Saturday 31 August 2013

A man holds the Guinness Records for the most no. of records!!!


56-year-old Ashrita Furman of New York City has set 311 records since 1979 and still currently holds 123 of them (including the record for the most records held at one time)! His first record was for the most jumping jacks performed - a whopping 27,000!.

All of his records which he currently holds or previously holded are as follows:



Thursday 29 August 2013

Some Interesting Facts you dont know about Music

Birthdays are known to be a costly affair and for a reason! Did you know that if you sang “Happy Birthday to You” for commercial purposes, you could be sued!
Yes, The song “Happy Birthday To You” is not a public-domain composition. The publishing rights are owned by a subsidiary of Warner Communications, and a performance fee must be paid every time it is used for commercial purposes.
 
Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.
 

Wednesday 28 August 2013

Many Amazing Facts about Animals-II

  • A goldfish is the only animal that can see infrared and ultraviolet light.
  • One in 5,000 North Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.
  • A snail can sleep for 3 years.
  • A group of jelly fish is called a smack.
  • The oceans contain 99 percent of the living space on the planet.
  • The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
  • There are 701 types of pure breed dogs.
  • There are about 100 breeds of cats.
  • A tiger's paw prints are called pug marks.
  • Over 100,000 birds, whales, seals and turtles worldwide are killed by plastic rubbish every year. Marine life, in particular turtles, is prone to mistaking plastic bags for jellyfish, ingesting them and dying of intestinal blockage.
  • Infant beavers are called kittens.
  • The fastest bird, the spine-tailed swift, can fly as fast as 106mph.
  • Slugs have 4 noses.

Many Amazing Facts about Animals-I

  • A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
  • A bee must visit 4,000 flowers in order to make one tablespoon of honey.
  • Humpback whales create the loudest sound of any living creature.
  • Bald eagles may use the same nest year after year, adding more twigs and branches each time. One nest was found that had been used for 34 years and weighed over two tons.
  • Great White Sharks can go as long as three months without eating.
  • A bee can see the colors green, blue and ultra-violet - but red looks like black.
  • A giant squid’s eyes have a diameter of 15 inches which are the largest of any animal.
  • A zebra is white with black stripes.

Tuesday 27 August 2013

Very Interesting Facts About The Whales


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There is certainly plenty of fascinating aspects about whales to be aware of. You may be surprised at some of the characteristics as well as behaviors of these delightful mammals.

1. Whales need to breathe air
You likely already know that whales breathe by taking in air though their blowhole.
2. Whales can’t sleep for very long?
This is because they have to remember to go to the surface for air as needed.

3. Whales' brain sleep one half at the time

In order to make sure that whales perform the basic functions to breathe, only one half of their brain will sleep at a time. This is the only way that they are able to get the amount of rest that they need and still take care of this function that is necessary for their bodies to survive.
4. Whale Males are not easy to identify.
It is common for male whales to be misidentified out there due to the location of their genitals. When they aren’t in use, these parts of the body are actually tucked inside of a cavity. This allows them to swim faster. Therefore you do need to really look at other factors before you classify a whale as either male or female.

5. Whales are mammals, calves grow inside their mothers.

Do you know that newborn whales are born fin first which means the back end of their body first? Researchers believe this is done so that the calf is less likely to drown when it is born. All of their young are born alive and are able to be cared for immediately after birth.
6. Whales are cetaceans, mammals fully adapted to aquatic life.

Whales are believed to be the only mammals that are able to adapt to the changing environment in the waters. This is important due to the impact that humans have had on their natural living environment.

7. Whales swim as fast as 30 miles per hour.

Whales can swim at a rate of about 30 miles per hour. However, most people think they are much slower because they often don’t have to be in such a hurry so they simply glide around the water.
8. Whales have hair.

Most people don’t think that whales have hair but they do. However, it is very thin and very light so unless you are seeing one up close you wouldn’t think it was there at all.

9. Whales are warm blooded.
Whales are warm blooded mammals so they have to keep a high body temperature. Since they don’t have much hair they rely on layers of fat called blubber. You will find that the younger whales have more hair than the adults. As a baby gets older it will develop more blubber and then the hair will start to disappear.
10. Whales are the largest animals in the world.

You likely are aware of the fact that whales can be extremely large. The Blue Whale is the biggest one out there. Most experts agree that the Blue Whale is the largest mammal that ever been on Earth as well as the loudest. They can be up to 105 feet long. The smallest whale is the Dwarf Sperm Whale. It is only about 8 feet long.
11. The most dangerous predators for Whales are humans

The only predator that whales have to content with are humans. They aren’t bothered by any other creatures in the water. However, the changes to their food source, hunting by humans, and even pollution to the waters that they live in can affect their abilities to survive which is why they continue to try to adapt to the environment that they are in.
As you can see, there are plenty of facts that are fun to learn about whales. Exploring them in more detail is a great way to enhance your knowledge of these amazing mammals. You may find that you want to learn all you can about them because they are definitely interesting and enjoyable creatures.

Monday 26 August 2013

More Facts...

  TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.

You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath.

Money isn’t made out of paper. It’s made out of cotton.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.

The dot over the letter “i” is called a tittle.

A duck’s quack doesn’t echo. No one knows why!

The “spot” on the 7-Up comes from its inventor who had red eyes – he was an albino. ’7′ was because the original containers were 7 ounces and ‘UP’ indicated the direction of the bubbles.

Chocolate can kill dogs, as it contains theobromine, which affects their heart and nervous system.

Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster.

