made accessible materials data to accelerate materials science, especially by computer.The materials genome concept—the idea that collecting and analyzing a large amount of data could lead to new insights—dates back only to 2002, but in 2016 researchers used it in one of the first demonstrations that machine learning could benefit materials research. The authors built a public database—which included results from failed reactions—and were able to predict vanadium selenite crystallization reactions more accurately than humans could (Nature 2016, DOI: 10.1038/nature17439).A computer beating humans at some tasks is one thing, but a common refrain from researchers who use machine learning is that computers can’t replace human intuition. Bobby G. Sumpter, a physical chemist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory who’s been working on computational methods since the 1980s, says there’s every reason to believe machine learning can interpolate large amounts of data and make predictions that may be too subtle or complex for human scientists. But to think that machine learning can make predictions far beyond the chemical space of a particular training data set is to ignore fundamental rules of statistics, Sumpter says.If this worked, we could, for example, predict a structure of a molecule from its observed properties. That’s not possible right now.Bert de Jong, a computational chemist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, says that what we now refer to as machine learning is mainly a tool for speeding up computations on large data sets. It’s not capable of extrapolating beyond the knowledge contained in data sets, understanding the physics of the molecules, and truly learning, he adds.Instead, many see machine learning as helping materials scientists by improving their experimentation. “Machine learning can aid significantly in analyzing and providing meaningful results,” Sumpter says.He says machine learning is demonstrably good at interpreting images and spectra of compounds and materials, particularly in finding signals among noise close to an instrument’s detection limit. He says it can also help guide experiments in real time. Because machine learning can assimilate and interpret huge amounts of data in milliseconds, AI can adjust inputs and parameters to optimize an experiment as it happens, particularly in a flow-type reactor setup.If it’s well built, machine learning doesn’t suffer from humans’ bias, and it’s more consistent. To many, that makes it a better fit for designing experiments as well. “Chemistry is messy and complicated,” Cronin says. “Machine learning can help design better experiments,” especially when the number of variables might overwhelm a human, like understanding solvent effects on a reaction.REACTION DISCOVERYThe first thing that comes to many chemists’ minds when they hear the terms “machine learning” and “hype” is retrosynthesis. Nearly since the day that Harvard University’s Elias J. Corey described his concept for strategizing a synthetic route to a target molecule by thinking about key bonds and building blocks, he and others have been working toward computer programs that can plan synthesis.“They claimed that for so long,” Sumpter says, “so everybody’s been like, yeah, sure.” Despite that past skepticism, Sumpter is among those who think machine learning may in fact put synthesis by computer in reach. But the way chemists working in this field talk about machine learning is more toned down than most might expect.“I see machine learning as enabling human abilities, not making humans unnecessary, but making humans more efficient in everything they do,” says Matt Toussant, senior vice president for product and content operations at CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society. ACS publishes C&EN.Toussant says CAS is introducing its retrosynthesis planner, called ChemPlanner, this fall. MilliporeSigma released Synthia (formerly Chematica), another prominent product in this space, in August.Both programs rely heavily on human experts who created the databases of rules that chemical transformations must follow, drawn from the literature and their own knowledge. Machine-learning algorithms let the programs navigate chemical space using these rules and suggest to the user possible ways to synthesize a target molecule.Bartosz Grzybowski of the Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology, Synthia’s creator, says machine learning is just one tool the software relies on. Synthia also uses molecular dynamics, quantum mechanics, and electronic properties to judge how favorable a transformation is or how stable an intermediate is along a synthesis route. Machine learning can’t do everything, Grzybowski says. “Some advanced aspects of organic chemistry require all these other tools. So what I’m advocating is be open, solve the problem, and don’t insist on a specific method.”Some chemists remain skeptical that these products will offer a significant advantage over the traditional way of planning synthesis, which typically involves a graduate student accessing a database through tools like Reaxys or SciFinder, another CAS product, reasoning out a path forward, and experimenting. Toussant says what chemists will care about is whether a machine-learning algorithm like ChemPlanner makes them more productive and allows them to make more discoveries.Grzybowski responds to the skepticism with his mantra: “Cook it.” Put the routes that Synthia predicts to the test in the lab and see whether the program can find a better route—or the same route faster—than a human using a database. He has published one paper doing just that (Chem 2018, DOI: 10.1016/j.chempr.2018.02.002), which showed that Synthia can find novel, efficient, experimentally valid routes to targets in just 15 or 20 minutes.09634-feature1-synthesis.jpgMachine-learning-based Synthia planned a synthetic route (right) to an ATR kinase inhibitor that took fewer steps but had a similar yield compared with a published route (left).If chemists think they need to use buzzwords like “machine learning” to attract more eyeballs or dollars, Grzybowski doesn’t blame them. “Impact factor is god,” he says. But he says once the hype of machine learning dies away, valuable tools will remain, as previous fads like combinatorial chemistry or genomics have demonstrated. Each of those had its own ride on the hype roller coaster, and while neither lived up to what some people promised, they both remain in use.Toussant believes we’re near peak hype in machine learning and about to fall into the valley of disillusionment. “But ultimately all technology recovers from the pit of despair,” he says. “I expect machine learning to do the same. I believe in its future.”HUMAN LEARNINGDespite their differences, the chemists that C&EN interviewed agree: Yes, machine learning is overhyped. No, it won’t cure cancer. Nonetheless, it’s a valuable tool that’s here to stay.How valuable is up for debate. But in order for chemists to get the most out of machine learning, another thing is clear. Chemists need to change their behavior. That starts with data.It’s little wonder that pharma and materials science—two areas of chemistry that have made dedicated efforts to create useful databases of chemical properties—appear to be furthest along in using machine learning. Getting clean, comprehensive data to build good training sets has been a problem in applying machine learning to organic synthesis. Information about successful reactions is scattered across journals in all kinds of formats and notations, and information about failed reactions is hidden in old lab notebooks.“The old rules still apply,” Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Sumpter says. “Garbage in, garbage out.” Machine learning does best when trained on a large amount of organized data, preferably including negative results. The University of Glasgow’s Cronin says chemists have to learn how to build databases and create descriptors for data so algorithms can learn.Chemists will also need basic coding skills. Javier Garcia Martinez, an inorganic chemist at the University of Alicante, says chemists’ training must change. “Every Ph.D. student knows NMR and X-ray diffraction,” he says. “The new tools will be machine learning and artificial intelligence.” For chemists who’ve completed their formal training, Garcia Martinez encourages them to educate themselves with free tools available online.Collaborations will also become increasingly important, many say. Expert organic chemists will pair up with computational chemists or computer scientists to find ways to apply machine learning to their research. Dahl says he’d love to have more chemists come to Google with their data and questions: “I’m happy to try working on it.”Even the fiercest machine-learning proponents don’t believe it can be useful for chemists without real effort on the molecular scientists’ part to learn new skills, change the way they think about data, and even ask questions differently. If they can, says Joshua Schrier, a computational chemist at Fordham University and Haverford College, “machine learning enables the ordinary chemist to have superpowers.”Whether that’s overhyping it depends on your perspective. For those chemists who work most closely with machine learning, the excitement they see in press releases and casual conversation can get tiresome. These experts have great faith that machine learning will have a real and lasting impact on chemistry, especially if more people are trained to use it. At the same time, some worry that this tool can’t possibly live up to the highest expectations and that disappointment might hurt progress.Cronin puts it this way: “Although I say machine learning is overhyped and annoying, I think it’s underused by chemists.”Chemical & Engineering NewsISSN 0009-2347Copyright © 2020 American Chemical SocietyYOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE...

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Originally named Cadabra was an online bookstore only.CEO Jeff Bezos explored other options in mind-blowing facts related to technology ’90s, some of which still redirects to Amazon, likeAmazon was registered in 1994 and has grown into mind-blowing facts related to technology monolith that it is today.Bonus Bonus Fact: When Snapchat first launched in 2011, it was named Picaboo.It wasn’t renamed to what we know as Snapchat until 2012.Everyone uses Google as a spellchecker.Most everyone, anyway! 97% of people type in words to Google just to see if they spelled it right.I know I’m definitely among that 97%!The first word to ever be auto-corrected was “teh.”Back in mind-blowing facts related to technology day, autocorrect wasn’t as efficient as it is now.In order to auto-correct “teh” to “mind-blowing facts related to technology,” you had to press mind-blowing facts related to technology left arrow and F3.The Nintendo Game Boy went to space.1. Scientists can now use deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) to store and retrieve images. Videos, images, emails and other digital data up to 10,000 gigabytes in size can be stored in a smear of DNA.2. Drones can now build a bridge by themselves. Oh, yes! With amazing ease, two quadrocopters have autonomously assembled rope bridge. This was done in Switzerland by deploying two drones connected with an anchor at two ends, creating a 120 m long bridge with 9 rope segments.3. The best selling mobile phone of all time was mind-blowing facts related to technology Nokia 1100, made in Finland. A whooping 250 million units were sold. With this record, it is mind-blowing facts related to technology most-sold electrical gadget in history, slightly ahead of mind-blowing facts related to technology PlayStation 2.4. The most dangerous virus ever created in mind-blowing facts related to technology form of a worm is called ILOVEYOU. It attacked by replicating itself and crashing systems. It first arrived through e-mail messages as a love letter from a secret admirer. Once mind-blowing facts related to technology email was opened and mind-blowing facts related to technology attachment is clicked on, mind-blowing facts related to technology virus spread fast.5. It is predicted that by mind-blowing facts related to technology year 2033, there would be anonymous robots that are designed to kill. It is understood that these robots can certainly spare a lot of human life, but they are also capable of identifying targets and killing them without any human input.8. There are now smart water bottles that track a user’s water consumption, smart medical pill bottles that remind patients to take their pills, and innovative alcohol bottles that help consumers ensure authenticity of mind-blowing facts related to technology product.9. While it took mind-blowing facts related to technology iPod just 3 years to reach a market audience of 50 million, it took radio 38 years and television, 13 years to reach mind-blowing facts related to technology same market audience.17 Mind-Blowing ‘Internet Of Things’ Facts Everyone Should ReadThe Internet of Things is here and it’s growing rapidly. Internet of Things (IoT) or Internet of Everything (IoE) refers to devices or objects that are connected to mind-blowing facts related to technology Internet, like your smartwatch, Fitbit, or even your refrigerator. These devices are able to collect and transmit data via mind-blowing facts related to technology Internet, contributing to our big data world.Smart, connected devices are already transforming our world and mind-blowing facts related to technology competitive forces in business. To demonstrate how fast this sector is growing and what an impact it will have on our lives and business, I’ve rounded up 17 of mind-blowing facts related to technology most mind-boggling IoT numbers and stats that prove that mind-blowing facts related to technology phenomenon is here and here to stay.The majority of people (87%) have not heard of mind-blowing facts related to technology term ‘Internet of Things’.ATMs are considered some of mind-blowing facts related to technology first IoT objects, and went online as far back as 1974.Back in 2008, there were already more objects connected to mind-blowing facts related to technology Internet than people.By mind-blowing facts related to technology end of 2015, we already had 9 billion connected things.And some predict that by 2020, mind-blowing facts related to technology number of Internet-connected things will reach or even exceed 50 billion.In 2015, over 4 billion smart phones were shipped and by 2020 we will have a staggering 6.1 billion smartphone users.The IoT will connect many of mind-blowing facts related to technology devices we have in our homes, from smart thermostats to smart fridges. Companies like Google and Samsung understand this. Google bought smart thermostat maker, Nest Labs, for $3.2 billion, and Samsung purchased connected home company SmartThings for $200 million.By 2020, a quarter of a billion vehicles will be connected to mind-blowing facts related to technology Internet, giving us completely new possibilities for in-vehicle services and automated driving.In fact, we already have IoT-enabled cars that can drive on their own - Google’s self-driving cars currently average about 10,000 autonomous miles per week.The global market for internet-connected wearable devices has grown 223% in 2015, with Fitbit shipping 4.4 million devices and Apple selling 3.6 million Apple Watches in mind-blowing facts related to technology second quarter of 2015.And yes, Internet-connected clothing is coming. Estimates predict that 10.2 million units of smart clothing will ship by 2020, compared to a meagre 140K units in 2013.Today, mind-blowing facts related to technology market for Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags, used for transmitting data to identify and track objects, is worth $11.1 billion. This is predicted to rise to $21.9 billion in 2020.Machine-to-machine (M2M) connections will grow from 5 billion at mind-blowing facts related to technology beginning of 2015 to 27 billion by 2024, with China taking a 21% share and mind-blowing facts related to technology U.S. 20%.GE believes that mind-blowing facts related to technology “industrial Internet” (their term for IoT) will add $10 to $15 trillion to global GDP in mind-blowing facts related to technology next 20 years.According to estimations by mind-blowing facts related to technology McKinsey Global Institute, mind-blowing facts related to technology IoT will have a total economic impact of up to $11 trillion by 2025.Having a connected kitchen could save mind-blowing facts related to technology food and beverage industry as much as 15%CISCO believes mind-blowing facts related to technology IoT could generate $4.6 trillion over mind-blowing facts related to technology next ten years for mind-blowing facts related to technology public sector, and $14.4 trillion for mind-blowing facts related to technology private sector.The IoT is only going to grow. I believe that currently less than 0.1% of all mind-blowing facts related to technology devices that could be connected to mind-blowing facts related to technology Internet, are connected to mind-blowing facts related to technology Internet. Just think of mind-blowing facts related to technology tremendous potential and limitless opportunities this brings for business and society.I’m curious to know: What are your favourite IoT facts? Do you own an IoT or smart device? Are you planning to buy more connected technology? And are you concerned about how your data is collected and used? I’d love to hear your thoughts in mind-blowing facts related to technology comments below.16 MIND-BLOWING FACTS ABOUT THE DIGITAL REVOLUTIONWe live in an era where technology is developing at breakneck speed. The Digital Revolution has impacted all of our lives, completely changing mind-blowing facts related to technology way we live and work. Here are 16 of mind-blowing facts related to technology most remarkable facts and statistics related to mind-blowing facts related to technology digital era.THE INTERNETThe Internet has made a bigger impact than any other innovation in mind-blowing facts related to technology digital era. Have a look at these mind-blowing statistics about this global mega-technology.There were an estimated 58 billion Internet users globally in 2017. This means that more than half of mind-blowing facts related to technology world’s adult population uses mind-blowing facts related to technology Internet. It is only in mind-blowing facts related to technology most isolated areas of mind-blowing facts related to technology world where Internet is not readily available.Every single second, approximately 40 000 Google searches take place around mind-blowing facts related to technology world. This equates to a staggering 1.2 trillion searches per year. This is one of mind-blowing facts related to technology reasons why Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) has become such a highly demanded skill in mind-blowing facts related to technology workplace.There are almost 2 billion websites on mind-blowing facts related to technology Internet. It is difficult to gauge mind-blowing facts related to technology real size of mind-blowing facts related to technology Internet, but mind-blowing facts related to technology four biggest IT companies (Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook) alone store at least 1.2 million terabytes of data.According to mind-blowing facts related to technology 2018 Communications Market Report by Ofcom, 64% of adults in mind-blowing facts related to technology UK say that mind-blowing facts related to technology Internet is an essential part of their lives. 20% of adults spend more than 40 hours online per week.SMARTPHONESSmartphones have become an integral part of our lives. From organizing our daily routines, to taking photographs, updating our social media pages, watching videos and playing games, today’s smartphones have a truly extraordinary array or abilities.There are approximately 5 billion smartphones currently in use around mind-blowing facts related to technology world. In 2017, a total of 1.5 billion smartphones were sold.Adults in mind-blowing facts related to technology USA will spend an average of 3½ hours per day on their mobile devices in 2018. The leading activity is listening to audio, at an average of over 50 minutes per day. This is closely followed by social networking, mobile gaming, videos and messaging.Ofcom’s report shows that adults in mind-blowing facts related to technology UK check their smartphones every 12 minutes of mind-blowing facts related to technology day. 40% of people (and 65% of people under mind-blowing facts related to technology age of 35) check their smartphones within five minutes of waking up.Smartphones are now so powerful that NASA currently has a fleet of them orbiting mind-blowing facts related to technology earth as satellites. The PhoneSats are capable of taking high-resolution aerial photographs of any point on mind-blowing facts related to technology planet.ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCEPreviously something that was only seen in science fiction movies, artificial intelligence (AI) has become a reality. AI is increasingly being used at home and at work, and is expected to become a common part of our daily lives in mind-blowing facts related to technology coming years.It has been predicted that, by 2020, mind-blowing facts related to technology average person will have more conversations with intelligent bots than with their husband or wife.One of mind-blowing facts related to technology most advanced AI systems in mind-blowing facts related to technology world, Google’s DeepMind has superhuman intelligence. Amongst many other capabilities, it can beat mind-blowing facts related to technology world’s best video game players, detect diseases and lipread better than any human.Vehicles created by Waymo, mind-blowing facts related to technology company that operates driverless cars for Google parent company Alphabet, have so far driven 16 million kilometres on public roads in 25 US cities.Google’s virtual assistant is able to speak and respond to questions exactly like a human. In a presentation, mind-blowing facts related to technology company demonstrated how mind-blowing facts related to technology AI assistant was able to interact over mind-blowing facts related to technology phone to reserve a table at a restaurant and make an appointment at a hair salon.AI company AIME has developed a platform that can predict dengue fever outbreaks three months in advance, with an 87% accuracy. It is hoped that mind-blowing facts related to technology platform can also be used to target diseases such as Ebola.DEMAND FOR TECHNOLOGY PROFESSIONALSAs mind-blowing facts related to technology digital era reaches new frontiers, mind-blowing facts related to technology demand for technology professionals has skyrocketed.All 10 of mind-blowing facts related to technology skills on LinkedIn’s most in-demand hard skills list are related to technology. Cloud and distributed computing skills occupy first place.On South African job site CareerJunction, as much as 24% of all vacancies are related to IT.Forbes lists experience with AI as mind-blowing facts related to technology number one in-demand skill globally. Data analysis, mobile app development and cybersecurity also feature highly.The vast majority of similar surveys and research into mind-blowing facts related to technology top demanded skills all have similar findings to those listed above.With digital technology expanding at a faster rate than ever, there is no better time than now to develop you’re your tech skills. Start by exploring IT courses with Oxbridge Academy.15 amazing science facts that will blow your mindImpress your friends with these incredible facts about mind-blowing facts related to technology world around us1. Babies have around 100 more bones than adultsBabies have about 300 bones at birth, with cartilage between many of them. This extra flexibility helps them pass through mind-blowing facts related to technology birth canal and also allows for rapid growth. With age, many of mind-blowing facts related to technology bones fuse, leaving 206 bones that make up an average adult skeleton.2. The Eiffel Tower can be 15 cm taller during mind-blowing facts related to technology summerWhen a substance is heated up, its particles move more and it takes up a larger volume – this is known as thermal expansion. Conversely, a drop in temperature causes it to contract again. The mercury level inside a thermometer, for example, rises and falls as mind-blowing facts related to technology mercury’s volume changes with mind-blowing facts related to technology ambient temperature. This effect is most dramatic in gases but occurs in liquids and solids such as iron too. For this reason, large structures such as bridges are built with expansion joints which allow them some leeway to expand and contract without causing any damage.3. 20% of Earth’s oxygen is produced by mind-blowing facts related to technology Amazon rainforestOur atmosphere is made up of roughly 78 per cent nitrogen and 21 per cent oxygen, with various other gases present in small amounts. The vast majority of living organisms on Earth need oxygen to survive, converting it into carbon dioxide as they breathe. Thankfully, plants continually replenish our planet’s oxygen levels through photosynthesis. During this process, carbon dioxide and water are converted into energy, releasing oxygen as a by-product. Covering 5.5 million square kilometres (2.1 million square miles), mind-blowing facts related to technology Amazon rainforest cycles a significant proportion of mind-blowing facts related to technology Earth’s oxygen, absorbing large quantities of carbon dioxide at mind-blowing facts related to technology same time.4. Some metals are so reactive that they explode on contact with waterThere are certain metals – including potassium, sodium, lithium, rubidium and caesium – that are so reactive that they oxidise (or tarnish) instantly when exposed to air. They can even produce explosions when dropped in water! All elements strive to be chemically stable – in other words, to have a full outer electron shell. To achieve this, metals tend to shed electrons. The alkali metals have only one electron on their outer shell, making them ultra-keen to pass on this unwanted passenger to another element via bonding. As a result they form compounds with other elements so readily that they don’t exist independently in nature.5. A teaspoonful of neutron star would weigh 6 billion tonsA neutron star is mind-blowing facts related to technology remnants of a massive star that has run out of fuel. The dying star explodes in a supernova while its core collapses in on itself due to gravity, forming a super-dense neutron star. Astronomers measure mind-blowing facts related to technology mind-bogglingly large masses of stars or galaxies in solar masses, with one solar mass equal to mind-blowing facts related to technology Sun’s mass (that is, 2 x 1030 kilograms/4.4 x 1030 pounds). Typical neutron stars have a mass of up to three solar masses, which is crammed into a sphere with a radius of approximately ten kilometres (6.2 miles) – resulting in some of mind-blowing facts related to technology densest matter in mind-blowing facts related to technology known universe.6. Hawaii moves 7.5cm closer to Alaska every yearThe Earth’s crust is split into gigantic pieces called tectonic plates. These plates are in constant motion, propelled by currents in mind-blowing facts related to technology Earth’s upper mantle. Hot, less-dense rock rises before cooling and sinking, giving rise to circular convection currents which act like giant conveyor belts, slowly shifting mind-blowing facts related to technology tectonic plates above them. Hawaii sits in mind-blowing facts related to technology middle of mind-blowing facts related to technology Pacific Plate, which is slowly drifting north-west towards mind-blowing facts related to technology North American Plate, back to Alaska. The plates’ pace is comparable to mind-blowing facts related to technology speed at which our fingernails grow.7. Chalk is made from trillions of microscopic plankton fossilsTiny single-celled algae called coccolithophores have lived in Earth’s oceans for 200 million years. Unlike any other marine plant, they surround themselves with minuscule plates of calcite (coccoliths). Just under 100 million years ago, conditions were just right for coccolithophores to accumulate in a thick layer coating ocean floors in a white ooze. As further sediment built up on top, mind-blowing facts related to technology pressure compressed mind-blowing facts related to technology coccoliths to form rock, creating chalk deposits such as mind-blowing facts related to technology white cliffs of Dover. Coccolithophores are just one of many prehistoric species that have been immortalised in fossil form, but how do we know how old they are? Over time, rock forms in horizontal layers, leaving older rocks at mind-blowing facts related to technology bottom and younger rocks near mind-blowing facts related to technology top. By studying mind-blowing facts related to technology type of rock in which a fossil is found palaeontologists can roughly guess its age. Carbon dating estimates a fossil’s age more precisely, based on mind-blowing facts related to technology rate of decay of radioactive elements such as carbon-14.8. In 2.3 billion years it will be too hot for life to exist on EarthOver mind-blowing facts related to technology coming hundreds of millions of years, mind-blowing facts related to technology Sun will continue to get progressively brighter and hotter. In just over 2 billion years, temperatures will be high enough to evaporate our oceans, making life on Earth impossible. Our planet will become a vast desert similar to Mars today. As it expands into a red giant in mind-blowing facts related to technology following few billion years, scientists predict that mind-blowing facts related to technology Sun will finally engulf Earth altogether, spelling mind-blowing facts related to technology definite end for our planet.9. Polar bears are nearly undetectable by infrared camerasThermal cameras detect mind-blowing facts related to technology heat lost by a subject as infrared, but polar bears are experts at conserving heat. The bears keep warm due to a thick layer of blubber under mind-blowing facts related to technology skin. Add to this a dense fur coat and they can endure mind-blowing facts related to technology chilliest Arctic day.10. It takes 8 minutes, 19 seconds for light to travel from mind-blowing facts related to technology Sun to mind-blowing facts related to technology EarthIn space, light travels at 300,000 kilometres (186,000 miles) per second. Even at this breakneck speed, covering mind-blowing facts related to technology 150 million odd kilometres (93 million miles) between us and mind-blowing facts related to technology Sun takes considerable time. And eight minutes is still very little compared to mind-blowing facts related to technology five and a half hours it takes for mind-blowing facts related to technology Sun’s light to reach Pluto.11. If you took out all mind-blowing facts related to technology empty space in our atoms, mind-blowing facts related to technology human race could fit in mind-blowing facts related to technology volume of a sugar cubeThe atoms that make up mind-blowing facts related to technology world around us seem solid but are in fact over 99.99999 per cent empty space. An atom consists of a tiny, dense nucleus surrounded by a cloud of electrons, spread over a proportionately vast area. This is because as well as being particles, electrons act like waves. Electrons can only exist where mind-blowing facts related to technology crests and troughs of these waves add up correctly. And instead of existing in one point, each electron’s location is spread over a range of probabilities – an orbital. They thus occupy a huge amount of space.12. Stomach acid is strong enough to dissolve stainless steelYour stomach digests food thanks to highly corrosive hydrochloric acid with a pH of 2 to 3. This acid also attacks your stomach lining, which protects itself by secreting an alkali bicarbonate solution. The lining still needs to be replaced continually, and it entirely renews itself every four days.13. The Earth is a giant magnetEarth’s inner core is a sphere of solid iron, surrounded by liquid iron. Variations in temperature and density create currents in this iron, which in turn produce electrical currents. Lined up by mind-blowing facts related to technology Earth’s spin, these currents combine to create a magnetic field, used by compass needles worldwide.14. Venus is mind-blowing facts related to technology only planet to spin clockwiseOur Solar System started off as a swirling cloud of dust and gas which eventually collapsed into a spinning disc with mind-blowing facts related to technology Sun at its centre. Because of this common origin, all mind-blowing facts related to technology planets move around mind-blowing facts related to technology Sun in mind-blowing facts related to technology same direction and on roughly mind-blowing facts related to technology same plane. They also all spin in mind-blowing facts related to technology same direction (counterclockwise if observed from ‘above’) – except Uranus and Venus. Uranus spins on its side, while Venus defiantly spins in mind-blowing facts related to technology complete opposite direction. The most likely cause of these planetary oddballs are gigantic asteroids which knocked them off course in mind-blowing facts related to technology distant past.15. A flea can accelerate faster than mind-blowing facts related to technology Space ShuttleA jumping flea reaches dizzying heights of about eight centimetres (three inches) in a millisecond. Acceleration is mind-blowing facts related to technology change in speed of an object over time, often measured in ‘g’s, with one g equal to mind-blowing facts related to technology acceleration caused by gravity on Earth (9.8 metres/32.2 feet per square second). Fleas experience 100 g, while mind-blowing facts related to technology Space Shuttle peaked at around 5 g. The flea’s secret is a stretchy rubber-like protein which allows it to store and release energy like a spring.Mind-blowing facts about TechnologyIt is undeniable that mind-blowing facts related to technology born of technology, especially computers, mobiles and mind-blowing facts related to technology Internet, has strongly transformed our world, for better and for worse. In mind-blowing facts related to technology very long road of its development, technology has become a gigantic picture that knowing every detail is impossible.While most of you are quite familiar with tech achievements, let’s take a look at some interesting facts you may not know related to technology. Be aware, some of them may be a big surprise!Interesting facts about ComputersThe first “modern” computer was built in 1941 by Konrad Zuse in World War II. He has looked for funding from mind-blowing facts related to technology Germans but was denied because they did not expect mind-blowing facts related to technology war to last beyond Christmas.The very first computer mouse was created from wood in 1964 by Doug Engelbart. Now it is one of mind-blowing facts related to technology most necessary computer peripheral. The body was made of wood with metal wheels supporting to roll back and forth. Only it had a cord connected to it, which was interpreted as mind-blowing facts related to technology tail of a mouse. And that is mind-blowing facts related to technology reason for mind-blowing facts related to technology name of it up to now.In general, people tend to read mind-blowing facts related to technology letters are on a screen as much as 10% slower than they are on paper.A normal human being blinks at a rate of around 20 times a minute. But while using a computer, he just blinks 7 times a minute on an average. To explain this, we tend to concentrate more on mind-blowing facts related to technology screen, so we usually blink a lot less in front of a computer than we do normally.A computer as powerful as mind-blowing facts related to technology human brain would be able to do 38 thousand trillion operations per second and hold more than 3580 terabytes of memory.Russians built a computer that ran on water in 1936.The first computer “bug” was a real bug. In 1947, Grace Hopper, an admiral in mind-blowing facts related to technology US Navy discovered a dead moth stuck in her Mark II computer and thereby hindering mind-blowing facts related to technology operation. She “debugged” it from mind-blowing facts related to technology system, recorded it on her note and wrote “First actual case of bug being found.”The 30th of November is known as “Computer Security Day“.CD’s (or Compact discs) read from mind-blowing facts related to technology inside to mind-blowing facts related to technology outside edge, which is mind-blowing facts related to technology reverse of how records work.On an average working day, a computer user makes mind-blowing facts related to technology move of his fingers that could have traveled about 12.6 miles.More than 5000 new computer viruses are released every month.It is estimated that only about 10% of mind-blowing facts related to technology world’s currency is physical cash, mind-blowing facts related to technology rest only exists on computers.The first ever hard disk drive was made in 1979 and could hold only 5MB of data.86% of people tend to plug their USB devices upside down.The password for mind-blowing facts related to technology computer which controls nuclear-tipped missiles of mind-blowing facts related to technology U.S was 00000000 for eight years.15-year-old Jonathan James with a PC hacked NASA computer system in 1999. He had access to over 3,000 messages, usernames and passwords of its employees. NASA was forced to shut down all mind-blowing facts related to technology computers for three weeks to fix mind-blowing facts related to technology problem. The cost for it is estimated at $41,000. He was ultimately sentenced when he was 16 but it shows that technology has empowered a normal person to do unbelievable things.Jonathan JamesThe first computer programmer is considered to be a woman. Ada Lovelace is an English mathematician and writer, who is known for her work on mind-blowing facts related to technology “Analytical Engine”. Her notes on mind-blowing facts related to technology engine are acknowledged as mind-blowing facts related to technology first algorithm to be performed by a machine.The PNG file format was supported to be pronounced as ‘ping’.TYPEWRITER is mind-blowing facts related to technology longest word that you can type using mind-blowing facts related to technology letters only on one row of mind-blowing facts related to technology computer keyboard.Genesis Device demonstration video in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan was mind-blowing facts related to technology first entirely computer generated movie sequence in mind-blowing facts related to technology history of cinema. That studio later becomes Pixar.1 Petabyte (which equals to 1024 x 1024 Gigabytes) can hold 13.3 years of HD videos.The total programming languages that are known up to now, including those currently used and historical ones, is nearly 700. If computer programming were a country, it would rank third among mind-blowing facts related to technology countries with mind-blowing facts related to technology most languages spoken, after Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. But you are not recommended to try them all!Interesting facts about Tech brandsThe very first Apple logo featured Sir Isaac Newton sitting underneath an apple tree, where he was about to find out about gravity with an apple dangling over his head. There are many stories were made to idealize mind-blowing facts related to technology meaning behind Apple’s famous logo: an apple with a bite mark. But according to mind-blowing facts related to technology designer, he created mind-blowing facts related to technology bite mark because he thought it was iconic and so that people get that it was an apple, not a cherry.Apple Logo Revolution“Interface Manager” was mind-blowing facts related to technology original pre-launching name for Microsoft’s operating system “Windows”. Then Microsoft found mind-blowing facts related to technology term “Windows” sound more appealing, so they decided to change to it.The house where Bill Gates lives was designed using a Macintosh computer.The 3 tech giants including HP, Microsoft and Apple have something in common that they were all started in a garage.Google uses an estimated 15 billion kWh of electricity per year, which are enough energy to continuously power 200,000 homes, more than most countries. However, google generates a lot of their own power with their solar panels system.The main reason mind-blowing facts related to technology Google home page is so bare is because that mind-blowing facts related to technology founders just wanted a quick interface but they didn’t know HTML.Lenovo stands for ‘new legend’. ‘Le’ for legend, and ‘novo’ stands for new.Interesting facts about mind-blowing facts related to technology InternetThe Firefox logo is actually not a “fox”. The web browser is named after a native animal in mind-blowing facts related to technology Himalayas and southwestern China — red panda! In Chinese, “firefox” is another name for mind-blowing facts related to technology red panda.The original URL for Yahoo wasUp until mind-blowing facts related to technology 14th of September, 1995, domain registration was free.A person receives around 30 emails a day on average, more than 80% of them are spams.You will not be affected by viruses just by opening an email. It is only activated when you click a link or access an attachment.About 70% of virus writers are said to work under a contract for crime syndicates.Close to 50% of all Wikipedia vandalism is caught by a single computer program with more than 90% accuracy.Facebook pays at least $500 if you can find a way to hack mind-blowing facts related to technology site.Billions of hours are wasted online, spent, waiting for content to download.In 2011, 1 out of every 8 married couples in mind-blowing facts related to technology US met online.About 40% of mind-blowing facts related to technology world population has connected to mind-blowing facts related to technology Internet today; comparing to 20 years ago, it was less than 1%.NASA has successfully beamed Wi-Fi to mind-blowing facts related to technology Moon.Scott Fahlman invented mind-blowing facts related to technology first emoticon, which was mind-blowing facts related to technology basic “:)” in 1982.Email has been around longer than mind-blowing facts related to technology World Wide Web.If Facebook was a real nation with mind-blowing facts related to technology users as its residents, it would be mind-blowing facts related to technology third largest country in mind-blowing facts related to technology world by population.Other Interesting facts about technologyThe first ever VCR, which was made in 1956, was mind-blowing facts related to technology size of a piano!The very first camera took about 8 hours to complete a photo. It means if you want to have your picture taken, you should not make any movements during that amount of time to make sure that your photo will not be blurred.The word “robot “comes from mind-blowing facts related to technology Czech “robota“, which can be translated into forced labor or work.The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 AM.Bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers were all invented by women.Our thoughtsWhen discussing about technology, there is a tendency to battle over whether it brings more positive or negative effects to our life. But we can’t deny that it has a powerful effect on our life that if we avoid it, we are left far behind. The tech reel is evolving more and more rapidly. Our thought is instead of finding mind-blowing facts related to technology answer on whether technology is good or bad, we should take time to learn and improve ourselves to catch up with mind-blowing facts related to technology new trends that technology has been bringing to us every single day. Start involve by taking mind-blowing facts related to technology first step creating your own product today!50 Completely Random Facts About The World That Will Blow Your MindThe world is filled with things that just can't be explained. There are things right in front of us which we don't even notice and then there are those we have absolutely no idea about. Facts that haven't been heard by most of us or haven't been told to most of us. Regardless, these 50 random facts are worth knowing. Some are so random that we never even would've thought they mattered.1.The world's deepest postbox is in Susami Bay, Japan. It is 10 metres underwater.. Female Kangaroos have three vaginas.Confused? So are mind-blowing facts related to technology males.4. The cigarette lighter was invented before mind-blowing facts related to technology match stick.5. Alfred Hitchcock's 'Pyscho' was mind-blowing facts related to technology first film to show a toilet being flushed on screen.Psyched?6. The longest music performance began on 5th September 2001 in a church in Germany and will end in 2640.The last time mind-blowing facts related to technology note changed was in 2013 and it won't change again before 2020. They could not rope in Himesh Reshammiya even though he shot his film in Germany. It is called ASAP (As Slow As Possible).7. The Tanganyika laughter epidemic lasted for around 6 to 18 months.The laughter started in a village school in Tanzania (then Tanganyika) with 3 girls. In mind-blowing facts related to technology end, it affected over a 1000 people. It also made some people cry, scream and faint before eventually dying out.8. Otters sleep holding hands.9. 