- Crazy to believe but-"According to the newspaper Pravda, the Soviet Union used nuclear weapons to shut down oil-well blowouts five times between 1966 and 1977. "The underground explosion moves the rock, presses on it, and, in essence, squeezes the well's channel," the paper says, arguing that the U.S. should try the same approach."
- Human and animal hair stuffed into nylon stockings can soak up the oil spill.
- There was a plan in the BP Oil Spill where a dome shape container was going to be put above the oil leaks to contain the oil from spreading and to stay within the dome, but it unfortunately failed because it floated making it impossible to contain the oil.
- Local shrimpers in Louisiana have predicted that the will have to wait seven years before they can set to sea again to fish due to the BP oil spill.
- A bird is most and more likely to die in an oil spill due to the many alternatives they have to the oil pollution.
- There are animals that once they are tainted/polluted with the oil, they can't recover from the oil spill. Those animals are the Common Loon,Cormorant, Harbor Seal, Harlequin Duck, Killer Whale, and the Pigeon Quillemont.
- Just one quart of oil can contaminate up to a quarter million gallons of fresh water.
- About 400 wild animal species were threatened by the BP oil spill.
- The largest oil spill ever happened during the Persian Gulf War of 1991. About 240 million tons of oil was spilled into Persian Gulf.