In our March 2025 Do You Know? Strange Facts feature, we take a look at some unusual phenomena, including earworms and our golden oceans!
Earworms
Listening to music while working out measurably improves your performance.
You don’t like the original version of a song because it’s better; you like it because it’s the one you heard first.
A song that you can’t get out of your head is called an “earworm”.
Loud music can make a person drink more in less time.
Alcohol doesn’t make you forget anything. When you get blackout drunk, the brain temporarily loses the ability to create memories.
Each Russian consumes 18 litres of alcohol per year, doubling what experts consider dangerous.
Put That Drink Down, Tovarich!
There are over 500,000 alcohol-related deaths in Russia each year.
Siberia makes up nearly 80% of Russia.
In Russia, there are 10 million more women than men.
Women speak about 20,000 words a day. That’s 13,000 more than the average man.
Women spend nearly one year of their lives deciding what to wear.
Women cry on average between 30 and 64 times a year, while men cry between 6 and 17 times.
“Hey, I Know What We Can Do! Let’s Go And Watch That Nuclear Explosion!”
Men spend almost a year of their lives staring at women, a survey found.
A switched-on laptop placed in a man’s lap may adversely affect the quality of his sperm.
People perceive men with shaved heads as an inch taller and 13% stronger than men with hair.
About 300 couples marry in Las Vegas every day.
Atomic bomb tests were a major tourist attraction in Las Vegas during the 1950s.
The postage stamp of The Statue of Liberty depicts the replica in Las Vegas, not the real statue in New York.
Egypt’s Statue Of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty used to have a reddish-brown colour.
The Statue of Liberty should have gone to Egypt. Designers intended it to be a beacon of light and progress at the entrance to the Suez Canal. The statue had the name “Egypt (or Progress) Carrying the Light to Asia“.
The World’s oldest dress was found in Egypt, and it is 5,000 years old.
On the border between Egypt and Sudan, there are 795 square miles (2,060 km2) of unclaimed land.
Paid labourers built the pyramids, not slaves. That’s a myth the Greek historian Herodotus created.
Explorers found the lost Egyptian city of Heracleion after it had spent 1,200 years under the sea.
Under Pressure
The average ocean depth is 2.5 miles (4 km).
Seven million tons (6bn kg) of garbage end up in the ocean every year. Most of it is plastic.
If we could capture just 0.1% of the ocean’s kinetic energy caused by tides, we could satisfy the current global energy demand 5 times over.
The world’s oceans contain nearly 20 million tons of gold.
In Newfoundland, Canada, the Atlantic Ocean freezes hard enough for people to play hockey on it.
At the ocean’s deepest point, the water pressure is the equivalent of the weight of 50 jumbo jets (~9,176 tons).
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