How Did A Girl Who Fell From The Plane Survive In The Amazon Rainforest For 11 Days?

How can someone survive by falling from a height of 3000 m, it seems a bit false to hear. But this has already happened once in the past when a girl fell from the plane and luckily survived. Actually, it is an incident of 1971 when a teenage girl named Juliane Koepcke ​was traveling with her mother on LANSA Flight 508. The plane was passing over the Amazon rainforest when suddenly the plane was struck by lightning due to bad weather. Usually, as we know, nothing happens to a plane when it is struck by lightning, but sometimes accidents happen. 

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As soon as the lightning struck the plane, the plane started shaking, all the luggage inside started falling here and there, causing all the passengers to start screaming. As a result, the plane suddenly started falling down and broke into pieces in the midair. During this, Juliane had closed her eyes and when she opened her eyes, she found herself still strapped to her seat and plummeted to the ground. She fainted after falling in the forest, but luckily she was alive, but when she regained consciousness, she found herself alone in a deserted jungle. She was intensely crying, but no one was there to hear her voice. She kept wandering in the forest for 9 days. On the 10th day, she couldn't stand properly as she had many severe insect bites and a maggot infestation in her wounded arm. 

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But suddenly she saw a large river and started drifting along the edge of the river. Then, luckily, she saw a boat in the river, at first she thought it was all an illusion, but when she touched the boat, it was real. Seeing this, her happiness had no limit, and with the help of this boat, she could find a small hut. The next day she heard the voices of several people nearer her and it was like the voices of angels for her. They saw her and got her treated well by providing good medical care. Finally, she could reach her home when she fully recovered from her injuries.

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How Did A Man Survive After Being Trapped In A Frozen Car At -30°C For Two Months?

There is a saying "Jako Rakhe Saiyan Maar Sake Na Koi", that is, "No One Can Harm The One Protected By The God". This proverb applied to a Swedish man who came out alive even after being trapped under snow for two months. This man's car got badly caught in the snowstorm and turned into a big stone covered with snow. During this period, he had nothing to eat, but still, somehow he managed to survive himself by eating snow only.

In December 2011, Peter Skyllberg (age 44), a man from Sweden was drifting in the mountainous areas near the town of Umea in northern Sweden, when a sudden snowstorm struck, and his car got completely covered with snow. His car got stuck in the snow in such a way that it was impossible for him to come out, at first he tried hard to get himself out of the car, but later he felt that nothing can happen now. After giving up, he stayed in his frozen car and started eating snow only, as he had nothing else to eat. The temperature there was up to -30 degrees celsius, but due to the car being covered with snow, the 'Igloo effect' was created inside the car, due to which he was able to stay inside it comfortably. 

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In the same condition, he spent two months in his car. Then one day a man passing by that road caught sight of his car and saw that there was some movement inside the car. After that, the man thought of saving Peter's life and when Peter was taken to the hospital for treatment, the doctors were surprised to see that how can a person survive by eating only snow and that too for two months. So later when this whole matter was thoroughly studied, doctors and scientists concluded that Peter Skyllberg's body had gone into a hibernation state, causing his body to need less energy. As a result, he could able to survive even in such deadly conditions, but still, this case of Peter Skyllberg blows the senses of medical experts.

 

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Why Goa Did Not Get Freedom Even After 14 Years Of India's Independence? | Liberation Struggle Of Goa

August 15, 1947, was the time when India became free from the slavery of the British, but do you know there is such a state of India, named Goa, which remained a slave for 14 years even after India's independence. That Goa, which is currently an important part of India and in terms of tourism, which remains a center of attraction across the world. It was not so easy for India to liberate Goa. Today Goa, known for its natural beauty, is considered a famous tourist destination in India and the world, but what was the reason for its slavery during that time, let's know about it in detail. 

So it actually happened that Goa was occupied by the Portuguese during that time, and despite the insistence of the people and the government there, they were not ready to leave. Actually, the Portuguese came to India even before the British and captured Velha Goa (English: Old Goa) in 1510. Here the Portuguese army made its permanent colony. In 1843, the Portuguese made Panaji the capital, however, the Portuguese had some better policies than the British, which led to the development of Goa. In the 19th century, a rule was made that those who were paying taxes also got the right to vote to choose the representative of Goa in the Portuguese Parliament.

In 1910, the monarchy was abolished there, after which the military colony got the chance to rule there. After this, the demand for independence intensified in the 1920s under the leadership of Dr. Tristao De Braganca Cunha (1891–1958). After India's independence in 1947, Indian leaders felt that after the departure of the British, the Portuguese would also leave from here, but unfortunately, this did not happen. But despite this, the Portuguese were capturing their hold there, resulting in the movement against the Portuguese government in Goa intensified.

