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50 MOST INTERESTING UNKNOWN FACTS

50 MOST INTERESTING UNKNOWN FACTS   1. Hot water will turn into ice faster than cold water. 2. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. 3. The sentence, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English language. 4. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. 5. Ants never sleep! 6. “I Am” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. 7. Coca-Cola was originally green. 8. The most common name in the world is Mohammed. 9. When the moon is directly overhead, you will weigh slightly less. 10. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from the blowing desert sand. 11. There are only two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: “abstemious” and “facetious.” 12. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with. 13....

25 Interesting facts about USA

1-5 Interesting Facts About USA 1. USA won the last ever Olympic gold medal for rugby in 1924 and are therefore technically still reigning champions. 2. There are many people who live in Hawaii that refuse to be US citizens. They believe that the USA is occupying their country, and that Hawaii is actually the property of the Hawaiian Kingdom, not the USA. 3. Scientists in 1916 felt America was degenerating into a second rate nationality. They listed the Top 20 threats to USA: #8 America leads all nations in murders, #12 Hearty eating without exercise, #18 Remarkable cancer mortality increase. 4. The USA has a law that allows citizens to occupy any unclaimed island in the world, as long as there is seabird or bat poop on it. 5. The cost of the International Space Station is funded by the USA 81%, Russia 8%, Europe 3%, Japan 3%, and Canada 1%. 6-10 Interesting Facts About USA 6. Cost of college textbooks has risen 812 percent since 1978, far outpacing the rise in cost...

Kumari Kandam- The Lost Continent(குமரிக்கண்டம்)

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Kumari Kandam- The Lost Continent(குமரிக்கண்டம்) “Lemuria” in Tamil nationalist mysticist literature, connecting Madagascar, South India and Australia (covering most of the Indian Ocean). Mount Meru stretches southwards from Sri Lanka. The distance from Madagascar to Australia is about 4,200 miles Kumari Kandam or Lemuria  (Tamil:குமரிக்கண்டம்) is the name of a supposed sunken landmass referred to in existing ancient Tamil literature. It is said to have been located in the Indian Ocean, to the south of present-day Kanyakumari district at the southern tip of India. References in Tamil literature There are scattered references in Sangam literature, such as Kalittokai 104, to how the sea took the land of the Pandiyan kings, upon which they conquered new lands to replace those they had lost. There are also references to the rivers Pahruli and Kumari, that are said to have flowed in a now-submerged la...