7 Islands No One Wants to Buy Even for $1
Do you ever you dream to own a private island? If you do, you'll probably find this information useful. Have you ever heard that there are whole islands out there that you can purchase for a fraction of the typical price? But the real kicker is that nobody wants to buy them! And there're reasons for that.
Have you ever heard, for example, about Japan's Rabbit Island? They began to thrive and multiply on the island after a chemical weapons plant was closed. And these days, thousands of friendly bunnies will greet you if you decide to pay them a visit!
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Islands with colonial ruins, Brazil 0:31
Untouched nature and pine trees, Canada 1:15
Terrible Tilly, USA 1:55
Partly flooded island, USA 2:43
Island with an abandoned fort, USA 3:15
The island that disappears in the spring, Canada 4:19
Island for a couple only, Australia 5:04
Other islands where you can live
Rabbits island, Japan 6:44
Battleship Island, Japan 7:39
Island in Venice, Italy 8:22
The island of true paradise, the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste 8:57
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SUMMARY:
- For just 80,000 bucks, you can become the owner of not one but six islands situated on Brazil’s Sao Francisco River. But you’ll be subject to small annual taxes.
- Although Little Rocky Island lies in the Atlantic Ocean, neighboring islands protect it from foul weather. There’s no property on the island, but you can build anything you like there!
- Also known as Terrible Tilly, this island’s nickname speaks for itself. Well, it’s not technically an island in the traditional sense, it’s basically a rock with a single lighthouse on it off the coast of Oregon.
- If you have an extra 40K, you can buy a 1-acre island with a view of picturesque Maine. There’s a little cabin on the island, and you can theoretically build some other property there too if you want.
- You could become the owner of a historic private island on one condition: you have to restore the fort situated on it.
- People typically associate private islands with some sort of tropical paradise. But Canada’s McGibbon Island is nothing like that. Perhaps that explains the super low price tag of 30 grand.
- Welcome to a tiny island off the coast of Tasmania, Australia. This offer is open only for couples, and both partners should be equally eager to go to the island.
- Ōkunoshima Island lies approximately 2 miles off the coast of Japan. From 1929 to 1945, there was a chemical weapons plant on the island that produced poisonous gas.
- Dubbed Battleship Island because it looks like an old half-destroyed battleship, Hashima is located about 9 miles away from Nagasaki. From 1887 to 1974, there was a profitable coal mine on the island.
- Located in Venice, Italy, Lazzaretto Nuovo is also open for tourists but home to nobody. In 1468, the island became a quarantine area for ships that approached the city. This move was meant to protect Venice from the plague.
- Jaco Island belongs to the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste. This island looks like the picture of true paradise: lush green trees, crystal blue waters, and white sand. But his place is uninhabitable.
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9 Mysterious Places That Leave Scientists Confused
The history of the world is full of surprising mysteries. None of us will live long enough to see them all solved. Scientists have already discovered a lot about the Universe, but there are some real places out there that even leave them completely baffled! Have you ever heard, for example, about boiling river or never-ending lightning storm?
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Blood Falls 0:24
Floating Islands 1:12
Fiery Gates 1:59
Never-ending Lightning Storm 2:55
Boiling River 3:52
Split Sea 4:42
Twin Town 5:29
Sleeping City 6:22
The Petrifying Well 7:30
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SUMMARY:
- For a very long time, scientists couldn’t figure out what the reason was behind this crimson fall. At first, they believed that red algae gave the water its gory tint. But new studies found that iron oxides are present in the water.
- Despite these islands constantly moving, locals build their huts on them because most people in the area earn money by fishing in the lake.
- In the hot Karakum Desert in Turkmenistan, there’s a 226-foot-wide hole that’s been on fire for almost 50 years!
- If “lightning never strikes the same place twice” then apparently this unique spot in Venezuela where the Catatumbo River meets Lake Maracaibo didn’t get the memo. Here, there’s an average of 260 storm days and about 1.2 million lightning bolts striking it a year.
- Located deep in the Peruvian Amazon, this 4-mile-long river known as Shanay-Timpishka gets as hot as 196°F, which obviously means no swimming if you don’t wanna become soup!
- The devastating flood that hit Kerala, India last year almost submerged the whole state underwater. But then the locals saw a narrow strip of sand that had surfaced from the water along the beach and literally split the sea into two.
- While the national average of twin births is no more than 9 in 1,000, the number is as high as 45 in 1,000 in Kodinhi.
- Speaking of mysterious villages, this real-life and literal sleepy hollow is the remote town of Kalachi in Kazakhstan. In 2013, locals couldn’t stop falling asleep while they were doing everyday activities.
- This mystical well is located near the River Nidd, which runs through Knaresborough in North Yorkshire, UK. Oh yeah, and its water is known for turning objects into stone!
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Scientists Can't Explain the Mysterious Zone of Silence
Pilot Francisco Sarabia was flying over a patch of desert land in Mexico when his instruments started to act increasingly odd. His radio equipment was failing too. The man had to make an emergency landing in the middle of nowhere. Little did he know that this nowhere would be later dubbed the Zone of Silence, and the mystery behind this place would equal that of the infamous Bermuda Triangle.
So if you ever find yourself in a desert, 25 miles away from Ceballos, Mexico, and just 400 miles to the south of El Paso, Texas, get yourself ready - you're in the Mapimí Silent Zone, and some bizarre things might start to happen right away.
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What scientists think 7:03
What about plants and animals? 8:37
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SUMMARY:
- Weird radio silence isn't the only oddity of the creepy Zone. Like, what’s that weird trio that locals keep meeting in the Zone? They’re two men and a woman. Every time people see them, they’re wearing bizarre clothing that isn't suitable for a journey in the desert whatsoever.
- On top of all that, the Zone of Silence is known as a 30-mile (50 km) patch of deserted land where meteorites come crashing down on an eerily regular basis. In the 20th century alone, there were quite a number of such crashes.
- On July 11, 1970, the US launched an ATHENA rocket from the Air Force base in Green River, Utah. But here's the thing: the rocket was supposed to land somewhere in the area of White Sands in New Mexico. Instead, it went off course and, as if being pulled by some external force, crashed right in the heart of the Zone of Silence.
- In the process, the search party could tell that something was tampering with all their communications. That's why it was incredibly difficult to coordinate the work of the teams.
- Scientists have been trying to explain the things happening in the Zone of Silence for years. The most plausible conclusion they've drawn so far is the influence of minerals that are deposited deep underground.
- On the other hand, some experts disagree that the Zone of Silence attracts more meteorites than any other place on Earth.