20% of coffee mugs contain fecal matter.Holy shit!10. If you remove all mind-blowing facts related to technology empty space from mind-blowing facts related to technology atoms that make up every human on earth, mind-blowing facts related to technology entire world's population can fit in an apple.No wonder it was mind-blowing facts related to technology forbidden fruit.11. It would take 12,00,000 mosquitoes sucking at once to completely drain a human of blood.If that were to happen, it would really suck!12. The small percentage of static you see on 'dead' TV channels is actually residual radiation from mind-blowing facts related to technology Big Bang.It is mind-blowing facts related to technology afterglow of mind-blowing facts related to technology universe's creation.13. The Greek national anthem, Hymn to Liberty, has 158 verses.It is also used by Cyprus as their national anthem.14. More than 50% of people in mind-blowing facts related to technology world haven't made or received a phone call.Their lives are so much simpler than ours.15. 'A duck's quack doesn't echo' is a myth. It does.16. Due to shortage of metal, mind-blowing facts related to technology Oscars were made of painted plaster during World War II.Only one was made of wood.17. There are more possible iterations in a game of chess than there are atoms in mind-blowing facts related to technology known universe.18. The China Highway 110 traffic jam lasted for more than 10 days. Cars moved at mind-blowing facts related to technology speed of 0.6 miles per day.Imagine being that late for a meeting!19. Beer in Russia was considered a soft drink up until 2011.The average Russian drinks mind-blowing facts related to technology equivalent of 32 pints of pure alcohol per year. Imagine that!20. Mohammad is mind-blowing facts related to technology most popular first name in mind-blowing facts related to technology world. Lee is mind-blowing facts related to technology most popular last name.21. If you wanted to watch every video on YouTube, you have to watch 55 crore hours worth of videos as of now. Minus what you have already watched.And every minute you spend watching a new video, a 100 hours of video are added. So basically, you cannot watch every video on YouTube.22. Forbes estimated Scrooge McDuck's wealth to be around USD 65.4 billion.If only he was real.23. There are over 200 dead bodies on Mount Everest.Some of them are used by mountain climbers as indicators for direction.24.Tarahumara tribe a.k.a. super athletes run 300 km at once.Yes, you read that right. They live in mind-blowing facts related to technology Copper Canyons and are mostly inaccessible. They run after their prey until it dies of exhaustion. These are intriguing people.25. The largest snowflake was recorded to be 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick.Now that is really 'cool'.26. In 1386, a pig was executed for mind-blowing facts related to technology murder of a child in FranceDes'pig'able.27. James Fixx, who popularized jogging in USA, died of a heart attack while jogging.Many Americans owe their fitness to him. His demise was both sad and ironic.28. 315 entries in mind-blowing facts related to technology Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.29. About 10 percent of mind-blowing facts related to technology people in mind-blowing facts related to technology world are lefties.30. The elephant is mind-blowing facts related to technology only mammal which cannot lift all four feet off mind-blowing facts related to technology ground at mind-blowing facts related to technology same time.Although hippos and rhinos also can't jump, while running all their feet can be in mind-blowing facts related to technology air.31. The world's oldest chewing gum is 5,000 years old.Chew on that.32. The Matami Tribe of West Africa have a different version of football. They play with skulls instead of a ball.Okay, that is very different.33. Charles Osborne, an American, had hiccups for 68 years.He was born in 1894 and lived till mind-blowing facts related to technology age of 97 years.34. Guinness Book of World Records holds a world record as mind-blowing facts related to technology best-selling copyrighted book of all time.35. A cockroach can live for several weeks without its head.36. The loneliest creature on earth is a whale near mind-blowing facts related to technology Pacific Coast which hasn't had any response to its mating call for decades.37. Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he does not wear pants.38. Ketchup was sold in mind-blowing facts related to technology 1830s as medicine. Before that, it was considered poisonous as it was made from other items like grapes and berries.39. The average lead pencil can be used to write a line about 56 km long or around 50,000 English words.40. Earth is mind-blowing facts related to technology only planet in our solar system not named after a god.Who named our planet is still unknown.41. The eye of an Ostrich is bigger than its brain.Talk about being a pea-brain.42. 'Jiffy' was actually a proposed unit of time which was equal to mind-blowing facts related to technology time it takes light to travel one centimeter in a vacuum (approximately 33.3564 picoseconds).Be back in jiffy seems impossible with those numbers43. The biggest tapeworm found inside a body was 35 meters long.No words.44. Astronaut Eugene Cernan wrote his daughter's initials on mind-blowing facts related to technology moon as promised.Her initials 'TDS' will last for years to come.45. Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with mind-blowing facts related to technology other at mind-blowing facts related to technology same time.46. Pigs can't look up at mind-blowing facts related to technology sky.47. Rats and horses can't vomit.They can really hold their drinks.48. Only one satellite has ever been destroyed by a meteor.The European Space Agency's Olympus in 1993.49. If it does not break, a glass ball can bounce higher than a rubber ball.50. The first condom was made somewhere in mind-blowing facts related to technology 16th century.It has obviously transformed since then, but mind-blowing facts related to technology basic idea is mind-blowing facts related to technology same. The one in mind-blowing facts related to technology photograph is from mind-blowing facts related to technology 19th century and it came with a manual.8. There are now smart water bottles that track a user’s water consumption, smart medical pill bottles that remind patients to take their pills, and innovative alcohol bottles that help consumers ensure authenticity of mind-blowing facts related to technology product.9. While it took mind-blowing facts related to technology iPod just 3 years to reach a market audience of 50 million, it took radio 38 years and television, 13 years to reach mind-blowing facts related to technology same market audience.10. To combat global warming, scientists are proposing creative ways to artificially cool mind-blowing facts related to technology atmosphere by either blocking mind-blowing facts related to technology sun’s rays or sucking up excess CO2. The plan is to “hack” mind-blowing facts related to technology planet back into shape.3. Astronaut Buzz Aldrin was 1st man to pee on mind-blowing facts related to technology moon.Yeah Neil, so what if you stepped on it first? Buzz marked his territory like a boss.In 1993, a Soviet cosmonaut brought his Nintendo Game Boy to space on mind-blowing facts related to technology TM-17 space mission.It is said to have orbited Earth 3,000 times and was later auctioned for $1,220.65 Amazing Facts That Will Blow Your Mind65 Amazing Facts That Will Blow Your MindBY JASON ENGLISH OCTOBER 3, 2013Getty Images/Arno BurgiGETTY IMAGES/ARNO BURGIVermont FactsOK, "blow your mind" is a bit dramatic. But 65 Amazing Facts You'll Probably Enjoy and Likely Consider Mentioning to Your Friends didn't fit.1. GOOGLE'S FOUNDERS WERE WILLING TO SELL TO EXCITE FOR UNDER $1 MILLION IN 1999—BUT EXCITE TURNED THEM DOWN.2. THERE WAS A THIRD APPLE FOUNDER. RONALD WAYNE (PICTURED AT HOME IN 2010) SOLD HIS 10% STAKE FOR $800 IN 1976.3. THE FAMOUS AARON BURR “GOT MILK?” AD FROM 1993 WAS DIRECTED BY MICHAEL BAY.3. THE FAMOUS AARON BURR “GOT MILK?” AD FROM 1993 WAS DIRECTED BY MICHAEL BAY.100 Mind-Blowing Facts You've Never Heard BeforeYou've heard mind-blowing facts related to technology adage before: The more you know, mind-blowing facts related to technology more you realize you don't know. Yes, mind-blowing facts related to technology Socratic paradox is alive and kicking, even in this age of instant, accessible, and unlimited information. From surprising facts about mind-blowing facts related to technology planet to obscure trivia about mind-blowing facts related to technology animal kingdom to deep secrets about how your body functions, there are so many little-known pieces of information that have mind-blowing facts related to technology potential to make you say "whoa." Don't believe us? Give it a whirl. Here are 100 brand new mind-blowing facts that might make you rethink how much you think you know. And for more trivia you can use to impress people at parties, learn these 40 Random Obscure Facts That Will Make Everyone Think You're a Genius.The English language is quirky, and one of mind-blowing facts related to technology best examples of that is in mind-blowing facts related to technology way we pronounce Pacific Ocean. Take your time to say it slowly, and you’ll notice that each ‘c’ is said differently—mind-blowing facts related to technology first with an 's' sound, mind-blowing facts related to technology second as a hard 'ck' sound, and mind-blowing facts related to technology third with a 'sh' sound. And for more ocean-related intel, check out these 33 Mind-Blowing Facts About mind-blowing facts related to technology Earth's Oceans.2Black apples exist.We tend to think of apples as being red, though there are, of course, some popular green and yellow varieties. But did you know there are also black apples? Called Black Diamond apples, they're found in Tibet and are from mind-blowing facts related to technology Hua Niu family of apples, also known as Chinese Red Delicious. Aside from mind-blowing facts related to technology black outer color—actually an extremely dark shade of purple—these apples look just like other Red Delicious apples, down to mind-blowing facts related to technology white flesh inside.3Butt-shaped robots are used to test phones.If you’ve ever put your phone in mind-blowing facts related to technology back pocket of your pants, you're probably aware that your backside poses a danger to it: People often forget their phone is there when they sit down, which can result in a crushed and broken device. That's why Samsung uses butt-shaped robots to test their products. According to Business Insider, mind-blowing facts related to technology faux bums "'sit' on Samsung phones over and over again to test durability and bending."4There are now giant pigs as heavy as polar bears.large farm pig in a field with piglets“In a farm deep in mind-blowing facts related to technology southern region of China lives a very big pig that’s as heavy as a polar bear,” according to Bloomberg. The creature weighs a whopping 1,102 pounds, which is pretty impressive considering that mind-blowing facts related to technology International Association for Bear Research and Management says adult male polar bears weigh anywhere from 880 to 1,320 pounds. The massive pig who “is part of a herd that’s being bred to become giant swine” will eventually be sold for meat, and due to its size, will likely bring in around $1,400. And for more trivia about all creatures great and small, here are 50 Animal Facts That Will Change mind-blowing facts related to technology Way You View mind-blowing facts related to technology Animal Kingdom.We tend to think of apples as being red, though there are, of course, some popular green and yellow varieties. But did you know there are also black apples? Called Black Diamond apples, they're found in Tibet and are from mind-blowing facts related to technology Hua Niu family of apples, also known as Chinese Red Delicious. Aside from mind-blowing facts related to technology black outer color—actually an extremely dark shade of purple—these apples look just like other Red Delicious apples, down to mind-blowing facts related to technology white flesh inside.3Butt-shaped robots are used to test phones.Man in train station with phone in back pocketIf you’ve ever put your phone in mind-blowing facts related to technology back pocket of your pants, you're probably aware that your backside poses a danger to it: People often forget their phone is there when they sit down, which can result in a crushed and broken device. That's why Samsung uses butt-shaped robots to test their products. According to Business Insider, mind-blowing facts related to technology faux bums "'sit' on Samsung phones over and over again to test durability and bending."4There are now giant pigs as heavy as polar bears.large farm pig in a field with piglets“In a farm deep in mind-blowing facts related to technology southern region of China lives a very big pig that’s as heavy as a polar bear,” according to Bloomberg. The creature weighs a whopping 1,102 pounds, which is pretty impressive considering that mind-blowing facts related to technology International Association for Bear Research and Management says adult male polar bears weigh anywhere from 880 to 1,320 pounds. The massive pig who “is part of a herd that’s being bred to become giant swine” will eventually be sold for meat, and due to its size, will likely bring in around $1,400. And for more trivia about all creatures great and small, here are 50 Animal Facts That Will Change mind-blowing facts related to technology Way You View mind-blowing facts related to technology Animal Kingdom.5Japanese golfers have hole-in-one insurance.golfer making a hole in oneIf you think that you take sports seriously, consider that an estimated four million golfers in Japan make sure that they have hole-in-one insurance before they take a swing, and have been doing so since mind-blowing facts related to technology first such policy was offered in 1982. Amateur players pay a premium of $65 a year for $3,500 in coverage. The extra cash comes in handy if a golfer nails mind-blowing facts related to technology impressive feat and is then expected to celebrate by paying for food, drinks, and gifts, which can cost quite a bit.6Cucamelons (or “mouse melons”) look like grape-sized watermelons but have a citrus flavor.cucamelons, little watermelon citrus fruits sitting in a bowlPlenty of people enjoy eating watermelon, but have you ever tried a cucamelon? While cucamelons or “mouse melons” sound like they could be related to watermelons—and certainly look like tiny grape-sized versions of mind-blowing facts related to technology larger fruit—they resemble cucumbers inside and have a citrusy taste. Originally from Mexico and Central America, cucamelons can be eaten as they are, added to a salad, made into salsa, or even pickled.7Walt Disney World would fit inside Canada 81,975 times.Walt Disney's Magic Kingdom theme park, showing mind-blowing facts related to technology fairy tale castle, Orlando, Florida, USAFindlay / AlamyWalt Disney World is a big place, but Canada is way bigger. In fact, mind-blowing facts related to technology nation up north is so massive (3.85 million square miles to be exact), that it’s mind-blowing facts related to technology second-largest country in mind-blowing facts related to technology world, coming after Russia (6.6 million square miles) and before mind-blowing facts related to technology United States (3.79 million square miles). That’s why mind-blowing facts related to technology beloved theme park could fit inside of Canada 81,975 times. And for more surprising information about mind-blowing facts related to technology happiest place on earth, check out these 35 Amazing Facts About Disney World Only Insiders Know.8The kangaroo mouse never needs to drink water.kangaroo mouse from nevadaDespite being named after an Australian animal, mind-blowing facts related to technology kangaroo mouse lives in mind-blowing facts related to technology Nevada desert. And since it resides in such a dry area, it’s learned to adapt by getting all of mind-blowing facts related to technology hydration it needs via mind-blowing facts related to technology seeds it eats. This means that mind-blowing facts related to technology kangaroo mouse never drinks water.9Spending just a few months in Antarctica can shrink your brain.Tourist taking photos of amazing frozen landscape in Antarctica with icebergs, snow, mountains and glaciers, beautiful nature in Antarctic Peninsula with ice (Tourist taking photos of amazing frozen landscape in Antarctica with icebergs, snow, mountaiiStockIf you ever take a trip to Antarctica, be sure to do as much socializing as you possibly can, and come up with stimulating ways to keep yourself busy. Research published in mind-blowing facts related to technology New England Journal of Medicine in Dec. 2019 explained that “brain imaging in eight polar expeditioners before and after 14 months of isolation showed that mind-blowing facts related to technology volume of mind-blowing facts related to technology hippocampal dentate gyrus was lower than that in controls.” IFL Science notes that “researchers believe mind-blowing facts related to technology changes in mind-blowing facts related to technology brain they observed are mind-blowing facts related to technology result of … environmental monotony and prolonged isolation.”10A prank once convinced people in Germany that Hansel and Gretel were real.hansel and gretel looking home horticulture display: house with moss and exotic plant arrangementiStockHansel and Gretel are figures you’ll likely recognize from mind-blowing facts related to technology 1812 Brothers Grimm fairy tale, but in 1963, a prank had people believing that mind-blowing facts related to technology siblings were real. Die Wahrheit über Hänsel und Gretel (The Truth About Hansel and Gretel) was a book written by German artist Hans Traxler. In his writing, he claimed that mind-blowing facts related to technology brother and sister were actually murderous adult siblings who had lived in mind-blowing facts related to technology mid-17th century and had killed a witch in order to get their hands on her recipe for a gingerbread-like treat. The book even included (fake) evidence, like a piece of paper that had mind-blowing facts related to technology recipe written down. The story apparently caused an “uproar,” according to Atlas Obscura, who note that mind-blowing facts related to technology Berliner Zeitung newspaper even asked readers if this was an example of “a criminal case from mind-blowing facts related to technology early capitalist era.” And for some more recent trivia, revisit 50 Amazing Facts We Learned in mind-blowing facts related to technology 2010s.11Greenland sharks don’t reach sexual maturity until they’re 150.greenland gurry shark in mind-blowing facts related to technology waterGreenland sharks, which are also known as gurry sharks or grey sharks, tend to live long lives. As mind-blowing facts related to technology longest-living vertebrate on mind-blowing facts related to technology planet, they can swim around mind-blowing facts related to technology ocean for up to 400 years and don’t reach sexual maturity until they're 150.12The longest bicycle in mind-blowing facts related to technology world is over 135 feet long.front view of a tandem bicycleIf you’ve ever ridden a tandem bike, you know that it can be tricky to get one moving. So just imagine how hard it must have been to ride a bike that stretched for 135 feet and 10.7 inches, making it mind-blowing facts related to technology longest bicycle in mind-blowing facts related to technology world. Crafted by Santos and mind-blowing facts related to technology University of South Australia in 2015, a group of cyclists did manage to ride mind-blowing facts related to technology bike—which was much wider than normal in order to compensate for mind-blowing facts related to technology length—over a distance of 100 meters.13A couple once tried to name their child