Interesting & Funny

"Candy coating" chocolate: Also known as “confectionery coating,” “summer coating,” or “compound coating.” These terms refer to candy products that are flavored like dark, milk or white chocolate and substitute vegetable or palm oils for cocoa butter. These products are cheaper than most chocolates, and do not contain significant amounts of chocolate liquor; thus, they do not have...

Continue Reading

A Peruvian mayor claims chemicals in the water being supplied from another town is turning the men in his town into homosexuals There must be something in the water in one Peruvian town -- and the mayor says it's turning the men gay. Mayor Jose Benitez has revealed that the metal strontium has got in the water supply...

Continue Reading

Confidence and Self-Esteem were best friends. They went everywhere together. If Confidence bought a new dress, Self-Esteem bought one just like it. They were very close. One day a new kid came to their school. His name was Peer Pressure. He had a friend called Hateful Words. They decided to give Confidence a hard time. They constantly teased...

Continue Reading

1. Don’t just talk, listen  The success of any marriage lies in the tool called communication. Don’t hope for things to work if you decide to remain silent forever. Your spouse won’t know what is troubling you till you communicate with him. It is also imperative to respect and hear out every single time. As Mumbai-based marriage counselor...

Continue Reading

A method of movement focused on getting through and dealing with obstacles with incredible speed and efficiency, parkour has become much more than just an ordinary sport. Parkour evolved from ‘parcour du combattants’, which was a classic obstacle course-based military training developed by Frenchman Georges Hebert. The main purpose of the discipline is to teach participants, also known...

Continue Reading

The Eleusinian Mysteries, held annually in honor of Demeter and Persephone, were the most sacred and revered of all the ritual celebrations of ancient Greece. They were instituted in the city of Eleusis, some twenty-two kilometers west of Athens, possibly as far back as the early Mycenaean period, and continued for almost two thousand years. Large crowds of...

Continue Reading

An 11-year-old "werewolf" boy who desperately seeks a cure for his condition is baffling medical experts. Pruthviraj Patil is one of 50 in the world who suffers from hypertrichosis, a rare genetic condition known as Werewolf Syndrome. As a result his face and body is covered in thick, matted hair. But he is hoping doctors will one day...

Continue Reading

An Egyptian man in his early twenties has named his newborn daughter 'Facebook' following the 2011 Egyptian Revolution which was almost solely organized on the social-networking site Facebook. The father, Gamal Ibrahim, told the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram that he gave his child the name to "express his joy at the achievements made by the January 25 youth." The...

Continue Reading

It is popular in Japan today to drink water immediately after waking up every morning. Furthermore, scientific tests have proven its value. We publish below a description of use of water for our readers. For old and serious diseases as well as modern illnesses the water treatment had been found successful by a Japanese medical society as a...

Continue Reading