Thai people claim that rat meat is tastier than other meats and is healthy because it comes from rice fields. The spicy rat salad ‘Laab Moo’ was invented by villagers in Northeast Thailand. The purpose is to control the rat population by eating them.
Tony Blair is the youngest British Prime Minister of the 20th century. He was 44 when he became prime minister in 1997. He was also the youngest leader of the Labour Party at the age of 41.
We all know of Sir Edmund Hillary of New Zealand as one of the first two to climb the world’s highest summit, Mt Everest. He also had another feather on his cap: He was the first person to have reached the three extremes – Mt Everest, the North Pole and the South Pole. Thus, the Three…
A four-hour journey from Cusco city in Peru, and along the Peruvian Andes, brings you to a region with colourful mountains – some coloured in brick-red, some in lavender, some in greenish-blue. This is due to the sediments present in the soil, and the atmosphere. But the most unique of all these mountains is Vinicunca,…
In a humble corner of Chestnut Ridge Park in Western New York, is the Eternal Flame Falls. As the same suggests, there is a flame that keeps burning, in a small cave, behind the screen of water. What feeds the flame has, for long, been a matter of debate. Scientifically, such ‘eternal’ flames are fuelled by natural…
He was struck seven times by lightning between the years 1942 and 1977. And each time he outlived, finding his way into the Guinness World Records. Roy Sullivan from Virginia, in the United States, is nicknamed the ‘human lightning conductor’. He lost his eyebrows, and went through severe stomach and chest issues, yet was strong enough…
