HIDDEN SECRETS OF THE WORLD

Haemolacria is an unusual medical condition that causes the person suffering from it to produce tears of blood. The tears can vary from being slightly red tinged to completely composed of blood. Twinkle Dwivedi from Lucknow suffers from this very rare condition that causes her to bleed from eyes and other parts of her body spontaneously without any apparent visible signs of wounds. She has been the subject of a number of medical research studies and also part of a television show on National Geographic. No possible explanation as to her condition was concluded by the researchers. Rashida Khatoon another girl from Patna came forward with similar condition. In both these cases, no pain is reported by them on shedding tears of blood.

The Ganges is 2,525 kilometers long, along its course 27 major towns dump 902 million liters of sewage into it each day. Added to this are the human bodies consigned to this holy river, called the Ganga by the Indians. Despite this heavy burden of pollutants, the Ganges for millennia has been regarded as incorruptible. Ganges water does not putrefy, even after long periods of storage. River water putrefies when lack of oxygen promotes the growth of anaerobic ba cteria, which produces the telltale smell of stale water. In 1896, the British physician E. Hanbury Hankin reported in the French journal Annales de l'Institut Pasteur that cholera microbes died within three hours in Ganga water but continued to thrive in distilled water even after 48 hours. A French scientist, Monsieur Herelle, was amazed to find "that only a few feet below the bodies of persons floating in the Ganga who had died of dysentery and cholera, where one would expect millions of germs, there were no ge...

Rabindra Sarovar Metro Station a haunted station story... Formerly known as Dhakuria Lake, Rabindra Sarovar is a popular spot in Kolkata. The nearby metro station is one of the busy spot in Kolkata. It is said that many people have committed suicide at this station and thus is a haunted place. The people who board the last train have some weird experiences and people have reported ghastly shadows of figures during late evenings and late night.                        The other name in which The Kolkata Metro is famous is “Paradise of Suicide”. It is a commonly known death trap with 4000 Volts of current running in the famed third line (a third rail that runs parallel to the tracks and is a little elevated on de-conductors and is usually covered with a wooden plank). Shockingly, around 70% of all people who have lost their lives in the tracks of Metro have committed suicide at Rabindra Sarovar Metro Station. Ther...

The uncommon phenomenon here is that the car moves itself when put in neutral gear. The car moves up a steep mountain road at a steady speed of 10km/hr or above depending on the type of vehicle. It is a hill near picturesque Leh. The hills have magnetic properties which attracts metallic objects, making vehicles move up at a speed of about 20 km per hour. The “magnetic hill” is located on the Leh-Kargil-Batalik national highway, about 50 km from Leh, at a height of 14,000 feet above sea level. Today the places has become a popular sight seeing place where tourists are amazed to see their car moving on its own.

Located in the Mahabalipuram town of Tamil Nadu, the balancing rock is originally known as Krishna’s Butterball which is serves as a one of the major centre of tourist attractions in the town. The “butterball” is actually a giant balancing rock which is 5 meters in diameter, is perched on a smooth slope, seemingly defying all laws of physics. There is a round rocky huge ball that is miraculously balanced in place at an angle of 45 degrees. The huge ball is clearly visible within the streets and this is what attracts every visitor to Mahabalipuram as the awkward position of the rock makes it quite popular with locals and tourists alike as it makes for an interesting backdrop for some whacky photographs.

A new study has provided a deeper insight into the long-running hunt for super-Earths orbiting into the space. NASA's Kepler spacecraft, which had launched on a planet-hunting mission in 2009, searched one small patch of the sky and identified more than 4,000 candidate exoplanets-worlds orbiting stars other than our own Sun. It was the first survey to provide a definitive look at the relative frequency of planets as a function of size. Kepler's results suggest that small plan ets are much more common than big ones. Interestingly, the most common planets are those that are just a bit larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune-the so-called super-Earths. There are no examples of super-Earths in our own solar system, despite being common in our local corner of the galaxy. Current observations suggested something about the sizes and orbits of the newly discovered worlds, but there is very little insight into their compositions. Heather Knutson, assistant professor of p...