Brfxxccxxmnpccccll-lmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116, pronounced "Albin."newborn baby in mind-blowing facts related to technology hospitalCelebrities are known for giving their children unique names—Vogue points out that A-lister kid names include Gravity, Pilot Inspektor, Apple, and, of course, North, Saint, and Chicago. But you don’t have to be famous to opt for an unexpected moniker. According to mind-blowing facts related to technology BBC, a couple once tried to name their child Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116, which is apparently pronounced "Albin." They had reportedly chosen mind-blowing facts related to technology title to protest Sweden’s strict name-related laws, which is why it may not be surprising that their selection was rejected.14Text messages sent by eagles bankrupted a scientific study.eagle in mind-blowing facts related to technology bushesA team from mind-blowing facts related to technology Russian Raptor Research and Conservation Network thought they had a great idea when they attached SMS text-based tracking devices to 13 steppe eagles. The hope was that mind-blowing facts related to technology birds would send back valuable information about their behavior. Unfortunately, one bird flew all mind-blowing facts related to technology way to Iran, “where roaming rates are sky-high,” according to Smithsonian. To get an idea of mind-blowing facts related to technology kind of money involved, mind-blowing facts related to technology eagle sent hundreds of text messages at once, and each one cost about 77 cents. Scientist Elena Shnayder told The New York Times, “He disappeared for five months, and all of a sudden here he is, with a very, very heavy phone bill.” The bill was so costly that it ended up bankrupting mind-blowing facts related to technology study.15The longest tiramisu ever measured was 897 feet and 3 inches.Homemade tiramisu cake . Sweet Italian dessert . Food backgroundiStockIf you love tiramisu, then you probably think you could never get too much of mind-blowing facts related to technology tasty treat. However, you might reconsider that opinion when you find out that mind-blowing facts related to technology longest tiramisu ever created was 897 feet and 3 inches long. Produced by Italian cheese brand Galbani, students from mind-blowing facts related to technology Milan Cooking School assembled mind-blowing facts related to technology giant dessert, which was then divided up and served to those at mind-blowing facts related to technology record-breaking event, while an additional 15,000 pieces went to a local children's hospital.16The Star Trek theme song has lyrics.star trek space ship in mind-blowing facts related to technology openingMost fans of pop culture can hum along to mind-blowing facts related to technology Star Trek theme song, but did you know that there are lyrics that go along with mind-blowing facts related to technology classic tune? And we’re not referring to mind-blowing facts related to technology “Space, mind-blowing facts related to technology final frontier…” monologue that’s spoken at mind-blowing facts related to technology beginning. Written by Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, mind-blowing facts related to technology words (and sentiments) shared by The Los Angeles Times are just as, er, spacey as you might expect. If you want to sing along, all you need to do is croon, “Beyond mind-blowing facts related to technology rim of mind-blowing facts related to technology star-light, my love is wand’ring in star-flight…”17The Ethiopian calendar is seven years behind mind-blowing facts related to technology rest of mind-blowing facts related to technology world.ethopian calendar new yearIn Ethiopia, things are done a little differently when it comes to calculating mind-blowing facts related to technology year that we’re in. While most countries around mind-blowing facts related to technology world follow mind-blowing facts related to technology Gregorian calendar, mind-blowing facts related to technology African nation uses its own. And although both systems “use mind-blowing facts related to technology birthdate of Jesus Christ as a starting point for their calculations,” according to Culture Trip, mind-blowing facts related to technology birth of mind-blowing facts related to technology first humans also plays into mind-blowing facts related to technology discrepancy. “The Ethiopian Orthodox Church believes Jesus Christ was born in 7 BC, 5,500 years after God’s promise to Adam and Eve.” Because of this, Ethiopia is actually around seven years behind mind-blowing facts related to technology rest of mind-blowing facts related to technology world.18There are computers for mind-blowing facts related to technology Amish, which have no internet, videos, or music.old dirty computer on a tableAmish people tend to reject modern ways, but despite that, there is still a computer made specifically for mind-blowing facts related to technology tech-wary group. “The key selling point, perhaps not surprisingly, is all mind-blowing facts related to technology things mind-blowing facts related to technology computer doesn't do,” according to NPR. “No internet, no video, no music.” So then what is it used for? Basic business—and only business. “In general, mind-blowing facts related to technology Amish are more willing to adopt new technology if they can justify it for business reasons and they can keep it out of mind-blowing facts related to technology home.”19A parking spot in Hong Kong sold for almost $1 million.aerial view of a crowded parking lot, worst things about mind-blowing facts related to technology suburbsIf you think parking is expensive in your area, you’ll be shocked by how much a spot can cost in Hong Kong. A 135-square-foot parking spot in front of mind-blowing facts related to technology city’s fifth tallest building, The Center, was purchased for $969,000. This was mind-blowing facts related to technology fourth lucrative transaction for businessman Johnny Cheung, who made six figures off of his first three parking spaces. Midland Commercial district sales director James Mak said, “There aren’t many car park lots … for sale, so prices have always been kept high.” It might be worth sticking to public transportation.20Clams have feet.pile of clamsWhile it might look like clams have a big tongue that sometimes protrudes from their shell to poke around mind-blowing facts related to technology ocean floor, what you’re actually seeing is a foot. The appendage, relatively long in comparison to mind-blowing facts related to technology overall size of mind-blowing facts related to technology creature, is used to dig in mind-blowing facts related to technology sand.21If all of mind-blowing facts related to technology water on Earth fell as rain at once, mind-blowing facts related to technology entire planet would get 1 inch of precipitation.man and woman walking under one umbrella in mind-blowing facts related to technology rain togetheriStockMost of mind-blowing facts related to technology Earth is covered in water, which fills up our oceans, seas, lakes, and rivers. But if all of that water happened to evaporate and then come down in a giant storm, mind-blowing facts related to technology entire planet would get 1 inch of rain. Granted, this is never going to happen outside of a sci-fi movie. But if we somehow ever witness such wonky weather, let’s hope we all have an umbrella with us.22A piece of 10,000-year-old chewing gum was found.bubblegum bubble, state world recordsPeople who chew gum are doing something that has been around for longer than they probably realize. In May 2019, Communications Biology published research done on gum made of birch bark tar that was around 9,540 to 9,880 years old. When analyzed, scientists discovered DNA that belonged to ancient Scandinavians, who had chomped down on mind-blowing facts related to technology tar gum thousands of years ago.23Incredible Hulk was originally supposed to be gray.incredible hulk getting ready to fightImage via Marvel StudiosMarvel's Incredible Hulk is just as well known for his green body as he is for his testy temperament. However, it turns out that he was supposed to be a different, less monstrous color. “Originally, [comic book writer] Stan Lee and [comic book artist] Jack Kirby intended mind-blowing facts related to technology Hulk to be gray," according to Gizmodo, who explain that mind-blowing facts related to technology color was “very much a riff on Mr. Hyde.” But things didn’t go as planned when “mind-blowing facts related to technology printing press kept having trouble with mind-blowing facts related to technology Hulk's color and he kept coming out green.” Because of this, mind-blowing facts related to technology character only popped up in mind-blowing facts related to technology first few issues as a furious gray figure.24"Mountain Dew" used to be slang for moonshine.Moonshine bottlesMountain Dew may be a popular soft drink, but mind-blowing facts related to technology name used to be slang for moonshine. To back up this claim, Smithsonian points to The Stanley Brothers’ tune “Mountain Dew,” which is “an Appalachian folk song that most certainly isn't talking about mind-blowing facts related to technology soda.” Instead, mind-blowing facts related to technology lyrics refer to “good ol’ mountain dew” or illegal mountain-brewed booze.25Japan has a phone to call mind-blowing facts related to technology dead.antique phone on table, vintage home upgradesPublic phone booths may be a rare sight these days, but there's one located in a Japanese hilltop garden that's especially unusual. The “wind phone” was created by a man named Itaru Sasaki, who thought that it would be a healing (if whimsical) way to talk to his cousin who had passed away—even if mind-blowing facts related to technology conversation was one-sided. Others now also use mind-blowing facts related to technology phone in order to feel closer to their late loved ones.26The nonsense phrase "umop apisdn" is "upside down" spelled upside down.writing Life EasierGo ahead and flip whatever device you’re reading this on upside down, and check out those first two words again. You’ll see that "umop apisdn" does indeed spell “upside down” using almost entirely different letters of mind-blowing facts related to technology alphabet.27If you folded a piece of paper 42 times, it would be thick enough to reach mind-blowing facts related to technology moon.a folded piece of paper, mind-blowing factsYep, you read that correctly. According to Gizmodo, all it takes to verify this is some simple math. If you fold a piece of paper in half, it doubles in thickness. And if you fold it in half again, it doubles in thickness again. With that type of exponential growth, it would take just 23 folds for a .1-millimeter piece of paper to be one kilometer thick, and 30 folds for it to be thick enough to reach outer space (100,000 kilometers). Unfortunately, mind-blowing facts related to technology world record for mind-blowing facts related to technology number of folds is 12.28Every mammal has mind-blowing facts related to technology same number of neck vertebrae—except for two.Baby sloth - ImageWhether it's a giraffe, a mouse, or a human, each mammal has exactly seven vertebrae in its neck. But there are two exceptions to this rule: sloths and manatees. Two-toed sloths have five to seven neck vertebrae, and three-toed sloths have eight or nine; manatees have six, according to 2011 research published in BioMed Central.29There is a world record for mind-blowing facts related to technology largest collection of miniature books.miniature books, mind-blowing factsIndia’s Sathar Adhoor has a book collection that is surprisingly huge, especially considering that it’s made up of teeny tiny versions of literature. Adhoor is mind-blowing facts related to technology owner of mind-blowing facts related to technology world’s largest collection of miniature books, which includes 3,137 unique miniature books. (Officially, a "miniature book" can be no larger than three inches in height, width, or thickness.)30The word "oxymoron" is an oxymoron itself.Handwritten notes in a notebook showing great handwritingAlamyAccording to Merriam-Webster, an oxymoron is “a combination of contradictory or incongruous words.” They use “cruel kindness” to illustrate their point. But mind-blowing facts related to technology dictionary also could have used mind-blowing facts related to technology word “oxymoron” as an example—since it turns out mind-blowing facts related to technology word is an oxymoron itself. "Oxymoron" is derived from mind-blowing facts related to technology Greek words “oxys,” meaning “sharp,” and “moronos,” meaning “dull” or “stupid.”31The human heart beats more than 2.5 billion times in mind-blowing facts related to technology average lifetime.Man checking his heartbeat or heart rateiStockYour heart may beat faster when you’re excited and could slow down when you’re relaxed, but in most cases, it tends to keep a regular pace. In fact, most human hearts beat an average of 60 to 70 times per minute and 100,000 times per day. That's about 35 million times a year, and more than 2.5 billion times during an average lifetime, according to PBS.32Oxford University is older than mind-blowing facts related to technology Aztecs.Oxford University Astonishing FactsThe Aztec civilization of central Mexico began in 1325 with mind-blowing facts related to technology founding of mind-blowing facts related to technology city of Tenochtitlan. That seems like a long time ago—and it was! But you’d have to go back even further to witness mind-blowing facts related to technology founding of Oxford University, which started as a learning hub as early as 1096. By 1249, mind-blowing facts related to technology university had established itself as an educational institution with “halls of residence,” which still stand today.33Minnesota has more shoreline than California, Florida, and Hawaii combined.cliffs of tettegouche state park in minnesotaWhen you think of places that boast plenty of shorelines, your mind probably goes straight to mind-blowing facts related to technology coastal states. But Minnesota—mind-blowing facts related to technology "Land of 10,000 Lakes," or, more precisely, 11,842 lakes—actually has more shoreline than Hawaii, California, and Florida combined, according to National Geographic.34People used to think that some lambs grew on trees.mary lamb history animalThe "Vegetable Lamb" was thought to be an animal that grew from mind-blowing facts related to technology Lamb Tree in mind-blowing facts related to technology region of Tartary, an area that eventually became Europe and Central Asia. The special plant came in two different varieties, according to medieval texts (mind-blowing facts related to technology myth has been traced back to mind-blowing facts related to technology year 436). One grew newborn lambs inside of pods, and another produced a lamb that was attached to a stem by its belly button. The lambs were apparently hunted (or would that be gathered?) for their flesh, which tasted like fish and sweet blood. Yum!35“Shemomechama” is a Georgian word meaning “I accidentally ate mind-blowing facts related to technology whole thing.”your bartender secretly eats your leftover foodIf you’ve ever had mind-blowing facts related to technology intention of enjoying a nibble or two of your favorite treat but ended up devouring every last bit, then you should add “shemomechama” to your vocabulary. The Georgian word, which doesn’t have an English equivalent, translates to “I accidentally ate mind-blowing facts related to technology whole thing.”36The world’s most expensive hot dog costs $169.secretly hilarious thingsThe Tokyo Dog food truck in Seattle, Washington, charges $169 for its “Juuni Ban,” making it mind-blowing facts related to technology world’s most expensive hot dog. The hot dog includes smoked cheese bratwurst, butter teriyaki grilled onions, maitake mushrooms, Wagyu beef, foie gras, shaved black truffles, caviar, and Japanese mayonnaise on a brioche bun.37There’s a desert in Canada.winding road in canada's osoyoos desertiStockWhen you think about Canada, you probably imagine acres of forests and lots of snow. But it turns out there’s also a desert in mind-blowing facts related to technology Great White North. According to The Star, “mind-blowing facts related to technology grasslands and bald hills outside mind-blowing facts related to technology town of Osoyoos are an extension of mind-blowing facts related to technology Sonoran Desert that runs as far south as Mexico and creeps north to form Canada's only arid desert.” The area in British Columbia is home to 100 rare plants and 300 creatures that can’t be found anywhere else in mind-blowing facts related to technology country, such as painted turtles, scorpions, and pygmy short-horned lizards.38A barista set a world record for making 420 cappuccinos in an hour.barista secrets cappuccinoIf you’re heading to your local coffee shop and need your drink ASAP, then hopefully you’ll end up with a barista like Liza Thomas. The Australian woman set a world record when she made 420 cappuccinos in just one hour. According to Guinness World Records, “Liza’s attempt had mind-blowing facts related to technology added pressure of taking place in public, with fellow colleagues and café goers watching her every move and enjoying mind-blowing facts related to technology cappuccinos, which were given away as she made them.”39Stars don’t really twinkle.polaris north star, random fun facts“Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” may have led us to believe that mind-blowing facts related to technology massive celestial bodies in mind-blowing facts related to technology night sky are sparkling, but it turns out that mind-blowing facts related to technology flashing we see is merely a “space mirage.” The light that emanates from stars is steady and constant, but Earth’s atmosphere interferes with what we witness, which is why they appear to twinkle.40Armadillos almost always give birth to identical quadruplets.armadillo near mind-blowing facts related to technology evergladesHaving multiple babies at one time is normal for mind-blowing facts related to technology nine-banded armadillo. This creature, which can be found throughout mind-blowing facts related to technology Americas, almost always gives birth to quadruplets, with each newborn pup identical to its siblings.41Betty White is older than ballpoint pens, trampolines, and sliced bread.betty white and mind-blowing facts related to technology other golden girls, fictional holidaysActress Betty White was born on Jan. 17, 1922. That means mind-blowing facts related to technology Hollywood icon is older than plenty of things, including ballpoint pens, trampolines, microwaves, electric razors, instant coffee, garages, traffic signals, rubber tires, frozen food, sunglasses, and even sliced bread.42The first time a toilet appeared on TV was in 1957.close up of hand lowering toilet seatIn mind-blowing facts related to technology early days of television, there were much stricter rules about what you could and couldn't show onscreen. That’s why Leave It to Beaver ran into a problem in 1957 when one script included mind-blowing facts related to technology show’s main characters keeping their pet alligator in a toilet tank. The issue was that they weren’t allowed to show a toilet on TV, according to mind-blowing facts related to technology Standards and Practices department. Ultimately, they reached a compromise: The show could feature mind-blowing facts related to technology toilet tank as long as mind-blowing facts related to technology bowl remained out of mind-blowing facts related to technology shot.43A queen termite can live up to 50 years.crazy factsTermites are industrious little creatures capable of building massive structures for their expansive colonies. But that’s not mind-blowing facts related to technology only remarkable thing about them. The queen termite can also live up to 50 years, which is mind-blowing facts related to technology longest lifespan of any known insect, according to Smithsonian. For comparison, worker and soldier termites live just one to two years.44Newborn babies don't cry tears.woman holding crying baby in green onesieOn top of sleeping, eating, and pooping, babies spend plenty of their time crying. However, while they may scream and wail, newborns don’t shed tears. That ability takes a while to develop, which is why parents won't start to see actual teardrops form until their baby is between two weeks and three months old.45Horses cannot physically vomit.appaloosa horse closeup looking at mind-blowing facts related to technology cameraWhy can't horses vomit? According to Equus magazine, horses have much stronger lower esophageal sphincters than other animals, and this makes it impossible for that valve to open under backward pressure from mind-blowing facts related to technology stomach.461816 was known as "mind-blowing facts related to technology year without a summer.”volcanoIn April 1815, Mount Tambora in Indonesia experienced mind-blowing facts related to technology biggest volcanic eruption in human history. The event, which lasted an unimaginable two weeks, blew countless tons of dust, ash, and sulfur dioxide into mind-blowing facts related to technology Earth’s atmosphere. That blanket of ash shielded mind-blowing facts related to technology planet from mind-blowing facts related to technology sun, which led to “mind-blowing facts related to technology year without a summer.” According to USA Today, parts of New England saw heavy snow falling in June, and a deadly frost set in during July and August.47The average cloud weighs an estimated 1.1 million pounds.blue sky with cloudsClouds may look like giant fluffy puffs of cotton, but they’re actually quite hefty. According to mind-blowing facts related to technology U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), mind-blowing facts related to technology average cloud weighs around 1.1 million pounds (551 tons). Despite their immense weight, “that ‘heavy’ cloud is floating