- But even skeptics can't deny that there’ve been cases of radio communication loss and weird signal tampering. On the other hand, this phenomenon may have another rational explanation: the Zone of Silence is surrounded by a mountain range which can easily cause interference.
- But even without these stories and blood-chilling legends, the zone is nothing short of marvelous. Scientists say that the environment of the area is genuinely unique, with its own flora and fauna species.
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A Man Who Crossed the Atlantic Ocean Without Food and Water
Imagine this: you’ve decided to set sail across the Atlantic Ocean. Only, you’ll be taking a flimsy little inflatable boat and no water or food supplies. It’s hard to visualize because who in their right mind would do such a thing? Well, one guy did it way back in the ‘50s, and he did it for a very good reason!
Alain Bombard was a French doctor with a huge interest in survival techniques. In his medical experience, he saw plenty of cases of how tragic outcomes of shipwrecks can be. One thing bothered him most of all: at that time, lifeboats didn’t have any fishing equipment. Plus, it was believed that people can’t survive stranded in the ocean for more than a few days...
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How about fish juice? ???? 1:03
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No food. No water. An inflatable boat 2:55
The ghost ship 4:18
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Terrible storm 6:00
What was the main goal of his trip 7:53
#aloneatsea #ocean #survivalstories
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Dr. Alain Bombard with his wife at the Naval Museum in Paris, France, Feb. 15, 1957, after being presented with the Cross and Red Ribbon of the 'Legion of Honour', by Roger Duveau, the French Minister for the merchant navy. The award was made to Bombard for his crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in a rubber dinghy in December 1952: By ASSOCIATED PRESS/East News,
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SUMMARY:
- Alain Bombard developed a theory that it’s possible to survive for much longer only by consuming raw fish, plankton for vitamin C, and salty seawater if it were handled properly and at a bare minimum.
- In 1952, the 28-year-old decided to cross the Atlantic Ocean without any food or water supplies in a 15x6-foot (~5x2 m) inflatable boat. He dubbed the vessel: the Heretic. The Heretic was supposed to carry two people – Alain and his friend and navigator Jack Palmer – across the ocean with basic fishing equipment, a compass, and a sail.
- Their journey started on May 25, 1952. Bombard and Palmer set off from Monaco and headed west toward the Americas. It didn’t take them long to realize how challenging their goal was.
- One day, Alain and Jack clearly heard a ship coming closer to them, and they even saw lights! But suddenly, the wind blew the fog away, and Alain and Jack were shocked by what they saw: there were no vessels around them at all. The ship had vanished in thin air!
- A few days later, they landed in Tangier, Morocco, where Palmer decided to tap out of the whole experiment. For him, this trip was just too much, but for Alain, the experience was only proving that his theory was true, and he can reach his goal!
- The Atlantic wasn’t very fond of his decision, though. A storm began almost immediately. That’s when Alain realized that he wasn’t even close to being prepared for it.
- As if Alain Bombard had somehow passed a cruel examination by the Atlantic, the waters around him went calm, and fish started showing up in swarms. From there on, he always had enough opportunities to get food and water.
- The main goal of his dangerous trip was to prove that people stranded at sea after shipwreck could survive, but he didn’t stop himself from trying to attract the attention of nearby ships.
- Even as the sun scorched his skin, he lost 52 pounds (24 kg), and weathered a typhoon, none of that could compare to the starvation and storms he’d already gone through. On December 23, 1952, he arrived in Barbados, West Indies, and his emergency food supplies were still sealed.
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A Plane Disappeared And Landed 37 Years Later
What would you do if you went on a vacation to another city and suddenly found yourself in another country altogether? Most of us would be confused. Even the most reckless of adventurers would at least raise an eyebrow if told they’d flown for close to half a century.
On July 2, 1955, Pan American Flight 914 made its way from New York to Miami, Florida. It was a fine sunny day, and 57 passengers on board the plane were looking forward to seeing the warm beaches and palm trees of Florida. The plane took off without trouble, but 3 hours later, when it should’ve already landed at the destination airport, it was nowhere to be seen. When air traffic control contacted the New York tower, they got a perplexing reply: Flight 914 just disappeared from the radars in mid-air.
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SUMMARY:
- On July 2, 1955, Pan American Flight 914 made its way from New York to Miami, Florida. It was a fine sunny day, and 57 passengers on board the plane were looking forward to seeing the warm beaches and palm trees of Florida.
- Everything indicated that the plane was lost: apart from having vanished from the radars, air traffic control couldn’t get through to the pilots with the radio.
- Eventually, although the case was never really solved, there was an official statement that the plane crashed, taking the lives of everyone on board.
- Change of scenery. It’s now September 9, 1992, and we’re in Caracas, Venezuela. It’s a perfectly normal day for Juan de la Corte, air traffic controller at the Caracas airport.
- Seemingly out of nowhere, a new dot appeared on the radar. It was as if an aircraft had just popped up from nothingness, or as if it had been hiding from the radar and now decided to show up.
- In less than 10 minutes, the culprit showed up in the field of vision. At first it looked to the air traffic control like an ordinary airplane, but as it got closer, they could see that it was, in fact, very oldю
- The real confusion began when the pilot of the mysterious aircraft contacted the tower and asked in English, “Where are we?”
- The pilot said his flight was scheduled to land at the Miami airport at 9.55 am on July 2, 1955. Now it was time for the tower to fall into silence.
- Ground units were immediately called to assist the plane and the passengers, and it landed without trouble. Having relaxed a little bit, Juan finally decided to ask something that bothered him. “Do you know today is May 21, 1992?”
- Juan heard the flight captain’s panicky voice saying, “No! Stay away! We’re leaving now!” And indeed, he started the engines again and, without waiting for take-off clearance, taxied the plane to the runway.
- There’s much dispute about the credibility of this event. Back in 1985, a tabloid called Weekly World News was the first to cover this story.
- However, the legend still lives, and many sources retell it in their own way. Some even go as far as to say that the passengers of the plane eventually returned to their homes.
- One thing that keeps popping up on the Internet and piquing the interest of paranormal enthusiasts is a small pocket calendar that somehow was left on the Caracas airport runway when the notorious plane took off.
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Scientists Removed Water from an Old British Bridge But Couldn't Believe Their Eyes
There are places swarming with dark secrets, forbidden passages, and hidden rooms. Few people are aware of the existence of these places, but occasionally, someone will accidentally fall across a sealed door or locked room, and the mystery is unraveled.
