Nodding disease or nodding syndrome is a recent, little-known disease which emerged in Sudan in the 1960s. It is a mentally & physically disabling disease that only affects children, typically between the ages of 5 & 15. The characteristic symptom of the diseases, known as nodding seizure, often begins when the children begin to eat, or sometimes when they feel cold.
Winston Churchill was the first person to be made an honorary citizen of the U.S.
Handshakes were originally meant to make sure that the person you were meeting wasn’t carrying a concealed weapon. The hand clasp proved that your hand was empty and shaking was meant to dislodge any weapons hiding up the sleeve.
Often termed as “Vampire Disease”, Cutaneous Porphyria is a disease caused due to deficiency of particular enzymes. A person suffering from this disease develops horrible, itchy blisters and welts when exposed to sunlight.
Humans and dogs are the only species known to seek visual cues from another individual’s eyes. Dogs only do this when interacting with humans.
There is psychological optical illusion, known as ‘Troxler Effect’. In this, people experience optical illusion of deformation of their faces after staring at oneself for 10 minutes in the mirror. Troxler Effect fades out features that an individual isn’t staring at.
Cristiano Ronaldo funded the education of a 7-year-old survivor of the 2004 tsunami in Indonesia. The boy, named Martunis, grew up to be a soccer player and was signed by Sporting Lisbon in 2015.
“Mortimer Mouse” was the original name of Mickey Mouse before Walt Disney’s wife, Lillian, convinced him to change it.
Oranges are actually hybrid fruits. They are a cross between fruits named “Pomelo” and “Mandarin”.
In the movie “Maleficent”the character of young Aurora was played by Angelina Jolie’s daughter, because she was the only little girl who wasn’t frightened by Angelina in costume.
Magpie birds are known to mourn the passing of their loved ones through rituals similar to funerals. Some have even been viewed laying ‘wreaths’ of grass alongside roadside corpses.
There was a troop of ancient Greek soldiers , known as ‘Sacred Band of Thebes’, comprising of only male couples. The idea being that soldiers would fight harder to protect their lovers.
As novels became more prominent during the 1700s, society and the media grew increasingly concerned that young people spent too much time reading books. They even went so far as to call it ‘reading rage’, ‘reading fever’, ‘reading mania’ and ‘reading lust’.
In Indian culture, Indian usually sit cross-legged on the floor while eating. This posture helps in digestion and calms the body.
Hydrangea are flowers that are naturally occurring pH indicators. These flowers turn ‘pink’ in basic soil and ‘blue’ in acidic soil.
The Honeyguide bird guides African tribes to beehives after exchanging whistles with them. Once the humans have removed the honey, the bird can feed on the remaining beeswax and larvae.
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In 2014, Living Language launched a conversational language course that enables people to speak ‘Dothraki’ - the language spoken by Khal Drogo and his tribe members in the series - ‘Game of Thrones’.
Bruce Lee’s martial art moves were so fast, that those could not be captured on the regular 24 frames per second (fps) film. As a result, they were filmed at 32 fps, and then run slower, for the audience to see his moves.
The Harry Potter series books were the most banned books of the century in the U.S.
R.D. Burman was nominated 18 times at the Filmfare Awards (Indian) in the Best Music Director category. Of these, he won thrice for ‘Sanam Teri Kasam’ (1983), ‘Masoom’ (1984) and ‘1942 A Love Story’ (1995). Incidentally, he won his last award posthumously.
About a quarter of all residential energy consumption is used on devices in idle power mode.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department offers tattoo removal for inmates who regret a tattoo, or no longer wish to be associated with gang lifestyle. This is to give them wider employment opportunity when released from prison.
The mobile game “Send Me to Heaven” involves throwing your phone as high in the air as you can. The creator said that he made it with the hope of destroying as many iPhones as possible, but Apple banned it from the App Store.
During the filming of “Conan The Barbarian”, Arnold Schwarzenegger had to cut down his workout routine. This is because, his arm and chest muscles were so big that he couldn’t wield a sword properly.
A philosophy riddle from 1688 asked - “If a man born blind can feel the differences between shapes such as spheres and cubes, could he, if given the ability, distinguish those objects by sight alone?”
The riddle was recently solved, when in 2003, 5 people had their eye-sight restored through surgery, and no, they could not distinguish.
The first known appearance of the word ‘yoga’, with the same meaning as the modern term, is in the Katha Upanishad, composed about 4th to 3rd Century BCE.
Geneticists at Harvard have found a way to upload data into bacteria, turning them into living breeding hard drives, without splicing open or synthesising their genes.
Samuel Thomson was a man in New York who would walk up to strangers & begin a conversation. Gaining their trust, he would ask people to express confidence in him by giving him money or watch and would never return back. After he was arrested in 1849, he was labelled - “the Confidence Man”, later shortened to “Con Man”.
People pace while talking on the phone because they don’t have visual feedback. So, the body reacts by moving.
Actor John Hurt holds the record for dying in more than 40 different movies including Alien, Spaceballs, Hellboy and V for Vendetta.
The rock band ZZ Top has had the same members since 1969 without changes. That’s 47 years up until 2016.
Great white sharks are able to detect electromagnetic fields emitted by the movement of animals. They are so sensitive that they can detect variations up to a billionth of a volt. At close range this allows them to hear heartbeats.
Baby elephants suck their trunks for comfort, just like human babies suck their thumb.
‘The Lord of the Rings’ trilogy was nominated for 800 awards for the entire series and won 475 of them, making it the most awarded film series in cinematic history.
Cats don’t have taste receptors that react to sweet things. This means that cats, from lions and tigers right down to domestic felines, cannot taste anything sweet.
Research shows that thinking about money makes people more determined and focused, but less sensitive to the needs and feelings of others.
The creator of Peter Pan gave the rights to a children’s hospital so they would always collect the royalties and fund the hospital.
Soldiers in the German Army are allowed to disobey any order they think would violate human dignity.
Knowing the ending of a story before you read it doesn’t hurt the experience of the story. It actually makes you enjoy the story more. This is called the “Spoiler Paradox”.
There are stones in Romania called ‘Trovants’, that grow and multiply after heavy rain shower.
Violet Jessop was an ocean liner stewardess and nurse. She survived the sinking of the Titanic, its sister ship Britannic, and also a collision on its third sister ship, the Olympic.
