Top 10 Unknown Facts of our Brain

Brain in is the most important and Sensible part of a human.We know something about our brain and many things are unknown.Here I listed Top 10 incredible facts of our Brain.

1.The Brain Feels No Pain:

There are no pain receptors in the brain. That's why surgeons can perform brain surgery on a patient why they are still awake. This helps them ensure that the delicate procedure doesn't screw up any vision or motor control functions – and also it looks really freaky. Why do we feel pain? Because a nociceptor, a sensory receptor, sends signals to the spinal cord and brain alerting us to danger.

 

2.1,00,000 Miles of Blood Vessels in the Brain:

There are also a hundred billion neurons that comprise the brain – as many as in the entire galaxy – all in a squishy mass about the size of a cantaloupe. Using about 17% of your body's energy and 20% of its oxygen, while only containing 2% of its mass, the brain produces between 10-23 watts of power when awake -- enough to light a bulb. Made of 75% water, your noodle has over 100 trillion synapses that connect those neurons and enough “space” to hold the entire Enclyclopedia Britannica fivefold, or 1,000 terrabytes of information.

 

3.They Saved Einstein's Brain:

When Albert Einstein died in 1955, they didn't just save a lock of his crazy white hair, they carved out his whole melon. Dr. Thomas Harvey performed the brainectomy a mere seven-and-a-half hours after Einstein's death, purportedly for scientific research. Then it vanished. It wasn't until 1978 that an intrepid journalist named Steven Levy tracked down Dr. Harvey in Wichita, Kansas, where the good doctor admitted he still had the brain, sliced in 240 pieces and bobbing in two mason jars filled with formaldehyde.

 

4.There are differences between the Right and Left Brain:

The brain is split up into two symmetrical hemispheres. While they do work together, the left brain favors more rational, analytical thinking, while the right is more visually and conceptually oriented. They also work in opposites – you stub your left toe and the “pain” is processed on the right side. And they put right-side-up whatever is upside-down – the image in your eyes is actually received inverted and the brain corrects it. But here's the REALLY weird thing – even if you were to lose one-half of your brain, you would be able to survive without it.

5.Men's Brains are 10% Bigger:

Women's brains are smaller, they have more nerve cells and connectors and work more efficiently than men's. And, true to the stereotype, they tend to process on the more “emotional” left side of the brain, while men process on the “logical” right. Also, an area known as the straight gyrus, responsible for nurturing, feminine traits, is proportionately larger in women.

6.Brain is more active when we Sleep

Night-time is the right time for your brain to process all the activity that has occurred during the day – that's why scientists think we dream (no one is really sure why). Some believe it's a way to process the complex emotions and interactions of our daily lives, others think it's just a way to zero-out information, much like a computer. A recent study showed it may help us alleviate trauma. People with higher IQs tend to dream more, and a nap during the day has proven to make people more energized and focused on their work.

7."Inception" is Real:

It turns out, there is something called Lucid Dreaming, where a person could control the outcome of a dream while in a sleep-like state. It has its roots in ancient Tibetian Buddhism, where aspirants would practice “Dream Yoga” – doing incredible feats of dexterity during sleep, reminding themselves of the illusory nature of existence. The term was first coined by Frederik (Willem) van Eeden in the 1880s, but the concept didn't take hold until the late 1960s. Nowadays, Lucid Dreaming is all the rage, with plenty of resources online to begin the training process.

8.Why do we Laugh? WE DON'T KNOW!

Only human beings are born with this ability (a Laughing Hyena is not really laughing) and babies begin giggling at 4 months old. And while true laughter is contagious, it is also something not easily faked. But WHY do we laugh – it's not because of jokes. Over a 10-year period, one doctor studied 2,000 laugh-inducing situations and discovered that most of the time a guffaw was not the result of a punch line.

9.Does Size Matter?:

Research has been mixed on the subject of brain size and intelligence – Albert Einstein's brain was only 1,230 grams, while the average adult male brain weighs 1,400. (An unusually large amount of glial cells are attributed to his smarts.) Another study shows that the bigger the person's head, the smarter they are, while those with pointier heads show less intelligence. That can't be true – look at the above photo…

10.Highest IQ? Kim Ung-yong with 210:

Born March 8, 1972, Ung-young already understood algebra at 8 months old. By the time he was 2, he was fluent in 4 languages. He began attending university at 4, and graduated at 15. But Ung-young isn't just a smarty-pants, he is also a gifted painter and poet. Nowadays he lives in S. Korea and presumably has time to do all the things he never had a chance to do… like have a childhood.