There are only two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: “abstemious” and “facetious.”

If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow film down so you could see his moves.

The original name for butterfly was flutterby.

By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.

Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed.

Interesting Facts

 Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

  The Barbie doll’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

  The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.

  Ants never sleep!

  When the moon is directly overhead, you will weigh slightly less.

  Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never called his wife or mother because they were both deaf.

  “I Am” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

  Babies are born without knee caps – actually, they’re made of cartilage and the bone hardens between the ages of 2 and 6 years.

Highway robbery: Russian man steals road

A MAN has been arrested after he stole 82 reinforced concrete slabs that made up a road in northwestern Russia.
The man, in his 40s, has admitted to using an industrial manipulator to dismantle the slabs from the road that links the village of Parcheg in the republic of Komi with the Vychegda River, The Moscow Times reports.
The slabs, worth  200,000 rubles ($6,100), were then loaded onto three trucks, which police later stopped, the regional interior department said in a statement.
The man faces up to two years in prison for the theft.
 

Male spiders can sniff out a well fed female spider

Simply by taking a little saunter across the female’s web, a male black widow can sense if a female is hungry or not. Why does it matter? Because female black widow spiders have a rather freaky habit of eating the male after mating. It’s how they earned their dangerous name.


The Smell Of Safety
Males have developed this very useful technique, which tells them whether or not a female has recently eaten. But if a female is hungry, she would be more likely to cannibalize the male spider. They take a sniff of those silk strands and then decide if they want to proceed or scurry away. A new study discovered this interesting skill and published the findings in the journal Animal Behaviour. So, how do researchers actually go about testing something like this?
Feeding Time For The Ladies
First things first. The researchers fed a bunch of hungry female back widow spiders. Using a cricket neatly held between forceps, they rested it on the web and waited for the female to come over, wrap the cricket in silk and chow down. The females got one cricket each week. Yet, by the time the fourth week came around, they weren’t so hungry anymore and didn’t really want to eat the crickets.

Another bunch of female black widow spiders were starved for a few weeks. It apparently didn’t put their lives at risk, but they did get a bit smaller. Now, let’s find out what happened when a male was placed on the web of a well fed or a starved spider.

Since the male spiders can pick up scents with their feet, they were able to figure out the difference from one female to another just by walking on the web. Normally, a male black widow spider has a special dance he does to court the female.
In this experiment, the males danced far more actively on the webs of well fed females. Smart dudes! If anything, dancing and mating would leave them ready to eat – not be eaten! Typically, they dance around for an hour or two, which sure shows their dedication to the purpose. They wave their legs and pluck and tap at the web in a unique way, so that unlike prey they show the female they are interested to mate rather than become dinner.
If Only I Had Such Powers
Now I have a strong sense of smell but definitely nothing like these male black widow spiders. It’s too bad because I’m really scared of spiders even though I know most are harmless. If I had my way, I’d be able to simply smell any spider from several meters away. That would give my timid self enough time to run!

Sunday 25 August 2013

Photos of tot wearing watermelon pants go viral in China

BEIJING: A Chinese father's bizarre method to beat the heat has become an Internet hit in the country after he posted photos of his toddler dressed in watermelon shorts.

The toddler's father in Wenzhou city worked all day to create the fruit attire, complete with a watermelon helmet and shoes, to keep the boy cool in the hot weather, media reports said.

While most Chinese netizens think watermelon shorts are adorable and funny, some believe they may be uncomfortable due to the moisture in the fruit.

Dressing babies up in watermelons is a new trend in China, first reported by state news agency Xinhua last month.

The pictures of the baby in watermelon garb, doing rounds on the Internet, were first posted on Sina Weibo, a Chinese microblogging website, according to New York Magazine 'The Cut'.

Saturday 24 August 2013

Random Amazing Facts

Why are private sector psychiatrists in the U.S trading their cozy lives for 4 years in the U.S Army ? For the $272,000.00 Sign on bonus currently being offered.

The automatic popup bread toaster was patented before the bread slicing machine. 1919 and 1928. That’s right, people sliced their own bread for the toaster for almost a decade before sliced bread was sold.

Meteorites were very important to ancient Egyptians, they created jewelry from meteorites by hammering it into shape making beads and other designs. The jewelry was often buried with loved ones.

After spending 17 years underground, 2013 is the year the Cicada bug is expected to emerge by the billions on the east coast of the United States. Some estimate trillions will arrive.

The worlds largest yacht is 590 feet (approximately 197 yards) long and 94,000 horsepower.

The restaurant ‘White Castle’ is Americas oldest and 1st hamburger chain.

Delaware Students Build World's Tallest LEGO Tower


Students Build World's Tallest LEGO Tower


A team of students from Wilmington, Del., spent their entire summer vacation breaking a Guinness World Record.
The students from John Dickinson High School erected a 112-foot tower of more than 500,000 LEGO bricks – breaking the previous record set by the city of Prague in the Czech Republic, who built a 106-foot tower, according to Gizmodo.
Instead of going to camp or on vacation, the students spent their entire summer vacation building the tower. The last brick was put into place Monday in front of Guinness World Record Book representatives

Central Pa. farmer's corn crop yields 4-headed ear

HANOVER, Pa. (AP) — When farmer Ben Klunk tells people about the mutant corn he found, they're all ears.
Klunk said Wednesday he discovered an ear of sweet corn with four heads on his central Pennsylvania farm and has been keeping it in his refrigerator.
Klunk said that when he pulled the corn out of the crop he initially thought there was mud holding it together, but his wife said that wasn't the case.
"It started out as one," Marie Klunk said, "and then it split, and then another one split."
The farmer, who's 81, said he's never seen corn multiply in such a way: He'd never found a double- or triple-headed ear of corn, let alone a quadruple one.
"And I've pulled a lot of sweet corn!" he said.
The Klunks said they don't plan to eat the corn, which was pulled from their farmland in Hanover, 20 miles southwest of the state capital, Harrisburg, and was first reported by The Evening Sun newspaper. They said if it stays fresh for another 10 days they'll enter it into a contest at the South Mountain 4-H Fair.
But the Klunks aren't sure it'll last that long in the refrigerator and suspect it's already turning. If that happens, they said, they'll just throw the mutated husk away.