Approximately 60 miles away from London, there is a beautiful old palace. Future British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was born within its walls. In 1768, the insides of the abandoned bridge got flooded. Lately, two of the lakes, the Queen Pool and the Great Lake, have been steadily drying out. Not so long ago, the decision was made to restore the Grand Bridge. The engineers constructed a labyrinth of dams, siphons, and groundwater wells, and as soon as the water level dropped by 6.5 ft, a shocking truth was revealed.
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Oh, such an eerie place! 2:04
Abandoned street underneath the streets of London 3:54
Mysterious Uffizi Gallery in Florence 4:36
Flinders Street Station old ballroom (Melbourne, Australia) 5:15
Secret railway station in New York 5:47
Tiny room at Mount Rushmore 6:11
Tunnels under the Colosseum 6:30
Royal Pavilion at Stazione Centrale (Milan, Italy) 6:56
Secret rooms in the New York Public Library 7:33
Cozy little apartment near the top of the Eiffel Tower 8:08
#secretolaces #mysteriousplaces #strangeplaces
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SUMMARY:
- The thing is that lately, two of the lakes, the Queen Pool and the Great Lake, have been steadily drying out. Experts were worried that if the lakes were to run completely dry, the bridge would become unstable.
- But not so long ago, in October 2018, the decision was made to restore the Grand Bridge. Undaunted by the $15-million reconstruction cost, work began to bring back one of the most beautiful views in England to life.
- It turned out that the bridge housed more than 30 rooms, and plaster on the walls indicated that people may have lived there in the early 18th century.
- With the help of a full internal 3D survey, the scientists were able to explore the eerie place. They discovered stairways and fireplaces, chimneys and strange chambers without windows, graffiti which dated back to the 1760s and broken and sunken boats used in the 1950s for reed cutting.
- The New Yorker Hotel in, well, New York is home to countless untold secrets, such as a mysterious Art Deco tunnel. This tunnel, safely concealed under 34th Street, goes from the hotel's lobby all the way to Penn station.
- One of the busiest railway stations in Melbourne, Australia, is Flinders Street Station. What most of these people don't know is that an old ballroom hides on the station’s third floor and is rarely open to visitors.
- Who would think that underneath the elegant Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York, there is a secret railway station! It used to be a wartime escape route.
- Did you know that at Mount Rushmore, right behind Abraham Lincoln's head, there is a tiny room, so small that it can barely fit several visitors?
- Rome is almost always crowded with people. And while more than 4 million visitors come to see the Colosseum each year, very few know that under this world-famous tourist attraction, there is a vast network of tunnels.
- More than 300,000 commuters go through Milan's central railway station, the Stazione Centrale, every single day. Most of them have no idea that behind the closed doors they pass is the most lavish and exclusive room in the whole building, Royal Pavilion.
- Despite the Eiffel Tower's fame, few people know that it hides a tiny secret. It's a cozy little apartment near the top of the tower. Gustave Eiffel, the creator of the magnificent construction, left this hidden nook for himself.
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A Plane Lost Both Engines So Pilots Had No Other Choice
“Would the lead steward please come to the flight deck... immediately”. Sounds like one of those in-flight announcements from a dramatic plane crash movie. No one would ever want to hear this in reality. Unfortunately, it’s exactly what the passengers on Air Transat Flight 236 heard as their plane ran out of fuel somewhere above the Atlantic.
It was supposed to be a regular flight for Air Transat from Toronto, Canada, to Lisbon, Portugal. The weather was fine that August evening, and Flight 236 took off without delays. It had 306 people on board. The Airbus was fairly new, with only 2 years of active service. It had two powerful engines, and 5 tons more fuel than is required when it took off. Yet, 8 hours later, when the plane should have touched down in Lisbon, it was nowhere to be seen...
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Fuel imbalance? What the... 2:35
Engine #2 fails completely 4:08
Panic in the cabin 5:02
The only attempt to touch down safely 6:20
The landing: shock and terror 7:24
How they got into this situation 8:39
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SUMMARY:
- At 05:03 UTC, after over 4 hours of a totally normal flight, the first alarming message came through. The onboard computer informed the pilots that the oil temperature had dropped and the oil pressure was higher than normal on engine 2, that same right engine.
- At 05:36 UTC another warning came through – this time about a fuel imbalance. The pilots, again, thought it was a false alarm and followed protocol for the situation.
- At 05:45 UTC, the pilots made the decision to divert the plane to the Azores and land it at Lajes Air Base. 3 minutes later, they informed Santa Maria Oceanic air traffic control they had a fuel emergency.
- At 06:13 UTC, when the plane was at 39,000 feet (11,880 m) and still 170 miles (273 km) away from Lajes, engine #2 failed completely from lack of fuel.
- They only had one option now – to glide for the rest of the distance to the base. Mr. DeJager, who was the co-pilot on Flight 236, remembers they were flying as if in a simulator dealing with new problems that arose every minute.
- All emergency services were activated on the ground, waiting for the plane to land safely. The pilots realized they only had 15 to 20 minutes and one attempt to touch down safely and save the passengers.
- At 06:45 UTC, the plane finally touched ground at the airbase, but it wasn’t exactly a smooth landing. 14 passengers and two crew members needed some medical help, and two people got seriously injured during the evacuation.
- It turned out that just five days before the incident maintenance staff installed a new right engine. It didn’t come with a hydraulic pump, so they decided to take one from a similar engine and attach it to the new one.
- There was a leak in the fuel hose, and it could have killed 306 people!
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10 Unique Places Where Gravity Is Zero
Planet Earth lives by the laws of gravity discovered by Sir Isaac Newton. Gravity is constant. It's something entirely unshakeable that we can always rely on in this ever-changing world, right? Umm, not really. In fact, it’s not as honest and clear as you think.
There are gravitational anomalies in some places where gravity behaves like it’s gone crazy. In such places this law can’t be applied: there, a car can go uphill with its engine off, a waterfall doesn’t fall, and a very heavy boulder can sit on top of a rock at a very strange angle without tumbling down.
TIMESTAMPS:
Where cars crawl upwards 0:40
Where trees twist to the north at the roots 1:41
Where a waterfall moves upwards 2:30
Where water flows up instead of spilling down 3:14
Where different objects roll uphill 3:59
Where a boulder sits upon the edge of a cliff 4:43
One more boulder defying gravity 5:41
Devils Tower 6:54
Where you can’t stand straight 7:58
The Hudson Bay anomaly 8:54
#gravity #anomaly #brightside
SUMMARY:
- There’s a stretch of road in India that’s been attracting tourists from all over the world. If you stop your car on the Magnetic Hill going up the slope and put it on neutral, it’ll start crawling upwards, eventually reaching the speed of up to 12 mph.
