Doing nothing? Not exactly, you’re still burning calories!
Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) means number of calories needed for our body to function. An average person would need over 100 calories per hour even when idle and doing nothing.
Sun is 10,000 Fahrenheit at surface. Know what’s hotter?
Can you imagine anything hotter than the sun? A lightning bolt is five times hotter than the surface of the sun reaching up to 53,540 degrees Fahrenheit. No wonder Zeus,…
Rain that evaporates before landing, acid rain and metal snow!
It may sound bizarre, but it snows metal on Venus. The snow is a mineral condensate of bismuth sulfide and lead(II) sulfide. The sun penetrates the atmosphere and triggers a…
Have you ever heard about a 10 hour movie?
Can you watch a 10 hour long movie? Well, you may try. But imagine sitting for 10 hours, watching paint on a brick wall dry! Charlie Shackleton made a 10…
Can you imagine money rain? Beware of counterfeit!
In the course of World war 2 On September 18, 1939, Britain witnessed a rain of money. In an attempt to destabilize the British economy, the Nazi troops dropped loads…
Real life Robin Hood
The idea of Robin Hood is always a superhit concept in movies. But do you know that there is someone in real life? Amazing isn’t it? Gilberto Baschiera was the…
There are 267,570 islands in Sweden
According to a statistical report in 2013 there are in total 267,570 islands in Sweden. If you spend an hour in each island you need over 30 years to cover…
The colored light you see when you rub your eyes!
Have you rubbed your eyes and seen multiple colored lights? Wonder what they are called? The wonderful flashes of light that appears to you when you rub your eyes are…
A day in Venus
‘Be blessed with a hundred days’ blessed a kind old lady. When she observed the confused reaction of the relatives around, she realized her mistake. ‘Hundred years’, she corrected herself.…
Deadliest creature on the earth!
Not the tiger, not the viper, it’s the mosquito. Yes, you heard it right. Mosquito is the deadliest creature on the earth killing around seven and half lakh people each…