Category Archives: Unbelievable facts

unbfacts: Since 1988, a dog breeder has been working on The Dire Wolf Project. The goal is creating a breed of loving companion dog that resembles a prehistoric dire wolf. They are enormous, scary, shaggy, and—by all accounts—terribly sweet. Source

unbfacts: Spiders don’t have muscles in their legs. They extend them using a system of hydraulics powered by their blood pressure. When they die, spiders’ legs curl up because the blood pressure is gone. Source

unbfacts: Bats in the US eat so many insects that they save farmers an estimated $23 billion every year on pesticides. Source

unbfacts: In Norway, plastic bottles have return deposits of up to 30 cents each, which has resulted in 97 percent of all plastic bottles being recycled. Public trash cans even have cup holders for recyclable bottles so people who collect them for the deposit don’t have to search through the trash. Source

unbfacts: There are dairy farms with cows that are trained to use automatic milking machines, which milk the cows automatically whenever the cow feels like it. The machines even remember each cow individually and push them out if they’ve been there too recently. Source

unbfacts: In 1959, police were called to a segregated library in South Carolina when a nine-year-old black boy refused to leave. He later got a Ph.D. in Physics from MIT, and died in 1986, as one of the astronauts aboard the space shuttle Challenger. The library that refused to lend him books is now named… Read More »