India made many official orders to the Portuguese to free their Indian colonies, but when no result came from their side, India took a heated decision. It is a matter of December 19, 1961, when the Government of India called for an attack on Goa by its three forces. The Indian soldiers crossed the border into Goa and attacked there aggressively. This "armed action" was code-named Operation Vijay. And within just a few hours of this operation, the Indian Army had annexed Goa by showing its power to the Portuguese. Operation Vijay involved sustained sea, land, and airstrikes for over thirty-six hours. This action is referred to as the "Liberation of Goa" in India and the "Invasion of Goa" in Portugal.

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Loch Ness Monster - This Mysterious Giant Creature Has Been Seen thousands of times in the lake of Scotland

We all have heard the name of this lake at some point in our life, named "Loch Ness" located in Scotland, which has always been surrounded by mysteries. It is very vast and deep and at the same time the visibility is very poor when you go inside it, so it becomes impossible to explore this lake. There is a legend associated with this lake, here the claims of seeing such a prehistoric creature have been raised since the beginning, which science considers to be extinct. This creature is called Nessie or Loch Ness Monster, it is a species of water-dwelling dinosaur or serpent-type creature with a very long neck. 

The exact date of the emergence of stories of this creature is not known, but its first written account appeared in the year 565. Saint Columba of Ireland was staying on a land nearer to this lake with some of his companions when he saw some locals burying a man near the lake. Then suddenly he saw a giant beast coming out of the water and dragged a man underwater who was swimming in the lake. The description of this giant creature was exactly as people claim today. After this D. Mackenzie claimed to have seen this creature in the year 1871, at first he thought that a part of the tree trunk was floating in the water. Moving slowly at first but soon that object started disappearing at a faster speed and then Mackenzie understood that The Loch Ness Monster's claims were no fantasy. The scientific community has always been denying its every sighting and so far many sightings emerged as its evidence.

Some very famous and trusted people also claimed to have seen this monster, such as Alexander Macdonald in the year 1888, Aldie Mackay in 1933, George Spicer in 1933, also Hugh Gray in the same year, and Arthur Grant in 1934. In 1934, the famous surgeon Robert Kenneth Wilson not only saw this creature but also claimed to have taken a photo of the creature's head and neck, and this is how for the first time, any evidence of this creature came to the public. This photo became the first step to investigate this creature. After this incident, scientists started searching for the creature in this lake, but as soon as the divers went underwater, the problem of visibility started coming in front of the divers, due to which it could not be explored to date. 

In the year 1954, Sonar readings of the lake were also taken, in which it was found that some creature or large object was swimming at a very high speed 800 meters below the vessel. But after a few minutes, it again got disappeared somewhere in the depths of this lake. But even this evidence was not enough for scientists. Several people claimed to have seen this creature and some people have also shared its video clips. Even today this lake is a tourist spot where people spend time trying to get a glimpse of this creature.

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Golden Blood Group: Only 43 People In The World Have This Blood In their Bodies, know why it is special

To stay healthy, it is very important to have a good amount of blood in the body and to cure many patients blood always plays a very important role. Even in the Coronavirus period, blood and plasma are being offered to cure many patients. By now you must have heard about many blood groups like A, B, AB, O positive and negative, but do you know which is the rarest blood group in the world? 

If you are not familiar with it then let us tell you that the Golden Blood Group is considered to be the rarest Blood Group and its real name is Rh Null. So far you probably have not read or heard much about this Blood group. It is so rare that the names and addresses of the people who have this blood group are always kept secret by the hospital. Although the dangers of this blood group are very high. So let's try to understand this whole concept in detail as to why it is considered as the rarest blood group.

Hearing the name "Golden blood" gives a feeling of something valuable, but this is only the name given to it just because of its special properties. According to research, so far this blood has been found only in 43 people, including people from Japan, Ireland, Brazil, Colombia, and America. Due to being the rarest, the scientists have named it Golden Blood. This blood is valuable because it can be offered to any blood group, as it matches easily with every blood group. 

The concern with the Golden Blood Group is that Rh null donation is incredibly scarce and difficult to obtain. So sometimes it can be very dangerous for anyone having this Rhnull blood. Doctors always encourage these people to donate blood continuously so that this blood can be useful to them when needed. 

You will be surprised to know that the golden blood type contains no Rh antigens (proteins) on the red blood cell. According to the US Rare Disease Information Centre, the golden blood group is devoid of antigens, so people who have this blood in their bodies may complain of anemia. This is the reason doctors always advise them to pay special attention to the diet (Anaemia Diet) and consume more and more things containing iron. 

