Facts About Meteor Crater - strangefacts

• Meteor Crater is a meteorite impact crater located approximately 43 miles (69 km) east of Flagstaff, near Winslow in the northern Arizona desert of the United States

• Because the US Department of the Interior Division of Names commonly recognizes names of natural features derived from the nearest post office, the feature acquired the name of “Meteor Crater” from the nearby post office named Meteor

• Middlesboro is the only city in the United States built within a meteor crater

• The crater was created about 50,000 years ago during the Pleistocene epoch when the local climate on the Colorado Plateau was much cooler and damper

• At the time, the area was an open grassland dotted with woodlands inhabited by woolly mammoths, giant ground sloths, and camels

• It was probably not inhabited by humans; the earliest confirmed record of human habitation in the Americas dates from long after this impact

• The object that excavated the crater was a nickel-iron meteorite about 50 meters (54 yards) across, which impacted the plain at a speed of several kilometers per second

• Meteor Crater was originally thought to be a volcanic crater, since there were other volcanic craters, including the still-active Sunset Crater, in the region

• However, in the 1890s, mineralogists discovered iron fragments in the crater. This led geologists to suggest that the crater was caused by a meteor crash

• Daniel Barringer (1860-1929), a Philadelphia mining engineer who explored the site in 1903, was convinced the meteorite was buried beneath the crater. He purchased the land and, in 1906, began drilling

Facts About Mount Roraima - strangefacts

• Mount Roraima (mountain, South America) giant flat-topped mountain, or mesa, in the Pakaraima Mountains of the Guiana Highlands , at the point where the boundaries of Brazil, Venezuela, and Guyana meet

• About 9 miles (14 km) long and 9,094 feet (2,772 metres) high, it is the source of many rivers of Guyana, and of the Amazon and Orinoco

• Mount Roraima is a pretty remarkable place. It is a tabletop mountain with sheer 400-metre high cliffs on all sides

• There is only one ‘easy’ way up, on a natural staircase-like ramp on the Venezuelan side – to get up any other way takes and experienced rock climber

• On the top of the mountain it rains almost every day, washing away most of the nutrients for plants to grow and creating a unique landscape on the bare sandstone surface

• This also creates some of the highest waterfalls in the world over the sides (Angel falls is located on a similar tabletop mountain some 130 miles away)

• Though there are only a few marshes on the mountain where vegetation can grow properly, these contain many species unique to the mountain, including a species of carnivorous pitcher plant

• The mountain marks the border between Venezuela, Brazil and Guyana, although more than three quarters of the mountain is in Venezuelan territory 

• It is the highest mountain in Guyana, but Venezuela and Brazil have higher mountains. The triple border point on the summit is at 5°12'08N, 60°44'07W

• Roraima lies on the Guiana Shield in the southeastern corner of Venezuela's 30,000 km² Canaima National Park, which is roughly located in the Gran Sabana region 

Facts About Door To Hell - strangefacts

• East of the Caspian Sea in the middle of Karakum desert somewhere in Central Asia hide a secret It is something so surreal and extraordinary in the same time you thing is not real at all

• Here near a small town of Darvaza, Turkmenistan is located “The door to hell” how locals name the strange place

• In fact it is a 50 – 100 meter crater who burn continues for 35 years without any pause

• The Door to Hell, as local residents at the nearby town of Darvaza have dubbed it, is a 70 meter wide crater in Turkmenistan that has been burning continuously for 35 years

• In 1971, geologists drilling for gas deposits uncovered a huge underground cavern, which caused the ground over it to collapse, taking down all their equipment and their camp with it

• During a drilling they found an underground cavern filled with natural gas

• In this moment the ground collapsed, leaving a large gaping hole exposed

• To avoid poisonous gases coming out of the hole, it was decide to fire up and let the gas burn

• Since the cavern was filled poisonous gas, they dared not go down to retrieve their equipment, and to prevent the gas escaping they ignited it, hoping it would burn itself out in a couple of days

• From its burning mouth pours the stench of sulphur, fouling the local air and making anything with nasal cavities flee from the vicinity 

Proposing Girl Funny Pics - strangefacts

• Walk up behind girl and point fingers shaped like gun into her back

"You're under arrest!"

