Category Archives: Unbelievable facts

unbfacts: The Earth has a “heartbeat” every 26 seconds. Seismometers detect a rhythmic microseismic pulse from the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic, and its exact cause is still unknown. Source

unbfacts: Bactrian camels survive both extreme cold and heat—down to −30 °C in winter and up to +40 °C in summer—by rapidly shedding their thick coat. They can go for months without drinking water, but when they find it, they may drink as much as 57 liters at once. These camels can sprint at up… Read More »

unbfacts: Shavarsh Karapetyan, an eleven-time world-record holder in finswimming, saved 20 lives in 1976. While jogging, he witnessed a trolleybus crash into Yerevan Lake and immediately dove in. He repeatedly swam to the submerged bus, breaking a window with his legs to pull passengers out. He was hospitalized for 45 days with pneumonia and sepsis,… Read More »

unbfacts: A village in Wales lost its broadband every morning at 7 a.m. for 18 months. Engineers eventually traced the cause to a large burst of “single high-level impulse noise,” electrical interference emitted when an elderly resident switched on his very old TV—something he had been doing every morning for years. Source

unbfacts: When developers turned New York’s Mayflower Hotel into the ultra-luxury 15 Central Park West, a few rent-controlled tenants refused to leave. The final holdout, a reclusive man named Herbert Sukenik, engaged in such a stubborn standoff that the developers ultimately paid him a record-setting $17 million and gave him a new $2 million apartment… Read More »