- Near the village of Nowe Czarnowo, there’s a forest, in the depth of which you can find a strangely looking pine grove. Planted in 1930s, there are 400 trees that sharply twist to the north almost at the roots and then grow upwards in a semicircle.
- Ever seen an upward moving waterfall? You can have a look at one on the Faroe Islands halfway from Iceland to Scotland.
- If you ever get up to the top of the dam, which is about 726 ft high, you can try a little trick: take a bottle of water and pour it over the edge. You’ll see the water flow up instead of spilling down.
- Another gravitational anomaly located on a road. Locals once found out that, if you put an empty can or a bottle on the ground, it will immediately start rolling uphill.
- If you happen to be in Burma, make sure to visit this well-known site. A gold-leaf covered boulder sits upon the edge of a cliff, and a small pagoda is built on top of it. The impressive thing about the rock is that it only lightly touches the cliff for support.
- If there ever was a thing that said “I defy gravity” out loud, it’s the Stone of Davasco. The huge 300-ton boulder stands precariously on the edge of a cliff and rocks a little bit from side to side in the wind.
- The true mind-blowing feature of Devils Tower is that scientists can’t explain how it came to existence in the first place. You see, it’s an 867-foot rock formation with walls so steep they’re basically vertical. This piece of stone just rose amid rolling plains of Wyoming with nothing like it for miles and miles around.-
- The House of Mystery in Gold Hill, Oregon, amazes its visitors with gravity-defying effects: you can’t stand straight there, always leaning to the side and having to hold on to something for balance.
- Hudson Bay, Canada, is probably the only place in the world where gravity is indeed lower than anywhere else on the planet! Even skeptics can’t smirk at it because the difference has been measured with precision equipment.
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14 Amazing Facts About Sri Lanka No One Will Tell You
Pearl of the Orient, Ceylon, Teardrop of India – whatever you call Sri Lanka, one thing is true about it: this beautiful country has unique traditions you won’t see anywhere else in the world. Do you know, for example, that any Sri Lankan can break a coconut, and it’s as easy to them as tying their shoes? It has deep symbolism and can help you in different situations if you believe in it.
Gonna travel around Sri Lanka? Before you request a room, make sure the “hotel” you’re at even offers sleeping accommodations! Yep, not every hotel in Sri Lanka is a place you can sleep at! But you'll definitely get a smile and a menu there. Speaking about food, Sri Lankan moms see cooking as their privilege and will wake up at 5 a.m. to make lunch-to-go for every family member!
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One word for many emotions 1:44
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The birthplace of cinnamon 2:45
March Madness 3:12
Eating out only for special occasions 4:00
Roomless hotels 4:35
Serious tea business 5:25
Powered by water 6:09
The largest Christmas tree in the world 6:30
Smashing coconuts 7:00
Female prime minister 7:34
Who to thank for the word serendipity 7:53
#SriLanka #Asia #brightside
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SUMMARY:
- Every single full moon (or “Poya”) is officially a public holiday, which makes Sri Lanka the #1 country in the world when it comes to frequency of holidays.
- If you ask someone in Sri Lanka if the weather’s going to be good today and they start shaking their head, it means “Yeah, it’ll be a nice day!”
- Whenever you’re talking to a Sri Lankan, throw a casual “aiyo” and they’ll be impressed!
- If you go to Sri Lanka, you’ll hear Beethoven’s “Für Elise” in the streets every morning. Bread trucks (or “tuk tuks”) have chosen it as their anthem for some reason.
- Now, it might’ve been made popular by the ancient Egyptians, but the first cinnamon in the world comes from the central hills of Sri Lanka.
- Cricket is more than just a sport in Sri Lanka – it’s a way of life! And, of course, a favorite pastime for millions, from school kids to their grandparents!
- If you’re an avid tea drinker, chances are you’re sipping on some warm Sri Lankan greetings every day. The island country is 4th on the list of top tea-exporting countries, making $721 million in 2018 alone!
- Hydropower used to make up over 50% of all the power used in Sri Lanka.
- The tallest Christmas tree in the world was registered by Guinness World Records in Sri Lanka in 2017. It stood at 236 feet (72 m) tall.
- In July 1960, Sirimavo Bandaranaike became the first female head of government in the world.
- Sri Lanka was once known as “Serendip” to the Arabs and Persians. Back in 1754, English writer Horace Walpole came across this word in the title of a Persian fairy tale, The Three Princes of Serendip, and loved it.
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10 Mayan Secret Places That Were Hidden for Centuries
The Mayan civilization is full of secrets. Even experts have been baffled by their highly sophisticated writing system, their knowledge of mathematics and astronomy, and the amazing architectural marvels they managed to create without any modern equipment. Every year, archeologists and researchers use the most advanced technologies to uncover the mysteries hidden behind the walls of temple complexes, buried in the depth of sacred cenotes and caves.
Well, how they managed to create them is a matter of discussion, but let’s not get into that. Instead, let's see at some of these marvelous architectural accomplishments. Tour guides never reveal these secrets of centuries-old ruins to ordinary tourists.
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TIMESTAMPS:
The serpent illusion 0:36
The cave of the sacred jaguar throne 2:12
A place for performing rituals 3:37
137-feet high pyramid 4:12
One of the last cities inhabited by the Maya 4:52
Pyramid of the Magician 6:07
The Tomb of King Pakal 7:33
One of the most powerful Mayan cities 8:36
The murals of Bonampak 9:21
The Temple of the Great Jaguar 10:09
#maya #ancientworld #brightside
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El Castillo (pyramid of Kukulcán) in Chichén Itzá: By Daniel Schwen - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0
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SUMMARY:
- Temple of KuKULkan, was built sometime between the 9th and 12th centuries CE. During the autumn equinox and the vernal equinox, one can see a snake-like shadow crawling on the pyramid's balustrade. It moves upwards in March and downwards in September.
- The Balancanché caves aren't included on the classic tourist route. The name translates to the cave of the sacred jaguar throne. These mesmerizing caves were first discovered by two American archaeologists in 1905 and have since then stirred curiosity.
- Cenote Ik Kil is located in the Yucatán State of Mexico. This place is otherworldly. While the Mayans used this site as a place for performing rituals, today tourists can be seen swimming.
- Nohoch Mul Pyramid is the place you should visit. If you aren’t afraid of heights and can muster the energy to climb its 130 steep steps to the top, you’ll be able to get a remarkable view of the Yucatán.