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Tahlequah the Orca- A Whale Famous For Carrying Her Dead Calf for 17 Days

After listening to this anecdote, you will understand animal mothers also have the same feeling for their children as humans have. Actually, this is the matter of 2018 when an Orca killer whale named Tahlequah, grabbed international headlines when she lost her newborn calf. The mother whale was so deeply saddened by the death of her baby that she carried her dead calf on her head for 17 days, as she was unwilling to let her dead calf sink. While doing this, she swam about 1,000 miles in the ocean, and that too for 17 days. But when no miracle happened she accepted her defeat and decided to leave her child to sink it into the depths of the ocean. 

But the whole world saw the love of this mother whale for her child. Of course, all the animals are not so developed like humans, but they have as much affection for their children as humans have and this thing has been proved by this orca whale.

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Saif-ul-Mulook - The Lake of Fairies | The Real Story of Magical Lake

If we compare our universe with the other infinite universes, it is very small, but still, our earth is nothing when compared to this universe. But for us, this earth is so big that no human can explore it completely in his entire lifetime, and there are such secrets in every corner, which are difficult to imagine. So in the journey of discovering mysteries, today we will know about such a lake which has always been very mysterious and whose name is Saif-ul-Mulook, located at the northern end of Kaghan Valley, near the town of Naran in Pakistan.

At an altitude of 10,578 feet above sea level near the Himalayan mountain range, Saif-ul-Mulook lake looks like a heaven on earth. This lake is surrounded by very beautiful mountains and gigantic glaciers, whose water looks as blue as the sky. This lake is also called the lake of fairies because it is believed to be the abode of fairies. 

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There is an interesting story due to which the lake got its name. According to Folklore, there was a village near the lake in which a prince named Saif-ul-Malook lived. He often used to come and sit near this lake and spend his time. One day he was sitting near the lake when he saw a fairy, who was actually the queen of fairies named Princess Badri-ul-Jamala. The prince fell in love with the fairy at first sight. The fairy often used to come to bathe in this lake and keep her clothes on the edge of the lake.

One day the prince hid her clothes, but when the fairy asked him for her clothes back, he said to the fairy, if you want the clothes back, then you have to marry me. The fairy had no choice and agreed to the marriage. But there was a mighty Jinn who was in love with the fairy too and when he came to know about it, he angrily flooded the lake, drowning the prince's house in water. It is said that this love story was celebrated by fairies, they used to come to this lake every night and bathe in the memory of that prince. Even today it is believed that fairies often visit the lake at night.

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Even today, in the mountainous regions of the Himalayas, there are talks of seeing creatures like fairies, elves, and goblins. It is believed that these magical creatures live in a dimension that is not physical, so we cannot see them, but they can be seen only by those whoever they want. There are countless fairy tales in this area that make it even more mysterious and magical.

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In How Many Countries Is The Amazon Rainforest Spread? Some Amazing Facts About Amazon Rainforest

You might be aware of many forests, in which some are very beautiful and some are quite mysterious. But there is also a forest which is said to be the scariest in the world, about which there is a belief that if someone goes astray in this forest, then it is impossible for him to make a return. So in today's article, we will discuss some amazing facts about Amazon Rainforest, alternatively, the Amazon jungle, or Amazonia.

The Amazon Rainforest is the world's largest tropical rainforest, which also provides 20 percent oxygen to the earth. 

The Amazon Rainforest is spread across nine countries, including Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana. 

The richest ecosystem of this rainforest is home to 40,000 plant species, 1,300 bird species, 2200 types of fishes, 427 types of mammals, 430 amphibians species, 380 reptile species, and 2.5 million species of insects.

It is also said that this forest is not safe for the outside world as the tribal people living here are known for killing and eating humans. And even if you somehow escape from them, then the poisonous creatures of the forest and the ferocious animals will kill you.

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While on one hand it is called the world's most dangerous forest, whereas, on the other hand, it is considered to be the most beautiful just because of its biodiversity, which makes it one of the most biodiverse places on earth.

In the forests of the Amazon, you can see one-third of all the creatures on earth at once. It is believed that so many thousand types of insects and animals are found here that scientists have come to know about only a few percent of them.

Bullet ants found here are also very dangerous, which stretches almost 1.5 inches in length, and the sting of these small ants is considered dangerous like poison as their bite hurts as much as a bullet shot.

Along with ants, there are more than 3 thousand species of spiders found here including the world's largest spider Tarantula, and most of which are poisonous. But despite being the largest spider in the world, its bite usually feels like a bee or wasp sting, with no lasting effects.

There are about 390 billion trees in the Amazon rainforest, of which more than 16,000 are just species. The amazon forest comprises so many big and tall trees that even the sunlight does not reach here properly. It is also known as the lung of the earth and it is claimed to produce 20 percent of the world's oxygen.

Not only this, more than 400 primitive tribes live here, each with its own language, culture, and territory, who have no connection with the outside world.