Lightning strikes pregnant mother, brings on birth of baby girl

A PREGNANT New Mexico woman has survived a bolt from the blue to give birth to a bouncing baby girl.
Authorities say Kendra Villanueva and the baby's father Ian Gordon were watching fireworks with friends on July 4 when lightning struck both of them in the front yard of an Albuquerque home.
“We were actually going inside because we heard the lightning and the thunder,” .
"The next thing we know, we woke up on the ground and everybody was just trying to keep us calm.”
 Mother, father and baby survived relatively unscathed.
The couple named the baby Kimberly Samantha Rose Gordon and said they'll also call her "little Flash Gordon."
Ian Gordon says the new parents are hoping their new daughter will "run fast, or save the universe."


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Friday 23 August 2013

Sleep Artist

 A SLEEP artist is set to appear at one of London's most bizarre attractions after shocking sleep experts with his artistic talents.


Lee-Hadwin-is-a-sleep-artist-who-paints-and-draws-whilst-asleep Lee Hadwin is a sleep artist who paints and draws whilst asleep
Lee Hadwin, who is described as a ‘sleep walking artist,' has allowed a series of his drawings and paintings as well as videos of him doing them, to be shown at popular tourist attraction Ripley's Believe It Or Not!
On Friday, Lee himself will make an appearance at the Piccadilly Circus venue where he will be meeting members of the public and signing his prints, which he creates whilst in a state of sleep.
"The Ripley’s Believe It or Not! brand is such a good fit for my pieces," Hadwin said. "I’m excited to have a pop-up exhibition somewhere that celebrates all that is different and I hope that the visitors will enjoy my unusual talent and the pieces I’ve created."
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Hadwin has been described by the Edinburgh Sleep Clinic and the Art World as truly "unique." He has been studied by doctors and scientists both in the UK and overseas but his nocturnal artistic activities are a still mystery.
Despite having had no artistic training, he has been producing pieces of artwork in his sleep since the age of four.
However, he is unable to produce such pieces whilst awake but his skills whilst asleep have developed over the years to become more detailed and demand for his pieces from art galleries and exhibitions across the globe continues to grow.

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Some Facts....

If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar. The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.

President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.

In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.

 Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.

The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.

In the early days of the telephone, operators would pick up a call and use the phrase, "Well, are you there?". It wasn't until 1895 that someone suggested answering the phone with the phrase "number please?"

The surface area of an average-sized brick is 79 cm squared.

According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction.

Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.


Random Facts

1) SNAILS have 14175 teeth laid along 135 rows on their tongue.

2) A BUTTERFLY has 12,000 eyes.

3) DOLPHINS sleep with 1 eye open.

4) A BLUE WHALE can eat as much as 3 tonnes of food everyday, but at the same time can live without food for 6 months.

Thursday 22 August 2013

High Heels were made for men to wear originally!!!

It’s probably fair to say that any woman’s wardrobe simply wouldn’t be complete without a pair of striking killer heels. From kitten heel slip-ons, sensible court shoes, and sensational summer wedges, women today really are spoilt for choice when it comes to footwear.
men-heelsHeels have been a part of fashion for many centuries but surprisingly enough, these elegant shoes which give extra height and posture were not solely reserved for women. Dukes and Monarchs alike (Louis XIV in particular) were well known for their extravagant shoes with elaborate decorations sometimes depicting scenes of battle. Back in those days, many shoes that were custom designed for Louis XIV boasted a heel of anywhere up to ten inches!
While heels are predominantly reserved for women, there have been occasions throughout history where they have featured heavily as a practical and fashion element for men. Let’s take the Romans for example;  both men and women wore sandals with a platform heel, known as Cothurns, in an attempt to raise the wearer above the mud and rubbish in the streets. Cowboy boots were first developed as an attempt to stop the foot sliding through stirrups while on horseback, and of course, who could forget the highly popular platform shoes worn by both men and women during the 1970’s.
Originally reserved for the aristocracy, heeled shoes soon filtered down the rungs of society and became acceptable footwear for all. The heel itself became less of a practical necessity and developed into what we see and wear today however, the sight of a man gracefully strutting down the high street in six inch stilettos is somewhat of a rarity nowadays.

