Unbelievable Moments Captured at Burning Man

As Long As You're Not Walking

Walking around The Playa presents its unique dangers. The Black Rock Desert is notoriously windy, so trudging through the dust and wind on foot several miles can be exhausting. Add that on top of the intense heat and cold from day to nighttime and you've got a recipe for dehydration and delirium. 

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The More You Know

  • Little brown bats sleep more than any other mammal on earth.
  • A man sued Pepsi claiming he found a mouse in his Mountain Dew. Pepsi attorneys stated that Mountain Dew will dissolve a mouse in 30 days, and showed his can was purchased 74 days after being manufactured.
  • Scorpions are incredibly resilient: scientists have frozen scorpions overnight, left them in the sun the following day, and when thawed, the arthropod walked away unscathed.
  • The woolly mammoth survived until Egyptian times.
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