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5 More Weird Addictions

5 More Weird Addictions

SharePeeling lips to bleed It might sound common, as we all peel our lips when they are too dry or their skin is coming off. Generally, when the lips are too dry, we carry the best of lip balms, chap sticks, lipsticks, Vaseline and even waxes etc. And even if one doesn’t get to solve [...]

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8 Weird New Year Traditions around the World

8 Weird New Year Traditions around the World

ShareBreaking Dishes On Neighbor’s Door One of the most weird new year tradition practised in Denmark is to throw breakable dishes on neighbours door. Person with most broken dishes is considered to be luckiest and feels proud. PLEASE DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME!!! Wear Colourful Underwear (Mexico, Brazil) People from Mexico and Brazil celebrate New Year by [...]

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5 Most Expensive Coffees of the World

5 Most Expensive Coffees of the World

ShareIt’s amazing how the world begins to change through the eyes of a cup of coffee! Coffee is indeed one of nature’s most gratifying creations. It actually plays a vital role in many societies. It has a very revitalizing effect and has been found to be important to health effects. But unlike any other warm [...]

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5 Dangerous Plants that can Kill You

5 Dangerous Plants that can Kill You

ShareThe real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes,but in having new eyes. If it is about nature, then it is definitely not easy to write about. One can simply go on and on about it and you can never bring enough out of it. Let’s take plants for example our world consists [...]

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5 Unique and Interesting World Records

5 Unique and Interesting World Records

ShareMost Kites Flown Simultaneously In 2009,thousands of children in the Gaza Strip set a new world record by flying more than 5000 colorful homemade kites amid the ruins of Israel’s bruising offensive earlier this year,previous record was of 717 kites. The festive event, sponsored by the United Nations, brought some 6,000 campers in orange uniforms [...]

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5 Weird Burial Rituals around the World

5 Weird Burial Rituals around the World

ShareSpace Burial Space burial is a burial procedure in which a small sample of the cremated ashes of the deceased are placed in a capsule the size of a tube of lipstick and are launched into space using a rocket. As of 2004, samples of about 150 people have been “buried” in space. The list [...]

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5 Reasons Aliens Can Exist

5 Reasons Aliens Can Exist

ShareA person who comes from a far-off land is normally called an immigrant, or an outsider, and probably treated like one too, but do we call him an alien? No we don’t. Because the word ‘alien’ in our common consideration is not referred to as a foreigner, but a non humane, frightful, vicious and presumably [...]

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12 Unique and Stupid World Records

12 Unique and Stupid World Records

ShareLongest Hair sprouting from ears Anthony Victor has hair sprouting from the center of his outer ears that measures 18.1 centimeters which is around 7.12 inches long. Rolling Orange with Nose Ashrita Furman holds a Guinness world record for rolling orange with a nose on Terminal 4 of JFK Airport which is almost a mile [...]

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