999 Calls

One caller reported maggots in her bin, another called for "pregnancy pills" while another complained about a stolen parking space.
Greater Manchester Police dealt with an average of 3,571 emergency and non-emergency calls a day during April, May and June.
That increased by 19% in July, according to the force.
Diane Grandidge, GMP's business lead for call-handling, said: "Every false or inappropriate 999 call wastes precious time that could be spent dealing with genuine emergencies.
"Apart from potentially putting somebody's life at risk, misusing the 999 system is a criminal offence and we have the power to prosecute people for making hoax calls.
"Each day we receive dozens of calls about issues that the police are not responsible for, such as noise nuisance, stray dogs and abandoned cars.
"Answering these calls leads to delays in people trying to get through to us for legitimate reasons so please think ahead and decide whether it may be an issue for the council before picking up the phone."
Officers reminded people to only ring 999 if there is a direct and immediate threat to life or property, or if a crime is in progress, while for general inquiries or to report less urgent crime or disorder, they should call 101.
101 is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and there is a single flat rate charge of 15p, no matter how long the duration of the call, what time of day or whether you are calling from a landline or mobile phone.
Calls about noisy neighbours, stray dogs, graffiti, abandoned vehicles, fly-tipping or faulty traffic lights should go to local councils.

Roach Motel

At age 20, Kyle Kandilian of Dearborn, Mich., has created a start-up business to fund his college expenses, but it involves a roomful (in the family home) of nearly 200,000 cockroaches. The environmental science major at University of Michigan-Dearborn breeds species ranging from the familiar household pests, which he sells on the cheap as food for other people's pets, to the more interesting, exotic Madagascar hissing roaches and rhino roaches, which can live for 10 to 15 years. (Kandilian told the Detroit Free Press in July that of the 4,000 cockroach species, only about a dozen are pests.) Why not choose a more conventional "pet"? Because "(m)ammals smell," he said. (Missing from the Free Press story: details on the likely interesting initial conversation between Kyle and his mother when he asked if he could have 200,000 cockroaches in the house.) [Detroit Free Press, 7-28-2013]

Earth Facts


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Human Population of the Earth: 7,039,191,305 (estimated as of Sept. 14, 2012)

World Population Growth: 1.092% - 2009 estimate (this means at the current rate of growth, the earth's population will double in about 64 years)

Countries of the World: 196

Earth's Circumference at the Equator: 24,901.55 miles (40,075.16 km)

Earth's Circumference Between the North and South Poles: 24,859.82 miles (40,008 km)

Earth's Diameter at the Equator: 7,926.28 miles (12,756.1 km)

Earth's Diameter at the Poles: 7,899.80 miles (12,713.5 km)

Average Distance from the Earth to the Sun: 93,020,000 miles (149,669,180 km)

Average Distance from the Earth to the Moon: 238,857 miles (384,403.1 km)

Highest Elevation on Earth - Mt. Everest, Asia: 29,035 feet (8850 m)

Tallest Mountain on Earth from Base to Peak - Mauna Kea, Hawaii: 33,480 feet (rising to 13,796 feet above sea level) (10204 m; 4205 m)

Point Farthest From the Center of the Earth - The peak of the volcano Chimborazo in Ecuador at 20,561 feet (6267 m) is farthest from the center of the earth due to its location near the equator and the oblateness of the Earth.

Lowest Elevation on Land - Dead Sea: 1369 feet below sea level (417.27 m)

Deepest Point in the Ocean - Challenger Deep, Mariana Trench, Western Pacific Ocean: 35,840 feet 
(10924 m)
Highest Temperature Recorded: 134°F (56.7°C) - Greenland Ranch in Death Valley, California, July 10, 1913

Lowest Temperature Recorded: -128.5°F (-89.2°C) - Vostok, Antarctica, July 21, 1983

Water vs. Land: 70.8% Water, 29.2% Land

Age of the Earth: 4.5 to 4.6 billion years

Atmosphere Content: 77% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, and traces of argon, carbon dioxide and water


Rotation on Axis: 23 hours and 56 minutes and 04.09053 seconds. But, it takes an additional four minutes for the earth to revolve to the same position as the day before relative to the sun (i.e. 24 hours).

Revolution around Sun: 365.2425 days

Chemical Composition of the Earth: 34.6% Iron, 29.5% Oxygen, 15.2% Silicon, 12.7% Magnesium, 2.4% Nickel, 1.9% Sulfur, and 0.05% Titanium

Earth is gradually slowing down. Every few years, an extra second is added to make up for lost time. Millions of years ago, a day on Earth will have been 20 hours long. It is believed that, in millions of years time, a day on Earth will be 27 hours long.

The centre of the Earth, its core, is molten. This means that it is liquid rock which sometimes erupts onto the surface through volcanic eruptions. This core is 7,500°c, hotter than the surface of the Sun! 

From a distance, Earth would be the brightest of the planets. This is because sunlight is reflected off the planet's water. 

 

Wednesday 21 August 2013

Former Billionaire Chuck Feeny gave away 99% of his $6.3B fortune to charity!

Most people try to save up for retirement and a rainy day, but former billionaire, Chuck Feeney is working on dying broke (almost). The Duty-Free Mogul has given away over $6.2 Billion of his fortune to world-wide causes ranging from education in Ireland, to civil rights, to healthcare in Vietnam. Feeney is currently worth $2 million dollars and doesn’t even own a car.
A product of the Great Depression, Feeney grew up in a blue-collar, Irish American neighborhood. After serving in the Air Force during the Korean War, Feeney made his way through the prestigious Cornell University, and traveled abroad shortly after. A self-made man, entrepreneur, and creative business mind, he used his military background and got his start in the Duty Free Markets by selling tax-free booze to Navy Sailors abroad.
Working with a fellow Cornell Alum and two other entrepreneurs, Feeney Soon Duty Free Shoppers was born and flourished over the next twenty years to become one of Forbes most successful companies in 1988 (when they also named Feeney one of the wealthiest men in America, but by that point, Feeney had already given away most of his wealth).

