Dark Matter
The superimposed heavens in the Quran are
the extra spatial dimensions in modern
physics.
Astronomers have just confirmed the existence
of Dark Matter . This mysterious Dark Matter is
invisible however it provides the bulk of gravity
that holds galaxies (not the regular matter that
forms stars and planets). This invisible Dark
Matter has weird collision properties
(collisionless).

Simply put: we cannot see
Dark Matter nor collide with it but we can
detect its gravity.
In this image, two huge clusters of invisible
Dark Matter (in blue) clashed with each other:
With each cluster having a mass of 10,000
galaxies (each cluster a quadrillion times the
mass of the Sun, 10 !!!) (See: Universe Today ).
However upon impact, instead of disintegrating
into smaller pieces, they passed through each
other unscathed! This means that they did not
collide with each other either! They simply
passed through each other!!!
In order to explain why this invisible Dark
Matter neither collides with each other, nor
does it collide with us but still we detect its
gravity, physicists and cosmologists are working
on theories with extra dimensions. Traditionally
scientists thought that we live in a four
dimensional universe: Time and the usual three
spatial dimensions of length, width and height
(x,y,z).

However today there is evidence for six
extra spatial dimensions. So we cannot see
nor collide with this Dark Matter because it is
mass in the remaining six extra dimensions.


According to the Quran, we cannot
see nor collide with Jinn but they have weight:
[ Quran 55.31] We [Allah] will
settle your affair, both you of
weight (man and jinn)
Thukl ﺛﻘﻞ in Arabic means weight. Thakalain
ﺛﻘﻠﻴﻦ means weight for two (binary mode).

The
Jinn have weight means that we can detect
their gravity and they can detect our gravity. So
according to the Quran we cannot see the Jinn
nor collide with them but we can detect their
gravity.


Just as the Jinn are of different type that we
cannot see nor collide with but we can detect
their gravity, there are six other Heavens that
we cannot see nor collide with either but we
can detect their gravity, superimposed above
the visible one:


[Quran 41.12] So [Allah] decreed
them as seven heavens (one above
the other) in two days and
revealed to each heaven its orders.
And We [Allah] adorned the lowest
heaven with lights, and protection.
Such is the decree of the Exalted;
the Knowledgeable.
According to the Quran, only the lowest heaven
has visible light.

This means that this Dark
Matter exists in the six Heavens superimposed
above the lowest one. Also according to the
Quran, each of these remaining six Heavens is
of a different type and each has its own planets
like Earth:


[Quran 65.12] Allah is the one who
created seven Heavens and from
Earth like them (of corresponding
type); [Allah's] command descends
among them so that you may know
that Allah is capable of anything
and that Allah knows everything.



Earth is not a unique planet in Islam. Other
planets like Earth do exist throughout the other
six Heavens. It is just that we cannot see them
nor collide with them but we can detect their
gravity.


General relativity predicted gravitational
lensing, that is, the gravitational field generated
by a galaxy causes the light passing through it
to bend (change direction). Dark Matter does
not emit any light but we can still map its
location by using gravitational lensing, that is,
by detecting where light is bending in places
where it shouldn't. In the above image and
video light gets bent by invisible Dark Matter in
places where it shouldn't. Moslems say that
this is how God challenges nonbelievers to
detect the remaining six superimposed
Heavens:

[Quran 67.3-4] [Allah] is the one
who created seven superimposed
Heavens " ﺳﺒﻊ ﺳﻤﻮﺍﺕ ﻃﺒﺎﻕ ". You do


not see variations in the
formations of the Compassionate,
so redirect your sight , do you see
any creation (Futtur in Arabic
ﻓﻄﻮﺭ )? Then redirect your sight
again, your vision returns to you
in defeat and regret.
Futtur in Arabic ﻓُﻄﻮﺭ is a noun meaning
creation out of nothing (it does not mean
"rip"). Its verb in past tense is Fattara ﻓَﻄَﺮَ and
is found in Quran 6.79 meaning "created" (The
verb that does mean "ripped" or "destroyed" is
its opposite: Tafattara ﺗَﻔَﻄّﺮَ as in Quran 19:90 .
Its noun is Tafattur .)ﺗﻔﻄُّﺮ So the question in
the Quran is "Do you see any creation out of
nothing?". Your initial answer should be NO.
But in the second verse, when you are
supposed to redirect your sight your answer will
change to YES, with defeat. Why should you
redirect your sight when you observe Dark
Matter? Why should you look to
another direction and then back? Well the
gravity of a massive object makes you see the
background stars in another direction:





This is how we detect Dark Matter today, the
background images are lensed at a certain
angle. Since Dark Matter does not emit any
light then we have to trace the light from the
background galaxies. From the distances and
the angle of lensing we estimate the mass of
the Dark Matter.

So when detecting the
superimposed seven heavens you have to look
away and then back in order to measure the
angle. No angle no Dark Matter.
How could an illiterate man who lived 1400
years have known that light could change
direction? How could he have known about
Dark Matter and Gravitational Lensing?



The Quran insists on seven superimposed
heavens. We are in the lowest heaven, Angels
on your shoulders are in the seventh heaven,
and Satan (Jinn) passing through you are in one
heaven in-between. However all seven heavens
are superimposed. We cannot see nor collide
with Angels nor Jinn but we can detect their
gravity, however these are the exact same
properties of Dark Matter, we cannot see them
nor collide with them but we can detect their
gravity. String Theory explains what they are:


They are mass in other dimensions.
Traditionally physicists thought that the smallest
particles in atoms were point like, that is, they
looked like points. However recently discovered
evidence suggest that the smallest particle is
not point like, as previously thought, but rather
a vibrating string of energy.