Many films have been made on this forest so far, but only some part of the forest is visible to you in the film or pictures. In fact, it is so vast that it touches the boundaries of nine countries alone.

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Why This Woman Kept Her Dead Husband’s Heart In Her Desk For 30 years

If this incident is defined in short, then the whole story revolves around a woman who used to carry her husband's heart, yes we are talking about a real heart. But what was the reason behind this weird act of her? Let's try to find out. 

Actually, this is the story of a woman named Mary Shelley, who was a famous writer and a resident of London. So when her husband died and his body was cremated, a strange thing happened that his whole body got burnt but due to some reason, her heart could not burn. After which rather than bury the organ what did Mary Shelley do that she picked up that heart and kept it in her desk, wrapped in one of his final poems. And likewise, she kept her husband's heart with her for almost 30 years, and when she died in 1851, then this secret got revealed to the public.

It is a matter of July 8, 1822, when Mary Shelley's husband Percy Shelley went to Italy, and while returning his boat got caught in a storm. Due to which he and two of his sailing companions died after drowning in the sea. Ten days later their bodies were found on the seashore. The body of those three had deteriorated in such a way that they were not recognizable. Mary identified Percy Shelley by the book of John Keats poems that he kept in one of his pockets. Percy's body was so badly damaged that Mary decided to burn it immediately. But when Percy's friend went to collect the ashes, he saw something between the ashes and the half-burnt bones. And when he looked at it carefully, it was Percy's heart that looked as though it hadn't been touched by the flames.

He picked up the heart from there and placed it in a box and later handed it over to Mary. Mary kept that heart always with her and wherever she went, that heart remained with her. The heart remained with Mary till her death which took place on February 1, 1851. A few months after her death, when Mary's closer ones tried to clean out mary's home, they found something in Mary's desk which was wrapped with paper. But when they tried to find out, they were completely shocked to see as it was Percy Shelley's heart, and that wrapped paper was the page of Percy Shelley's final poem. Later, the heart was buried in the family vault with Percy Florence Shelley in 1889.

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Why Did A British Army Officer Sentence This Tree To Life Imprisonment?

So far you must have seen only humans and animals being imprisoned, but today we are going to tell you something that you will be shocked to hear. Because today we are going to talk about such a tree that remained ‘under arrest’ for hundreds of years. Yes, it is absolutely true, this tree is 'arrested' not for one or two, but for 123 years. 

Due to a law, a banyan tree has been chained in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. In the province's Landi Kotal, this tree is kept chained to the ground and a board hanging from the tree branches still reads: I am under arrest. There is a very interesting story behind the arrest of this tree, but now the question must be arising in your mind that why would anyone arrest a tree? Because if there was too much trouble, the tree could have been cut. But due to the stubbornness of a British army officer, this tree was 'arrested' and is still tied with big chains.

The story of this tree started in the year 1898, when a heavily drunken British officer, James Squid was walking in the Landi Kotal army cantonment. During this, while intoxicated, he realized that the banyan tree in front was moving towards him. James Squid was completely horrified to see such a huge tree coming towards him, so he immediately ordered the soldiers to arrest the tree. The soldiers, obeying their officer, tied the tree with chains and since then this tree is under arrest. And 123 years later, this tree is still standing tied with chains like this.

Time passed at its own pace but the people there did not remove these chains from the tree and along with that they also hung a board on the tree with some text written on that 'I am under arrest'. It is believed that the chains have not been removed so that the cruelty of the British rule can be shown. But now this place has turned into a tourist destination.

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What is Pareidolia? What Exactly Pareidolia Means According to Science?

People usually keep having very unique mysterious experiences, like sometimes a person is sitting in any place, and whatever he is doing, then suddenly numbers start appearing randomly to him in any shape or pattern. As if looking on one side, their brain starts showing them any number like 22, which is actually not there, and on the very next moment, they start seeing some other random numbers, or else they start seeing abnormal patterns at some places, like look at this image below. In this image, a branch of a tree is shown, that is, a piece of the tree, so it has such a mark which is visible of course to all and it is resembling as if there is a spirit in the branch. 

According to science, this perception of finding a meaningful interpretation in any object or situation has been called Pareidolia, which means to find meaning in everything. Like if you look in the sky, sometimes you will see different shapes in the clouds. So the science behind this reveals that this is just the creation of our mind, simply because our brain is very much interested in doing such things, as it keeps looking for meaning and information in everything. Like look at this image below, there is such a figure in the middle of the flower which looks like it is a skull.

If explained in other words, many times you must have seen that in many things you see such a shape or figure, seeing which you suspect that it is alive. Like staring at clouds, stones, houses, buildings, walls, trees, and other things for a long time, you can see a human face, an animal, or a figure in them as if they were alive. But when you try to explain the same experience to some other person, then he does not see or understand anything like that. This is a psychological phenomenon called pareidolia in the language of science.