- Ancient city Tulum is the only Mayan city on the shore of the Caribbean Sea, located 39 feet (12 m) up on the cliffs of the Yucatan peninsula.
- The tallest and the most recognizable structure in Uxmal is also known by other names, like the Pyramid of the Dwarf, Casa el Adivino, and the Pyramid of the Soothsayer.
- Temple of the Inscriptions was built as a tomb for King Pakal, the ruler of Palenque in the 7th century. The inner walls of the temple are inscribed with about 600 hieroglyphs, some of which are yet to be deciphered.
- Located not far from Palenque, the ancient city, Yaxchilan, was one of the most powerful states in the Mayan empire. The city is known for its well-preserved stone ornamentation above the doorways of the main structures known as lintels.
- According to Professor Mary Miller, who specializes in Mayan art, no other artifacts from the Mayan times offer a better glimpse of the society than the Bonampak paintings.
- The Temple of the Great Jaguar was built as a funerary temple, and in the year 1962, archaeologists were finally able to locate the tomb of the ruler who built it. The body of the king was covered with large quantities of jade ornaments.
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Passengers Survived the Miracle on the Hudson: Things You Might Not Know
Ten years ago, the world of aviation was flabbergasted by an event that was later named the Miracle on the Hudson. That day, two airline pilots had to use the only runway they could safely reach for an emergency landing - the narrow expanse of the Hudson River in New York City.
Besides the two pilots, there were 150 passengers and three cabin crew members on board the plane. It's shocking how fast something so life-altering and scary can happen. One moment the pilots fill their jet with fuel, and the plane takes off, and two minutes later, it loses all the engine power and is about to drop out of the sky. How could such a critical situation not take any human lives? Let's figure it out.
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The plane strikes a flock of Canada geese 0:29
Both engines fail 2:55
... and the plane isn't able to make it back to the airport 4:26
This is the Captain. Brace for impact. 5:24
Plane in the middle of the river 6:00
Evacuation 6:36
Could the plane return to the airport safely? 8:48
#planes #aircrafts #aviation
US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River New York, USA on 15 January 2009: By Greg L - originally posted to Flickr as Plane crash into Hudson River, CC BY 2.0
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SUMMARY:
- On January 15, 2009, US Airways flight 1549 was a routine flight from La Guardia Airport in New York to Charlotte Douglas Airportin North Carolina.
- All the equipment worked without a flaw, and the weather was great, with 10-mile (16 km) visibility that provided the cockpit crew with a breathtaking view of the Hudson.
- At 3:27 PM, with the plane moving at 316 ft (96 m) per second, captain Sullenberger noticed a flock of Canada geese just a moment before the plane struck the birds.
- Sully didn't lose his presence of mind, even after he realized that both engines had shut down. He understood there was no chance that the aircraft would end up somewhere on a runway, undamaged.
- He tried to find a way to get the plane to the runway, but at 3:29 PM, Sullenberger repeated his words, only this time, he sounded even more sure: the plane WAS going to end up in the river.
- The impact was hard, but the plane was afloat and miraculously intact. Almost in unison, the pilots exclaimed, It wasn't as bad as I had thought!
- But the situation was far from safe. One panicked passenger opened one of the rear doors, and the flight attendant couldn’t manage to seal it again. Water started to fill the plane through this door as well as through a hole in the fuselage.
- The Hudson water temperature was just 41 degrees F (5 degrees C), and some people had to stand knee-deep in the water to be rescued since some of the inflatable slides were partially submerged.
- All the passengers and crew members were alive; there were only 5 serious injuries, and 78 people received some sort of treatment, mostly for hypothermia and minor injuries.
- When the authorities investigated afterward, they tested whether it would have been possible for the plane to return to La Guardia airport safely. The answer was no.
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A Glass of Water Saved a Plane And 72 Passengers
The plane had been used for 20 years, but it had never suffered a single accident before, so the cabin crew had no doubts the flight would be easy. Passengers got on board the plane; flight attendants nonchalantly checked their boarding passes; everything went as usual.
But what happened after that was really scary. No electricity onboard, all equipment down, no airport in sight, and only a half-forgotten runway deep in the Siberian snow forest. It’s hard to imagine a worse scenario for a passenger plane landing, so it’s a real miracle that everyone ended up safe and sound. And all of it thanks to… a glass of water.
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The first signs of trouble 1:04
The plane became crippled 2:07
How a glass of water helped them 2:47
A place to land is found but... 3:48
There was no panic 6:00
Landing 6:27
What happened to the airplane 8:35
#planecrashes #planeaccidents #planesurvive
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SUMMARY:
- The plane had been used for 20 years, but it had never suffered a single accident before, so the cabin crew had no doubts the flight would be easy.
- The electronic equipment started acting abnormally, but the pilots shrugged it off as a nuisance and continued the flight. Air traffic control also neglected the problem.
- Just 8 minutes after the announcement, the lights in the cabin went off. Only the flight attendants paid any attention to it, believing everything was alright. In the cockpit, though, the situation immediately became desperate.
- Without the equipment, the plane became crippled. It was still operable, but all the navigational systems refused to work, the radio went offline, and the fuel transfer pumps were also lost.
- Without any means to control the angle at which they descended, they used an old and almost forgotten trick: a glass of water put on the control panel.
- As Captain Novosyolov later said in an interview, it was a pure stroke of luck that they saw a landing strip near the town of Izhma. It was an old airport that had been abandoned for a long time and closed for any aircraft except helicopters.
- Despite the abandonment of the airport, airport supervisor Sergey Sotnikov, of his own will, kept the runway in a good condition for all those years. He cut down the emerging brush, swept away garbage, and even drew the runway marking when it faded.
- Before the last attempt at landing, all passengers and the cabin crew were transferred to the front of the plane to be ready for an emergency evacuation.
- The emergency escape slides were dispatched. And all 72 passengers along with all 9 crew members safely went down to the ground. None of them were even slightly injured.
- The lucky passengers and crew were transported by helicopters to nearby Ukhta, from where they went on to Moscow by another plane, and only one family decided they’d had enough air travel for a lifetime and took a train instead.
- Sergey Novosyolov and his co-pilot Andrey Lamanov were made Heroes of the Russian Federation, while the rest of the cabin crew received the Orders of Courage.
- After that, the aircraft continued performing flights for another 7 years. It received its own nickname, Izhma, and in September 2018 it flew for the last time.