But physicists also
discovered that these strings need more than
three spatial dimensions to vibrate in.
Particularly they need six extra spatial
dimensions. In all versions of String Theory
there are 10 dimensions: "Time" plus the usual
three spatial dimensions x,y,z (4 dimensions,
our observable universe) plus six extra spatial
dimensions making a total of ten dimensions (1
time + 9 spatial = 10 dimensions).






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Dark Matter
The superimposed heavens in the Quran are
the extra spatial dimensions in modern
physics.
Astronomers have just confirmed the existence
of Dark Matter . This mysterious Dark Matter is
invisible however it provides the bulk of gravity
that holds galaxies (not the regular matter that
forms stars and planets). This invisible Dark
Matter has weird collision properties
(collisionless).

Simply put: we cannot see
Dark Matter nor collide with it but we can
detect its gravity.
In this image, two huge clusters of invisible
Dark Matter (in blue) clashed with each other:
With each cluster having a mass of 10,000
galaxies (each cluster a quadrillion times the
mass of the Sun, 10 !!!) (See: Universe Today ).
However upon impact, instead of disintegrating
into smaller pieces, they passed through each
other unscathed! This means that they did not
collide with each other either! They simply
passed through each other!!!
In order to explain why this invisible Dark
Matter neither collides with each other, nor
does it collide with us but still we detect its
gravity, physicists and cosmologists are working
on theories with extra dimensions. Traditionally
scientists thought that we live in a four
dimensional universe: Time and the usual three
spatial dimensions of length, width and height
(x,y,z).

However today there is evidence for six
extra spatial dimensions. So we cannot see
nor collide with this Dark Matter because it is
mass in the remaining six extra dimensions.


According to the Quran, we cannot
see nor collide with Jinn but they have weight:
[ Quran 55.31] We [Allah] will
settle your affair, both you of
weight (man and jinn)
Thukl ﺛﻘﻞ in Arabic means weight. Thakalain
ﺛﻘﻠﻴﻦ means weight for two (binary mode).

The
Jinn have weight means that we can detect
their gravity and they can detect our gravity. So
according to the Quran we cannot see the Jinn
nor collide with them but we can detect their
gravity.


Just as the Jinn are of different type that we
cannot see nor collide with but we can detect
their gravity, there are six other Heavens that
we cannot see nor collide with either but we
can detect their gravity, superimposed above
the visible one:


[Quran 41.12] So [Allah] decreed
them as seven heavens (one above
the other) in two days and
revealed to each heaven its orders.
And We [Allah] adorned the lowest
heaven with lights, and protection.
Such is the decree of the Exalted;
the Knowledgeable.
According to the Quran, only the lowest heaven
has visible light.

This means that this Dark
Matter exists in the six Heavens superimposed
above the lowest one. Also according to the
Quran, each of these remaining six Heavens is
of a different type and each has its own planets
like Earth:


[Quran 65.12] Allah is the one who
created seven Heavens and from
Earth like them (of corresponding
type); [Allah's] command descends
among them so that you may know
that Allah is capable of anything
and that Allah knows everything.



Earth is not a unique planet in Islam. Other
planets like Earth do exist throughout the other
six Heavens. It is just that we cannot see them
nor collide with them but we can detect their
gravity.


General relativity predicted gravitational
lensing, that is, the gravitational field generated
by a galaxy causes the light passing through it
to bend (change direction). Dark Matter does
not emit any light but we can still map its
location by using gravitational lensing, that is,
by detecting where light is bending in places
where it shouldn't. In the above image and
video light gets bent by invisible Dark Matter in
places where it shouldn't. Moslems say that
this is how God challenges nonbelievers to
detect the remaining six superimposed
Heavens:

[Quran 67.3-4] [Allah] is the one
who created seven superimposed
Heavens " ﺳﺒﻊ ﺳﻤﻮﺍﺕ ﻃﺒﺎﻕ ". You do


not see variations in the
formations of the Compassionate,
so redirect your sight , do you see
any creation (Futtur in Arabic
ﻓﻄﻮﺭ )? Then redirect your sight
again, your vision returns to you
in defeat and regret.
Futtur in Arabic ﻓُﻄﻮﺭ is a noun meaning
creation out of nothing (it does not mean
"rip"). Its verb in past tense is Fattara ﻓَﻄَﺮَ and
is found in Quran 6.79 meaning "created" (The
verb that does mean "ripped" or "destroyed" is
its opposite: Tafattara ﺗَﻔَﻄّﺮَ as in Quran 19:90 .
Its noun is Tafattur .)ﺗﻔﻄُّﺮ So the question in
the Quran is "Do you see any creation out of
nothing?". Your initial answer should be NO.
But in the second verse, when you are
supposed to redirect your sight your answer will
change to YES, with defeat. Why should you
redirect your sight when you observe Dark
Matter? Why should you look to
another direction and then back? Well the
gravity of a massive object makes you see the
background stars in another direction:





This is how we detect Dark Matter today, the
background images are lensed at a certain
angle. Since Dark Matter does not emit any
light then we have to trace the light from the
background galaxies. From the distances and
the angle of lensing we estimate the mass of
the Dark Matter.

So when detecting the
superimposed seven heavens you have to look
away and then back in order to measure the
angle. No angle no Dark Matter.
How could an illiterate man who lived 1400
years have known that light could change
direction? How could he have known about
Dark Matter and Gravitational Lensing?



The Quran insists on seven superimposed
heavens. We are in the lowest heaven, Angels
on your shoulders are in the seventh heaven,
and Satan (Jinn) passing through you are in one
heaven in-between. However all seven heavens
are superimposed. We cannot see nor collide
with Angels nor Jinn but we can detect their
gravity, however these are the exact same
properties of Dark Matter, we cannot see them
nor collide with them but we can detect their
gravity. String Theory explains what they are:


They are mass in other dimensions.
Traditionally physicists thought that the smallest
particles in atoms were point like, that is, they
looked like points. However recently discovered
evidence suggest that the smallest particle is
not point like, as previously thought, but rather
a vibrating string of energy.