Pareidolia can surprise you anywhere, in anything, such as seeing a wood or belt in the form of a snake, seeing a ghost, or seeing a shape in a vegetable or fruit. In this psychological phenomenon, a person tries to find a meaningful shape in a simple or normal object, which sometimes appears to us to be alive, but in reality, nothing like this happens as it is just an illusion of our mind. When you stare at a scene for a long time, our brain starts making more shapes in it and compares them with the pictures saved in memory, so that a shape resembles it and we understand it as such.

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Why Do Cracking Fingers Make Sound? What Makes the Sound When We Crack Our Knuckles?

It is often seen that whenever we keep working continuously for a long time, then after taking a short pause, we start cracking our fingers, so that we can get some relief and start feeling refreshed. Frequently, people are seen doing this in homes, colleges, or offices. Many people love the sound produced by the cracking of their fingers, that's why they usually engaged in doing so several times a day. 

But now the question is, do you also crack your fingers five to six times a day? Some people crack their knuckles again and again to hear the noise of cracking or popping, but do you know why this sound comes from the fingers? So the simple answer is, our joints have a kind of fluid, a thick liquid located between our joints, known as ​synovial fluid which acts as a lubricant for our joints like motor oil in a car's engine, which helps in reducing friction and preserving our cartilage. This fluid usually contains gases like nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon dioxide. On popping or cracking a joint, you stretch the joint capsule, allowing these gases to rapidly release, forming bubbles. 

This is why when we crack our fingers, it is actually a burst of nitrogen bubbles or other gases that we usually hear as cracking or popping. It takes about 20 minutes for these bubbles to re-form in your joints before they can crack again. In other words, to crack the same knuckle again, you must wait for the time until the gases re-form in the synovial fluid. Also, you must have experienced that you get some kind of relief from cracking your fingers, but this only happens psychologically, as the satisfaction is mostly in your head, in fact, there is no such relief physically.

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How Pinterest Was Started? A Brief History Of Pinterest

Today's article is all about hard work and dedication, raising the idea that when a person is ready to do anything to achieve his goal, he becomes invincible, and it becomes impossible to stop him. Giving one such example, today we are praising one such person whose efforts were really commendable, who kept working on a project on which everyone had given up hope and no one believed that one day it would become such a big image-sharing platform. Yes, we are talking about Pinterest.

Pinterest is one such website that is used by almost all the youth generation today, a tool that saves your favorite content. But do you know how Pinterest actually got started? Pinterest founder Ben Silbermann was initially about to become a doctor. As coming from a family of doctors, he was also on his way to emerge as a doctor, which he had decided since childhood. But later, he dropped this idea as he realized that he was not particularly interested in the medical profession. Because after his graduation, he found the world of tech blogs to be more fascinating. 

Later, he shifted to California and met Paul Sciarra, who later became the co-founder of Pinterest. As a child, Ben Silbermann had a strange habit of collecting stamps and insects. Since he loved collecting dried insects that he would pin on cardboard, and this habit inspired him to come up with the idea of Pinterest. He felt that with the help of this website people can pin their favorite things such as internet articles, videos, images, and other content all in one place. Silbermann started developing this portal in 2009 and in 2010 its beta version also started. And soon in 2011, this website emerged in the top 10 social networking sites and today Pinterest has become one of the most used websites across the world.

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Whose House Is This Built On The Moon? The Mystery House Found On Moon

You must be totally stunned to know who built this mysterious house on the moon as you can see in the picture below? Recently the Yutu-2 rover of China, present on the moon, has sent such a photo in which something like a cube-shaped object is visible on the northern horizon. The rover has done a lot of investigation and research on it and currently, the object has been dubbed as "Mystery House". Scientists are eagerly waiting to drive the rover closer to it to have a better look. But let us tell you that right now that rover is 80 meters away from this mysterious object or house and still it will take at least 2 to 3 Earth months to reach closer to it, as usually, Rovers on the moon and Mars are slow. 

But finding such a hut on the moon is actually a very mysterious thing that cannot be easily digested. Because this hut is obvious that no human must have built it, then maybe it is the artwork of aliens. But its reality will now only be revealed after a few months, whether it is a house or something else. But what if this cube-shaped mysterious house really belonged to the aliens?

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Why Did 217 People Jump Simultaneously From The Plane? Know The Reason

After all, what happened that 217 people had to jump from the plane at once? Do not be shocked here, as this is not an incident in which someone has compulsively jumped from the plane due to some disturbance occurring in the plane, rather they have done so of their own free will. Actually, it is a matter of 2017 when 217 skydivers made an amazing attempt to perform a remarkable record-breaking stunt. By using 10 separate planes, 217 skydivers were able to jump and create numerous formations in the sky together. 