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4 Times Huge Airplanes Landed On Water Successfully
There’s no such thing as a safe emergency airplane landing, especially if it has to land on water. But some gifted pilots can do wonders with their metal-winged birds, even if those birds are huge airliners with lots of people on board! Here, I’ll tell you about 4 times airplanes landed on the water without any major injuries to the passengers.
Landing a plane on water has its own special term now. It’s called ditching, and this task is one of the hardest for pilots. Period. Mainly because it’s almost impossible to train pilots to deal with this situation. Especially if we’re talking about 1956, when there were no training simulations available.
TIMESTAMPS
Boeing 377 Stratocruiser 1:17
The Pan Am Flight 6 1:40
The Tupolev Tu-124 4:12
Airbus A320 of US Airways (Miracle of the Hudson) 6:56
SUMMARY
- Boeing 377 Stratocruiser, a huge liner with 4 engines – one of the first airplanes with a pressurized cabin and double-deck feature! With this double-deck, it could take up to 100 passengers on board. But on this day, October 16, 1956, there were only 24 passengers and 7 members of the aircrew on the plane.
- The Pan Am Flight 6 was supposed to be an around-the-world flight with several stops along the way. This was its last take-off from Honolulu before arriving at the destination point in San Francisco. Unfortunately, at the half-way point, when the plane was climbing in altitude, one of the Boeing’s engines violated its speed limit and stopped. Slowly but surely, the plane started to get closer to the sea, unable to keep the altitude. It didn’t help that another engine, engine number 4, also started to malfunction. But still, pilots managed to distribute the workload to the three remaining engines and keep an altitude of 5,000 ft.
- In the summer of 1963. The Tupolev Tu-124 airplane with 52 people on board was circling around in the skies above Saint Petersburg, Russia, trying to find a way to ditch on the Neva River.
Problems with this flight began immediately after the plane took off in Tallinn. The front gear of the plane wasn’t able to retract, but the Tupolev couldn’t turn back to Tallinn – the weather was too foggy for that. As the flight was supposed to end in Moscow, the closest place to land safely along the way was in Saint Petersburg.
- And, the record holder for the number of people on board a ditching plane – Airbus A320 of US Airways, Flight 1549. Also known as the “Miracle of the Hudson” Flight. It happened 10 years ago, on January 15.
The cause of this would-be catastrophic event was nothing more than a flock of geese which struck the engines. But thanks to the mastery of the Airbus’ pilots, and ingenuity of its construction, the 155 people on board remained uninjured.
#landingwater #planecrash #brightside
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A Helicopter Fell Into a Volcano But It Was a Lucky Day
A helicopter spinning out of control and going down sounds like a nightmare. But just imagine this uncontrolled helicopter is falling into the mouth of an active, gurgling volcano! Unfortunately, this isn’t a tale created by my vivid imagination or a new episode of a disaster TV series; it’s a true story that happened more than 20 years ago.
TIMESTAMPS
One of the youngest helicopter pilots ever 0:35
They were supposed to do filming runs of the Kilauea Volcano 1:10
It happened when the helicopter started its third pass over the volcano 1:50
They accidentally got into a cloud of volcanic steam 2:27
It must’ve been a lucky day 3:14
Two team members were in a dangerous situation 4:27
One decided to continue the climb... 4:59
Without food or sleep, terrified and exhausted 5:58
Other cases when people survived a fall into a volcano crater 7:13
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SUMMARY
- There were two other members on this little team: freelance cameraman Michael Benson and freelance film technician Christopher Duddy. The crew's helicopter was the Bell 206B-III. Equipped with 2 cameras, the helicopter was supposed to do filming runs of the Kilauea Volcano on the Hawaiian Islands.
- Everything went as planned until the helicopter started its third pass over the volcano. Just a couple of seconds before the crew reached the center of the crater, disaster struck.
- It happened lightning-fast. In his attempts to save the day, Hosking accidentally got into a cloud of volcanic steam and smoke. The pilot tried to leave it by auto-rotating the helicopter down to the bottom of the crater.
- The problem was that they’d decided to continue their climb, and when the helicopter arrived, they were stuck on a high ridge, about 80 ft away from the rim. Obscured by the cloud of dense gases, they had to be left behind.
- Twenty-seven hours after the crash, at 2:30 PM, Duddy reached the rim of the crater! He was immediately taken to the hospital but was released one day later.
- Finally, at 9 AM on Monday, during a tiny break in the weather, helicopter pilot Tom Hauptman noticed Benson before the fog closed back up almost immediately.
- The cause of the accident could’ve been the volcanic gas, which caused a partial loss of engine power. Only thanks to the pilot's skills, the filming crew members got away alive and with no serious injuries.
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A Plane Lost Its Floor But the Captain Saved the Day
Imagine you need to get from Los Angeles to New York. To make it not so painfully long, you choose to take American Airlines Flight 96, with stopovers in Detroit and Buffalo. But several minutes after your plane leaves Detroit, it happens. Seemingly out of the blue - bang! And a part of the aircraft's floor is missing right under your feet!
It happened on June 12, 1972. Captain Bryce McCormick was an aviation veteran with more than 24,000 flight hours under his belt. The co-pilot was also an experienced airman. There were 56 passengers on board the plane and 11 crew members. When the autopilot was turned on and the chief flight attendant went to the galley to make coffee, it happened. She was suddenly brought down to the floor by a powerful explosion...
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Why First Officer turned on the autopilot 1:42
Powerful explosion 2:05
A gaping hole in the cabin's floor 3:01
The people on board were really lucky 4:58
The biggest challenge 6:19
Crazy landing 7:22
Why the cargo door blew out 8:21
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SUMMARY:
- All the control panel readings were normal, so Whitney turned on the autopilot. He didn't have anything to worry about: the radar confirmed that there was no bad weather on the route between Detroit and Buffalo.
- Cydya Smith, the chief flight attendant on Flight 96, left her seat as soon as she saw the signs off and went to the galley to make coffee. And at exactly that moment, it happened.
- The cockpit was rapidly filling with dark gray dust that blinded the men and didn't let them breathe.
- Unexplainably, a cargo door had been blown out less than 5 minutes after takeoff, and it left the plane with a gaping hole in its side.
- Hurricane force winds were sweeping through the cabin. One of the cabin crew members, Beatrice Copeland, was trapped under the collapsed door, unconscious.
- The biggest problem was that the DC-10 had one peculiarity: it didn't have a backup system that allowed for manual operation if the hydraulic system got knocked out.
- At that moment, the people on board the damaged plane still didn't know how lucky they were having Mr. McCormick as a pilot. Being curious about some of the DC-10 features, he’d spent hours on a flight deck simulator.