But physicists also
discovered that these strings need more than
three spatial dimensions to vibrate in.
Particularly they need six extra spatial
dimensions. In all versions of String Theory
there are 10 dimensions: "Time" plus the usual
three spatial dimensions x,y,z (4 dimensions,
our observable universe) plus six extra spatial
dimensions making a total of ten dimensions (1
time + 9 spatial = 10 dimensions).

Moslems (Muslims) believe that angels are low
density creatures, and that God created them
originally from light. They move at any speed
from zero up to the speed of light. It is the
angels who carry out God's orders. Those
angels take their orders from a Preserved
Tablet somewhere in outer space, and not from
God's Throne. They commute to and from this
Preserved Tablet to get their orders from God.
In the following verse, the Quran describes how
angels travel when they commute to and from
this Tablet. And the speed at which they
commute to and from this Tablet turned out to
be the known speed of light:
[Quran 32.5] (Allah) Rules the
cosmic affair from the heavens to
the Earth. Then this affair travels
to Him a distance in one day, at a
measure of one thousand years of
what you count.


It is the angels who carry out these orders.
Those people back then measured the
distances neither in kilometers nor in miles but
rather by how much time they needed to walk.


For example, a village two days away meant a
distance equivalent to walking for two days; ten
days away meant a distance equivalent to
walking for ten days... However in this verse
the Quran specifies 1000 years of what they
counted (not what they walked). Those people
back then followed the lunar calendar and
counted 12 lunar months each year.

These
months are related to the moon and not
related to the sun. Hence in 1 day the angels
will travel a distance of 1000 years of what they
counted (the moon). Since this verse is referring
to distance, then God is saying that angels
travel in one day the same distance that the
moon travels in 12000 lunar orbits.

We
discovered that in an inertial geocentric frame
12000 Lunar Orbits/Earth Day is equivalent to
the Speed of Light. Learn more.
(Common sense says that sunlight illuminates
Earth and that without sunlight darkness will
cover Earth; is there anything simpler? But the
Bible says something else: In Genesis 1:1-31
the Bible explains how the sun is related to day
and night. The Bible says that on the first day
God created the light and darkness on Earth,
the first evening came and the first morning
followed. But God did not create the sun until
the fourth day, specifically after three evenings
and three mornings. So three evenings and the
three mornings occurred on Earth before there
was a sun. So according to the Bible daylight
occurs without the sun!)

Time is relative. We know from Einstein that my
clock and your clock will not run at the same
rate. Time (or rate of our clocks) depends on
acceleration and/or gravity. If my clock
accelerates and/or is in a strong gravitational
field then it will run slower than your clock.
Quran 22.47 compares time on Earth with time
at Paradise/Hell (1 day vs 1000 years). While
Quran 70.4 compares time on Earth with time
in wormholes (1 day vs 50,000 years).


Moslems believe that Paradise and Hell are
both much bigger and much more massive than
Earth (but still much smaller than God's
Throne). The theory of general relativity says
that time passes slower near an object more
massive than Earth (clocks run slower in
stronger gravitational fields). So according to
general relativity, time should pass in Paradise/
Hell much slower than on Earth. Moslems say
that this is what Allah says. It is stated in the
Quran that 1 day in Paradise/Hell measures a
1000 years on Earth:
[Quran 22.47] They challenge you
to bring forth that torture [in Hell]
and Allah will not break His
promise; a day of your Lord
[Paradise/Hell promise] is like a
thousand years of what you count.
Here God promises those who do not believe in
Hell and punishment that each day of their
torture in Hell will measure a thousand years
on Earth. So according to the Quran, time
passes faster on Earth than in Paradise/Hell.
But this agrees with the theory of general
relativity which says that time passes slower
near bigger mass. Paradise and Hell are much
more massive than Earth and time should pass
there much slower than on Earth.
Christians believe that God created the
universe in 6 earthly days and rested on the
7th. Moslems believe that 6 days passed at
God's Throne but we experienced 13.7 billion
years on Earth: Moslems believe that God is not
bound to His Throne; rather He created it and
set it as a reference. The Quran says that
God's Throne is even wider than the whole
universe; so how about the mass of God's
Throne? God's Throne is much more massive
than Earth. Time should pass there much
slower than on Earth:
Our solar system is 4.57 billion years old. Earth
started accreting concurrently with the sun and
our neighbouring planets 4.57 bln years ago.
However the universe is 13.7 ± 0.2 bln years
old. This places the age of Earth at one third
the age of the universe (4.57 bln/13.7 bln =
1/3). Moslems say that this is what Allah says.
The Quran says that in God's Throne time
Earth is 2 days old while the Heavens, Earth
and everything in between are 6 days old (2/6 =
1/3):
[Quran 7.54] And your Lord,
Allah, who created the Heavens
and the Earth in six days and then
settled on the Throne ...
Those six days are on the Throne; so the frame
of reference for creation is the Throne, not
Earth.
[Quran 41.9] Say: "Is it that you
deny Him [Allah] who created the
Earth in two days? And you claim
others to be equal to Him? He is
the Lord of (all) the Worlds."
[Quran 50.38] And we have
created the Heavens and Earth
and EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN
in six days and We were not
touched by fatigue.
All those days are on the Throne; the frame of
reference for creation is still the Throne. When
God says that He created the Heavens, Earth
and EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN (including you
and me) in six days this means that He is
referring to the period of existence. Earth has
been in existence for 2 days (out of 6).
Moslems believe that God sustains all living
things.

And all His commands to the angels to
sustain man and animals were inscribed on the
Preserved Tablet. The Quran says that not even
a leaf would drop on Earth without it being
previously recorded on this Preserved Tablet.
God says that He inscribed this Preserved
Tablet before the creation of Earth started; He
answered our prayers today (as commands for
the angels on the Preserved Tablet) during the
first four days when Earth was still smoke.

