What’s the most remarkable thing you’ve ever done in one day? Your proudest accomplishment, if you will. Many of us accomplish great things in our lives, but often they’re the result of a process. Being the first person in your family to go to college. Writing a novel. Traveling the world. Lots of great things can happen over time, but fitting that accomplishment into one day is much harder. Some people don’t just do it, they do it in incredible ways.
10. Indian singer SPB recorded 21 songs in one day.
Indian singer SPB was a man dedicated to his craft. Real name Sripathi Panditaradhyula Balasubrahmanyam, he is the world record holder for recording 40,000 songs in 16 languages, which is a feat that, frankly, is hard to wrap your head around. But he didn't stop there.
His 40,000 songs were apparently written over the course of his life. But even in a single day, he did amazing things. He also managed to record 21 songs in one day, in fact just 12 hours, back in 1981. He also managed to record 19 Tamil songs in one day and 16 Hindi songs in one day. He has also been the voice of countless actors in Bollywood scenes when they were required to sing.
9. Charles Servizio did over 46,000 push-ups in one day.
How many push-ups do you think you can do? Or what do you think the average number is? Some super-fitness gurus can jump down and do 1,000 push-ups in the blink of an eye. But according to one survey, more than half Americans can't do 10 push-ups in a row. Worse, more than a third couldn't do 5 in a row. All of which makes Charles Servizio's pitch even more impressive.
In 1993, Servizio broke the Guinness World Record by performing 46,001 push-ups in 24 hours. That's 1,916 push-ups per hour. That's about 32 every minute. While the record for most push-ups in an hour was beaten many times , and people surpassed Servizio's hourly record, 24 hours stood still for three decades.
8. Ben Feldman sold $20 million in insurance in one day
Ben Feldman's legacy is either the most amazing salesman of all time, or the somewhat tragic tale of a man who was way, way too passionate about his job. Who knows, maybe both. Either way. Feldman is remembered as the near-mythical insurance salesman who sold $20 million in a single day.
Feldman did some mind-boggling things while working as an insurance agent. If $20 million a day isn't enough, he once sold $100 million in a year. For my life he sold 1.5 billion dollars He made $1 million a year in commissions. He personally sold more than entire companies. In the 1970s, he personally sold more insurance than 1,500 insurance companies in America. The man was essentially Insurance Superman.
How can a man become a sales force? This part is harder to understand. Rumor has it that Feldman was so shy that he once spoke at a seminar behind the screen , so as not to see the crowd. But it looks like he didn't do much either.
He researched life insurance from 10 a.m. to midnight before going to bed every night. He worked 12 hours a day, 6 and even 7 days a week, and at least it certainly paid off, as he proved himself to be a defining force in life insurance that may have changed the entire landscape. Before Feldman, most insurance companies wouldn't insure people for more than $50,000 on the grounds that no one needed that much insurance.
7. In Sweden, 360,000 streets were changed from left to right in one day.
One of the most noticeable differences between the UK and North America is the way people drive. The British drive on the left side of the road. This rebellion from a bygone era still happens in former British colonies. New Zealand, South Africa and Mutla drive on the left. In fact, 76 countries drive on the left, while 163 adhere to the right .
Sweden used to be a left-handed country, but in 1967 they switched to the right-handed side. And it happened in one day. The entire country flipped, covering 360,000 streets and 60,000 miles of roads . It happened at 4:50 a.m. when all traffic was stopped for 10 minutes to make a transfer. And when it was done, everyone went right. On paper, it sounds ridiculously simple, but it's not.
The switchover took four years of planning and cost a whopping £80 million. Overnight, 350,000 street signs were changed. It took soldiers, police and volunteers, more than 200,000 people, to make it happen in a single day. The switchover was made in part to accident prevention Most Swedish drivers had foreign cars with left-hand drive, which made left-hand driving more confusing.
6. Will Ferrell played for 10 MLB teams in one day
The record for playing for most MLB teams in a day doesn't even make sense, because why would anyone want to play for more than one team in a day? At best, it seems like a weird trade could have resulted in a player being on two teams in a day, like Joel Youngblood in 1982. Luckily, Will Ferrell isn't actually a player, and a lot of what he does is weird, so it makes for a weird feeling after the fact. Ferrell holds the record for most games played for 10 MLB teams in one day .