- McCormick understood that his damaged plane would need the priority to land, and he contacted the Detroit airport control tower.
- When the plane touched down, it was still moving incredibly fast. But the worst thing was that the aircraft was moving toward the main terminal building.
- Miraculously, Whitney managed to return the plane to the runway, with two sets of wheels running on the runway and the other two off.
- ll 67 people on board were alive, with only 11 not very serious injuries (9 passengers and 2 crew).
- A large cargo door gone as if peeled away by a huge can opener. But on the very same day, the missing door was located in a cornfield not far from Windsor, and investigators came to a shocking conclusion.
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All 4 Engines Failed Over a Volcano, See What Happened Next
It happened on June 24, 1982. On a calm summer night, passengers boarded the plane that would take them from Kuala Lumpur to Perth. The atmosphere was relaxed; the weather was fine, there were no approaching thunderstorms, and the plane didn't have any technical issues.
There were 247 passengers and 100 tons of fuel on board the plane. But by the time the plane was in the air south-east of Jakarta, Indonesia, the first officer was sending out a Mayday distress call. All four of their engines had failed...
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Happy ending 7:43
Why did all those people nearly lose their lives? 8:18
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SUMMARY:
- It happened on June 24, 1982. British Airways Flight 9, also called Speedbird 9, performed its scheduled flight from London Heathrow to Auckland, with 5 stops on the way: in Bombay, Madras, Kuala Lumpur, Perth, and Melbourne.
- There were 247 passengers and 100 tons (90 tonnes) of fuel on board the plane. That night, although moonless, was quite clear, and the flying conditions couldn't be better. All in all, the crew expected an uneventful 5-hour flight.
- The windshields were ablaze with the most intense phenomenon of St. Elmo's fire the captain had ever seen in his life. As soon as the captain fastened his seat belt, he looked at the weather radar - and it wasn't showing any thunder clouds at all!
- The flight went on, but the smoke started to accumulate in the airplane's passenger cabin. And while at first, it resembled cigarette smoke, with every passing minute, it was getting thicker and acquired the ominous stench of sulfur.
- It was 8:42 when Barry Townley-Freeman shouted that engine number four had flamed out. Without losing time, the crew shut down the engine by arming the fire extinguishers and cutting off the fuel supply.
- The captain estimated that they could glide 15 miles (24 km) for every mile (1.6 km) they dropped. It meant that the plane was able to glide for only 23 minutes and cover the distance of 91 nautical miles (168 km).
- Mothers were hugging their kids, husbands were squeezing their wives' hands, flight attendants were teaming solo passengers together so they could support each other in the seemingly last minutes of their lives.
- When the pilots tried to restart the engines again at 8:56 PM, engine number four roared back to life! With its help, the captain managed to reduce the speed of their descent. Even better, several minutes later the three other engines started as well!
- As the plane was approaching Jakarta, it turned out that the cockpit crew couldn't see anything through the windshield, even though the visibility outside was perfect.
- They could see the runway lights through a tiny strip of window, but the aircraft's landing lights didn't work. Even so, the captain managed to perform a perfectly smooth landing.
- During the investigation, it turned out that the near-tragedy happened because the plane flew into a cloud of volcanic ash left after the eruption of Mount Galuggung in 1982.
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A 7-Year-Old Airport Never Had a Flight for a Reason
The idea of building one large, modern airport that would handle most of the flights in Berlin was met with enthusiasm. This airport was supposed to become the third biggest airport in Germany, after Frankfurt and Munich. But the opening has been put off several times and is already almost 3,000 days overdue. Some people even believe that the new airport is doomed and will have to be torn down and rebuilt.
What could be so wrong with the airport that it would fail to open for so many years? Well, at the very last moment, the airport's opening is called off due to some mysterious technical issues...
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Why would Berlin need a new airport at all? 0:33
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Why the airport's opening was called off 3:10
The roof might collapse 4:07
How to switch off these light bulbs? 5:20
The bankruptcy of the main tenant 5:44
The only day when the airport was functioning 7:26
#airports #brandenburg #aviation
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SUMMARY:
- At first, the construction of the airport was supposed to cost about 2.2 billion dollars (2 billion euro), which really isn’t that much, speaking about airports. But no such luck! Today, the number has already reached a staggering 8.2 billion dollars (7.3 billion euro), and that's not even the final figure!
- The construction of the airport started in 2006, and the plan was to open the airport in the summer of 2012. However, the opening has been put off several times and is already almost 3,000 days overdue.
- One of the main problems (yep, there are lots!) is a fire-alarm system which turns out to be too complicated and, what’s worse - faulty!
- When the airport was testing their efficiency with all those volunteers, each check-in desk had to serve about 60 passengers per hour. Unfortunately, check-in staff only managed to handle half that number.
- There are serious structural problems with the ceiling. In short, the roof may actually collapse. That's probably because it's twice as heavy as its authorized weight.
- Nowadays, all 750 flight information displays have to be replaced since they’ve been working since the original opening date and have sadly reached their limit.
- It's located pretty far away from the city, and not all the passengers will be willing to make such a long journey to catch a short direct flight. It's true that some big international airports, let's say, Tokyo Narita Airport, are situated far from the cities they serve.
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A Train Almost Ruined the Town But Something Saved People
Traveling by train is one of the safest ways to get somewhere. But what's that? You feel it accelerate, and soon it's already moving at breakneck speed, ignoring stop signs, stations, and other trains. You're pinching yourself in a futile attempt to wake up, but it’s no nightmare – you’re on a runaway train!
It was a cold winter night on January 11, 2004. Two people were supposed to arrive at the train yard that night: 31-year-old engineer Eduard and his 24-year-old assistant Alexander. But when it was time for their shift to begin, the engineer was nowhere to be seen. They eventually got hold of Eduard, and the engineer simply said that he’d overslept. His health readings were normal, and he was totally sober. Everything was fine, nothing out of routine here, except maybe the fact that instead of his uniform, the man was wearing a suit and tie, as if he was going to some important event. But nobody seemed to find that odd…
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TIMESTAMPS:
There was one odd thing... 1:12
The engineer violates the rules 2:41
Physical threats 3:45
Unscheduled route 4:34
What made the train to stop 5:07
Insane engineer 6:21
“Crazy Eights” incident 7:02
#trains #danger #brightside
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SUMMARY:
- After the doctors gave him the green light, the engineer was ready to go. He climbed up into the cab, and that's when his assistant noticed another oddity. Eduard didn't put a new tape into the train's speedometer, which was a serious violation of the rules.