After this He ordered Earth to form:

[Quran 41.9-12] Say: "Is it that you
deny Him [Allah] who created the
Earth in two days? And you claim
others to be equal to Him? He is the
Lord of (all) the Worlds." He set on it
(Earth) mountains, and bestowed it
with blessings. And [Allah] estimated
all its sustenance in four days,
equally for those who ask (prayers)
AFTER THIS (Thumma in Arabic) [Allah]
commanded the heaven and it was
still smoke. He said to it and to Earth:
"Come together, willingly or
unwillingly." They said: "We do come
together, in willing obedience". So
[Allah] decreed them as seven
heavens (one above the other) in two
days and revealed to each heaven its
orders. And We [Allah] adorned the
lowest heaven with lights, and
protection. Such is the decree of the
Exalted; the Knowledgeable.
God answered our prayers today when Earth
was still smoke (the first four days). After this
(Thumma in Arabic) God ordered Earth to form.
The formation of Earth took two days. So our
prayers today are already answered on the
Preserved Tablet since before the formation of
Earth started. Also in the last two days God
created the seven superimposed heavens and
revealed their orders.


In God's Throne time, Earth is 2 days old while
the Heavens, Earth and everything in between
are 6 days old. This makes the age of Earth to
be one third the age of the universe (2/6 =
1/3). Similarly in Earth time, the age of Earth is
4.57 billion years while the age of the universe
is 13.7 billion years; this is also one third (4.57
bln/13.7 bln = 1/3). So it is the same ratio in
Earth time or in God's Throne time. The theory
of general relativity explains why time at God's
Throne passes slower than on Earth. General
relativity explains why 6 days passed at God's
Throne but we measured it as 13.7 billion years
(that is each day at God's Throne measures
around 2.28 billion years on Earth). So
according to the Quran:


God's Throne > Paradise/Hell >
Earth

The smaller the mass, the faster the time.


We are sure that time is relative, that is, the
age of the universe is different for
observers with clocks running at different
rates. For example, there exists an observer
who measures the age of the universe to be
3 billion years, however he also measures
the age of Earth to be 1 billion years. But the
Quran presented it as a ratio (1/3) and this
ratio turned out to be correct for any
observer (whatever the clock rate).
If the
Quran presented it in any form other than a
ratio it would have been wrong for different
observers.

Quran 32.5 is time vs distance; this gives us
speed of angels which turned out to be the
speed of light . However Quran 22.47 and

Quran 70.4 are time vs time (no distance); this
is time dilation. Quran 22.47 compares time of
Earth with time at Paradise/Hell (1 day vs 1000
years).

While Quran 70.4 compares time on
Earth with time in wormholes (1 day vs 50,000
years).


(The Christian Bible puts the creation of Earth
on day one; making the age of Earth equal to
the age of the universe. So the age of the
universe according to the Bible is six thousand
years).

Comparing The Bible and the Quran. Which book is the greatest?

The Bible is a word which means, "collection of books."
This means all books, verses, chapters, were written by men.

In this holy book we have scenes of pornography, bloodshed, etc. We even have different versions contradicting each other.

There are king james version, queen james version, new international version, revised standard version, new living translation, good news, to mention but a few. All of which contradicts each other. Now, we don't have anything like different version of the Quran. Also, there is nothing like Indirect speeches in the quran. We only have all this in The Bible .

Again, the only Quran have been mathematically and scientifically proven to be the Strong Word Of God.

Can any man write such an organised and glorious book for just 23years?

Never!
The Quran even dared anyone to produce a book like it but still, no one has EVER SUCCEEDED IN PRODUCING A BOOK LIKE THE QURAN!

Unlike bible, in which we have tens of versions created and reproduced by human understanding and doctrine. To me, The Quran is the greatest book that was ever and can ever be in existence!

Great errors discovered in the Quran or Koran

1. The longest time between two twins being
born is 87 days .

2. The world's deepest postbox is in Susami
Bay in Japan . It's 10 metres underwater.

3. In 2007, an American man named Corey
Taylor tried to fake his own death in order to
get out of his cell phone contract without
paying a fee. It didn't work.

4. The oldest condoms ever found date back
to the 1640s (they were found in a cesspit at
Dudley Castle), and were made from animal
and fish intestines.

5. In 1923, jockey Frank Hayes won a race at
Belmont Park in New York despite being dead
— he suffered a heart attack mid-race, but
his body stayed in the saddle until his horse
crossed the line for a 20–1 outsider victory.

6. Everyone has a unique tongue print , just
like fingerprints.

7. Most Muppets are left-handed. (Because
most Muppeteers are right-handed , so they
operate the head with their favoured hand.)

8. Female kangaroos have three vaginas .

9. It costs the U.S. Mint almost twice as much
to mint each penny and nickel as the coins
are actually worth. Taxpayers lost over $100
million in 2013 just through the coins being
made.

10. Light doesn't necessarily travel at the
speed of light. The slowest we've ever
recorded light moving at is 38 mph .

11. Casu marzu is a Sardinian cheese that
contains live maggots . The maggots can jump
up to five inches out of cheese while you're
eating it, so it's a good idea to shield it with
your hand to stop them jumping into your
eyes.

12. The loneliest creature on Earth is a whale
who has been calling out for a mate for over
two decades — but whose high-pitched voice
is so different to other whales that they
never respond .

13. The spikes on the end of a stegosaurus'
tail are known among paleontologists as the
"thagomizer" — a term coined by cartoonist
Gary Larson in a 1982 Far Side drawing .

14. During World War II, the crew of the
British submarine HMS Trident kept a fully
grown reindeer called Pollyanna aboard their
vessel for six weeks (it was a gift from the
Russians).

15. The northern leopard frog swallows its
prey using its eyes — it uses them to help
push food down its throat by retracting them
into its head.