In 2015, actor Will Ferrell went on spring training as part of an HBO special filmed for Funny or Die with Major League Baseball. The show was meant to support cancer research, so MLB allowed Ferrell to play with 10 different teams for a day and literally play every position on the field. To do so, he had to be flown by helicopter to five different stadiums.
By the end of the day, Ferrell was an Angel, a Sportsman, a Cub, a Diamondback, a Dodger, a Giant, a Mariner, a Padre, a Red Sox, and a White Sox.
5. The First Minnesota Regiment had the greatest daily casualty rate of any American regiment.
While a positive accomplishment in a single day is always commendable, sometimes something can be remarkable for how terrible it was. Such was the case with the 1st Minnesota Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War.
The regiment had proven its valor in more than one battle before Gettysburg, but it was this historic battle that proved their mettle and also put them in the history books. It is said that if it had not been for the 1st Minnesota, the Union would have lost Gettysburg.
It was July 2, and the Union was being pushed back by Confederate forces that vastly outnumbered them. Reinforcements were still far away, and Union General Sickles, an untested leader, made a foolish move without orders, creating a gap in the Union lines that the Confederate forces exploited. There were very few veteran soldiers on the ground to try to hold off the enemy, with the exception of the battle-tested 1st Minnesota Regiment. They had started the war with 1,000 men, but after three previous battles, their numbers were down to 262.
Sickles' actions almost doomed the Union. The fear was that if the Confederate army stormed the rest of the Union, the war would effectively be lost. The 1st Minnesota was ordered to close the gap with by a factor of six to one They only needed five minutes for reinforcements to arrive.
262 men advanced, knowing they were being sent to their deaths. They fought hard, and their flag fell five times, each time someone else picked it up. By the end, 215 men had died, a total of 82% for the entire regiment. To this day, it is the greatest loss of life for any regiment in a single day of combat. They held out for 15 minutes, turning the tide of the battle for the Union.
4. Mosquitoes kill more people per day than sharks have killed in 100 years.
The humble mosquito is one of the greatest pests known to man. They are small, a nuisance, and exist in every country on Earth except Antarctica and, curiously, Iceland. This makes them incredibly difficult to escape. They are also prolific killers. Mosquitoes will kill more people in a single day than sharks. over the last 100 years .
In 2016, mosquitoes were responsible for about 1,470 deaths per day. This is due to a number of deadly diseases that mosquitoes can transmit to humans, including malaria. On the other hand, sharks managed to kill only 1,035 people from 1916 to 2016.
Climate change has made conditions more favorable for mosquitoes, and it is believed that the gap between mosquitoes and sharks will only widen in the future as mosquitoes become more and more deadly. In 2018, mosquitoes killed 830,000 people , which averages about 2,274 people per day.
3. Every day, 4.5 million thin peppermint candies are baked for Girl Scouts.
Every year the Girl Scouts have their annual candy drive and people go crazy for them. Thin mints seem to be the most popular, making up 25% total cookies sold , and to meet demand, a lot of cookies need to be produced.
To keep up with demand for Thin Mint, per day during peak demand for cookies are baked 4.5 million Thin Mint . Considering the girls sell a whopping 200 million boxes of cookies, volume is clearly needed.
2. Martian lunar orbits result in more than three eclipses per day
Science fiction TV shows and movies often run into a bit of a snag when trying to discuss time in an intergalactic way, especially with alien species. When you talk about a day or a year, it’s entirely based on how we define time on Earth. A year is the time it takes for a planet to orbit the sun. To an alien, that would mean nothing. Every planet in our solar system has a different length of time that would be one of their years. Mars, in particular, can do a lot of that because of how the moon’s rotation works there.
On Earth, we get between four and seven eclipses a year. On Mars, you get an average of 3.2 every day thanks to how quickly the Martian satellites Phobos and Deimos orbit the planet. Although the moons are too small to completely block the sun, they still pass by it. Phobos completes an orbit every 7.65 hours, and Deimos every 30.35 hours.
1. A Chinese container ship produces as much pollution in one day as 500,000 trucks.
A modern container ship can have length up to 1320 feet . It takes a lot of energy to move a ship of this size, loaded with hundreds of tons of shipping containers, and that means burning a lot of fuel. In China, just one of these massive shipping containers produces as much pollution in a day as500,000 trucks on the roads.
The fuel used by these ships in China is also the lowest quality diesel fuel with high levels of pollutants. The sulfur content in 35 times more allowed in the ports of Los Angeles. It has been estimated that pollution caused by things like these container ships contributes to the premature deaths of 1.2 million people.
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