Why smokers should quit smoking

Every day, thousands of people die of diseases caused by smoking. So, why don’t we quit smoking? Here we have some facts:

A car that makes Ferrari’s look like turtles

The Bugatti Veyron is a truly incredible car. It beats other super cars on so many levels, it is just mind blowing. Here are some facts that make it extraordinary:

Just one set of tyres costs about  €20.000 ($26.000), that’s only a tiny bit of the total price tag which is a staggering €1.9 million ($2.5 million), which you can expect from a car that is test driven for 500 km (312 miles), to make sure there are no defects, and the customer is happy,
which he will be with a car that delivers an enormous 1001 horsepower (1200 for the Super Sport version), which propels it to a top speed of 407 km/h (253 mph), which was not fast enough so they built the Super Sport version to reach 431 km/h (268 mph), both much faster than a Ferrari Enzo (350 km/h – 220 mph).

Orangutan prostitute

For decades, great apes have been used as a means of making money for man. However, their financial
extortion has hit a new low with the prostitution of female orangutans. Once again, humanity has shown its dark side. The picture below shows Pony, a female orangutan that was used as a sex slave in an Indonesian prostitute village. Her hair had been shaved, and she sat on a mattress while being chained to a wall. She was used to satisfying the sexual urges of men, and would present herself every time a man walked past her.

Fighting 100 men in a row, the ultimate Mortal Kombat

Less than 20 people in history have ever completed the exhaustive, painful and incredibly challenging 100 men kumite. So what is the 100 men kumite? Well, it is a test in kyokushinkai karate, one of the toughest styles of karate. Kyokushinkai says hard fighting (in the ring! not smacking people senseless in the streets) is the only way to know how good you are. To test their fighters’ ability, kyokushinkai’s founder (Masutatsu Oyama) devised the ultimate challenge, the 100 men kumite. This means one person has to fight 100 men in a row in rounds lasting for 1.5 to 2 minutes.

Kevin Richardson, ‘The Lion Whisperer’

Most of us have heard of, Cesar Millan, ‘The Dog Whisperer’, but who of you has heard of ‘The Lion Whisperer’? It is not a joke, Kevin Richardson plays with these big cats as if they were nothing more but small kittens. His way of interacting with them is nothing short of amazing as he literally walks with lions. Aside from lions, Richardson also works with leopards and hyenas.

Antimatter, real or science fiction?

Have you seen the movie ‘Angels and Demons’ with Tom Hanks? In that movie, people tried to destroy the Vatican with antimatter, produced at CERN (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire / European Council for Nuclear Research).

So what is antimatter? Well, in the beginning of the universe there was matter and antimatter. Matter is what we and everything around us is made of. Antimatter is the opposite of matter. If the two collide, they annihilate each other, producing large amounts of energy. 0.5 grams of antimatter + 0.5 grams of matter create an explosion as powerful as the atomic bomb that destroyed the city of Hiroshima in World War Two! This is because a matter and antimatter explosion is about 100% efficient at turning matter into energy, whereas an atomic bomb is only about 1% efficient.

The Door to Hell

If hell ever had a gateway, it would look like this. Situated near the town of Darvaza in Turkmenistan,  ‘the Door to Hell’ it is in fact a burning gas deposit. In 1971, Soviet geologists were drilling for natural gas when the ground beneath the drilling platform collapsed. Accidentally they discovered a big cavern with natural gas. To prevent the gas from spreading into the atmosphere, the geologists decided to ignite it, thinking the gas would be burned off in a matter of days. However, things did not work out the way they planned them, and more than 40 years later, the cavern is still burning. To this day, it remains one of the most awe inspiring sites on Earth.

Serial Killer Ed Gein, the real Hannibal Lecter

Movie characters like Norman Bates (Psycho), Leatherface (Texas Chainsaw Massacre), and Jame Gumb (The Silence of the Lambs) are probably characters we don't want to meet in real-life. Ironically, these characters are based on the American murderer Ed Gein who lived in Plainfield, Wisconsin.