16. The first man to urinate on the moon was
Buzz Aldrin, shortly after stepping onto the
lunar surface.
NASA/Newsmakers

17. Some fruit flies are genetically resistant to
getting drunk — but only if they have an
inactive version of a gene scientists have
named "happyhour".

18. Experiments show that male rhesus
macaque monkeys will pay to look at pictures
of female rhesus macaques' bottoms.

19. In 1567, the man said to have the longest
beard in the world died after he tripped over
his beard running away from a fire .

20. The Dance Fever of 1518 was a month-
long plague of inexplicable dancing in
Strasbourg , in which hundreds of people
danced for about a month for no apparent
reason. Several of them danced themselves
to death.

21. Vladimir Nabokov nearly invented the
smiley .

22. In 1993, San Francisco held a referendum
over whether a police officer called Bob
Geary was allowed to patrol while carrying a
ventriloquist's dummy called Brendan
O'Smarty. He was.

23. Sigurd the Mighty, a ninth-century Norse
earl of Orkney, was killed by an enemy he
had beheaded several hours earlier. He'd
tied the man's head to his horse's saddle,
but while riding home one of its protruding
teeth grazed his leg . He died from the
infection.

24. The Dutch village of Giethoorn has no
roads; its buildings are connected entirely by
canals and footbridges.

25. A family of people with blue skin lived in
Kentucky for many generations. The Fulgates
of Troublesome Creek are thought to have
gained their blue skin through combination of
inbreeding and a rare genetic condition
known as methemoglobinemia.

26. Powerful earthquakes can permanently
shorten the length of Earth's day , by moving
the spin of the Earth's axis. The 2011 Japan
earthquake knocked 1.8 microseconds off our
days. The 2004 Sumatra quake cost us
around 6.8 microseconds.

27. The first American film to show a toilet
being flushed on screen was Alfred
Hitchcock's Psycho.

28. Melting glaciers and icebergs make a
distinctive fizzing noise known as "bergy
seltzer" .

29. There is a glacier called "Blood Falls" in
Antarctica that regularly pours out red liquid,
making it look like the ice is bleeding. (It's
actually oxidised salty water .)
30. In 2008 scientists discovered a new
species of bacteria that lives in hairspray .

31. The top of the Eiffel Tower leans away
from the sun , as the metal facing the sun
heats up and expands. It can move as much
as 7 inches.

32. Lt. Col. "Mad" Jack Churchill was only
British soldier in WWII known to have killed
an enemy soldier with a longbow. "Mad Jack"
insisted on going into battle armed with both
a medieval bow and a claymore sword.

33. A U.S. park ranger named Roy C. Sullivan
held the record for being struck by lightning
the most times, having been struck — and
surviving — seven times between 1942 and
1977. He died of a self-inflicted gunshot in
1983.

34. The longest musical performance in
history is currently taking place in the church
of St. Burchardi in Halberstadt, Germany. The
performance of John Cage's "Organ²/ASLSP
(As Slow As Possible)" started on Sept. 5,
2001, and is set to finish in 2640. The last
time the note changed was October 2013; the
next change isn't due until 2020.

35. There's an opera house on the U.S.–
Canada border where the stage is in one
country and half the audience is in another.

36. The tiny parasite Toxoplasma gondii can
only breed sexually when in the guts of a cat.
To this end, when it infects rats, it changes
their behaviour to make them less scared of
cats .

37. The katzenklavier ("cat piano") was a
musical instrument made out of cats .
Designed by 17th-century German scholar
Athanasius Kircher, it consisted of a row of
caged cats with different voice pitches, who
could be "played" by a keyboardist driving
nails into their tails.

38. There is a single mega-colony of ants that
spans three continents, covering much of
Europe, the west coast of the U.S., and the
west coast of Japan.

39. The largest snowflake ever recorded
reportedly measured 15 inches across .

40. An epidemic of laughing that lasted
almost a year broke out in Tanganyika (now
Tanzania) in 1962. Several thousand people
were affected, across several villages. It
forced a school to close. It wasn't fun,
though — other symptoms included crying,
fainting, rashes, and pain.

41. The Romans used to clean and whiten
their teeth with urine. Apparently it works.
Please don't do it, though.

42. There are around 60,000 miles of blood
vessels in the human body. If you took them
all out and laid them end to end, they'd
stretch around the world more than twice.


But, seriously, don't do that either.



SOURCE: Buzz feeds

1. The longest time between two twins being
born is 87 days .

2. The world's deepest postbox is in Susami
Bay in Japan . It's 10 metres underwater.

3. In 2007, an American man named Corey
Taylor tried to fake his own death in order to
get out of his cell phone contract without
paying a fee. It didn't work.

4. The oldest condoms ever found date back
to the 1640s (they were found in a cesspit at
Dudley Castle), and were made from animal
and fish intestines.

5. In 1923, jockey Frank Hayes won a race at
Belmont Park in New York despite being dead
— he suffered a heart attack mid-race, but
his body stayed in the saddle until his horse
crossed the line for a 20–1 outsider victory.

6. Everyone has a unique tongue print , just
like fingerprints.

7. Most Muppets are left-handed. (Because
most Muppeteers are right-handed , so they
operate the head with their favoured hand.)

8. Female kangaroos have three vaginas .

9. It costs the U.S. Mint almost twice as much
to mint each penny and nickel as the coins
are actually worth. Taxpayers lost over $100
million in 2013 just through the coins being
made.

10. Light doesn't necessarily travel at the
speed of light. The slowest we've ever
recorded light moving at is 38 mph .

11. Casu marzu is a Sardinian cheese that
contains live maggots . The maggots can jump
up to five inches out of cheese while you're
eating it, so it's a good idea to shield it with
your hand to stop them jumping into your
eyes.

12. The loneliest creature on Earth is a whale
who has been calling out for a mate for over
two decades — but whose high-pitched voice
is so different to other whales that they
never respond .