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Unknown Facts about Titanic

Some people may already know that the Titanic hit an iceberg at 11:40 p.m. on the night of April 14, 1912 and sunk just over two-and-a-half hours late.The facts surrounding the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912 have long been fodder for discussion. Here I listed some of the lesser known facts that have been lost to history of TITANIC.

Lifeboats with Vacancies
The $7,500,000 (now $400,000,000) Titanic could hold a maximum of 3,547 people, but had 2,223 aboard when tragedy struck four days into its maiden voyage. There were six warnings of icebergs before the collision and it took 160 minutes for the boat to sink into water that was negative two degrees centigrade. Just 31.6 percent of the passengers and crew survived, however experts say 53.4 percent should have survived given the capacity on the Titanic lifeboats. Just 28 people were on board the first lifeboat, which had a capacity of 65. Today, the ship sits at 12,600 feet below sea level.


Two Dogs Rescued
With the order for women and children first into the lifeboats, plus the knowledge that there were not enough lifeboats for everyone on board the Titanic to be saved, it is a bit surprising that two dogs made it into the lifeboats. Of the nine dogs on board the Titanic, the two that were rescued were a Pomeranian and a Pekinese.


Titanic's Near Collision
Long before it struck an iceberg in the Atlantic, the RMS Titanic ran into trouble with another object: the steamer New York. A much smaller ship, the New York was sucked into the Titanic's wake and its mooring snapped, spinning her around stern-first toward Titanic. A nearby tugboat, the Vulcan, came to the rescue by taking the New York under tow. The two ships avoided collision by a matter of about four feet and the incident delayed Titanic's departure for about an hour.


Canceled Lifeboat Drill
A lifeboat drill was planned for the Titanic on April 14, 1912 - the day it struck the iceberg. For reasons that remain murky, Captain Edward John Smith canceled the drill. Some say it was canceled to allow passengers to go to church. Several historians believe that had the drill taken place, many more lives could have been saved. There were not even close to enough lifeboats on board to hold all passengers and crew, but when they were launched, they were not filled to capacity.


Two Bathtubs for Third Class
Nearly every passenger on the Titanic had to share a bathroom as only the two promenade suites in first class had private facilities. However, the third class passengers had it rough. There were just two bathtubs for the use of more than 700 passengers.


The Atlantic Daily Bulletin
The Titanic was so impressive for its time that it even had its own newspaper on board. The Atlantic Daily Bulletin was printed every day on the Titanic. The newspaper included news, advertisements, stock prices, horse-racing results, the day's menu, and society gossip.


The Richest Man On Board
The wealthiest passenger aboard the Titanic was Lt. Col. John Jacob Astor IV. Astor, whose family made its fortune in opium, fur trade, and real estate, went down with the ship after helping his pregnant wife escape into the last lifeboat. Traveling with the Astors was their valet, maid, nurse, and pet Airedale. The nurse and maid survived with wife Madeleine, the rest perished. The Astors were returning on the Titanic from an extended vacation in Europe and Egypt where they waited for gossip to calm down over their recent marriage. Madeleine was one year younger than Astor's son Vincent from his first marriage.


The Titanic Orchestra
All eight members of the Titanic orchestra perished in the disaster, though just three of the bodies were found. According to those rescued, the all-male group played until the ship went down. It's been suggested that the last tune was the hymn Nearer My God to Thee. I shall never forget hearing the strains of that beautiful hymn as I was leaving the sinking ship, an unnamed rescued sailor told the Western Daily Mercury in 1912. It was always a favorite hymn of mine, but at such a time and under such tragic circumstances it had for me a solemnity too deep for words. On May 9, 1912, a concert was held at the Apollo Club in Brooklyn, N.Y. to aid the families of the musicians who died in the disaster.


The Mystery Ship
According to newspaper reports from 1912, the SS Californian was just eight to 15 miles away from the Titanic as it sank, but failed to respond to distress calls. Several Titanic buffs believe another ship, the 254-ton Samson, was just five to eight miles away, between the Californian and Titanic. The SS Californian's crew claimed that this mystery ship, which some believe to be the Samson, was steaming away, confusing them into thinking the rocket-flares came from a ship that was, in fact, in fine working order. For its part, the Samson may not have been eager to identify itself because of illegal seal hunting.


Suicides
Ten Titanic survivors would later commit suicide. The first was stewardess Annie Robinson who was sailing across the Atlantic to visit her daughter in Boston two years after the tragedy and jumped overboard. The last was Frederick Fleet, the lookout on the Titanic who first spotted the iceberg. He hung himself from a clothesline in his garden in 1965.