For what?

"For stealing my heart."

•  Hi, my name is Chance, Do I have one?

• Are your legs tired?

Girl: Why?

because you have been running through my mind all day!

•  "I lost my phone number, can I borrow yours?"

•  Can you give me directions to your heart? I've seemed to have lost myself in your eyes.

• Take a look at the tag on the girls shirt, jacket, etc. She would say,"What are you doing"

you respond,"Oh, just checking to see if you were made in Heaven."

• Pick up a flower and walk over to girl. "I was just showing this flower how beautiful you are."

• Is it hot in here or is it just you?

•  Hey Girls, walk up to a guy and say: "Are you from Greece?" "No" he answers.

Then you say, "Oh, I thought all the Gods were from Greece"

•  GEEEEE.. I FEEL LIKE RICHARD GERE STANDING BESIDE YOU ........... PRETTY WOMEN

Facts About Charlie Chaplin - strangefacts

• He was born four days before Adolf Hitler, in 1889

• Charlie Chaplin was so popular during the 1920s and 1930s, he received over 73,00 letters in just 2 days during a visit to London

• After adopting his trademark Little Tramp costume, consisting of baggy pants, bamboo cane, bowler hat, and over-sized shoes, Chaplin became a Hollywood icon

• Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest

• He was the first actor to appear on Time magazine. Chaplin appeared on the July 6, 1925 issue of Time magazine, a U.S.-based news magazine. He was the first actor ever to appear on the magazine known for its influential cover photo

Screenshot From Movie "THE GREAT DICTATOR"

• His understudy in England was Stan Laurel; they sailed to America together and shared a boarding house when they arrived

• In 1925, he was the first actor to appear on the cover of Time magazine

• At the height of his popularity, he failed to win a Charlie Chaplin look-a-like contest

• His imprints were removed (and subsequently lost) from the Hollywood walk of fame because of his suspected communist views

• Although Adolf Hitler despised Chaplin, he was aware of his popularity, and grew the Chaplin mustache to endear himself to the people

Facts About Yuri Gagarin - strangefacts

• Colonel Yuri A. Gagarin was born on a collective farm in a region west of Moscow, Russia on March 9, 1934

• Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first human in space and the first man to orbit the Earth making a 108-minute orbital flight in his Vostok 1 spacecraft 

• His father was a carpenter. Yuri attended the local school for six years and continued his education at vocational and technical schools

• Yuri Gagarin joined the Russian Air Force in 1955 and graduated with honors from the Soviet Air Force Academy in 1957

• Soon afterward, he became a military fighter pilot. By 1959, he had been selected for cosmonaut training as part of the first group of USSR cosmonauts

• Yuri Gagarin flew only one space mission

• On April 12, 1961 he became the first human to orbit Earth. Gagarin's spacecraft, Vostok 1, circled Earth at a speed of 27,400 kilometers per hour

• The flight lasted 108 minutes. At the highest point, Gagarin was about 327 kilometers above Earth

• Once in orbit, Yuri Gagarin had no control over his spacecraft

• Vostok's reentry was controlled by a computer program sending radio commands to the space capsule Although the controls were locked, a key had been placed in a sealed envelope in case an emergency situation made it necessary for Gagarin to take control. As was planned, Cosmonaut Gagarin ejected after reentry into Earth's atmosphere and landed by parachute

Facts About Human Brain - strangefacts

• Human brain neurons system is so large that you start from earth and take a round of moon and back to starting position

• Average human brain usage is  upto 2 % out of 100 % while Einstein uses his brain upto 15 %, thats  why he is so genius

• The odds are 1 out of 7,143 (.014%) that you have a brain tumor

• Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles per hour

• The average human brain has about 100 billion nerve cells

• The average human loses 85,000 brain cells each day, while only 50 are regenerated each day

• According to UCLA neuroscientists, only one brain cell is needed to spot a familiar face

• After age 30, the brain begins to lose about 50,000 neurons per day - shrinking the brain .25% each year

• The human central nervous system filters out 99% of what your senses register so the brain doesn't have to bother processing unimportant matters

• More electrical impulses are generated in one day by a single human brain than in all the telephones in the world