13. The spikes on the end of a stegosaurus'
tail are known among paleontologists as the
"thagomizer" — a term coined by cartoonist
Gary Larson in a 1982 Far Side drawing .

14. During World War II, the crew of the
British submarine HMS Trident kept a fully
grown reindeer called Pollyanna aboard their
vessel for six weeks (it was a gift from the
Russians).

15. The northern leopard frog swallows its
prey using its eyes — it uses them to help
push food down its throat by retracting them
into its head.

16. The first man to urinate on the moon was
Buzz Aldrin, shortly after stepping onto the
lunar surface.
NASA/Newsmakers

17. Some fruit flies are genetically resistant to
getting drunk — but only if they have an
inactive version of a gene scientists have
named "happyhour".

18. Experiments show that male rhesus
macaque monkeys will pay to look at pictures
of female rhesus macaques' bottoms.

19. In 1567, the man said to have the longest
beard in the world died after he tripped over
his beard running away from a fire .

20. The Dance Fever of 1518 was a month-
long plague of inexplicable dancing in
Strasbourg , in which hundreds of people
danced for about a month for no apparent
reason. Several of them danced themselves
to death.

21. Vladimir Nabokov nearly invented the
smiley .

22. In 1993, San Francisco held a referendum
over whether a police officer called Bob
Geary was allowed to patrol while carrying a
ventriloquist's dummy called Brendan
O'Smarty. He was.

23. Sigurd the Mighty, a ninth-century Norse
earl of Orkney, was killed by an enemy he
had beheaded several hours earlier. He'd
tied the man's head to his horse's saddle,
but while riding home one of its protruding
teeth grazed his leg . He died from the
infection.

24. The Dutch village of Giethoorn has no
roads; its buildings are connected entirely by
canals and footbridges.

25. A family of people with blue skin lived in
Kentucky for many generations. The Fulgates
of Troublesome Creek are thought to have
gained their blue skin through combination of
inbreeding and a rare genetic condition
known as methemoglobinemia.

26. Powerful earthquakes can permanently
shorten the length of Earth's day , by moving
the spin of the Earth's axis. The 2011 Japan
earthquake knocked 1.8 microseconds off our
days. The 2004 Sumatra quake cost us
around 6.8 microseconds.

27. The first American film to show a toilet
being flushed on screen was Alfred
Hitchcock's Psycho.

28. Melting glaciers and icebergs make a
distinctive fizzing noise known as "bergy
seltzer" .

29. There is a glacier called "Blood Falls" in
Antarctica that regularly pours out red liquid,
making it look like the ice is bleeding. (It's
actually oxidised salty water .)
30. In 2008 scientists discovered a new
species of bacteria that lives in hairspray .

31. The top of the Eiffel Tower leans away
from the sun , as the metal facing the sun
heats up and expands. It can move as much
as 7 inches.

32. Lt. Col. "Mad" Jack Churchill was only
British soldier in WWII known to have killed
an enemy soldier with a longbow. "Mad Jack"
insisted on going into battle armed with both
a medieval bow and a claymore sword.

33. A U.S. park ranger named Roy C. Sullivan
held the record for being struck by lightning
the most times, having been struck — and
surviving — seven times between 1942 and
1977. He died of a self-inflicted gunshot in
1983.

34. The longest musical performance in
history is currently taking place in the church
of St. Burchardi in Halberstadt, Germany. The
performance of John Cage's "Organ²/ASLSP
(As Slow As Possible)" started on Sept. 5,
2001, and is set to finish in 2640. The last
time the note changed was October 2013; the
next change isn't due until 2020.

35. There's an opera house on the U.S.–
Canada border where the stage is in one
country and half the audience is in another.

36. The tiny parasite Toxoplasma gondii can
only breed sexually when in the guts of a cat.
To this end, when it infects rats, it changes
their behaviour to make them less scared of
cats .

37. The katzenklavier ("cat piano") was a
musical instrument made out of cats .
Designed by 17th-century German scholar
Athanasius Kircher, it consisted of a row of
caged cats with different voice pitches, who
could be "played" by a keyboardist driving
nails into their tails.

38. There is a single mega-colony of ants that
spans three continents, covering much of
Europe, the west coast of the U.S., and the
west coast of Japan.

39. The largest snowflake ever recorded
reportedly measured 15 inches across .

40. An epidemic of laughing that lasted
almost a year broke out in Tanganyika (now
Tanzania) in 1962. Several thousand people
were affected, across several villages. It
forced a school to close. It wasn't fun,
though — other symptoms included crying,
fainting, rashes, and pain.

41. The Romans used to clean and whiten
their teeth with urine. Apparently it works.
Please don't do it, though.

42. There are around 60,000 miles of blood
vessels in the human body. If you took them
all out and laid them end to end, they'd
stretch around the world more than twice.


But, seriously, don't do that either.



SOURCE: Buzz feeds

1. The longest time between two twins being
born is 87 days .

2. The world's deepest postbox is in Susami
Bay in Japan . It's 10 metres underwater.

3. In 2007, an American man named Corey
Taylor tried to fake his own death in order to
get out of his cell phone contract without
paying a fee. It didn't work.

4. The oldest condoms ever found date back
to the 1640s (they were found in a cesspit at
Dudley Castle), and were made from animal
and fish intestines.

5. In 1923, jockey Frank Hayes won a race at
Belmont Park in New York despite being dead
— he suffered a heart attack mid-race, but
his body stayed in the saddle until his horse
crossed the line for a 20–1 outsider victory.

6. Everyone has a unique tongue print , just
like fingerprints.

7. Most Muppets are left-handed. (Because
most Muppeteers are right-handed , so they
operate the head with their favoured hand.)

8. Female kangaroos have three vaginas .

9. It costs the U.S. Mint almost twice as much
to mint each penny and nickel as the coins
are actually worth. Taxpayers lost over $100
million in 2013 just through the coins being
made.