In 1984 Feeney successfully transferred his 38% ownership in FDS to his own “Atlantic Philanthropies” whose sole goal is to give away his entire fortune by 2020 to charities in need. Since that time, FDS has given over $6 + Billion dollars
Feeney runs his Philanthropy with the same savvy business mindset that he ran DFS. His goal is maximum impact-now. He gives away big bucks and he wants to see the impact in his lifetime. Therefore, he requires charities to compete for his money by requesting detailed business plans. He leverages every dollar that his philanthropy gives by demanding that governments and match his donations.
Unlike most high rolling philanthropists, Feeney’s goal is anonymity. He leaves his name off donations, and up until 1997, all of his charity work had been completely anonymous. People wonder what possesses someone to give away a fortune that great, and Feeney’s response is as simple as his lifestyle: “I guess I’m happy when what I’m doing is helping people and unhappy when what I’m doing isn’t helping people.”

Tuesday 20 August 2013

Funny essays

We have always tried writing short stories and essays but many of them turn out to be hilarious instead of what we hoped would be.
Here is one of my stories. Very Insane!!!
Total Disaster....






I met an alien… I had done it… I would get to name a completely new species. No one had seen this before in the history of animals. But where had it been hiding?
I stepped closer to the little creature lying there. I took a stick and poked its back. It didn’t move.
“Okay, hmm, since you’re an alien… I’ll name you… Fido!” I said and looked for my camera.
Suddenly the sky was completely cloud-covered, the ground became hot, and the alien started moving, as well as it grew in size. In a flash of fire the creature was hanging in mid-air, 3 times its original size, with a vengeful gaze, looking at me. Evil music made by the devils from the inner walls of hell played in an evil loop. The creature started speaking, and this is translated from Satan-speak:
“YOU HAVE DISTURBED THE GREAT POWERS OF THE EAST! YOU HAVE AWAKENED ME FROM MY LIFELONG SLEEP! YOU ARE TO BE PUNISHED, AND YOUR SOUL WILL BE ENGULFED IN ETERNAL FLAMES! DO NOT SPEAK! YOUR WORDS ARE WORTHLESS COMPARED TO THE UPPER COUNCIL OF ALL TIME’S OVERLORD, ME, COUNT NURG!”
There was a 2 seconds long silence before he added “AND IF YOU TOUCH ME, YOU DIE!”
A crack in the ground extended, and a big hole appeared, going all the way to the center of earth. “NO MERCY!” the creature roared.
There was another empty silence. “Excuse me, I’ve discovered a new species and that just happens to be you. I was actually going to take you the local museum if you don’t mind of course… I… need the money.” I said to the newly discovered species.
“What… Oh, in that case… dammit.” he said. “RICHARD! JUST CLOSE THE EVIL GATES OF HELL!” he shouted to someone I couldn’t see.
The open cracks closed and the sky became clear again.
“Oh by the way, I’m George!” the creature said.
“Ok, but I’ll just call you Fido.” I answered him.
Then we both walked in the sunset to the local museum.
The End.

