Posts Tagged ‘cool’

Stone Flower

Villagers in China are making an arduous journey through the woods to catch a glimpse of the ‘stone flower’. They believe that the flower appeared in the woods after a bout of heavy rainfall lashed the mountain until it gave way resulting in a mountain slide.

The flower slowly emerged from the remnants of the mountainside.  According to the forest rangers of the Meilan village, Jinfeng town, the stone flower was discovered by an elderly villager about a month ago when he was collecting firewood deep in the forest.

The village head Ran Zaizhong believes that the ‘stone flower’ is a gift from nature and reveals that the township officials will protect the ‘stone flower’ and develop the location as a scenic local attraction. The villagers have now built a path through the woods so that people can easily visit the location.

Geologist Dr. Meng Youyan, after studying pictures of the ‘stone flower’ said the so-called petals are in fact 300 million-year-old chert nodules.

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Things you probably didnt know

English writer Tom Nuttall published some fascinating but true ‘did-you-knows’ in his book called “In Fact”. Here are few of them…

1. Hitler was one of the nominees for the 1938 Nobel Peace prize.

2. The average British woman spends two years of her life gazing in the mirror.

3. 2/3 of earth population have never seen snow.

4. In 1982, a new law was inforced in Zimbabwe, were it was forbidden for people to make fun of president’s name, Canaan Banana.

5. 6% of all heart attacks happens during the sex. 90% of them happens while you are cheating.

6. NASA never had any spaceships in space between 31 December and 1 January. They are affraid of computer error during these dates.

7. Every 3400th American is Elvis impersonator.

8. Woman are estimated to buy 80% of everything sold.

9. 44000 babies are born each day in China.

10. There are almost twice as many chickens alive as humans.

11. Men produce twice as much saliva as women.

12. Sixty-two of the world’s 100 richest men are married to brunettes.

13. On any given evening 35-40 paparazzi follow Britney Spears.

14. While filming the movie Eyes Wide Shut, Stanley Kubrick, shot 96 takes of Tom Cruise walking through a door.

15. No English manager has ever won the Premier League.

16. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

17. No words in the English language rhyme with “orange”, “silver”, “purple” or “month”.

18. The most expensive age of your life is 34.

19. On an average day, about 3.3% of the world’s population has sex. Only 0.4% of these acts results in a birth.

20. More than 90 per cent of plane crashes have survivors

Twin brothers are Black and White

A woman in Berlin gave birth to twins (boys) recently – one black and one white. They have the same father. The odds of such a birth are about a million to one, experts said. Doctors from all departments rushed to see the twins. They couldn´t believe that this happened in their hospital.

Proud parents of the twins named the black child for Leo and the white one for Ryan.

In 2005 a British mom gave birth to girl twins – one black (Kian) and one white (Remee).

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The twin girls:

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