10. Light doesn't necessarily travel at the
speed of light. The slowest we've ever
recorded light moving at is 38 mph .

11. Casu marzu is a Sardinian cheese that
contains live maggots . The maggots can jump
up to five inches out of cheese while you're
eating it, so it's a good idea to shield it with
your hand to stop them jumping into your
eyes.

12. The loneliest creature on Earth is a whale
who has been calling out for a mate for over
two decades — but whose high-pitched voice
is so different to other whales that they
never respond .

13. The spikes on the end of a stegosaurus'
tail are known among paleontologists as the
"thagomizer" — a term coined by cartoonist
Gary Larson in a 1982 Far Side drawing .

14. During World War II, the crew of the
British submarine HMS Trident kept a fully
grown reindeer called Pollyanna aboard their
vessel for six weeks (it was a gift from the
Russians).

15. The northern leopard frog swallows its
prey using its eyes — it uses them to help
push food down its throat by retracting them
into its head.

16. The first man to urinate on the moon was
Buzz Aldrin, shortly after stepping onto the
lunar surface.
NASA/Newsmakers

17. Some fruit flies are genetically resistant to
getting drunk — but only if they have an
inactive version of a gene scientists have
named "happyhour".

18. Experiments show that male rhesus
macaque monkeys will pay to look at pictures
of female rhesus macaques' bottoms.

19. In 1567, the man said to have the longest
beard in the world died after he tripped over
his beard running away from a fire .

20. The Dance Fever of 1518 was a month-
long plague of inexplicable dancing in
Strasbourg , in which hundreds of people
danced for about a month for no apparent
reason. Several of them danced themselves
to death.

21. Vladimir Nabokov nearly invented the
smiley .

22. In 1993, San Francisco held a referendum
over whether a police officer called Bob
Geary was allowed to patrol while carrying a
ventriloquist's dummy called Brendan
O'Smarty. He was.

23. Sigurd the Mighty, a ninth-century Norse
earl of Orkney, was killed by an enemy he
had beheaded several hours earlier. He'd
tied the man's head to his horse's saddle,
but while riding home one of its protruding
teeth grazed his leg . He died from the
infection.

24. The Dutch village of Giethoorn has no
roads; its buildings are connected entirely by
canals and footbridges.

25. A family of people with blue skin lived in
Kentucky for many generations. The Fulgates
of Troublesome Creek are thought to have
gained their blue skin through combination of
inbreeding and a rare genetic condition
known as methemoglobinemia.

26. Powerful earthquakes can permanently
shorten the length of Earth's day , by moving
the spin of the Earth's axis. The 2011 Japan
earthquake knocked 1.8 microseconds off our
days. The 2004 Sumatra quake cost us
around 6.8 microseconds.

27. The first American film to show a toilet
being flushed on screen was Alfred
Hitchcock's Psycho.

28. Melting glaciers and icebergs make a
distinctive fizzing noise known as "bergy
seltzer" .

29. There is a glacier called "Blood Falls" in
Antarctica that regularly pours out red liquid,
making it look like the ice is bleeding. (It's
actually oxidised salty water .)
30. In 2008 scientists discovered a new
species of bacteria that lives in hairspray .

31. The top of the Eiffel Tower leans away
from the sun , as the metal facing the sun
heats up and expands. It can move as much
as 7 inches.

32. Lt. Col. "Mad" Jack Churchill was only
British soldier in WWII known to have killed
an enemy soldier with a longbow. "Mad Jack"
insisted on going into battle armed with both
a medieval bow and a claymore sword.

33. A U.S. park ranger named Roy C. Sullivan
held the record for being struck by lightning
the most times, having been struck — and
surviving — seven times between 1942 and
1977. He died of a self-inflicted gunshot in
1983.

34. The longest musical performance in
history is currently taking place in the church
of St. Burchardi in Halberstadt, Germany. The
performance of John Cage's "Organ²/ASLSP
(As Slow As Possible)" started on Sept. 5,
2001, and is set to finish in 2640. The last
time the note changed was October 2013; the
next change isn't due until 2020.

35. There's an opera house on the U.S.–
Canada border where the stage is in one
country and half the audience is in another.

36. The tiny parasite Toxoplasma gondii can
only breed sexually when in the guts of a cat.
To this end, when it infects rats, it changes
their behaviour to make them less scared of
cats .

37. The katzenklavier ("cat piano") was a
musical instrument made out of cats .
Designed by 17th-century German scholar
Athanasius Kircher, it consisted of a row of
caged cats with different voice pitches, who
could be "played" by a keyboardist driving
nails into their tails.

38. There is a single mega-colony of ants that
spans three continents, covering much of
Europe, the west coast of the U.S., and the
west coast of Japan.

39. The largest snowflake ever recorded
reportedly measured 15 inches across .

40. An epidemic of laughing that lasted
almost a year broke out in Tanganyika (now
Tanzania) in 1962. Several thousand people
were affected, across several villages. It
forced a school to close. It wasn't fun,
though — other symptoms included crying,
fainting, rashes, and pain.

41. The Romans used to clean and whiten
their teeth with urine. Apparently it works.
Please don't do it, though.

42. There are around 60,000 miles of blood
vessels in the human body. If you took them
all out and laid them end to end, they'd
stretch around the world more than twice.


But, seriously, don't do that either.



SOURCE: Buzz feeds

1. The longest time between two twins being
born is 87 days .

2. The world's deepest postbox is in Susami
Bay in Japan . It's 10 metres underwater.

3. In 2007, an American man named Corey
Taylor tried to fake his own death in order to
get out of his cell phone contract without
paying a fee. It didn't work.

4. The oldest condoms ever found date back
to the 1640s (they were found in a cesspit at
Dudley Castle), and were made from animal
and fish intestines.