15 Most Bizzre but true stories

1. Bees who pay their respects
Margaret Bell, who kept bees in Leintwardine, about 7 miles from her home in Ludlow, Shropshire (England), died in June 1994. Soon after her funeral, mourners were amazed to see hundreds of bees settle on the corner of the street opposite the house where she had lived for 26 years. The bees stayed for an hour before buzzing off over the rooftops. The local press ran a photograph of the bees hanging on the wall in a cluster.
2. Phantom Car Crash
On December 11, 2002, two motorists called police to report seeing a car veering off the A3 trunk road with headlights blazing at Burpham in Surrey. A thorough search uncovered a car concealed in dense undergrowth and the long-dead driver nearby. It turned out that the crash had actually happened five months earlier when the driver, Christopher Chandler, had been reported missing by his brother.
3. Enigmatic Earth Divot
Am irregular shaped hole, about 10ft by 7ft with 2ft vertical sides, was found on a remote farm near Grand Coulee, Washington State, in October 1984. It had not been there a month earlier. ‘Dribblings’ of earth and stones led to a three-ton grass-covered earth divot 75 ft away. It was almost as if the divot had been removed with a gigantic cookie cutter, except that roots dangled intact from the vertical side of both hold and slab. There were no clues such as vehicle tracks and an earthquake was thought very unlikely.
4. Balloon Buddies
Laura Buxton released a helium filled balloon during celebrations for her grandparents’ gold wedding anniversary in Blurton, Staffordshire, in June 2001. Attached to the balloon was her name and address and a note asking the finder to write back. Ten days later she received a reply. The balloon had been found by another Laura Buxton in the garden hedge of her home in Pewsey, Wiltshire, 140 miles away. Both Lauras were ages 10 and both had three year old black Labradors, a guinea pig, and a rabbit.
5. Hum Misty for Me
A noise a bit like amplifier feedback had been heard for three years coming from the right ear of a Welsh pony called Misty, according to the Vetinary Record (April 1995). It varied in intensity but stayed at a constant pitch of 7 kHz. Hearing a buzzing in one’s ears is called Subjective Tinnitus; much rarer is when others can also hear the noise. This is called Objective Tinnitus and the cause is still largely a matter of debate.
6. Whirlwind Children
A nine-year old Chinese girl was playing in Songjian near Shanghai, in July 1992 when she was carried off by a whirlwind and deposited unhurt in a treetop almost two miles away. According to a wire report from May 1986, a freak wind lifted up 13 children in the oasis of Hami in Western China and deposited them unharmed in sand dunes and scrub 12 miles away.
7. Riverside Mystery
Gloria Ramirez, 31, died of Kidney failure at Riverside General Hospital, California, in February 1994, after being rushed there with chest pains. Emergency room staff were felled by ‘fumes’ when a blood sample was taken. A strange oily sheen on the woman’s skin and unexplained white crystals in her blood were reported. A doctor suffered liver and lung damage, and bone necrosis. At least 23 other people were affected. One hypothesis was that Ramirez, who had had cervical cancer, had taken a cocktail of medicines that combined to make an insecticide (organophospate) but tests yielded no clue.
8. Boulders in Trees
In April 1997, a turkey hunter in Yellowwood State Forest, Indiana, came upon a huge sandstone boulder wedged between three branches of an oak tree about 35 feet from the ground. The arrow shaped rock was estimated to weight 500lb. Subsequently, four more large boulders were found wedged high up in trees elsewhere in the forest. All were in remote areas. None of the trees were damaged and there were no signs of heavy equipment begin used or of tornado damage and no one recalled any mishaps involving dynamite anywhere nearby.
9. Helpful Voices
While on holiday a woman, referred to by the British Medical Journal (1997) as AB, heard two voices in her head telling her to return home immediately. Back in London the voices gave her an address that turned out to be a hospital’s brain scan department. The voices told her to ask for a scan as she had a brain tumour and her brain stem was inflamed. Though she had no symptoms, a scan was eventually arranged and she did indeed have a tumour. After an operation, AB heard the voices again: ‘We are pleased to have helped you,’ they said ‘Good-bye.’ AB made a full recovery.
10. La Mancha Negro
A Hazard unique to Venezuelan highways is a slippery goo called La Mancha Negra (the black stain), although it is more of a sludge with the consistency of chewing gum. Although the government has spent millions of dollars in research, no one knows what the goo is and where it comes from, or how to get rid of it. It first appeared in 1987 on the road from Caracas to the airport, covering 50 yards, and spread inexorably every year. By 1992 it was a major road hazard all around the capital and it was claimed 1,800 motorists had died after losing control. The problem remains to this day.
11. Postcard Farewell
When Jim Wilson’s father died in Natal, South Africa, in April 1967, both Jim, living in England, and his sister Muriel, living in Holland, were informed. Muriel contacted her husband who was on business in Portugal, and he flew to South Africa right away. Changing planes at Las Palmas airport in the Canary Islands, he bought a postcard showing holidaymakers on Margate Beach, Natal, and sent it to Muriel. It was she who noticed that the photograph showed her father walking up the beach.
12. Notecase from the Sky
In October 1975 Mrs Lynn Connolly was hanging washing in her garden in the Quadrant, Hull, when she felt a sharp tap on the top of her head. It was caused by a small silver notecase, 63mm by 36.5mm, hinged, containing a used notepad with 13 sheets left. It was marked with the initials ‘SE’, ‘C8′, ‘TB’ (or ‘JB’) and ‘Klaipea’, a Lithuanian seaport. No one claimed it at the police station, so it was returned to Mrs Connolly. It seems likely it fell only a short distance but from where? If it had dropped from a plane, it would have given her more than a tap.
13. Fiery Persecution
The village of Canneto di Caronia on Sicily’s north coast has been plagued by mysterious fires. The trouble began on January 20, 2004, when a TV caught fire. Then things in neighbourhood houses began to burn, including washing machines, mobile phones, mattresses, chairs and even the insulation on water pipes. The electricity company cut off all power, as did the railway company, but the fires continued. Experts of all kinds carried out tests, but no explanation was found. The village was evacuated in February, but when people returned in March the fires resumed. Police ruled out a pyromaniac after they saw wires bursting into flames.
14. Bovine Enigma
On June 28, 2002, in the middle of a spate of unexplained cattle mutilations in Argentina, something macabre was found in a field near suco, west of Rio Cuarto in San Luis province. Nineteen cows were stuffed into a sheet metal water tank, closed with a conical cap. Nine were drowned, the rest barely alive, having endured freezing temperatures, not to mention the shock of their lives.
15. Boy Turns into a Yam
Three pupils of the Evangelist Primary School in the northern Nigerian town of Maiduguri rushed into the headmistresses office in March 2000 and said that a fellow pupil had been transformed into a yam after accepting a sweet from a stranger. The headmistress found the root tuber and took it to the police station for safe-keeping. Following local radio reports, hundreds of people flocked to see the yam and police were hunting for the sweet-giver. What happened next failed to reach the media.

Saturn and the Misconceptions

Think you know everything about Saturn? Think again. Here are 10 facts about Saturn, some you may know, and some you probably didn’t know.


