The Middle Finger of Galileo
The finger is an irony; it is kept in a shrine even though it never belonged to any saint. The long, bony …
Category: People & Society Facts
The Lost Generation: A Poem that has Exactly Opposite Meaning When Read Backwards!
Have you ever read a poem backwards? Have you ever wondered how a particularly poem sounds when you read it backwards? Well, …
Ignaz Semmelweis – Savior of Mothers
From paper soaps to hand sanitizers, from liquid soaps to anti-bacterial tissues, there are hundreds of things that we do to keep …
Bishnu Shrestha, Hero Gurkha Soldier
Who says you need an entire team of soldiers to save someone’s life? If you have the power in your heart and …
Lawrence Gordon Tesler, The Inventor of Copy and Paste
Ever Wonder Who Invented Copy and Paste? Meet Lawrence Gordon Tesler, popularly known as Larry Tesler, the computer scientist, who has always …
Ordinary Miracle – A Fairy-Tale School in Russia
There’s a school in Russia that looks like a castle. It’s called the “Ordinary Miracle School.” Ordinary Miracle may be the name …
Shakuntala Devi, A “Human Computer”
Shakuntala Devi was known as the “Human computer”, a woman who could calculate anything even faster than the computer. She was born …
In Ancient Greece Throwing an Apple to a Woman Was Considered a Marriage Proposal
One Way of Proposing Marriage to a Young Woman in Ancient Greece was to throw an Apple to Her! Yes, it seems …
Woman saves man from suicide with a kiss
A teenage girl from China became an overnight hero when she saved a man from committing suicide by implanting a kiss! Liu …
Slip into high heels and become a smart buyer.
Wondering why you are unable to bargain at different shops? Want to be better in negotiating with the shopkeepers? Do you wear …
