The dog’s named Hachiko would meet Prof Ueno at Shibuya Station every day after his commute home. This continued untill May 21, 1925, when Prof Ueno died of a cerebral hemmorrhage while at work. From then till his death on March 8, 1935, Hachiko would return to Shibuya Station every day to await Ueno’s return
Reference : Wikipedia
World’s worst traffic congestion. The traffic jam slowed the thousands of vehicles for more than 100km. Cars moved at the speed of 1km per day, lasted for 12 days on China National Highway 110 (G110)
George Clooney gave 14 friends $1 million each in cash. He explained “these guy who’ve all, over a period 35 years, helped me in one way or another”
Reference : By Emmie Martin, CNBC, Dec 17, 2020
Nigel Richard, several times champions of the Scrabble Championship in French. He from New Zealand took 9 weeks to memorize all the French words without being able to speak the language he won
Mehran Karimi Nasseri living in Charles de Gaulle airport, France for 18 years since 1988 to 2006. A film titled The Terminal produced by Steven Spielberg bases of this true story and received $250,000 as inspiration for Dreamworks’ new film The Terminal but still sleeps on the plastic bench
Steven Spielberg menghasilkan filem ‘The Terminal’ dibintangi Tom Hanks berdasarkan kisah benar ini. Dia menerima 250,000 dolar dari Steven Spielberg sebagai ganjaran jalan cerita.
Soirce : Majalah Mastika
In 2011 a Brazillian man, Joao Pereira de Souza, a 73 year old part-time fisherman, found a penguin covered in oil and close to death. He nursed him back to health and since then the penguin swims 5,000 miles to reunite with the man who saved his life
When a secretary at Apple was late because of car trouble, Steve Jobs gave her a Jaguar and said “don’t be late anymore”. Are sure this is a true story. This is not mentioned in any of his biographies
Since Walt Disney World Resort opended in 1971, they’ve taken in over 1.65 million pairs of missing sunglasses. More than 6,000 cell phone, 3,500 digital cameras, 18,000 hats and 7,500 autograph books collected by Lost and Found Department. 210 pairs of sunglasses found every day
The world’s smallest cat was Tinker Toy, measured 7cm in height. Died when it was six years old in November 1997
Leonid Rogozov, 27-years-old Soviet Doctor, on May 1st, 1961 performing surgery on himself to remove an infected appendix
– Pembedahan sakit appendix
– pada 1 Mei 1961
– dengan bantuan cermin
– Ketika dalam misi di Antarctica
– Berada di tempat terpencil yang mustahil untuk menunggu
bantuan
Garry Kasparov, Russian chess grandmaster, was the first player to win a chess game against computer
$39 million per gallon cost for scorpion venom. It is the most expensive liquid in the world. Scorpion venom has a wide array of medical applications, from identifying tumors to treating malaria, antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral, antiparasitic, Immunosuppressive, analgesic, anticancer and bradykinin potentiating
Reference : National Library of Medicine read more : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7277529/
It costs 38 trillion dollars to create oxygen for 6 months for all human beings on earth. Allah’s technology is great, Trees do it for free. Then which of your Lord’s favours, will you ˹humans and jinn˺ both deny? 31 times god repeats this verse in Surah Ar-Rahman (Chapter 55)
There are no mosquitoes in Antarctica and Iceland because of the extreme cold, they cannot regulate their body temperature internally
Snowfall recorded in the Sahara Desert
1979, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021 & Jan 2022. In 2018 up to 30cm in higher elevation areas. Sahara receiving 100mm of rainfall per year.
Reference : Jasper Knight, Professor of Physical Geography, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Under construction, the world’s largest hotel in the world, Abraj Kudai in Saudi Arabia with 10,000 rooms, 70 restaurants dan 5 rooftop helipad
Drinking coffee can prevent or slow the progression of liver disease in some patients.
Reference : https://britishlivertrust.org.uk/information-and-support/living-with-a-liver-condition/diet-and-liver-disease/coffee-and-the-liver/#:~:text=Coffee%20also%20lowers%20the%20risk,prepared%20%E2%80%93%20filtered%2C%20instant%20and%20espresso https://www.webmd.com/hepatitis/coffee-help-liver
those who consumed spicy foods 6 or 7 days a week showed a 14% relative risk reduction in total mortality
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26242395/
Spicy food associated with longevity benefits by lowered mortality rates by 14 percent, according to study by Harvard School of Public Health (2015) and China National Center for Desease Control and Prevention
Benefits :-
longevity²
Speeds up metabolism²
Combat inflammation²
Fight cancer, Capsaicin, an active component of chili peppers, to slow and destroy cancer cells²
Cumin & turmeric is antimicrobial (Kill bacteria)²
¹Harvard School of Public Health (2015) and China National Center for Desease Control and Prevention ²healthline
A diamond merchant from India has gifted 400 flats and 1,260 cars to his employees
There is a part of the spider’s leg that has no muscles, it moves using the hydraulic system powered by their blood pressure, that’s why when the spider dies, its legs will curl up because its heart is no longer pumping blood and the hydraulic system is no longer operating
1. Warna kuning mudah dilihat pada waktu gelap berbanding merah
2. Saintis mengatakan warna kuning lebih cepat dikesan
3. Tulisan hitam ‘BAS SEKOLAH’ pada permukaan kuning lebih mudah dibaca dalam cahaya yang malap oleh pemandu lain terutama bila berhenti di tepi jalan untuk mengambil pelajar
Why school bus are Yellow?
1. Yellow more easily noticed in a dark environment, better than we see Red
2. We see Yellow faster than any other colour
3. Black lettering on yellow is easiest for driver to see in the darkness of early morning especially when stopping on the side of the road to pick up students
Scorpions can hold their breath for up to 6 days
Allah menjadikan permukaan jari berkedut bila lama terendam di dalam air bagi membolehkan kita mudah berpaut pada sesuatu yang basah dan mengurangkan licin. Kesan kedut memberikan geseran yang lebih terhadap permukaan yang dicapai
Allah made the surface of the finger wrinkled when submerged in water for a long time to allow us to easily cling to something wet and reduce slippery
Von Braun Station, will be turned into a space hotel in the future
Four teenage girls in Africa have invented a generator to produces electricity using urine as fuel. Six hours electricity using a single liter urine.
Craig Lewis survived for another 5 weeks after used artificial heart with no beat. His family asked that his artificial heart be unplugged due to liver and kidney failure.
Guinness World Records, longest non-stop migration by a bird, a bar-tailed godwit (Limosa lapponica) flew 13,560 km from Alaska to the Australian state of Tasmania without stopping for food or rest.
The hummingbird is the hungry birds in the world, one of the highest metabolic rates, food supply is equal to 77 times as much as most human eats, heart rates up to 1,260 beats per minute, breathing rate is about 250 breaths per minute even at rest.
Reference : San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance (web site) read more : https://animals.sandiegozoo.org/animals/hummingbird https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1325055/#:~:text=Hummingbirds%20have%20one%20of%20the,per%20minute%20even%20at%20rest.
Giraffes are 30 times more likely to get hit by lightning than people is an inaccurate fact by ‘Science Focus’