Saturn. Image Credit: NASA/JPL/SSI
Saturn. Image Credit: NASA/JPL/SSI

1. Saturn is the least dense planet in the Solar System Saturn has a density of 0.687 grams/cubic centimeter. Just for comparison, water is 1 g/cm3 and the Earth is 5.52. Since Saturn is less dense than water, it would actually float like an apple if you could find a pool large enough. Of course, why you’d want to ruin a pool with all that hydrogen, helium and ices…
2. Saturn is a flattened ball
Saturn spins so quickly on its axis that the planet flattens itself out into an oblate spheroid. Seriously, you see this by eye when you look at a picture of Saturn; it looks like someone squished the planet a little. Of course, it’s the rapid spinning that’s squishing it, causing the equator to bulge out.
While the distance from the center to the poles is 54,000 km, the distance from the center to the equator is 60,300 km. In other words, locations on the equator are approximately 6,300 km more distant from the center than the poles.
We have a similar phenomenon here on Earth, where points on the equator are more distant from the center of the Earth, but on Saturn, it’s much more extreme.
Cassini's drawings of Saturn
Cassini’s drawings of Saturn
3. The first astronomers thought the rings were moons. When Galileo first turned his rudimentary telescope on Saturn in 1610, he could see Saturn and its rings, but he didn’t know what he was looking at. He though that the rings might actually be two large moons stuck to either side of Saturn – ears maybe?
It wasn’t until 1655 that the Dutch astronomer Christian Huygens used a better telescope to observe Saturn. He had the resolution to realize that the moons on either side of Saturn were actually rings: “a thin, flat ring, nowhere touching, and inclined to the ecliptic.” Huygens was also the first person to discover Saturn’s largest moon, Titan.
Voyager 2. Credit: NASA
Voyager 2. Credit: NASA
4. Saturn has only been visited 4 times by spacecraft Only 4 spacecraft sent from Earth have ever visited Saturn, and three of these were just brief flybys. The first was Pioneer 11, in 1979, which flew within 20,000 km of Saturn. Next came Voyager 1 in 1980, and then Voyager 2 in 1981. It wasn’t until Cassini’s arrival in 2004 that a spacecraft actually went into orbit around Saturn and captured photographs of the planet and its rings and moons.
Unfortunately, there are no future plans to send any more spacecraft to Saturn. A few missions have been proposed, including such radical concepts as a sailboat that could traverse the liquid methane lakes on Titan.
5. Saturn has 62 moons
Jupiter has 67 discovered moons, but Saturn is a close second with 62. Some of these are large, like Titan, the second largest moon in the Solar System. But most are tiny – just a few km across, and they have no official names. In fact, the last few were discovered by NASA’s Cassini orbiter just a few years ago. More will probably be discovered in the coming years.
6. The length of a day on Saturn was a mystery until recently
Determining the rotation speed of Saturn was actually very difficult to do, because the planet doesn’t have a solid surface. Unlike Mercury, you can’t just watch to see how long it takes for a specific crater to rotate back into view; astronomers needed to come up with a clever solution: the magnetic field.
To determine the rotational speed of Saturn, astronomers had to measure the rotation of the planet’s magnetic field. By one measurement, Saturn takes 10 hours and 14 minutes to turn on its orbit, but when Cassini approached Saturn, it clocked the rotation at 10 hours and 45 minutes. Astronomers now agree on an average day of 10 hours, 32 minutes and 35 seconds.

Saturn. NASA/JPL/Caltech
Saturn. NASA/JPL/Caltech

7. Saturn’s rings could be old, or they could be young. It’s possible that Saturn’s rings have been around since the beginning of the Solar System – around 4.54 billion years ago. Or maybe they’re relatively brand new compared to the age of Saturn. Astronomers still don’t fully understand the origin of Saturn’s rings.
They might have formed recently, when a 300-km ice moon was torn apart by Saturn’s gravity, forming a ring around the planet.
It’s also possible that they’re the left over material when Saturn formed in the solar nebula. The material in the rings might have gotten jostled by Saturn’s gravity, and never could pull together into a cohesive Moon.
But astronomers have also found that the ring material looks just too clean to have formed so long ago, and could be as young as 100 million years old. It’s all just a big mystery.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

8. Sometimes the rings disappear Well, they don’t actually disappear, but they look like they’re going away. Saturn’s axis is tilted, just like Earth. From our point of view, we see Saturn’s changing position as it takes its 30 year journey around the Sun. Sometimes, the rings are fully open, and we see them in all their glory, but other times we see the rings edge on – it looks like they’ve disappeared. This happened in 2008-2009, and will happen again in 2024-2025.
9. You can see Saturn with your own eyes
Saturn appears as one of the 5 planets visible with the unaided eye. If Saturn is in the sky at night, you can head outside and see it. To see the rings and the ball of the planet itself, you’ll want to peer through a telescope. But you can amaze your friends and family by pointing out that bright star in the sky, and let them know they’re looking at Saturn.
10. There could be life near Saturn
Not life on Saturn; the planet is way too hostile to support life. But there could be life on one of Saturn’s moons: Enceladus.
Water vapour geysers on Enceladus. Credit: NASA/JPL
Water vapour geysers on Enceladus. Credit: NASA/JPL
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft recently discovered ice geysers blasting out of Enceladus’ southern pole. This means that some process is keep the moon warm enough that water can remain a liquid underneath the surface. And wherever we find liquid water on Earth, we find life.

Worlds Insane World Records

It's Human Nature to push limits too a great extent. But there are some others Humans who just do things that we cant even imagine
Presenting The Worlds Insane World Records:

Largest Rubberband Ball

largest rubberband ball
Made up of over 700,000 rubber bands this record breaker was assembled in the driveway of Joel Waul in Lauderhill Florida. It is now owned by Ripley’s Believe it or not.

Largest Commercially Available Hamburger

biggest hamburger in the worldWeighing in at 164.8 pounds you can find this monstrosity at Mallie’s Sports Grill & Bar in Southgate, Michigan for a hefty $400.

Heaviest Vehicle Pulled Over 100ft

heaviest vehicle pulled over 100ftReverend Kevin Faist of Canada pulled a fire truck weighing 126,200 pounds the length of the course before millions of viewers on “Live with Regis & Kelly” in New York City

Largest Shoe

biggest shoe in the world 
With the ability to fit over 30 people within it leathery interior, the world’s largest shoe can be found in Philippines standing at 5.5 meters long and 1.83 meters high.