- After the train left the loading station, the engineer broke protocol once more by refusing to check if the brake system was working correctly.
- As the train came toward the railway haul Volkhovstroy 2 – Kukol’, the station operator reported that there was another train approaching the station. Alexander the assistant screamed in horror when the engineer hit the controls to accelerate!
- When Alexander tried to bring his co-worker to his senses, the much stronger engineer answered back with physical threats.
- At 2:58am, the train blew through the red light at Kukol’ station, careened on a totally unscheduled route, and dashed toward the main track.
- Everything changed at Valya station. At 3:02am, when the runaway had already blown through the previous stop at Myslino, the Valya station operator came up with the idea to cut the power on the line.
- At 3:45am, the train finally lost its forward momentum and came to a stop. Alexander the assistant immediately saw his only chance to escape.
- When the police got to the train at 4:14am, they discovered the engineer on the floor, completely out of it. The delusional man was taken to the hospital for mental health treatment.
- Had the train continued its crazed path to destruction, it would’ve made it to the town of Tikhvin, population: 60,000.
- It happened on May 15, 2001 in northwest Ohio. Locomotive #8888 (hence the nickname) was moving a string of 47 freight cars on the Walbridge – Kenton line.
- Things were going smoothly until the train's 35-year-old engineer noticed that one switch was strangely misaligned. The man decided that since the train was moving quite slowly, he’d have more than enough time to get down, fix the switch, and climb right back up into his cabin.
- Before the engineer left the cab, he’d set the wrong brake.
- When the engineer tried to switch a special brake that would’ve slowed the train down to a crawl, he accidentally set the engine not to brake but to accelerate!
- At first, they tried to stop the train with the help of a portable derailer, but these attempts failed. Then the police started to shoot at the emergency switch, which serves to cut off the fuel supply.
- As soon as the runaway's speed dropped to 11 mph (18 kph), engineer Jon Hosfeld, who’d been waiting up ahead, managed to climb into the cab and shut down the engine.
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50 Things That Prove Canada Is a Unique Country
What country holds annual bathtub races and has a prepared landing pod for flying objects? Also, it has a place where there are so many snakes that they look like spaghetti on your plate! Do you know where you can see the most cheerful town in the world? It's called Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! Yep, just like that, with two ha's and two exclamation marks!
Still no idea? This country produces more than 70% of all maple syrup in the world! Several of the most popular superheroes, such as Wolverine and Superman, were created there. Yes, you nailed it: this awesome country is Canada, and here are 50 cool facts about this place!
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Canadian Apology Act 0:37
The most cheerful town in the world 1:23
Polar Bear Jail 1:46
Bathtub racing 2:17
The most dramatic weather change 2:47
Canada's national sport (it's not hockey) 3:06
Santa Claus is Canadian 3:46
The first landing pad 5:20
More than 3 million lakes! 5:46
The national animal of Canada 7:25
License plates shaped like a polar bear 8:28
$1-million coin 9:13
Fish instead of candles 10:00
One of the most popular dishes in Canada 11:20
The second largest French-speaking city 11:53
#canada #canadafacts #brightside
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SUMMARY:
- Canadians are famous for saying sorry all the time, even when the other person is clearly in the wrong.
- Approximately 90% of Canada's land area is uninhabited. Even though it’s bigger than the US, it has only 11% of America's population!
- It's illegal for polar bears in Canada to break into houses and steal food. So, if you see one rummaging around in your fridge - call the cops!
- Canada received its own flag in 1965, almost 100 years after it became a separate country in 1867!
- One area in the Hudson Bay region has less gravity than any other region on the planet. So, if you want to jump higher and weigh less, that's the place to be!
- How about this one: Santa Claus is Canadian. That's what Canada's Immigration Minister announced in 2012.
- In 1930, Canada's hockey team did so well that they were put straight through to the final game.
- Ottawa, the capital of Canada, isn't the largest city in the country. With a population of about 1 million people, it comes second to Toronto, the capital of the Ontario province.
- In a 2018 Happiness Report, Canada was ranked #7. I mean, even despite all that cold?
- About 10% of Canadians are either vegetarians or vegans. That means 2.3 million vegetarians and 850,000 vegans. Most of these people are under 35.
- The capital city of Canada, Ottawa, is at the top of the list of the world's coldest capitals.
- The lowest ever recorded temperature in Canada was -81.4 degrees F (-63 degrees C)!
- While driving in northwest Canada, be prepared to see license plates shaped like a polar bear!
- Wood Buffalo National Park, created in 1922 to protect the largest herd of roaming Wood Bison in the world, is larger than Switzerland.
- One of the most popular dishes in Canada is poutine. Crispy fries covered with cheese curds and rich gravy.
- Canadians are some of the friendliest people in the world. You probably can’t find a rude Canadian even if you try really hard!
- Lots of Canadians speak French as their first language. And Montreal is the second largest French-speaking city in the world! After Paris, of course.
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Südholland – zwischen Den Haag und Haarlem | WDR Reisen
Ein schier endloses Blütenmeer – nicht weit entfernt von Strand und Meer: Im Frühling gleicht die Landschaft zwischen Haarlem und Den Haag einem riesigen, farbenprächtigen Gemälde. Und mittendrin der Keukenhof, einer der größten Blumenparks der Welt. Auf ihrer Reise durch das südliche Holland macht Andrea Grießmann auch Station in Leiden, in der Porzellanstadt Delft, sie begegnet den Malern Rembrandt und Jan Vermeer, in Den Haag begibt sie sich auf die Spuren der königlichen Familie, und sieht sich das moderne und zugleich alte Seebad Scheveningen an.
A seemingly endless sea of blossoms - not far from the beach and the sea: in spring, the landscape between Haarlem and The Hague resembles a huge, colorful painting. And right in the middle is the Keukenhof, one of the largest flower parks in the world. On her journey through southern Holland, Andrea Grießmann also stopped in Leiden, in the porcelain town of Delft, she met the painters Rembrandt and Jan Vermeer, in The Hague she followed the traces of the royal family and saw the modern and at the same time old Seaside resort Scheveningen.
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Dieser Film wurde im Jahr 2020 produziert. Alle Aussagen und Fakten entsprechen dem damaligen Stand und wurden seit dem nicht aktualisiert.
Wunderschön: Produziert Reisedokumentationen für den WDR. Es werden Reiseziele auf der ganzen Welt vorgestellt. Wunderschön versucht Menschen, Kultur, Kulinarik und die Landschaft des jeweiligen Reiseziels zu transportieren und gibt Tipps für die Planung des eigenen Urlaubs.
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