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In fact, the incident took place in Eloy, Arizona, when 217 skydivers simultaneously jumped from a height of 19000 feet from ten different planes. And even after falling at a speed of 120 mph, they were successfully engaged in making many stunning patterns in the air. A few seconds after free-fall, they all swooped into their designated spots in waves, creating a surprisingly symmetrical flower-shaped pattern in the sky. By doing so they became the largest group for the number of people attempting three formations in a single jump. They set a new world record that has not been broken yet, eclipsing the previous record of 104 people.

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Suicide Machine: Now Death Will Be Found More Easily Without Pain | Painless Death In One Minute

There is still a debate in all the countries of the world regarding euthanasia and suicide in special circumstances and it is completely banned in the world except in a few countries. But in the meantime, the Swiss government has given legal approval to the use of suicide machine. By using this machine, a person can die within 1 minute without suffering any pain. 

This machine is designed in the shape of a coffin, in which the nitrogen level rises and the oxygen level becomes too low, leading to hypoxia. Because of this, a person dies comfortably within just a minute. It is specially designed with the purpose to fulfill the wish of getting easy death to the people suffering from serious diseases. This machine is helpful for such patients who are unable to speak or move due to illness.

Actually, it is legal to commit suicide in Switzerland, that is why the government here has taken this step to make suicide more simple. This machine can also be operated from inside even by blinking in case the person using it suffers from locked-in syndrome. The user has to take it to his preferred place to use it. Then the machine disassembles the capsule so that it can be used as a coffin. Some people have raised questions about the way the machine is used. They say that it is like a gas chamber and some others believe that this machine is responsible for promoting suicides. By next year this machine may be ready for use by needy people. 

 

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Who Invented the Calendar? How Was the Calendar Created? | Calendar Origin and History

We all use calendars, but do you know who invented this calendar and how? Long ago, when there were no calendars, people used to work on the basis of their experience. They considered the time between two nights to be a day and a year was tracked by the position of the stars. Their experiences were usually based on various natural events, that is, rain, winter, summer, autumn were indications of doing different things. Religious events, agricultural work, and social festivals were also based on these but it would have been difficult to divide the time properly on the basis of these.

Then later Mesopotamia and Romans used the Lunar calendar, the Romans named the first day of their calendar as Kalends, which later became the calendar. In Latin, the meaning of 'kalends' was believed to be the day of calculation. The calculation of days, months, and years on the same basis is called 'Calendar'. They also named the months of their calendar after gods and goddesses, such as Martius, Aprilis, and Maius, etc. 

But later with some more research, in 46 bc, King Julius Caesar invented the Julian calendar, but that too was not accurate. According to the Julian calendar, there were 10 months in a year and Christmas did not come on a fixed day. Then in 1582 Pope Gregory XIII created the Gregorian calendar which we use today. He introduced this Gregorian calendar to track Easter day, but non-Catholic people did not want to adopt this calendar, but still today we are following this calendar. In this calendar, January is the first month of the year and the year ends in December after the passing of Christmas. Also, this calendar fixed Christmas on 25 December every year.

The new year that we celebrate from January 01 is actually the new year of the Gregorian calendar. Apart from this, many other calendars are also in trend, but because of the Gregorian calendar, the new year is celebrated across the world. Each calendar is based on the calculation of the sun cycle or moon cycle, the calendar based on the sun cycle has 365 days while the calendar based on the moon cycle has 354 days. The Gregorian calendar is based on the Sun cycle and there is no equal number of days in every month, such as 4 months have 30, 6 months have 31 and 1 month has 28 days. Leap year comes after 4 years in which February becomes 29 days instead of 28.

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Why Do We Cry While Cutting Onions? | Why Do chopping Onions Make Our Eyes Teary?

Onion is undoubtedly a very simple vegetable, found easily almost in everyone's home. But the fact is that without it, the taste of many vegetables becomes less effective and that is probably the reason why onions are added to most of the vegetables. Of course, there is always a great demand for onions in every corner of the country, but despite this, a very weird problem related to onions always persists, that is, while cutting it tears start coming out of the eyes. But have you ever wondered why this usually happens while cutting onions?

Actually, onion contains an enzyme named "Lachrymatory factor synthase" which is released into the air as soon as the onion is cut. Then this enzyme converts the amino acids sulfoxides of the onion into sulfenic acid and later this sulfenic acid rearranges itself to form syn-Propanethial-S-oxide. As a result, this syn-Propanethial-S-oxide comes in contact with air and enters into our eyes, resulting in the irritation of the lacrimal glands located within the orbit above the lateral end of the eye, causing the tears to start flowing.