The Lost Titanic Film
One of the roughly 700 survivors of the Titanic voyage was silent screen star Dorothy Gibson. Gibson burst to superstardom in 1911 and her film The Lucky Hold Up was released on April 11, 1912 while she was on the Titanic. Surviving the disaster on the first lifeboat launched, Lifeboat No. 7, she convinced her manager to appear in a film based on the sinking. She went on to write the scenario and star in the one-reel drama Saved from Titanic wearing the very clothes she wore on the night of the tragedy. The film was hugely successful on both sides of the Atlantic, but the only known prints were destroyed in a 1914 fire at the Éclair Studios. Many film historians consider this the greatest loss of the silent era. Gibson abruptly ended her film career soon after the film's release. At the time, she was the highest paid movie actress in the world.


A Royal Mail Ship
The R.M.S. Titanic was a Royal Mail Ship, a designation which meant the Titanic was officially responsible for delivering mail for the British postal service. On board the Titanic was a Sea Post Office with five mail clerks (two British and three American). These mail clerks were responsible for the 3,423 sacks of mail (seven million individual pieces of mail) on board the Titanic. Interestingly, although no mail has yet been recovered from the wreck of the Titanic, if it were, the U.S. Postal Service would still try to deliver it (the USPS because most of the mail was being sent to the U.S.).


Corpses Recovered
On April 17, 1912, the day before survivors of the Titanic disaster reached New York, the Mackay-Bennett was sent off from Halifax, Nova Scotia to search for bodies. On board the Mackay-Bennett were embalming supplies, 40 embalmers, tons of ice, and 100 coffins. Although the Mackay-Bennett found 306 bodies, 116 of these were too badly damaged to take all the way back to shore. Attempts were made to identify each body found. Additional ships were also sent out to look for bodies. In all, 328 bodies were found, but 119 of these were badly damaged and thus were buried at sea.


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Top 10 Mysterious Places of the World

There are many beautiful places in the world.Some places are very good to see and Some places are more Mysterious.Here I listed Top 10 Most Mysterious Places in the world.

1. Bridgewater Triangle:

 

The Bridgewater Triangle which is an area of about 200 square miles in Southeastern Massachusetts in the United States is believed to be a home ground for numerous paranormal and supernatural phenomena. The area is reported of witnessing several weird and mysterious creatures like tall, hairy, ape-like creatures that roam around the swamp. In some other instances many people have come across thunderbirds, giant monster-like creatures flying in midair with balls of fire and a giant ghost with a red-eyed dog and also mutilation of cattle and other livestock. The place is also a hot spot for UFO sightings and other numerous sightings of inexplicable objects in the sky that include mysterious black helicopters.

 

2. Bennington Triangle

 

The Bennington Triangle is allegedly a place in Southwestern Vermont located near the Glastonbury Mountain where at least five to ten people have vanished without leaving any clue behind.

Most of the victims were of varying age and from both genders that is male and female. The victims included a man who led a group of hunters, a college student on a hiking trip ,an eight year old boy who went missing while his mom was feeding the pigs and also some other people. Many theories claim presence of aliens, bigfoot-like monsters, or some unknown serial killer in the Bennington Triangle area but none of it turns out to be true. So, till the present day the cause of many such disappearances in this particular area has been uncertain.

 

3. San Luis Valley

 

The San Luis Valley is an extensive high altitude basin located at an average elevation of 2,336m above sea level in the Southern Colorado. This area is considered to be high in mysterious incidents like UFO detections and numerous inexplicable mutilations of farm animals. The occurrence of UFO sightings are so frequent that some people had even built a UFO watchtower in their property and alleged of witnessing more than 50UFOs over the last decade.

The bizarre mutilation of animals in the SLV surroundings is a matter of more concern than the sightings of the UFOs as most of the injured animals are left with no trace of blood around them and the animals are precisely cuts which is absolutely not the work of predators. Though, so far many have been investigating about this, till now no one has come up with a definite conclusion.

4. Michigan Triangle

 

The Michigan Triangle is also a geographical triangle which is located in the centre of Lake Michigan.

This particular location is believed to possess similar characteristics of the world’s most mysterious place- The Bermuda Triangle.

It is known to be a site of unexplained disappearances of both land and air craft and is also believed to be an area of ghost ships and UFO sightings.