over your head because mind-blowing facts related to technology air below it is even heavier—mind-blowing facts related to technology lesser density of mind-blowing facts related to technology cloud allows it to float on mind-blowing facts related to technology dryer and more-dense air.”48Human teeth are just as strong as shark teeth.shark teethA shark's teeth might be more feared, but human teeth are just as strong. According to a 2012 study in mind-blowing facts related to technology Journal of Structural Biology, mind-blowing facts related to technology enamel on a human wisdom tooth is just as hard as mind-blowing facts related to technology enamel coating on shark teeth. Both are made of mineral crystals bound together with proteins, which prevent teeth—shark and human alike—from shattering under a sudden impact.49The smell of chocolate makes people want to buy romance novels.winter superfoods, Best Foods for Maximizing Your Energy LevelsThe thought of romance conjures images of champagne and roses, sweet music, and even sweeter treats. In fact, so many people associate mind-blowing facts related to technology smell of candy with a lovey-dovey vibe that 2013 research published in mind-blowing facts related to technology Journal of Environmental Psychology found that mind-blowing facts related to technology smell of chocolate in a bookstore makes people want to buy romance novels.50Cleopatra lived closer in time to mind-blowing facts related to technology moon landing than to mind-blowing facts related to technology construction of mind-blowing facts related to technology Great Pyramid of Giza.moon landingCleopatra is easily one of mind-blowing facts related to technology most famous rulers of Egypt, but she actually lived closer to mind-blowing facts related to technology moon landing than to mind-blowing facts related to technology construction of mind-blowing facts related to technology Great Pyramid of Giza. The queen died in 30 B.C., while mind-blowing facts related to technology great pyramid of Giza was built around 2560 B.C. That means that mind-blowing facts related to technology pyramid was completed more than 2,500 years before Cleopatra's time.51The largest scoop of ice cream weighed more than 3,000 pounds.scooping ice cream weird old household objectsI scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream! And fans of mind-blowing facts related to technology chilly treat will surely squeal over mind-blowing facts related to technology largest scoop of ice cream ever, which weighed 3,010 pounds. In June 2014, Kemps in Cedarburg, Wisconsin served up a strawberry-flavored scoop that measured nearly 6 feet by 6 feet. It took around 733 household containers of ice cream to create mind-blowing facts related to technology massive serving, which was put together by five nationally ranked snow sculptors before being portioned out and handed off to attendees at mind-blowing facts related to technology Cedarburg Strawberry Festival.52The human nose can detect more than 1 trillion smells.senior woman smells yellow flowersIn mind-blowing facts related to technology past, scientists believed that humans could only smell around 10,000 different scents. However, according to a 2014 study published in Science, we may actually be able to detect around 1 trillion smells. “People have been talked into this idea that humans are bad at detecting smells,” said Rockefeller University neurobiologist Leslie Vosshall, who led mind-blowing facts related to technology study. Incredibly, it seems like we're not so bad at it at all!53Playing Portal 2 is better for your brain than brain-training apps like Lumosity.young white man black man and asian man playing video gamesiStockIf you use brain-training apps like Lumosity or have been thinking about trying one out, you might want to consider giving mind-blowing facts related to technology game Portal 2 a shot. That’s because a 2014 study published in mind-blowing facts related to technology journal Computers & Education found that mind-blowing facts related to technology puzzle-solving video game is actually better for your brain than apps that are specifically designed to sharpen your cognitive abilities. It can help you with problem solving, spatial skills, and even your level of persistence.54“Kummerspeck” is mind-blowing facts related to technology German word for mind-blowing facts related to technology weight you put on from emotional eating.Young man taking potato chip out of glass bowl while sitting on sofa in front of laptop on table and having snackiStockAt times, when you’re sad or stressed, picking up your favorite takeout or indulging in a delicious dessert can be a simple way to make yourself feel a little better. But if you overindulge in too many treats, then you might notice a little “kummerspeck,” which is what Germans call mind-blowing facts related to technology weight you put on due to emotional eating. Hilariously, it literally translates to “grief bacon.”55President Ulysses S. Grant was arrested for speeding on a horse.dog and a horse running through a field togetherUlysses S. Grant, mind-blowing facts related to technology 18th president of mind-blowing facts related to technology United States, didn't always follow mind-blowing facts related to technology law, even while he was in office. The skilled equestrian enjoyed traveling at high speeds, which was illegal. When Grant was caught going at a so-called "furious pace,” he was given a firm warning by police officer William H. West. Although Grant apologized, he was caught speeding mind-blowing facts related to technology very next day by mind-blowing facts related to technology same officer. As a result, he was arrested and taken to mind-blowing facts related to technology police station, where he was booked and fined for his offense.56Your mouth produces about one liter of saliva a day.High angle shot of an attractive young woman sleeping with a mask on her face in her bedroom at homeiStockYou may find that your mouth gets a little dry when you’re nervous. But on most days, you produce about one liter of saliva.57Scientists found nearly 1,500 new bacteria species in belly buttons.Man holding his stomach with hunger pangsWhen a team from North Carolina State University took a look at what was inside mind-blowing facts related to technology belly buttons of 60 different people, they found a “rain forest” of microscopic life. In total, they identified 2,368 bacterial species, 1,458 of which may be new. According to National Geographic, mind-blowing facts related to technology belly button of “one science writer, for instance, apparently harbored a bacterium that had previously been found only in soil from Japan—where he has never been. Another [volunteer], who hadn't washed in several years, hosted two species of so-called extremophile bacteria that typically thrive in ice caps and thermal vents.”58Human bodies give off a tiny amount of light that glows.woman looking at her face in mind-blowing facts related to technology mirrorBeing a human that glows sounds like something out of a superhero movie. But it turns out that all bodies emit a tiny amount of light. “The human body literally glimmers,” wrote researchers in a 2009 study published in PLoS One. While it’s pretty cool to think of our bodies shimmering like a diamond, mind-blowing facts related to technology scientists also explained why we can’t see mind-blowing facts related to technology shiny sheen, writing, “The intensity of mind-blowing facts related to technology light emitted by mind-blowing facts related to technology body is 1,000 times lower than mind-blowing facts related to technology sensitivity of our naked eyes.”According to The Guardian, this glow is “mind-blowing facts related to technology result of highly reactive free radicals produced through cell respiration interacting with free-floating lipids and proteins. The ‘excited’ molecules that result can react with chemicals called fluorophores to emit photons.”59The largest turtle ever recorded weighed more than a ton.green sea turtleThe largest and heaviest turtle ever recorded was a leatherback that washed ashore in mind-blowing facts related to technology United Kingdom in Sept. 1988 after it had drowned when it was trapped in a fishing line. Around 100 years old at mind-blowing facts related to technology time of its death, mind-blowing facts related to technology turtle was almost 9 feet long and weighed 2,016 pounds.60The gold in Earth's core could cover mind-blowing facts related to technology planet in a knee-high layer.moon and earth in space, interesting factsDown in Earth’s core, there’s a stash of gold that sank to its current location when mind-blowing facts related to technology planet was still in a molten state. In fact, there’s so much of mind-blowing facts related to technology precious metal down there that if it were to cover Earth's surface, it would create a layer that was about 13 inches thick.61A million seconds is about 12 days while a billion seconds is about 32 years.A million dollars may sound almost as good as a billion, but that’s only because mind-blowing facts related to technology average person has no concept of mind-blowing facts related to technology staggeringly vast difference between mind-blowing facts related to technology two amounts. However, The New York Times breaks it down for us by using time as an example. “It would take almost 12 days for a million seconds to elapse and 31.7 years for a billion seconds,” according to a 1986 article. Yeah, that’s a huge difference. On top of that, “a trillion seconds would amount to no less than 31,709.8 years.”62Americans thought tomatoes were poisonous until mind-blowing facts related to technology early 19th century.Tomato Plan- funniest jokesBack in mind-blowing facts related to technology 1700s, people deemed tomatoes “poison apples.” That's because tomatoes are highly acidic, and so when European aristocrats ate them off their pewter plates, mind-blowing facts related to technology food leached lead from mind-blowing facts related to technology dish and passed it on to mind-blowing facts related to technology diner. That resulted in lead poisoning, which could sometimes cause death, according to Smithsonian. The "poison apple" myth prevailed in Britain and its North American colonies for more than 200 years, until it was dispelled in mind-blowing facts related to technology early 18oos.63Radioactive particles from mind-blowing facts related to technology Cold War were found in mind-blowing facts related to technology deepest parts of mind-blowing facts related to technology ocean.bottom floor of ocean, astonishing factsWe’re well aware of mind-blowing facts related to technology destructive power of nuclear bombs. But now scientists have discovered another lasting consequence of mind-blowing facts related to technology deadly force: Findings published in 2019 in Geophysical Research Letters revealed that radioactive particles that originated from atomic bomb tests between mind-blowing facts related to technology 1940s and mind-blowing facts related to technology 1960s were detected in crustaceans that live in mind-blowing facts related to technology deepest part of mind-blowing facts related to technology ocean, mind-blowing facts related to technology Mariana Trench.According to Smithsonian, “from 1945 to 1963 mind-blowing facts related to technology United States and mind-blowing facts related to technology Soviet Union (with a little help from mind-blowing facts related to technology United Kingdom and France) detonated nearly 500 nuclear bombs, 379 of which exploded in mind-blowing facts related to technology atmosphere. These tests dramatically increased mind-blowing facts related to technology amount of carbon-14 on our planet. The Test Ban Treaty of 1963 put a stop to most atmospheric and underwater tests, and carbon-14 levels in mind-blowing facts related to technology atmosphere started a slow return to normal—though they are still higher than pre-nuclear levels—as ocean waters and land-based life absorbed carbon from mind-blowing facts related to technology air.”64Pieces of mind-blowing facts related to technology same metal become permanently stuck together if they touch in space.International Space Station {Spider Facts}If you’re on Earth and want to attach two pieces of metal to each other, you’ll need some pretty intense heat to do mind-blowing facts related to technology trick. But in space, two pieces of metal will be permanently stuck together if they touch, thanks to something called “cold welding.” The freezing fusing phenomenon was discovered during 1965’s Gemini IV mission when astronauts were temporarily unable to close a hatch after a spacewalk because mind-blowing facts related to technology door’s metals had fused when exposed to space.65Viagra can help plants stand up straighter and last longer.Man holding viagra mixing alcoholViagra may typically be prescribed to humans, but it also gives plants a boost, helping them stand up more erect and last longer. According to Israeli scientist Ya'acov Leshem, from Bar-Ilan University, flowers that had been given Viagra “looked much fresher [and] their [color] remained longer."66Cows moo in regional accents.a cow in a field on a bright bluebird dayLanguage experts have suggested that cows have regional accents just like humans. According to mind-blowing facts related to technology BBC, this phenomenon was first detected by dairy farmers who noticed that their cows had different moos, depending on what herd they came from. Very moooo-ving indeed.67Barns weren't always intentionally redOld Style-Barn in Indiana most popular house stylesEver notice how pretty much every barn you see is painted red? That's because choices for paints, sealers, and other building materials were originally extremely limited. As such, farmers hundreds of years ago would seal their barns with linseed oil and add a variety of things, such as rust. It was an effective sealant, but it turned mind-blowing facts related to technology mixture red in color. When more paint became available, many farmers chose to continue to paint their barns red in honor of tradition.68The hashtag (#) symbol isn't actually called a hashtag.hashtagIf you want to be super technical, mind-blowing facts related to technology real term is octothorpe. In terms of etymology, mind-blowing facts related to technology "octo-" refers to "eight," which is in reference to mind-blowing facts related to technology points on mind-blowing facts related to technology symbol. You'll never look at Instagram and Twitter octothorpes mind-blowing facts related to technology same way again.69The "H" and "M" in H&M stem from its hunting and fishing roots.h and m logoEver wonder what mind-blowing facts related to technology clothing retailer H&M's initials actually stood for? The Swedish company, founded in 1947, was originally called Hennes, which translates to "Hers." In 1968, Hennes acquired mind-blowing facts related to technology brand Mauritz Widforss, which sold hunting and fishing equipment. As a result, mind-blowing facts related to technology company then became Hennes & Mauritz. Finally, in 1974, mind-blowing facts related to technology brand shortened its name to H&M.70Yawning is biological air conditioning.young woman yawning while having coffee in mind-blowing facts related to technology morning at homeiStockOriginally thought to be a social cue, a series of experiments actually suggests a different reason for this bodily function. As Andrew C. Gallup, PhD, a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University, told WebMD, mind-blowing facts related to technology reason for yawning might be that it cools mind-blowing facts related to technology brain. The stretching of mind-blowing facts related to technology jaw to yawn increases blood flow in mind-blowing facts related to technology neck, face, and head. In conjunction with that, mind-blowing facts related to technology deep intake of breath forces a downward flow of spinal fluid and blood from mind-blowing facts related to technology brain. The air breathed into mind-blowing facts related to technology mouth cools these fluids.71Our taste buds grow up with us.Black woman eating pizza and watching TVHave you noticed that spinach became easier to eat as you grew older? Or maybe it was anchovies or olives. Whatever mind-blowing facts related to technology food, a 2015 survey conducted by Butterkist revealed some insights as to why this might be, as The Telegraph reported.According to Butterkist's research, each person is born with approximately 10,000 taste buds that are replaced around every two weeks. However, as we get older, taste buds stop being replaced, and those numbers start to decrease. This causes flavors that were too intense when we were younger to become more palatable as we age.72There's a top-secret Starbucks for CIA agents.starbucks cupWhen you're a CIA agent, it's extra important to stay caffeinated. Enter mind-blowing facts related to technology world's most top-secret Starbucks. According to The Washington Post, it’s listed as Store Number 1 on receipts, and its baristas must go through extensive and rigorous interviews and background checks. In order to leave their post, they must be escorted by agency "minders." Oh, and—as you might have guessed—names aren't written on mind-blowing facts related to technology iconic cups.73Scotland has more than 400 words for "snow."snowmanWhat better way to cope with mind-blowing facts related to technology cold than by learning all 421 Scottish words for "snow." This was discovered when academics at mind-blowing facts related to technology University of Glasgow underwent a project to compile a Scots thesaurus, called mind-blowing facts related to technology Historical Thesaurus of Scots. Some words include: "snaw" (snow), "sneesl" (to begin to rain or snow), and "skelf" (a large snowflake).74The inventor of mind-blowing facts related to technology microwave wasn't trying to create a microwave.microwave on store shelfThe microwave is an example of a brilliant invention that was stumbled upon when mind-blowing facts related to technology inventor was trying to create something totally different. In this case, Raytheon engineer Percy Spencer was testing a radar magnetron (which Popular Mechanics describes as a "sort of electric whistle that … creates vibrating electromagnetic waves").As he was experimenting with improving mind-blowing facts related to technology level of mind-blowing facts related to technology magnetron tubes, he realized that mind-blowing facts related to technology peanut cluster bar in his pocket had melted. After testing mind-blowing facts related to technology mechanism with an egg and corn kernels, he realized he'd stumbled on something potentially far more useful than mind-blowing facts related to technology problem he was supposed to be solving.75Chicago's nickname has nothing to do with mind-blowing facts related to technology weather.chicago beanSure, mind-blowing facts related to technology city gets cold in mind-blowing facts related to technology winter, and wind definitely plays a role, but mind-blowing facts related to technology nickname "mind-blowing facts related to technology Windy City" has nothing to do with that. According to mind-blowing facts related to technology Chicago Historical Society, mind-blowing facts related to technology term "Windy City" was first coined by 19th century journalists to describe mind-blowing facts related to technology people who find themselves in mind-blowing facts related to technology city's elite. It was meant as a criticism, referring to this particular designation of people as "full of hot air."76Whales swallow half a million calories in a single mouthful.humpback whale underwaterOr, specifically, around 457,000 calories, according to a 2011 study in mind-blowing facts related to technology Journal of Experimental Biology. Many whale species take in oversized mouthfuls of ocean water and filter out mind-blowing facts related to technology krill and other small ocean life for consumption using their baleen plates. They're mind-blowing facts related to technology Michael Phelps of mind-blowing facts related to technology ocean world. (The swimmer has been said to eat 12,000 calories a day.)77A majority of mind-blowing facts related to technology Sahara Desert is covered in gravel.sahara desertNot sand. Gravel. The Sahara, which is mind-blowing facts related to technology largest desert in mind-blowing facts related to technology world, fills nearly all of northern Africa with tiny rocks that are red, black, and white.78There's a year-round ice hotel.interior of mind-blowing facts related to technology icehoteliStockIcehotel is a world-famous hotel and art exhibition made of ice and snow. It was founded in 1989, and it's literally rebuilt every year in mind-blowing facts related to technology Swedish village of Jukkasjärvi. Now, there is also Icehotel 365, a permanent structure that includes 20 luxury suites and a large ice bar that serves champagne. This one can be visited year-round, and is cooled by solar panels during mind-blowing facts related to technology summer.79Movie trailers used to screen after mind-blowing facts related to technology feature film.empty movie theater seatsThis is why they're called trailers—because they used to "trail" mind-blowing facts related to technology main attraction. The first trailer premiered in 1912, but it was for a Broadway show (The Pleasure Seekers), not a movie. Gradually, trailers started spreading in popularity. Originally, they were produced by theaters themselves, but by 1916, movie studios took mind-blowing facts related to technology reins.80George Washington never actually lived in Washington, D.C.statue of george washingtonThat's right: The first president of mind-blowing facts related to technology United States never lived in Washington, D.C. He lived in New York, mind-blowing facts related to technology nation's first capital, and Philadelphia. John Adams was actually mind-blowing facts related to technology first U.S. president to live in D.C. And as for why Washington never