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Although in earlier times scientists believed some other reason behind this, they believed that due to the enzyme called "Alliinase" found in onion, tears come in the eyes, and for a long time this was believed to be the reason. But when the research was done to know its real reason, the truth turned out to be something else.

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Why Don't We Feel Any Pain While Cutting Our Nails Or Hair?

Have you ever thought that whenever we get injured or sprained or a part slightly cut somewhere on our body, we usually feel pain, but on the other hand, when we cut our nails or hair, why do we not feel any pain? The answer is nerve cells are present everywhere in our body, helping in sending or receiving signals from the brain, resulting in the ability to feel any kind of pain. But our nails and hair are made up of dead cells, due to which nerve cells are not present there and for this reason, we do not feel pain while cutting nails or hair. 

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These dead cells are also called keratinocytes and despite being dead cells, they grow through the process of keratinization. In this keratinization process, new cells push the old cells ahead of their base, allowing the nails and hair to grow continually. But you should avoid the pink part of the nail which contains various blood vessels and nerve endings underneath, which can cause enough pain to you.

Another important point is that our hair is completely made up of dead cells whereas this fact does not fully apply to nails. You must have noticed that we do not feel pain when we cut the upper growing nails, rather we feel pain only when the nails which are attached to our skin are cut or hurt. This happens because only the grown nails are made up of dead cells but the nails which are attached to the skin are made up of living cells and this is the reason why we feel pain when they get hurt or injured.

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1940 Brocklesby mid-air collision - An unusual accident in which two planes collided in mid-air and locked together

It is very rare for two planes to collide in the mid-air, but during World War 2, a shocking incident happened, when two planes not only suddenly collided but also got locked to one another in the mid-air. The pilot kept making several efforts by moving the plane up and down, left and right, but every attempt to separate the two planes proved to be unsuccessful. But what happened later to these two planes flying thousands of feet above the sky, let's try to know the quick story in today's article.

This is actually a matter of 29 September 1940, when two planes were flying over Brocklesby, New South Wales, Australia. Then what happened is that both the planes suddenly collided with each other due to some certain reason. This collision happened in such a way that one plane got locked on top of the other plane. After which the engine of the upper plane stopped working, but fortunately the engine of the lower plane continued to function properly, allowing the aircraft to keep flying. As a result of which the two planes covered their journey being locked together, and later the plane below somehow landed both the planes safely. Fortunately, all the crew members survived the incident, and almost no one was seriously harmed.

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If this incident is seen and understood carefully, then this case is very unbelievable and strange because in such cases the chances of survival of the planes are very less, but even in such a dangerous situation, both these planes luckily survived.

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When Some Mysterious Lights Appeared In The Sky Of Pathankot, Caused Great Panic Among The People There

The world is witness to many such dangerous, mysterious and thrilling incidents that keep happening from time to time on Earth, and which are beyond human comprehension, and one such incident happened recently with the people living in Pathankot, Punjab. The people here saw a fast-moving object with bright lights in the night sky in the shape of a running train, which was quite long enough and found to be moving very fast. It was seen on the evening of December 3 at around 7 pm. Locals also captured this light in their cameras and shared its videos and pictures on social media, about which users are making different theories. 

It is also being told that this kind of light has been seen for the first time in Pathankot. The brightness of this light was also quite frightening and it remained in the sky for a total of five minutes, after which it suddenly disappeared. Some are calling it a space phenomenon and some are giving it the status of a meteorite. Amidst all these speculations, it is still not clear to which category this mysterious light belongs? According to people there, they have never seen anything like this before. However, what was this object, people are raising many kinds of apprehensions on this. But still, no expert has offered any comment on this.

However, this is not the first time something like this has been observed in the night sky. One such incident had come to the fore in June this year in Junagadh, Gujarat. But an expert had already dismissed the claims that it was a UFO.

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Why Does A Stone Skip Over The Surface Of Water If Thrown Properly? How Does Stone Skip Across Water?

We all have thrown stones in the water many times, but have you ever wondered why that small stone jumps on the water and moves forward. If you remember Newton's third law of motion that tells us "Every action has an equal and opposite reaction". That is if object A applies a force on object B, then object B will also exert an equal force on object A in the opposite direction. The same happens with stone, when you throw a round-shaped stone or flat stone in the water at an angle less than 45 degrees, then that water will exert a force on the stone in the opposite direction, causing the stone to jump and move forward. The stone will move forward by bouncing as long as that force continues to be exerted. 

In simple words, when the stone exerts a force on the surface of the water, the water exerts a backward force, causing the stone to skip over the water. The surface tension of water, that is, the property of the surface of a liquid that allows it to resist an external force, generally causes water to behave like a surface. There are some essential factors that must be kept in mind to affect the number of skips to occur and the timing of the stone splashing down, such as the height from which the stone is thrown, impact attitude, the angle, and the state of the water surface. Because at a suitably low angle, the stone will simply ​bounce off rather than penetrate. A man named Kurt Steiner bounced a stone 88 times in just one throw and for this, he also holds the world record.

