There is a famous quote about Secret “If you told someone it is no longer a secret”. But in reality secrets are the most shared facts. We have to admit that people show more interest to know secrets, let it be a general or personal secret. Likewise, we have collection of elusive secrets that nobody knows about it. Are you ready to know?
The World’s Most Elusive Secrets-
- In Japan, you can hire a handsome man to watch sentimental movies with you and wipe away your tears (Really!)
- In the hills of northeastern India, Ziona Chana presides over the world’s biggest family. It’s composed of his 39 wives, 94 children, 14 daughters-in-law, and 33 grandkids, and all live in his four-story lavender mansion.
- The fabled island city, a world power in the 10th millennium that vanished overnight. Two places could’ve been Atlantis, namely the island of Santorini sunk by a volcano or Sicily, which at the time was very similar to the supposed Atlantis.
- Until the 1800’s, dentures were often made from the teeth of dead soldiers.
- Ethiopia lives seven years behind the rest of the world based on its alternate calculations of when Jesus Christ was born, according to The Africa Report.
- The current US flag was designed by high school boy Robert Heft as part of a school project. He initially got a B- on the project, but when his design was chosen for the country, his teacher gave him an A.
- A book created in the early 1400s that is almost entirely composed of a language never before seen and never deciphered since. It comes with a collection of colorful drawings of strange plant-like creatures and celestial diagrams, but the contents remain elusive with some speculation, it might’ve been a book on early medieval medicine.
- In the 1700s, “macaroni” was a slang term for a fashionable man
- In Denmark, citizens have to select baby names from a list of 7,000 government-approved names.
- A tomato plant was found on the 40 year old volcanic island, Surtsey. Scientists were surprised as to how it got there. Actually, it was from scientist taking a dump: His feces served as a natural compost
- It’s really awesome that about 500 improvements are made every year in Google’s search methods. These are fiercely protected as they are able to detect misspellings and get the right results
- The cigarette lighter was invented before the match
- It snows pieces of metal on Venus
- In ancient Egypt, servants were covered in honey so as to attract flies away from pharaoh
- It is a surprising fact that every continent has a city called Rome.
- Human thigh bones are much stronger than concrete. (Unbeleivable !)
- A giraffe’s tongue is up 21 inches long. Sometime, they use them to clean their own noses.
- The results of Oscars is something that temporarily deprive of sight from a lot of people around the world. But the results are kept secret until the very last moment. The way they do it is simple-by making sure that the ballot is counted and the results are tabulated by hand. Only two people-Brad Oltmans and Rick Rosas, both of whom are accountants at PricewaterhouseCoopers, know of the results beforehand.
- The amount of Nutella produced in a year could wrap around the world 1.4 times :O
