Some Really Cool But Weird Random Facts

Your heartbeat changes with the music you listen to!

Music can be so powerful it can affect your mood, brainwaves, and even your heartbeat! It turns out that when we listen to music our body reacts to the sounds we hear. If a person listens to rock or techno, their heartbeat will involuntarily speed up. The opposite is true if someone listens to more calming or instrumental music. Music is so influential it can alter your heartbeat, pulse rate, blood pressure, decrease your muscle tension, and even affect your body movement and coordination!

Facebook Hoax Photos

Amazed by the regular appearance of certain black and white photos in facebook, which claim to be of historic events or personalities. None of these photos are authentic. Surprisingly, the people who share them around don’t even bother to verify their authenticity.

Latest in the list is a photo of Nathuram Godse, about to shoot Gandhi. Actually, it’s a still from a 1963 movie called “Nine Hours to Rama”, which was based on Nathuram Godse’s life. Here’s the imdb link:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057362/

Few days back, ultra-patriotic Indian facebook users were circulating another “pre-1947″ photo of two Indian freedom fighters being hanged in public by British police. The photo originally was of two african american person being lynched by a white racist mob (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ThomasShippAbramSmith.jpg)

Last but not the least – the “Dancing Gandhi”. How many of us know this actually was an Australian actor portraying Gandhi in a charity event. Read this article: http://8ate.blogspot.in/2011/11/dancing-gandhi.html

Overtoun Bridge- DOG SUICIDE BRIDGE


There is a bridge in Scotland famous for dog suicides..!! Studies have shown that since the 1950s or 1960s numerous dogs have leaped from the bridge at the rate of about one dog a month.

Dogs leap over the bridge parapet fall 50 feet (15 m) below. Some dogs that survived this drop, and were then taken back to the bridge, have also jumped again. The only linking factors for this unexplained event is that dogs mostly jump from the same side of the bridge, in clear weather, and they are breeds with long snouts.

THE HUMAN HOURGLASS

Nicknamed the “human hourglass,” Romanian-born model Ioana Spangenberg’s waist is a tiny 20 inches — and the beauty says she’s able to maintain her figure all while eating three square meals a day and noshing on junk food in between.

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