lived in mind-blowing facts related to technology White House? He died before mind-blowing facts related to technology establishment was finished.81Giraffe tongues are nearly two feet long.giraffe sticking his tongue outGiraffe tongues grow up to 18 to 20 inches. These appendages have to be sizable to navigate around mind-blowing facts related to technology long spikes of mind-blowing facts related to technology Vachellia and Senegalia plants they typically consume for sustenance.82Greeks and Romans used to use crocodile dung as skincare.crocodile in a swampThe ancient Greeks and Romans believed that crocodile feces was beneficial for mind-blowing facts related to technology skin, and frequently used mind-blowing facts related to technology substance as an early anti-aging treatment. According to plastic surgeon Terry Dubrow, MD, mind-blowing facts related to technology substance was frequently combined with mud to create face masks.83More people drown in deserts than die of thirst.water in sahara desertOne would assume that dying of thirst and dehydration would be mind-blowing facts related to technology leading cause of death in mind-blowing facts related to technology desert, but surprisingly, it's drowning, according to mind-blowing facts related to technology USGS. Though precipitation in mind-blowing facts related to technology desert is infrequent, when it does rain, it comes on suddenly and very heavily. Since deserts don't have water drainage systems in place, and mind-blowing facts related to technology rains fall too fast for mind-blowing facts related to technology dry, clay-like soil to absorb mind-blowing facts related to technology rainfall, water overflow becomes excessive. This also results in quicksand and sandstorms, which can lead​ to drowning by sand.84It takes up to two weeks to make a jelly bean.jelly beansMaking jelly beans can take up to 14 days, according to Jelly Belly. Think about this mind-blowing facts related to technology next time you simply toss mind-blowing facts related to technology flavor you don't like.85Wasps are more likely to attack at mind-blowing facts related to technology end of summer.waspToward mind-blowing facts related to technology end of summer, when wasps are done providing for their queen and her offspring, they like to feast on energizing sugary foods and drinks in preparation for mind-blowing facts related to technology wintertime. They will even feed on ripe and fermenting plant sap in order to "be inebriated," as etymologist Donald Lewis explained to Slate. The problem? Once wasps are able to leave mind-blowing facts related to technology nest and hunt for food, they are all mind-blowing facts related to technology more available to sting you. One 2006 study published in mind-blowing facts related to technology Journal of Family Practice found that August and September have mind-blowing facts related to technology highest incidences of yellow jacket stings.86Several Chinese emperors died from taking an "immortality" elixir.Herbal medicine elixir bottleChinese emperors who wanted to extend their lifespan would take elixirs that were thought to bring on immortality. However, these elixirs actually contained mercury, lead, and arsenic, and resulted in their deaths from poisoning. According to historians, mind-blowing facts related to technology first emperor to die from elixir poisoning was Qin Shi Huang around 210 B.C., and mind-blowing facts related to technology last was Yongzheng in 1735 A.D.87Willie Nelson and Frank Sinatra made PSAs on space together.older frank sinatra performingWillie Nelson and Frank Sinatra were not only great friends but also collaborators. In mind-blowing facts related to technology early '80s, they did a series of PSAs to promote mind-blowing facts related to technology benefits of space technology. "We do share mind-blowing facts related to technology same feeling about space technology," Sinatra said in one of mind-blowing facts related to technology spots. "What this casually dressed gentleman and I have found out and want you to know, is that a lot of what's going on up there," he continued, with Nelson chiming in, "benefits all of us down here."88Adolf Hitler plotted to kill Winston Churchill with exploding chocolate.Winston Churchill As Prime Minister 1940-1945AlamyThe Nazis might be known for heinous war crimes, but assassination by chocolate is one evil plot that they were able to keep relatively under wraps. In mind-blowing facts related to technology 1940s, Adolf Hitler's bomb-makers coated explosive devices with a thin layer of dark chocolate, then packaged it in black and gold paper in order to make it look fancy, according to Smithsonian. German secret agents were to place this "chocolate" in Winston Churchill's War Cabinet dining room where he often ate his meals. However, mind-blowing facts related to technology plan was foiled by British spies. Death by chocolate averted!89There are 10 million tons of diamonds on Jupiter and Saturn.natural diamondIn a 2013 study published in mind-blowing facts related to technology journal Nature, two scientists found that mind-blowing facts related to technology high pressures inside Jupiter and Saturn's atmospheres could turn carbon into chunks of diamonds. The study also noted that these diamonds can melt under extreme pressure and temperatures, which leads to mind-blowing facts related to technology formation of liquid diamond raindrops. It's possible that as many as 10 million tons of diamonds could be inside these two planets combined.90Nutmeg can be poisonous in large doses.Nutmeg spiceWhile a small dusting of nutmeg on top of eggnog or desserts is fine, large doses of mind-blowing facts related to technology spice—around two to three tablespoons, to be exact—can be toxic and even deadly. Nutmeg poison cases are rare, with only 32 cases reported between 2001 and 2011, according to mind-blowing facts related to technology Journal of Medical Toxicology, and they are most common in teenagers who have taken it intentionally to test its toxicity. Nutmeg has also been used in prisons, where inmates ingest large amounts in order to get a "high" feeling.91The longest bout of hiccups lasted for 68 years.Kid has hiccupsIowa farmer Charles Osborne holds mind-blowing facts related to technology world record for mind-blowing facts related to technology longest continuous bout of hiccups at 68 years. According to BBC News, Osborne started out hiccuping about 40 times a minute, though eventually it slowed down to 20 a minute. He died in 1991, after having spent 70 percent of his 97 years hiccuping.92The world population has more than doubled since John F. Kennedy was president.people from aboveAs of May 2019, mind-blowing facts related to technology world population was estimated to be 7.6 billion. Between 1960 and 1965, when John F. Kennedy was president of mind-blowing facts related to technology United States, mind-blowing facts related to technology world's population was between 3 and 3.3 billion. That means mind-blowing facts related to technology world population has more than doubled in about 60 years. And, according to mind-blowing facts related to technology United Nations, mind-blowing facts related to technology world population is estimated to reach 9.8 billion by 2050.93Black teeth were a sign of wealth in 18th century England.spoonful of sugarIn 18th century England, sugar was a valuable commodity that was consumed in excess. Because it was expensive, it was mostly enjoyed only by mind-blowing facts related to technology rich, like Queen Elizabeth I. As a result, if someone had black teeth, a sign of eating too much sugar, they were considered to be wealthy. My, how times have changed.94There's a fence in Australia longer than mind-blowing facts related to technology distance between Seattle and Miami.dingo fenceThere's a fence in Australia named mind-blowing facts related to technology Dingo-Proof Fence, which stretches across nearly 3,500 miles, longer than mind-blowing facts related to technology 3,330 miles between Seattle, Washington, and Miami, Florida. Not surprisingly, mind-blowing facts related to technology Dingo-Proof Fence earned mind-blowing facts related to technology Guinness World Record for being mind-blowing facts related to technology longest fence in mind-blowing facts related to technology world. This structure, which was completed in 1885, gets its name because it was intended to keep dingoes out of mind-blowing facts related to technology fertile southeast part of mind-blowing facts related to technology continent.95Almonds are part of mind-blowing facts related to technology peach family.bowl of almondsAlmonds are actually mind-blowing facts related to technology hard-shelled fruit of mind-blowing facts related to technology almond tree. This type of stone fruit is a member of mind-blowing facts related to technology same family as peaches, apricots, and plums. And if you think about it, mind-blowing facts related to technology pit of a peach does indeed resemble a large nut.96The longest time between two twins being born is 87 days.Twin sisters walking with their dogTwins Katie and Amy Jones-Elliot hold mind-blowing facts related to technology Guinness World Record for mind-blowing facts related to technology longest birth interval between two twins, being born 87 days apart. In 2012, their mother, Maria, went into labor four months early and gave birth to Amy, but Katie was able to stay in her womb for three more months. Miraculously, both girls survived and are healthy today.97A jockey won a horse race while dead.jockey on a horseIn 1923, jockey Frank Hayes took off on his horse, Sweet Kiss, at Belmont Race Track on Long Island. Mid-race, Hayes suffered a heart attack and died. But his body stayed in mind-blowing facts related to technology saddle as Sweet Kiss crossed mind-blowing facts related to technology finish line—and won mind-blowing facts related to technology race! So, even though he was dead, Hayes was still a winner (and a history-maker).98Bananas are Walmart's best-selling item.bananasTalk about a totally bananas fact! Of all mind-blowing facts related to technology things that Walmart carries and sells, mind-blowing facts related to technology best-selling item is bananas, and has been for several years, Vice reports. Why bananas, you ask? Well, a Walmart spokesperson explained to Business Insider that bananas are a hit because they’re an easy, healthy food to pack and eat, and very affordable.99Scotland's national animal is mind-blowing facts related to technology unicorn.scotland unicornWhen Scotland featured mind-blowing facts related to technology unicorn on its royal coat of arms in mind-blowing facts related to technology 12th century, mind-blowing facts related to technology creature was believed to be a real animal. It wasn't until 1825 that scientist Georges Cuvier disproved mind-blowing facts related to technology mystical creature's existence, stating that it was not feasible for an animal with a split hoof to have a single horn emerging from its head, according to National Geographic. But, because mind-blowing facts related to technology unicorn symbolizes nobility, purity, power, and good luck, it remains Scotland's national animal today.100May 29 is "Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day."woman holding a pillowYes, “Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day” is a real holiday, celebrated in mind-blowing facts related to technology United States and Europe every year on May 29, spanning back to mind-blowing facts related to technology early 1900s. The idea is simple—just place a pillow on top of your fridge to bring prosperity and good fortune into your life.The tradition started with putting a piece of cloth or linen from one's bedroom on their larder, mind-blowing facts related to technology precursor to mind-blowing facts related to technology fridge. But as time went on and electrical refrigerators were released, this tradition evolved and became “Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.” There's even a Facebook page devoted to it!75 Mind-Blowing Facts You’ll Think Are Made Up (But Aren’t)Polar bears aren't white, strawberries aren't berries, and mind-blowing facts related to technology Earth isn't round—we'll have you rethinking everything you thought you knew for sure!Froot Loops are all mind-blowing facts related to technology same flavorSure those sweetened O’s are all different colors but that doesn’t mean they are different flavors. Kellogg’s, mind-blowing facts related to technology company who makes them, has admitted that each Froot Loop is “froot flavored” which they describe as “a blend of fruit flavors.” Not all facts are factual—like these 51 “facts” everyone believes, that are actually false.Anne Frank and Martin Luther King, Jr. were born mind-blowing facts related to technology same yearAnne Frank is an iconic symbol of mind-blowing facts related to technology Nazi brutality of World War II in mind-blowing facts related to technology 1940s while Martin Luther King, Jr. was mind-blowing facts related to technology face and voice of mind-blowing facts related to technology civil rights movement in mind-blowing facts related to technology 1960s. The two events seem so far apart in history but both figures were born in 1929—January 15 for King, and June 12 for Frank. How’s that for a mind-blowing fact? On mind-blowing facts related to technology flip side, here areMost Canadians live south of SeattleCanada and mind-blowing facts related to technology United States are both large countries which can make understanding mind-blowing facts related to technology relative geography difficult. But mind-blowing facts related to technology contiguous United States goes farther north than you think and mind-blowing facts related to technology majority of Canadians live near mind-blowing facts related to technology southern border. The result? At 45 degrees latitude, Seattle is farther north than Toronto and Montreal, meaningThe Mind-Blowing Technology We Saw This Year & What’s ComingIt’s astonishing how much incredible technology available now, and will be in mind-blowing facts related to technology near future.This year has shown us some of mind-blowing facts related to technology coolest technology is becoming less mind-blowing facts related to technology stuff of sci-fi movies and government labs and more items, such as clean rooms and ultrasonic cleaners, that are becoming readily available for us to use, and often at reasonable prices.Here’s a sampling of mind-blowing facts related to technology astonishing tech already available to us as well as what’s on mind-blowing facts related to technology horizon.Next Steps for The Internet of ThingsThe internet of what? This term has been around for nearly a decade now, but what does it actually mean? The emphasis here is on “things” – as in physical objects, whether a car or a chair – that are connected to mind-blowing facts related to technology internet or somehow able to communicate with other technology.One example is mind-blowing facts related to technology Nest Thermostat, a nifty device that allows you to change your home temperature settings from your smart phone, and also has mind-blowing facts related to technology ability to analyze energy usage in your home. It shares data with you in ways that thermostats have never done before.Where is mind-blowing facts related to technology Internet of Things going next? Beyond thermostats, Nest and other companies are developing in-home security cameras that can be easily viewed and controlled from your smartphone. Some even allow you to access a speaker and talk through mind-blowing facts related to technology security device into your home.This is one new way to catch thieves, or even better, discourage them from stealing in mind-blowing facts related to technology first place.Wearable Tech, and Not Just VR HeadsetsBeyond mind-blowing facts related to technology Internet of Things, there is a steady flow of wearable tech that’s becoming more usable and comfortable and beginning to approach pricing where more consumers can consider.One new wearable item is mind-blowing facts related to technology wearable breast pump from mind-blowing facts related to technology company Willow. Quite simply, mind-blowing facts related to technology device allows women to pump breast milk while still fully-clothed and going on with their normal day. And yes, like Internet of Things devices, it tracks data for you, like how much milk has been pumped over a certain time period.Though mind-blowing facts related to technology pump goes for $479 – not exactly cheap – in mind-blowing facts related to technology context of health care device costs, it’s somewhat reasonable. More importantly, devices that allow women to seamlessly integrate some of mind-blowing facts related to technology responsibilities of early motherhood – like producing breast milk – and continuing with normal daily routines whether at work or home show how nifty technology can actually be useful to everyday people.This is just one example of how wearable tech is going beyond smartwatches and headsets – keep on mind-blowing facts related to technology lookout for others.Self-Driving Cars in Actual UseThe answers is yes – in fact, some of mind-blowing facts related to technology public have already started to be driven around by self-driving vehicles.There are some pilot programs using fully-automated driving vehicles which have already rolled in mind-blowing facts related to technology United States. Google’s self-driving car brand, now called Waymo, introduced Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivans that are self-driving this year. An initial pilot group of families including about 500 individuals was launched in Phoenix, Arizona. Yes, that means some self-driving cars are being legally used in some locations in mind-blowing facts related to technology U.S. already.As self-driving cars become more commercialized and more locales allow for pilot programs, testing, and general usage, expect to see more of these vehicle types expanding around mind-blowing facts related to technology country.Reinforcement Learning: Computers Learning from Interaction, Not Just ProgrammingFor mind-blowing facts related to technology most part, computers and mind-blowing facts related to technology concept of artificial intelligence has been mostly static. That is, computers are programmed and then sent out for use in mind-blowing facts related to technology world based on whatever information its developers have already put into it. On occasion, an update is released.What if computers were able to learn even after they were released?Increasingly, new types of technology are starting to analyze what goes on around them when they are released from mind-blowing facts related to technology world, analyzing mind-blowing facts related to technology results, and improving upon their process.This process is called reinforcement learning, which is essentially mind-blowing facts related to technology improvement of computer intelligence through experience. Will Knight reports in mind-blowing facts related to technology MIT Technology Review on self-driving cars with altered their driving instructions based on maneuvers it made and real world reactions, like a merge happening too slowly or other actual cars interference.Alphabet, Google’s parent company, has released game playing software called AlphaGo which takes mind-blowing facts related to technology extremely variable and complex board game Go and actually learns as it plays. Through increased real-world exposure to human players via matches mind-blowing facts related to technology program is able to continually improve itself.Advent of mind-blowing facts related to technology Surgical Robotnterstellar, Ender’s Game, and Prometheus are a few recent science fiction films depict either mind-blowing facts related to technology near or distant future, and they also all feature medical robots of some kind. Prometheus actually depicts a robot that can perform surgery on its own using stainless steel tubing and plastic tubing.Totally sci-fi, right? Well, that may no longer be mind-blowing facts related to technology case.Several companies have been developing technology where a machine is performing actual surgery. One such company is Intuitive Surgical, which has been working on mind-blowing facts related to technology da Vinci Surgical System for quite some time now. The system boasts mind-blowing facts related to technology ability to perform or assist with medical procedures ranging from general stitching to cardiac and thoracic surgeries using stainless steel and roll formed parts.As reported by The Medical Futurist, sales of surgical robots will continue to grow in mind-blowing facts related to technology multi-billion range, approaching an estimated $6.4 billion by mind-blowing facts related to technology year 2020. Whether this will lower or raise medical costs, reduce errors, or put surgeons out of jobs is all way too early to say now. Don’t worry about that, just watch a video here of mind-blowing facts related to technology da Vinci robot stitching up a grape.The real-world implications of reinforcement learning technology go beyond gaming and driving and have potential benefits in mind-blowing facts related to technology world of medical science and robots mimicking human interaction.The Next Step for TelevisionSince TVs started getting flat and big about 15 years ago, they have since gotten, well, flatter and bigger. Other than improvements in screen quality, there haven’t been many huge leaps in mind-blowing facts related to technology technology in that time period.Some of that is changing. Sony’s new Bravia A1E television is truly edge to edge, without even a stand or any spot for speakers. But that doesn’t mean you need to buy a separate stand, work bench, or separate speakers.The TV is designed to easily stand on its own wherever you move. As for speakers, mind-blowing facts related to technology sound actually comes directly from mind-blowing facts related to technology screen itself. The technology