Weird and Bizarre

Officers stopped the man and opened his luggage to find a 2-year-old male orangutan sleeping inside a rattan basket. Customs officers also found allergy pills in the passenger’s luggage, as well as two geckos and five lizards. All the animals were alive. Orangutans are a protected species that face threats from deforestation and poaching. They are listed as critically endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. Zhestkov could face up to five years in prison and $7,000 in fines if convicted for smuggling. He had fed the orangutan allergy pills mixed with milk, causing the animal to lose consciousness for up toRead More →

Most of the original props for Star Wars were kept in a storage locker in California. Upon completing the film’s post-production, the studio decided they didn’t want to keep paying the rent on the storage unit, so they ordered everything stored there to be discarded. Although some of the props were taken as keepsakes by some of the production crew, most of them were just thrown into dumpsters. However, one of the crew discarding the props, Doug, decided to save a few pieces including the original Death Star prop. Doug proudly kept this on display at his house for roughly a decade, before moving toRead More →

It is a temperature at which atom and light itself behave in highly unusual way. At Wolfgang Ketterle’s lab, MIT, Cambridge. Temperature achieved: −459.67∘F , (810 trillionths of a degree F above absolute zero). It holds the Guinness world record. To get an idea of this temperature, you must know: The coldest Temperature in deep outer space is−455∘F.   The coldest Temperature on Moon is−275∘F. The coldest Temperature on Mars is −243∘F.   Now imagine the chills Wolfgang Ketterle’s lab can give you. The story behind this Ketterle achieved this feat when he was actually trying to create a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). These condensates are formedRead More →