5. In 1923, jockey Frank Hayes won a race at
Belmont Park in New York despite being dead
— he suffered a heart attack mid-race, but
his body stayed in the saddle until his horse
crossed the line for a 20–1 outsider victory.

6. Everyone has a unique tongue print , just
like fingerprints.

7. Most Muppets are left-handed. (Because
most Muppeteers are right-handed , so they
operate the head with their favoured hand.)

8. Female kangaroos have three vaginas .

9. It costs the U.S. Mint almost twice as much
to mint each penny and nickel as the coins
are actually worth. Taxpayers lost over $100
million in 2013 just through the coins being
made.

10. Light doesn't necessarily travel at the
speed of light. The slowest we've ever
recorded light moving at is 38 mph .

11. Casu marzu is a Sardinian cheese that
contains live maggots . The maggots can jump
up to five inches out of cheese while you're
eating it, so it's a good idea to shield it with
your hand to stop them jumping into your
eyes.

12. The loneliest creature on Earth is a whale
who has been calling out for a mate for over
two decades — but whose high-pitched voice
is so different to other whales that they
never respond .

13. The spikes on the end of a stegosaurus'
tail are known among paleontologists as the
"thagomizer" — a term coined by cartoonist
Gary Larson in a 1982 Far Side drawing .

14. During World War II, the crew of the
British submarine HMS Trident kept a fully
grown reindeer called Pollyanna aboard their
vessel for six weeks (it was a gift from the
Russians).

15. The northern leopard frog swallows its
prey using its eyes — it uses them to help
push food down its throat by retracting them
into its head.

16. The first man to urinate on the moon was
Buzz Aldrin, shortly after stepping onto the
lunar surface.
NASA/Newsmakers

17. Some fruit flies are genetically resistant to
getting drunk — but only if they have an
inactive version of a gene scientists have
named "happyhour".

18. Experiments show that male rhesus
macaque monkeys will pay to look at pictures
of female rhesus macaques' bottoms.

19. In 1567, the man said to have the longest
beard in the world died after he tripped over
his beard running away from a fire .

20. The Dance Fever of 1518 was a month-
long plague of inexplicable dancing in
Strasbourg , in which hundreds of people
danced for about a month for no apparent
reason. Several of them danced themselves
to death.

21. Vladimir Nabokov nearly invented the
smiley .

22. In 1993, San Francisco held a referendum
over whether a police officer called Bob
Geary was allowed to patrol while carrying a
ventriloquist's dummy called Brendan
O'Smarty. He was.

23. Sigurd the Mighty, a ninth-century Norse
earl of Orkney, was killed by an enemy he
had beheaded several hours earlier. He'd
tied the man's head to his horse's saddle,
but while riding home one of its protruding
teeth grazed his leg . He died from the
infection.

24. The Dutch village of Giethoorn has no
roads; its buildings are connected entirely by
canals and footbridges.

25. A family of people with blue skin lived in
Kentucky for many generations. The Fulgates
of Troublesome Creek are thought to have
gained their blue skin through combination of
inbreeding and a rare genetic condition
known as methemoglobinemia.

26. Powerful earthquakes can permanently
shorten the length of Earth's day , by moving
the spin of the Earth's axis. The 2011 Japan
earthquake knocked 1.8 microseconds off our
days. The 2004 Sumatra quake cost us
around 6.8 microseconds.

27. The first American film to show a toilet
being flushed on screen was Alfred
Hitchcock's Psycho.

28. Melting glaciers and icebergs make a
distinctive fizzing noise known as "bergy
seltzer" .

29. There is a glacier called "Blood Falls" in
Antarctica that regularly pours out red liquid,
making it look like the ice is bleeding. (It's
actually oxidised salty water .)
30. In 2008 scientists discovered a new
species of bacteria that lives in hairspray .

31. The top of the Eiffel Tower leans away
from the sun , as the metal facing the sun
heats up and expands. It can move as much
as 7 inches.

32. Lt. Col. "Mad" Jack Churchill was only
British soldier in WWII known to have killed
an enemy soldier with a longbow. "Mad Jack"
insisted on going into battle armed with both
a medieval bow and a claymore sword.

33. A U.S. park ranger named Roy C. Sullivan
held the record for being struck by lightning
the most times, having been struck — and
surviving — seven times between 1942 and
1977. He died of a self-inflicted gunshot in
1983.

34. The longest musical performance in
history is currently taking place in the church
of St. Burchardi in Halberstadt, Germany. The
performance of John Cage's "Organ²/ASLSP
(As Slow As Possible)" started on Sept. 5,
2001, and is set to finish in 2640. The last
time the note changed was October 2013; the
next change isn't due until 2020.

35. There's an opera house on the U.S.–
Canada border where the stage is in one
country and half the audience is in another.

36. The tiny parasite Toxoplasma gondii can
only breed sexually when in the guts of a cat.
To this end, when it infects rats, it changes
their behaviour to make them less scared of
cats .

37. The katzenklavier ("cat piano") was a
musical instrument made out of cats .
Designed by 17th-century German scholar
Athanasius Kircher, it consisted of a row of
caged cats with different voice pitches, who
could be "played" by a keyboardist driving
nails into their tails.

38. There is a single mega-colony of ants that
spans three continents, covering much of
Europe, the west coast of the U.S., and the
west coast of Japan.

39. The largest snowflake ever recorded
reportedly measured 15 inches across .

40. An epidemic of laughing that lasted
almost a year broke out in Tanganyika (now
Tanzania) in 1962. Several thousand people
were affected, across several villages. It
forced a school to close. It wasn't fun,
though — other symptoms included crying,
fainting, rashes, and pain.

41. The Romans used to clean and whiten
their teeth with urine. Apparently it works.
Please don't do it, though.

42. There are around 60,000 miles of blood
vessels in the human body. If you took them
all out and laid them end to end, they'd
stretch around the world more than twice.


But, seriously, don't do that either.



SOURCE: Buzz feeds