is called “Acoustic Surface” which utilizes vibrating actuators that deliver sound differently from traditional speakers.The TV is lighter and flatter than ever. With new technologies for sound and really removing any need for hardware outside of mind-blowing facts related to technology screen itself, TVs are becoming less cumbersome and fantastic electronic devices can easily be moved around anywhere in mind-blowing facts related to technology home.3D Printing, From Fascinating Objects to Widespread AvailabilityAnother technology product that has benefit from leaps in technology and production, 3D printers are actually becoming fairly affordable to use. Good ones can go for under $300 dollars.So, are 3D printers basically good for just printing out crafts or little chotchkies? Think again.It has been reported 3D printers will eventually be able to print nearly anything, and even now they have been able to print gears, springs, wire forms, and even food.The company Natural Machines has created a 3D printer they call mind-blowing facts related to technology Foodini, which prints food. And they don’t mean fake playdough pasta, but actual food – cookies, waffles, noodles, you name it. This is just one example of mind-blowing facts related to technology amazing sort of things 3D printers can create that are both amazing to witness and have real world benefit.Cool Technology of Tomorrow Is at our Fingertips NowWhether controlling your home security camera from a restaurant, pumping breast milk at work, teaching a computer how to play a game, getting surgery from a robot, or printing up some delicious lunch, many science-fiction-esque technologies are available now, and they are getting only more widespread and affordable.So think twice about much of what you thought would only be available in mind-blowing facts related to technology distant future. Next gen consumer technology is here now.Mind-blowing facts about TechnologyIt is undeniable that mind-blowing facts related to technology born of technology, especially computers, mobiles and mind-blowing facts related to technology Internet, has strongly transformed our world, for better and for worse. In mind-blowing facts related to technology very long road of its development, technology has become a gigantic picture that knowing every detail is impossible.While most of you are quite familiar with tech achievements, let’s take a look at some interesting facts you may not know related to technology. Be aware, some of them may be a big surprise!Interesting facts about ComputersThe first “modern” computer was built in 1941 by Konrad Zuse in World War II. He has looked for funding from mind-blowing facts related to technology Germans but was denied because they did not expect mind-blowing facts related to technology war to last beyond Christmas.The very first computer mouse was created from wood in 1964 by Doug Engelbart. Now it is one of mind-blowing facts related to technology most necessary computer peripheral. The body was made of wood with metal wheels supporting to roll back and forth. Only it had a cord connected to it, which was interpreted as mind-blowing facts related to technology tail of a mouse. And that is mind-blowing facts related to technology reason for mind-blowing facts related to technology name of it up to now.In general, people tend to read mind-blowing facts related to technology letters are on a screen as much as 10% slower than they are on paper.A normal human being blinks at a rate of around 20 times a minute. But while using a computer, he just blinks 7 times a minute on an average. To explain this, we tend to concentrate more on mind-blowing facts related to technology screen, so we usually blink a lot less in front of a computer than we do normally.A computer as powerful as mind-blowing facts related to technology human brain would be able to do 38 thousand trillion operations per second and hold more than 3580 terabytes of memory.Russians built a computer that ran on water in 1936.The first computer “bug” was a real bug. In 1947, Grace Hopper, an admiral in mind-blowing facts related to technology US Navy discovered a dead moth stuck in her Mark II computer and thereby hindering mind-blowing facts related to technology operation. She “debugged” it from mind-blowing facts related to technology system, recorded it on her note and wrote “First actual case of bug being found.”Do you remember mind-blowing facts related to technology telephone? My memory takes me to a time when long distance (even calling to another area code) was expensive, which limited my ability, geographically speaking anyway, to find a girlfriend in my youth (at least that is my excuse). Also, mind-blowing facts related to technology rotary dial was awkward and, unless your mom allowed you to have an extended phone cord, you were rarely more than a wall ornament with phone handle in your ear.While telephones have evolved, innovation took years to get traction. In fact, it was 75 years before telephones were adopted by 50 million users. The Internet, however, its information and communication cousin, needed only four short years to hit this mark.More important, while mind-blowing facts related to technology telephone gave rise to chat lines, faxes and foam shoulder rests, mind-blowing facts related to technology Internet has given rise to numerous more possibilities. In fact, consider mind-blowing facts related to technology fact that because of mind-blowing facts related to technology Internet, Pokemon Go reached 50 million users in only 19 days.The Internet is just entering middle age, and like many things that enter middle age, it will mature and give rise to even more potential. Not convinced? In just a relatively short period of time, consider where it has come already.1. Currently, there are 47 billion websites, including mind-blowing facts related to technology very first website ever created over 28 years ago. And while estimates vary about adult content websites, statistics released by one site provide some insane statistics about how much is consumed worldwide. This convinces me that if all porn sites closed, mind-blowing facts related to technology Internet would simply shut down.2. Currently, there are 3.58 billion Internet users worldwide, which accounts for almost 47 percent of mind-blowing facts related to technology global population. Close to half (48%) of all Internet users are in Asia. The other half are drivers in traffic jams.3. There are 1.59 billion households worldwide with a television, but already over 2 billion people access mind-blowing facts related to technology Internet from a handheld device. In fact, according to Snapchat's recent S-1 filing, people will consume more media via mobile device than by television in just a few short years. For this reason, I am long in mind-blowing facts related to technology opthamologist sector.4. In 2017, we will send and receive 269 billion emails, equating to almost 121 work emails per day. Unfortunately, almost 86 percent of these emails will be spam. My spam filters, unfortunately, cannot figure out that I don't need miracle hair growth drugs and have no relatives in Africa.5. It took humanity 174 years to reach 3.5 trillion total photos taken. It is estimated that we will take 1.2 trillion photos in 2017 alone. Hopefully, it will not take long to grow out of our selfie obsession.6. YouTube has over a billion users and accounts for one-third of all people on mind-blowing facts related to technology internet. Viewers watch 6 billion hours of video each month, including an equivalent 68,000 years watching mind-blowing facts related to technology top 10 music videos in 2015. Interestingly, well over 80 percent of YouTube watchers live outside mind-blowing facts related to technology US. This might explain why Americans are so misunderstood.7. While YouTube statistics are impressive, mind-blowing facts related to technology streaming service accounts for only 18 percent of all online bandwidth. Netflix, on mind-blowing facts related to technology other hand, accounts for a whopping 36 percent during peak hours, while streaming in general takes up 70 percent of bandwidth consumed. Interestingly, most Millennials are not aware that Netflix also sends DVDs.8. Facebook currently has 1.86 billion users, which if it were a country would make it mind-blowing facts related to technology most populated country on earth. Almost 80 percent of online users use Facebook, with a distant second, 32 percent, accounted for by Instagram (also owned by Facebook). In fact, Facebook and all of its partner apps and services accounts for a global average of 50 minutes a day of our time. Not my time -- I'm on Netflix.9. There were 90 billion app downloads across iOS and Android mobile devices in 2016. However, Google and Facebook apps account for nine of mind-blowing facts related to technology top 10 mobile apps used every day, with only Snapchat (at number nine) able to break this list. I wonder how many people globally use it for its phone function.10. Amazon is not an online retailer -- it is a tech company. In creating mind-blowing facts related to technology infrastructure needed to run its services, Amazon discovered they had a good thing going and started offering Amazon Web Services (AWS) as an IT infrastructure service to other businesses. Today, one in four companies run on AWS (including Snapchat, Netflix, Adobe and Nasa, just to name a few) and one in three website users will visit an AWS website every day. Amazon controls hundreds of thousands of servers operating in 42 "availability zones" in 16 geographic regions around mind-blowing facts related to technology world, and mind-blowing facts related to technology company is adding enough new servers -- every single day -- to have managed all of Amazon when it was a seven billion dollar business. For mind-blowing facts related to technology coming of mind-blowing facts related to technology robots and shift in world power, I am reserving mind-blowing facts related to technology URL,While all of these statistics are amazing, mind-blowing facts related to technology reality is that mind-blowing facts related to technology web as we know it -- Facebook, YouTube, Amazon, Netflix, etc. -- represents only four percent of mind-blowing facts related to technology total discoverable web. The remainder is mind-blowing facts related to technology "deep, invisible or hidden web," or that which is not discoverable by means of standard search engines. This place is not for mind-blowing facts related to technology faint of heart -- but is if you are in mind-blowing facts related to technology market for stolen credit card information, weapons and drugs.Maybe most difficult to contemplate is where mind-blowing facts related to technology Internet will go from here. We are clearly in mind-blowing facts related to technology early stages of its potential, and it may be more fun to dream of what life will look like in just a few short years from now.10 Mind-Blowing Facts About Google22 mind-blowing science facts we didn't know at mind-blowing facts related to technology start of 2017Did you know that scientists invented a completely new state of matter called mind-blowing facts related to technology time crystals? Or that pugs’ adorable faces are mind-blowing facts related to technology result of a genetic mutation?Here are some of mind-blowing facts related to technology impressive science facts we learned in 2017:1. A human organ that no-one knew about has been hiding in plain sight all this time. Called mesentery, it connects mind-blowing facts related to technology intestine to mind-blowing facts related to technology abdomen and is believed to perform important functions for mind-blowing facts related to technology body ranging from helping mind-blowing facts related to technology heart to aiding mind-blowing facts related to technology immune system.2. The Earth appears to have a whole new underground continent called Zealandia. The discovery itself isn’t new – some geologists have been arguing for its existence for many years. However, in 2017 a team of scientists concluded Zealandia fulfils all mind-blowing facts related to technology requirements to be considered a drowned continent.3. Pugs’ cute little flat faces are mind-blowing facts related to technology result of a genetic mutation. Their features have been strongly linked to a gene variant called SMOC2.4. For mind-blowing facts related to technology first time in human history, gene-editing has been performed to fix a mutation for an inherited disease in embryos. Using a powerful tool called Crispr-Cas9, scientists successfully altered mind-blowing facts related to technology DNA in defective embryos so they were no longer programmed to develop congenital heart failure.5. Your appendix might not be a useless organ after all. Research suggests it might play a role in mind-blowing facts related to technology immune system as a secondary defensive organ, acting as a “safe house” for helpful gut bacteria.6. Giant penguins about mind-blowing facts related to technology size of a grown man waddled around New Zealand about 59 million years ago.7. The world’s smallest fidget spinner is 100 microns wide. It is smaller than mind-blowing facts related to technology width of a human hair and is barely visible to mind-blowing facts related to technology naked eye.8. Lungs do more than help us breathe – a surprising discovery has found they also make blood. The organ, present in mammals, is believed to produce more than 10 million platelets (tiny blood cells) per hour.9. A new state of matter exists (alongside solid, liquid and gaseous states) and it is known as time crystals. Created in mind-blowing facts related to technology lab, mind-blowing facts related to technology outrageously hard-to-grasp time crystals are structures that repeat periodically in time rather than space, potentially defying mind-blowing facts related to technology laws of physics.10. Great apes, including chimpanzees and orangutans, have absolutely no appreciation of music whatsoever. Research has shown they can’t tell mind-blowing facts related to technology difference between Beethoven and Bieber, and that music is all just meaningless sound to them.11. The dinosaur family tree may have to be redrawn for mind-blowing facts related to technology first time in 130 years. New evidence revealed mind-blowing facts related to technology two categories of dinosaurs – mind-blowing facts related to technology lizard-hipped meat-eaters (like mind-blowing facts related to technology T. Rex) and plant-loving bird-hipped beasts (like mind-blowing facts related to technology stegosaurus) – should actually be grouped together, making you question everything you ever learnt about these extinct animals in school.12. Humans accidentally created a protective bubble around Earth. Decades of use of very low frequency (VLF) radio communications have resulted in an artificial cocoon that could help protect mind-blowing facts related to technology planet from solar flares and radiation particles.13. Precious metals on earth, such as gold and platinum, may have originated in mind-blowing facts related to technology stars. Scientists confirmed this after detecting a titanic collision of two super-dense neutron stars 130 million light years from Earth.14. The Kepler-90 star system has as many planets as our own solar system, making us tied for mind-blowing facts related to technology most planets revolving around a single star known so far. Combining data from mind-blowing facts related to technology Kepler Space Telescope with Google’s artificial intelligence system, Nasa uncovered an eighth planet – called Kepler-90i – that astronomers missed in their previous analysis.10 Technology Facts to Figuratively Blow Your MindThe world’s future children will one day be surprised to learn that a world outside of technology. That mind-blowing facts related to technology mobile phones, computers and TVs we know and love did not define human lives. Technology has come a long way over mind-blowing facts related to technology years, which is why The List Love is offering 10 technology facts that will figuratively blow your mind.1. Two MinutesWe will take as many photographs in mind-blowing facts related to technology next two minutes as all of humanity took in mind-blowing facts related to technology 1800s. In 2014, we took 880 billion photos, which is approximately 123 photos for every man, woman and child on planet Earth.2. YouTube VideosThe world uploads 100 hours of video to YouTube every single minute – which is 16 years of a recorded human history.3. Computer PowerThe world uploads 100 hours of video to YouTube every single minute – which is 16 years of a recorded human history.3. Computer PowerThe world uploads 100 hours of video to YouTube every single minute – which is 16 years of a recorded human history.3. Computer PowerOnly one million people across mind-blowing facts related to technology world owned a mobile phone back in 1990. Between 5 and 6 billion mobile phones are in circulation today.6. Data15 Mind-Blowing Stats about Artificial IntelligenceAre you looking to incorporate AI tech in your existing business model or are you generally curious about this technology? Get an insight into how Artificial Intelligence technology increases mind-blowing facts related to technology productivity of mind-blowing facts related to technology business and accelerates performance.In either case, there are some mind-boggling essential facts that you must know about AI.Starting with mind-blowing facts related to technology basics, we are quickly briefing you about this technology.In mind-blowing facts related to technology current industry scenario, some industry sectors are at mind-blowing facts related to technology start of their AI journey, while others are veterans.Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are now considered one of mind-blowing facts related to technology significant innovations since mind-blowing facts related to technology microchip.We have come a long way since they set foot in mind-blowing facts related to technology market. Machine Learning used to be a fanciful concept from science fiction, but has now become a reality.Neural networks paved mind-blowing facts related to technology way for “deep learning” breakthroughs in Machine Learning. While mind-blowing facts related to technology previous Industrial Revolution has harnessed physical and mechanical power, this new revolution will harness mental and cognitive capacity. Many experts in mind-blowing facts related to technology field believe that Artificial Intelligence Technology is ushering mind-blowing facts related to technology next “Industrial Revolution”.Someday, not only manual labor will be replaced by computers, but also intellectual labor. But, mind-blowing facts related to technology question is how exactly is this going to happen? Or has it already started?By 2025, it is projected that 463 exabytes (EB) of data will be produced globally each day — equivalent data in 22 crore DVDs per day. That’s huge!How Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning will impact our day-to-day lives in times to come?1) AI into Automated TransportationHave you been flying on an airplane recently? If so, you’ve already experienced mind-blowing facts related to technology automation of transportation at work. Such modern commercial aircraft use FMS (Flight Management System) to control their location during flight, motion sensors, a combination of GPS, and computer systems.2) Self Driving Cars and AIIt is more difficult to leap into self-driving car business. Since there are more cars on mind-blowing facts related to technology road, many obstacles to avoid, and mind-blowing facts related to technology traffic patterns and rules restrictions which we need to adhere to.According to a report of 55 Google vehicles that have traveled over 1.3 million miles overall, these AI-powered cars have even exceeded mind-blowing facts related to technology safety of human-driven cars.With Google Maps’ assistance on your smartphone about location data, we have already conquered mind-blowing facts related to technology GPS forefront. A similar GPS is used in these cars, which can calculate how quickly mind-blowing facts related to technology device is traveling by comparing mind-blowing facts related to technology position of a device from one point in time to another.It can decide how slow real-time traffic is. It can combine information with user-reported incidents to create a traffic image at any given time. Maps will determine mind-blowing facts related to technology fastest route between you and your destination based on traffic jams, construction works, or accidents.What about mind-blowing facts related to technology ability to drive a car? Well, machine learning enables self-driving vehicles to adapt instantly to changing road conditions while learning from new road situations at mind-blowing facts related to technology same time. Onboard computers can make split-second decisions much faster than well-trained drivers by continuously filtering through a flow of visual and sensor information.All this is based on mind-blowing facts related to technology very same machine learning principles used in other industries. You have input characteristics (i.e., real-time visual and sensor data) and output (i.e., a decision on mind-blowing facts related to technology next actions for a car). Amazing, right?3) Cyborg TechnologyOur minds and bodies are less than perfect. Technology will improve to mind-blowing facts related to technology extent that we can increase some of our computer weaknesses and limitations, enhancing many of our fundamental skills.But, wait before you start to imagine dystopian worlds of steel and blood, consider for a moment that most people walking around are in a certain way “cyborgs.”How many people do you know that without your trusty smartphone would survive mind-blowing facts related to technology day? For contact, navigation, information learning, receiving important news, and a host of other things, we still rely on these handheld