Various incidents of the supposed appearance of strange creatures, unexplained vanishings, time standing still, slowing to a crawl, or speeding up, or other unusual happenings are reported from this region. The famous events that occurred in and around the Michigan Triangle are that of Captain George R. Donner who disappeared on the way from Erie, Pennsylvania to Port Washington, Wisconsin and the Northwest Airlines Flight 2501 carrying 58 passengers that vanished while on the way from New York to Minneapolis at the hands of experienced pilot Robert C. Lind where neither the body of the plane nor complete human remains have ever been recovered till today.

5. Point Pleasant

 

Point Pleasant, a place in West Virginia once reported presence of a large, red-eyed creature with large moth like wings that existed during the sixties. This mysterious and creepy creature came to be popularly known as ‘Mothman.’  The people of this small town were terrified by this weird creature and asserted that Mothman bore a structure of a 7-foot tall man with broad chest and hypnotic, glowing red eyes, and wings that stretch 10 feet long and drag behind him on the ground.

The incidents of this weird creature came to an end after the Silver Bridge collapsed on 15^th December, 1967, taking away the lives of 46 people and this led many to believe that the two events were in a way connected. Some people suggested several other paranormal events existed in Point Pleasant and it includes UFO sightings and reports of so-called “Men In Black”—human looking creatures who frighten others by the sheer profusion of peculiarities in their speech, appearance, and mannerisms.

6. Bigelow Ranch

Bigelow Ranch earlier known as Skinwalker Ranch and Sherman Ranch is a 480 acre property that is situated in Northwest Utah. The place is popularly known as a home to innumerable UFO sightings and their occupants, animal mutilations, and other weird happenings like inter-dimensional portals or vortexes and floating balls of light.

Although lots of mystifying happenings have been documented within the property since 1950’s, many more inexplicable events were experienced by Terry and Gwen Sherman after they purchased it in the year 1994. They then sold it off to Robert T. Bigelow, who was the founder of the National Institute for Discovery Science and was interested to study the mysteries surrounding the ranch.

7. The Devil’s Sea

 

The Devil's Sea, also called the Dragon's Triangle is found in a region of the Pacific around Miyake Island, about 100 km south of Tokyo. It is regarded as the "Pacific Bermuda Triangle" because there have been uncountable cases of unexplained phenomena including magnetic anomalies, inexplicable lights and objects, and mysterious disappearances. It is even declared as a danger area by the Japanese fishing authorities.

During the 1952-54, Japan lost around five military ships with crews with a loss reaching over 700 people. The Japanese government sent a research vessel with over 100 scientists on board to study the Devil's Sea, and that ship too vanished and at last the area was officially declared as a danger zone.

8. Lake Anjikuni

Anjikuni (Angikuni) Lake is located along the Kazan River in the remote Kivalliq Region of Nunavut, Canada. The mystery that took place along Inuit fishing village is as mystifying as the tales of other inexplicable events as all the inhabitants, that is, over 30 men, women and children of that area collectively vanished without a trace during the initial half of the 20th Century.

This contentious mystery of all the people who once lived on the stony coast of Anjikuni’s frigid waters was discovered by Joe Labelle, a Canadian fur trapper who was a frequent visitor in the village to seek shelter. But on that fateful day he could not see any of the people or any sign of life around. All sorts of claims had risen over the reason for the disappearance and that includes aliens, ghosts, and even vampires but it’s hard to come to a definite conclusion.

9. South Atlantic Anomaly

The South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA) is an area where the band of radiation called Earth’s inner Van Allen belt comes closest to the surface of the Earth. It is situated off the coast of Brazil. SAA is popularly known as the Bermuda Triangle of Space as the site is mostly held responsible for many problems with satellites and spacecraft, for messing up their programs and actually shutting down their function.

While passing through the Anomaly, the Hubble Telescope had actually turned off from taking further observations and the International Space Station avoided setting up spacewalks. This was not just a technical problem as some astronauts exclaimed of seeing ‘shooting stars’ in their visual field while passing through it. The main reason behind this is still unknown and cannot be fully understood. But the high levels of radiation that gathers at the anomaly are suspected to be one such cause for this kind of activities.

10. Superstition Mountains

 

The Superstition Mountains are a range of mountains found in the east of Phoenix, Arizona.

There was a man called Jacob Waltz back in the 1800s who discovered a huge mysterious goldmine within the mountain. He took the deep rooted secret of the whereabouts of the location of the gold mine with his death. So, as per the belief of the legend, the spirits of those people who lost their lives in search of the gold still haunt the mountains. This mountain later came to be known as the Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine.

