The risk of heart attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the week.  German researchers observed that the risk of a heart attack is 33 percent higher on Monday than on any other day, possibly because of the stress of starting the work week. Our body always remembers and anticipates stressful events. So, even though the participants …

Roy Cleveland Sullivan is recognized by Guinness World Records as the person struck by lightning more recorded times than any other human being. Sullivan (February 7, 1912 – September 28, 1983) was a U.S. park ranger in Shenandoah National Park in Virginia. Sullivan was hit by lightning on seven different occasions and survived all of them between 1942 and 1977. For …

  Here is a another lovely illusion of a Graphics Interchange Format (gif) image. Is it a Frog or a Horse? wait untill image is fully loaded  

In 1934, a gust of wind reached 371 km/h on Mount Washington in New Hampshire, USA. The now second highest surface wind speed ever officially recorded is 372 km/h (231 mph; 103 m/s) at the Mount Washington (New Hampshire) Observatory : 6,288 ft -1917 metres above sea – level in the US on 12 April 1934, using a heated anemometer. …

It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human of blood.

Beautiful aerial view of Denver International Airport before and after snowstorm on December 28, 2006

I am not caused by my history – my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch glimpses of my image. James Hillman Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush; anxious for greater developments and greater wishes and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents, Parents have …

Meaning of Lailatul Qadr: Literally translated Lailatul Qadr means the “the night of power.” The night itself is great because a great Book (the Quran) was revealed by a great Angel (Jibraeel) to a great Prophet (Mohammed SAW) for a great Nation (the Muslims). It could also mean that a person who spends the night in repentance and worship becomes …

Have you ever seen a photo move? Artists develop amazing cinemagraphs that take ‘stills’ to the next level. It is, in their own words, “something more than a photo but less than a video”. Two artists have created a new way to to record your special moments – pictures with movement. The ‘cinemagraphs’ look like still photos but actually feature a …

Niagara Falls (French: les Chutes du Niagara) are massive waterfalls on the Niagara River, straddling the international border separating the Canadian province of Ontario and the U.S. state of New York. The falls are 17 miles (27 km) north-northwest of Buffalo, New York, 75 miles (120 km) south-southeast of Toronto, Ontario, between the twin cities of Niagara Falls, Ontario, and …