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Everyone Has Their Own Private Plane In This Village | A Village Where Everyone Owns A Plane

Do you know that there is such a village where every house has its own personal plane, yes, we are not talking about any bike or car, but about a plane? The place we are talking about today is so advanced in a sense, where traveling in a plane is so common that people have kept their own plane. It might be a very common thing for the people here to perform any task that seems almost impossible for ordinary people like picking up the key, starting the plane, and returning home after completing the work in a few minutes.

Here, the planes are treated the same way as people usually treat their cars. Even the houses built in this village are designed in a similar way so that their planes can be easily parked outside their homes. You can also guess what the atmosphere of this village must have been like, as on the road where vehicles are usually seen running, airplanes are also running on the same road.

Actually, this village is located in the US, where you will find a private plane parked outside every house. This village is in Florida, named Spruce Creek, also known as Residential Airpark. In fact, there are about 1300 houses in this village, and interestingly more than half the people living here are pilots and those who are not, are very fond of traveling by plane. This might be the reason that a private plane is visible outside every house here. 

According to reports, Spruce Creek is home to 5,000 people and 1,300 houses, where about 700 houses have hangars. But if you are not aware of the word hanger, then let us tell you that the hangar is a large building with an extensive floor area, typically for housing aircraft. Interestingly, instead of building garages for cars, here people usually build hangars where their planes can be easily parked. Also, a runway has been built at some distance in the village, from where the flight takes off.

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Being a pilot by profession for most of the people here makes it a very common thing to have a plane in every house. In addition, there are doctors and, lawyers too, but it doesn't mean that they do not have planes, they are also fond of keeping planes. The natives here are so much attached to the planes that they gather on the runway of their village every Saturday morning and visit the local airport together. There they love to have breakfast together and this custom is known there as of Saturday Morning Gaggle.

However, let us make you aware that Spruce Creek is not the only place in America where such private planes are in abundance. Actually, there are many such village communities in Arizona, Colorado, and Texas that have a large number of fly-in communities, that is, many people have their own planes. Well, these unique and hi-tech areas are related to the second world war and since then, these strategic areas developed in a slightly different way. There are over 600 fly-in communities, with Spruce Creek being the largest. Since most of the people here have their own planes, this village usually remains in the headlines.

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What If You Spend 30 Seconds On The Moon Without A Spacesuit?

The answer to this question depends on the study of Spanish military engineer and physicist "Emilio Herrera" who built the first spacesuit. So let's see what would happen if we went to the moon without a spacesuit? 

At first, you will fill up like a balloon because the Moon has almost no atmosphere. If the atmosphere of the Moon and the Earth is compared, then the density of the Moon's atmosphere is as much as the Earth's exosphere, which means about 10⁷ particles cm⁻³, due to which the biggest danger on the Moon is the lack of oxygen and Ebullism. Now what is this Ebullism, well, it means having the formation of bubbles in our body fluids due to ambient pressure. 

Due to the low vacuum pressure of our space, the boiling temperature of our body fluids will become less than 37 °C. Because of that, fluids will form gas bubbles in our whole body and due to this low pressure, as air is filled in the balloon, you will swell twice your size. But here comes a twist, you won't explode like a balloon, because human skin is very stretchy and elastic, so its elasticity will save us from bursting. But our internal body parts like veins, heart, and brain will burst due to bubbles. 

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The second effect is fainting, like we said earlier that the biggest danger on the Moon will be a lack of oxygen. So after 15 seconds on the Moon, your body will use up all the oxygen stored in it and then Hypoxia, which means you will become unconscious due to lack of oxygen. Now you will say we can hold our breath for one to two minutes, but it will not be the case this time, because the situation of space is very different from the earth due to outside pressure. Earth's atmospheric pressure and human body pressure are the same so that we can comfortably inhale and exhale on earth. But if someone tries to hold their breath in space, the remaining air in their lungs will expand, causing the lungs to rupture. So holding your breath on the moon is not an option. 

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The third effect will be sunburn, as there is no ozone layer on the moon that can protect you from the Sun's UV rays. So due to direct contact with these rays, you can get a sunburn, and these UV rays, and high energy photons, meaning gamma rays can cause mutation in your DNA, so even if you somehow avoid dying, you will not be able to avoid cancer. So if everything is put in very simple words, then after going to the moon without a spacesuit, you will swell due to the pressure and will get a sunburn, and even get cancer because of UV rays, and due to lack of oxygen will cause fainting. And finally, your lungs may also burst, but don't stress because you will be able to survive there for at least 1 minute.

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