                                                                               

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Top 10 Unknown Facts of our Moon

All of us love Moon,the only Satellite of our planet Earth.We know something about our Moon and we didn't know more about it.Here I listed Top 10 unknown facts of our Moon which is amazing and incredible.Hope this will Surprise you...

1.Birth of Moon:

The moon was created when a rock the size of Mars slammed into Earth, shortly after the solar system began forming about 4.5 billion years ago, according to the leading theory.

2.Orbit Formation:

Perhaps the coolest thing about the moon is that it always shows us the same face. Since both the Earth and moon are rotating and orbiting, how can this be?
Long ago, the Earth's gravitational effects slowed the moon's rotation about its axis. Once the moon's rotation slowed enough to match its orbital period (the time it takes the moon to go around Earth) the effect stabilized. Many of the moons around other planets behave similarly.
As the moon orbits Earth, it spends part of its time between us and the Sun, and the lighted half faces away from us. This is called a new moon. (So there's no such thing as a "dark side of the moon," just a side that we never see.)
As the moon swings around on its orbit, a thin sliver of reflected sunlight is seen on Earth as a crescent moon. Once the Moon is opposite the Sun, it becomes fully lit from our view — a full moon.

3.Apollo Moon Trees:

More than 400 trees on Earth came from the moon. Well, okay: They came from lunar orbit. Okay, the truth: In 1971, Apollo 14 astronaut Stuart Roosa took a bunch of seeds with him and, while Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell were busy sauntering around on the surface, Roosa guarded his seeds.
Later, the seeds were germinated on Earth, planted at various sites around the country, and came to be called the moon trees. Most of them are doing just fine.

4.One more moon:

The moon is Earth's only natural satellite.Maybe not. In 1999, scientists found that a 3-mile- (5-kilometer-) wide asteroid may be caught in Earth's gravitational grip, thereby becoming a satellite of our planet.Cruithne, as it is called, takes 770 years to complete a horseshoe-shaped orbit around Earth, the scientists say, and it will remain in a suspended state around Earth for at least 5,000 years.

5.Space Rock Punching Bag:

The moon's heavily cratered surface is the result of intense pummeling by space rocks between 4.1 billion and 3.8 billion years ago.The scars of this war, seen as craters, have not eroded much for two main reasons: The moon is not geologically very active, so earthquakes, volcanoes and mountain-building don't destroy the landscape as they do on Earth; and with virtually no atmosphere there is no wind or rain, so very little surface erosion occurs. 

6.The Moon is an Egghead:

The moon is not round (or spherical). Instead, it's shaped like an egg. If you go outside and look up, one of the small ends is pointing right at you. And the moon's center of mass is not at the geometric center of the satellite; it's about 1.2 miles (2 kilometers) off-center.

7.Moonquakes:

Apollo astronauts used seismometers during their visits to the moon and discovered that the gray orb isn't a totally dead place. Small moonquakes, originating several miles (kilometers) below the surface, are thought to be caused by the gravitational pull of Earth. Sometimes tiny fractures appear at the surface, and gas escapes.

8.Is Moon a Planet:

Our moon is bigger than Pluto. And at roughly one-fourth the diameter of Earth, some scientists think the moon is more like a planet. They refer to the Earth-moon system as a "double planet." Pluto and its moon Charon are also called a double-planet system by some.

9.Tides due to Moon:

Tides on Earth are caused mostly by the moon (the Sun has a smaller effect).
The moon's gravity pulls on Earth's oceans. High tide aligns with the Moon as Earth spins underneath. Another high tide occurs on the opposite side of the planet because gravity pulls Earth toward the moon more than it pulls the water.
At full moon and new moon, the Sun, Earth and moon are lined up, producing the higher than normal tides (called spring tides, for the way they spring up). When the moon is at first or last quarter, smallerneap tides form. The Moon's 29.5-day orbit around Earth is not quite circular. When the moon is closest to Earth (called its perigee), spring tides are even higher, and they're called perigean spring tides.All this tugging has another interesting effect: Some of Earth's rotational energy is stolen by the moon, causing our planet to slow down by about 1.5 milliseconds every century.

10.One Day, the Moon Will Leave:

The moon is moving away from us day by day. Each year, the moon steals some of Earth's rotational energy, and uses it to propel itself about 3.8 centimeters higher in its orbit. Researchers say that when it formed, the moon was about 14,000 miles (22,530 kilometers) from Earth. It's now more than 280,000 miles, or 450,000 kilometers away. One Day, the Moon Will Leave Earth.

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