Most Straws Stuffed In Mouth

most straws in mouthSimon Elmore of Germany broke this record in 2009 by holding 400 straws in his mouth for 10 seconds.

Most Spoons On Face

most spoons on faceAchieved by Aaron Caissie from Canada, he managed to balance 17 spoons on his face at one time.

Longest Nose

longest nose in the world 
At 8.8 cm, the longest nose in the world belongs to Mehmet Ozyurek of Turkey who broke the record by having it measured on the set of an Italian TV show in 2010.

Largest Collection of Naval Fluff

largest collection of naval fluff 
A librarian in Australia recently broke this record with 22.1 gram collection of fluff that he has been collecting for the past 26 years.

Most Concrete Blocks Broken While Holding A Raw Egg

most concrete block broken while holding raw egg 
Joe Alexander of Germany broke 24 concrete blocks that were arranged in three stacks of 8 all while holding a raw egg in the hand he used to deliver the blows.

Youngest Person To Climb Mount Everest

youngest person to climb mount everest 
13 year old Jordan Romero from California instantly became the coolest kid in school when he broke the previous record of 16 years held by Temba Tsheri of Nepal. He made the climb with his father and several local Sherpas.

Longest Time Spent Instant Messaging

longest time spent instant messaging 
For 96 hours straight (4 days) Norman Perez of California sat at his computer typing to set the first record in this category. As per Guinness Book of World Records rules he was allowed a 5 minute break every hour.

Most Snails On Face

most snails on face 
In 2007 Fin Kehler had 43 snails put on his face for a total of 10 seconds to break the previous record of 36.

Most Insured Hair

most insured hairPittsburg Steelers Safety Troy Polamalu who is also a spokesperson for Head and Shoulders recently had his hair insured for a mindblowing $1 million.

Longest Time Spent Buried Alive

longest time spent buried aliveZdenek Zahradka of the Czech Republic survived 10 days buried in a coffin underground with no food or water and only a breathing pipe connecting him to the outside world. The previous record was 4 days.

Tallest Man

world's tallest man 
Sultan Kosen of Turkey towers at 8 feet 1 inch due to a tumor affecting his pituitary gland. As a result of several recent operations at the University of Virginia his growth has been stabilized.

Monday 19 August 2013

Mole Rats...

The naked mole rat, Heterocephalus glaber, is fleshy, furless, buck-toothed and brazenly ugly. Yet what these small East African rodents lack in terms of good looks, they make up with an impressive array of biological quirks. These misnamed mammals are neither moles nor rats, and in terms of their social behaviour are actually closer to bees, wasps, ants, and termites than to other backboned animals. They live in underground cooperative colonies of up to 300 individuals with a dominant breeding “queen” and celibate soldier and worker castes. Biologists have identified only one other vertebrate--the closely related Damaraland mole rat--that uses this rigid reproductive and social structure. Until the late 1970s scientists believed that this trait, known as eusociality, was confined to insects.
Naked mole rats deploy several impressive feats of physiology, including an apparent imperviousness to pain, a casual disregard for low-oxygen environments, and resistance to cancer. Indeed, these unsightly creatures both baffle and buttress Darwin's Theory of Evolution in multiple remarkable and apparently self-contradictory ways.In olden days when a king use to die their sons use to battle for the throne.The same story is here but the star cast is slight different. When an old queen dies, the female soldiers engage in blind battle. After much head-butting and clambering, a single victor becomes the new queen and the most powerful males become her royal consorts. Then the young queen grows noticeably larger and longer than her workers, as the vertebrae in her spine spread to accommodate an almost continuous state of pregnancy

Some facts about Earthquakes

Sunday 18 August 2013

Some Interesting facts about animals

Rats breed so quickly that in just 18 months, 2 rats could have created over 1 million relatives.

Sharks lay the biggest eggs in the world.

Mosquitoes can be annoying insects but did you know that it's only the female mosquito that actually bites humans.

Cats use their whiskers to check whether a space is too small for them to fit through or not.

Unlike humans, sheep have four stomachs, each one helps them digest the food they eat.

Despite the white, fluffy appearance of Polar Bears fur, it actually has black skin.

Some Interesting facts about our Human Body



The appendix is very useful to the bacteria that help your digestive system function. They use it to get respite from the strain of the frenzied activity of the gut, somewhere to breed and help keep the gut's bacterial inhabitants topped up. So treat your appendix with respect.

The biggest molecule in nature resides in your body. It is chromosome 1. A normal human cell has 23 pairs of chromosomes in its nucleus, each a single, very long, molecule of DNA. Chromosome 1 is the biggest, containing around 10bn atoms, to pack in the amount of information that is encoded in the molecule.

It is hard to grasp just how small the atoms that make up your

Saturday 17 August 2013

12 Reasons why Bruce Lee is the best...

1.Bruce Lee could snatch a dime off a person's open palm and leave a penny behind, all this before they could close it.Great!!!!!!!!
2.Bruce Lee could land a punch in around five hundredths of a second (0.05 second) from 3 feet away, and from 5 feet away it was around eight hundredths of a second (0.08 second). 
3.Lee could take in one arm a 75 lb barbell from a standing position with the barbell held flush against his chest and slowly stick his arms out locking them, holding the barbell there for several seconds. 
4.Lee could perform one-hand push-ups using only the thumb and index finger. Lee performed 50 reps of one-arm chin-ups.