computers.4) Taking Over mind-blowing facts related to technology Dangerous JobsBomb disposal is one of mind-blowing facts related to technology most dangerous jobs. Today, among other things, robots (or more technically drones) take over these risky jobs.Currently, most of these drones need to be operated by a human.But as machine learning software is evolving in mind-blowing facts related to technology future, robots with artificial intelligence would do these tasks entirely. This technology has already saved thousands of lives on its own.Welding is another work outsourced to robots. This type of work produces noise, intense heat, and fumes toxic substances.Such robot welders would need to be pre-programmed to weld at a specific position without machine learning. Improvement in computer vision and deep learning, however, has allowed greater flexibility and accuracy.5) How AI helps in nursing elders?Everyday tasks can be a struggle for many senior citizens. Many have to hire help from outside or rely on members of mind-blowing facts related to technology family.For many families, elder care is a growing concern. In-home robots can support elderly relatives who don’t want to leave their homes.This approach provides more flexibility to family members to handle mind-blowing facts related to technology care of a loved one. The in-home robots can help seniors with daily tasks and allow them to stay as long as possible independent and live in their homes, improving their overall well-being.Health and Artificial Intelligence scientists even have infrared-based systems that can identify when an older adult falls. Scientists and medical specialists can also track sleeping, feeding, decreasing mobility, fluid intake, chair and bed comfort, urinary frequency, restlessness, fatigue, food and alcohol consumption, and many more.6) AI into enhanced Health CareHospitals might soon put your well-being in mind-blowing facts related to technology hands of AI. Hospitals that use machine learning to help treat patients have fewer accidents and fewer cases of hospital-related illnesses, such as sepsis.Artificial Intelligence also tackles some of mind-blowing facts related to technology most intractable problems in medicine, such as helping scientists to understand mind-blowing facts related to technology genetic diseases with mind-blowing facts related to technology help of predictive models better.Initially, health professionals must manually check mind-blowing facts related to technology information reams before they diagnose or treat a patient. High-performance computing GPUs have become primary resources for deep learning and AI applications.Deep learning models can offer real-time insights and, in conjunction with an abundance of computing power, help healthcare professionals diagnose patients more quickly and accurately, create innovative new drugs and treatments, minimize clinical and diagnostic errors, predict adverse reactions, and reduce healthcare costs for clinicians and patients.7) Artificial intelligence is capable of changing mind-blowing facts related to technology business foreverIt is a promise to take care of all mind-blowing facts related to technology tedious things that employees are already doing, freeing their time to be more imaginative, and doing mind-blowing facts related to technology job that machines are unable to do.Today, emerging technology is mainly used by large companies through machine learning and predictive analytics.Here’s a look at AI’s current county and what lies ahead:-Nowadays, only 15% of companies use AI whereas 31 percent said it was on mind-blowing facts related to technology agenda for mind-blowing facts related to technology next 12 months.For those companies already in mind-blowing facts related to technology Artificial Intelligence range, high-performing companies have said that they are more than twice as likely to use technology for marketing as their peers (28% vs. 12%). Unsurprisingly, data analysis is a key Artificial Intelligence focus for businesses, with on-site customization being mind-blowing facts related to technology second most frequently cited use case for AI.The survey respondents have described customer personalization (29%), AI (26%), and voice search (21.23%) as mind-blowing facts related to technology next dominant marketing pattern. These top three responses, totaling 75% of all AI applications, indicate that AI is more widespread and accessible than mind-blowing facts related to technology respondents are aware of.47% of digitally mature organizations or those with advanced digital practices have established a specified AI strategy.Business leaders said they agree that AI will be fundamental in mind-blowing facts related to technology future. In reality, 72% said it was a “business advantage.”Of those who have an innovation plan, 61% said that they are using AI to find information gaps that would otherwise be overlooked. Just 22% said mind-blowing facts related to technology same thing without a strategy.Consumers use more AI than they know. While only 33 percent claim that they are using AI-enabled software, 77 percent currently using AI-enabled products or phones.38% of customers said they believed that AI would boost customer service.Out of 6,000 people surveyed, 61% said they thought AI could make mind-blowing facts related to technology world a better place.In a survey of more than 1,600 marketing professionals, 61%, regardless of mind-blowing facts related to technology size of mind-blowing facts related to technology company, pointed to machine learning and AI as their company’s most significant data initiative for next year.The effect of AI technology on business is projected to increase labor productivity by up to 40% and allow people to make more productive use of their time.The largest companies, those with at least 100,000 employees are most likely to have an AI plan, but only half of them have one.More than 80% of mind-blowing facts related to technology executives see AI as a strategic tool.Voice assistants are incorporated into a wide range of consumer products; almost half of US adults (46%) are now using these apps to communicate with smartphones and other devices.When asked about requirements for marketing software providers to have native AI capabilities, more than 50% of mind-blowing facts related to technology communicators said it was essential or appropriate to do so.Winding UpAs many people have rightly noted, mind-blowing facts related to technology idea of Artificial Intelligence is not a new one. It’s been around since mind-blowing facts related to technology very early days of computing. Pioneers always have invented ways to build smart learning machines.At present, mind-blowing facts related to technology most promising method for AI is mind-blowing facts related to technology use of applied machine learning. Instead of trying to encrypt machines with everything they need to know beforehand (which is impossible), we want to allow them to learn, and then learn how to learn.The time for machine learning has arrived, and it is in mind-blowing facts related to technology process of revolutionizing all of our lives.Liked our content? Then visit us today at GoodWorkLabs and learn more about us. For any feedback or suggestions, you can comment in mind-blowing facts related to technology drop-down section.22 mind-blowing science facts we didn't know at mind-blowing facts related to technology start of 2017Did you know that scientists invented a completely new state of matter called mind-blowing facts related to technology time crystals? Or that pugs’ adorable faces are mind-blowing facts related to technology result of a genetic mutation?Here are some of mind-blowing facts related to technology impressive science facts we learned in 2017:1. A human organ that no-one knew about has been hiding in plain sight all this time. Called mesentery, it connects mind-blowing facts related to technology intestine to mind-blowing facts related to technology abdomen and is believed to perform important functions for mind-blowing facts related to technology body ranging from helping mind-blowing facts related to technology heart to aiding mind-blowing facts related to technology immune system.2. The Earth appears to have a whole new underground continent called Zealandia. The discovery itself isn’t new – some geologists have been arguing for its existence for many years. However, in 2017 a team of scientists concluded Zealandia fulfils all mind-blowing facts related to technology requirements to be considered a drowned continent.Did you know that scientists invented a completely new state of matter called mind-blowing facts related to technology time crystals? Or that pugs’ adorable faces are mind-blowing facts related to technology result of a genetic mutation?Here are some of mind-blowing facts related to technology impressive science facts we learned in 2017:1. A human organ that no-one knew about has been hiding in plain sight all this time. Called mesentery, it connects mind-blowing facts related to technology intestine to mind-blowing facts related to technology abdomen and is believed to perform important functions for mind-blowing facts related to technology body ranging from helping mind-blowing facts related to technology heart to aiding mind-blowing facts related to technology immune system.2. The Earth appears to have a whole new underground continent called Zealandia. The discovery itself isn’t new – some geologists have been arguing for its existence for many years. However, in 2017 a team of scientists concluded Zealandia fulfils all mind-blowing facts related to technology requirements to be considered a drowned continent.30 Amazing Facts About Your Brain That Will Blow Your MindThe brain is one of mind-blowing facts related to technology most astonishing and intricate parts of mind-blowing facts related to technology human body. Here are some strangely interesting facts about your gray matter.Every editorial product is independently selected, though we may be compensated or receive an affiliate commission if you buy something through our links.Your brain is extremely powerfulThe human brain is responsible for keeping your body running all day long. It not only helps people think and learn new things, but it also controls your movement and speech, too. The brain is part of mind-blowing facts related to technology central nervous system and receives tons of information. Make some room in your noggin for these surprising brain facts you need to know.The brain itself can’t feel painEver wonder how brain surgeons are able to perform surgeries on patients while they’re awake? Beth McQuiston, MD, a neurologist and mind-blowing facts related to technology medical director of mind-blowing facts related to technology diagnostics division at mind-blowing facts related to technology health-care company Abbott, explains that even though mind-blowing facts related to technology brain has layers of coverings and blood vessels that contain pain receptors, mind-blowing facts related to technology brain itself has zero. When a person has a headache, for example, it’s often thought of as pain stemming from mind-blowing facts related to technology brain, but this is actually not mind-blowing facts related to technology case. The muscles and skin surrounding mind-blowing facts related to technology brain, however, can feel pain. Don’t miss these 16 signs your headache pain could actually be something worse.Your brain is greedyYour brain might account for only about 3 percent of your body weight, but it receives about 30 percent of mind-blowing facts related to technology blood being pumped by your heart. This shows how much attention and support it requires in comparison to mind-blowing facts related to technology other seemingly important areas of your body. “The brain is like a spoiled and demanding child, but yet it is extremely smart and efficient,” explains Bennet Omalu, MD, a forensic pathologist, neuropathologist, epidemiologist, clinical professor at mind-blowing facts related to technology University of California, Davis, and author of Truth Doesn’t Have a Side. “It takes mind-blowing facts related to technology brain about 1/10,000th of a second to respond to something and generate an action.”You actually do use most of your brain, most of mind-blowing facts related to technology timeThe film Limitless with Bradley Cooper is just mind-blowing facts related to technology latest version of mind-blowing facts related to technology myth that we only use 10 percent of our brain. “This misconception came about because mind-blowing facts related to technology brain is so adaptable that sometimes minor damage causes only subtle problems,” explains Brett Wingeier, PhD, engineer, neuroscientist, and co-founder of Halo Neuroscience. “The fact is, most of your brain is constantly working—to sense, process, think, move, and even dream.” Even when you head to sleep at night, your brain is still hard at work. Here are some more things you never knew about your brain.You actually do use most of your brain, most of mind-blowing facts related to technology timeThe film Limitless with Bradley Cooper is just mind-blowing facts related to technology latest version of mind-blowing facts related to technology myth that we only use 10 percent of our brain. “This misconception came about because mind-blowing facts related to technology brain is so adaptable that sometimes minor damage causes only subtle problems,” explains Brett Wingeier, PhD, engineer, neuroscientist, and co-founder of Halo Neuroscience. “The fact is, most of your brain is constantly working—to sense, process, think, move, and even dream.” Even when you head to sleep at night, your brain is still hard at work. Here are some more things you never knew about your brain.Adult brains still make new neuronsWhile most of our neurons have been with us since birth, and age does take a toll, your brain still makes new neurons. “This process, known as neurogenesis, occurs in a special region called mind-blowing facts related to technology dentate gyrus,” explains Wingeier. “These neurons are thought to be important for learning, memory, and responding to stress.” These brain facts have been highly debated, but a 2019 study published in mind-blowing facts related to technology journal Nature Medicine that looked at mind-blowing facts related to technology brain tissue of 58 recently deceased people found that mind-blowing facts related to technology adult brain can indeed generate new neurons. How can you boost neurogenesis in your own brain? Wingeier says through healthy living—things like sleep, exercise, and a balanced diet. Here are mind-blowing facts related to technology foods you should be eating to boost your brain power.Almost half of a child’s energy goes to fuel his or her brainIn order for mind-blowing facts related to technology brain to stay running at top-notch, it requires significant amounts of energy. And this is even more true for young children who are still learning, processing, and developing at a fast rate. “Scientists at Northwestern University discovered recently that in mind-blowing facts related to technology preschool years, when a child’s brain development is faster, physical growth is slower, possibly to save more energy for mind-blowing facts related to technology developing brain,” explains Wingeier. “Conversely, during puberty, when physical growth is faster, brain development is slower—which may come as no surprise to parents of teenagers.” Here’s how to tell if you’re raising a geniuThe majority of brain cells aren’t neuronsDid you know that for all mind-blowing facts related to technology neurons in mind-blowing facts related to technology brain, there are at least as many glial cells that support and protect these neurons? “These microscopic unsung heroes make sure neurons have a constant supply of nutrients and oxygen, insulate neurons from each other, and even help clean up after neural damage,” says Wingeier. “They even help optimize communication between neurons.”Exercise is just as good for your brain as it is for your bodyProfessional athletes know how important fueling their brain is to ensure they’re able to put maximum effort and energy into their workouts. “This is because of mind-blowing facts related to technology mental stimulation that comes with exercise, but also because a healthy cardiovascular system means better plumbing for mind-blowing facts related to technology brain,” says Wingeier. Especially when you try a new fitness class or regimen for mind-blowing facts related to technology first time, your brain is working hard at learning mind-blowing facts related to technology motions and controlling your musclesYou can “see” through your earsNeuroplasticity, or mind-blowing facts related to technology brain’s ability to reorganize and change itself throughout a person’s lifetime, is a truly remarkable thing. In one 2011 study published in mind-blowing facts related to technology Proceedings of mind-blowing facts related to technology National Academy of Sciences, University of Montreal researchers compared mind-blowing facts related to technology brain activity of individuals who were born blind and those who had normal vision. They found that mind-blowing facts related to technology part of mind-blowing facts related to technology brain that’s normally wired to work with our eyes can instead rewire itself to process sound information instead of visual perception. Pretty cool, right?The visual areas of mind-blowing facts related to technology brain are in mind-blowing facts related to technology very backThese brain facts might sound counterintuitive, considering your eyes are in mind-blowing facts related to technology front of your head, but mind-blowing facts related to technology part of your brain responsible for vision, mind-blowing facts related to technology occipital lobe, is located in mind-blowing facts related to technology back. “Bang someone on mind-blowing facts related to technology back of mind-blowing facts related to technology head and they will see stars, not sounds,” says Henry Soper, PhD, a former clinical psychology faculty member in mind-blowing facts related to technology School of Psychology at Fielding Graduate University. Similarly, mind-blowing facts related to technology left side of your brain controls mind-blowing facts related to technology vision on your right side and vice versa. The same goes for how our brain processes sound—on opposite sides of mind-blowing facts related to technology head. “Although evolutionary theories have been proposed, mind-blowing facts related to technology bottom line is we really do not know why,” Soper says.Brain scans can “light up” when a person is in loveSome may think that being “in love” is only an idea or merely a term people use, but brain scans reveal otherwise. “For people who are romantically in love, functional MRI brain scans can show activity where dopamine, mind-blowing facts related to technology ‘feel-good’ neurotransmitter, is present,” says Dr. McQuiston. “Other areas in mind-blowing facts related to technology brain associated with pleasure and reward can also show greater activityYour brain activity is as unique as your fingerprintsResearch published in mind-blowing facts related to technology journal Nature Neuroscience suggests that a person’s brain activity may be as unique as his or her own fingerprints. To reach their conclusion, scientists used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to create “connectivity profiles,” which allowed researchers to identify mind-blowing facts related to technology brain activity of more than 100 individuals. “Learning about individual brain connections offered scientists specific insights about an individual’s intelligence or personality,” explains Dr. McQuiston. “This could have implications for how scanning brains might be used in mind-blowing facts related to technology future to one day help individualize care for each unique person.”Your brain is smaller than your ancestors’This might be one of mind-blowing facts related to technology scariest of these brain facts when you really think about it, but paleoanthropological research suggests that our brains are shrinking. Skeletal evidence from every inhabited continent backs up this theory. Some scientists suggest that this may be related to mind-blowing facts related to technology fact that mind-blowing facts related to technology average body size of humans has also shrunk in size over mind-blowing facts related to technology last 10,000 years. “A larger body requires a larger nervous system, so, as our bodies grew smaller, so did our brains in response,” suggests Donald Krieff, DO, a board-certified neurosurgeon.When you’re awake, your brain produces enough electricity to power a small light bulbAccording to computer scientists at Stanford University, a robot with a processor that is virtually as intelligent as mind-blowing facts related to technology human brain would need at least 10 megawatts of electricity to work properly. “Neurons in mind-blowing facts related to technology brain do make enough electricity to run a light bulb—100 billions of cells generate this amount of energy,” explains Brock. And mind-blowing facts related to technology brain works fast, too—so fast that it’s speedier than mind-blowing facts related to technology world’s greatest computer. “The information going to your brain from your arms and legs travels at 150 miles per hour.”15 Mind-Blowing Stats About Emerging Technologymerging technology trends signal a future with screenless interactions between businesses and consumers, with voice, augmented and virtual reality, wearable devices, and artificial intelligence slowly but surely removing mind-blowing facts related to technology traditional graphic user interface (GUI) from mind-blowing facts related to technology equation.“The next decade will be even more disruptive for how customers interact with brands,” said Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen at mind-blowing facts related to technology 2017 Summit EMEA. 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