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10 Awesome Facts about Sri Lanka
FIVE AFFORDABLE RESTAURANTS IN COLOMBO
The island of Sri Lanka may look small on the map, but it is one mighty beast. Here are some amazing facts bout the pearl of the Indian ocean.
Sri Lanka is not only famous for its beauty but also for the lovely food the country offers. Among some of the world-famous restaurants in Colombo there are other great restaurants where you can eat your belly full for a nominal amount. Try out the below five restaurants.
5 Incredible survival stories that will give you goosebumps
The human body may seem fragile but the bond with our loved ones can put the power to survive to test in extreme conditions. People have overcome some of the unimaginable situations literally where they are supposed to be dead. Check out these incredible survival and endurance stories that might give you goosebumps.
1. Soviet Submarine crew
In 1960 Soviet submariners were running a training exercise where they shoot torpedoes at the under sea targets. The 14 crew members submarine shot their first torpedo but the missile did not leave the blast. The crew moved on to the second mission thinking the missile was dead one but suddenly the missile exploded sending the vessel to the ocean floor. The crew members panicked, and were running all over the place not knowing what to do. One of the crew members shot gun fires to calm the members down.
They later decided the only way out is through the empty torpedo tube, in order to do so, they had to acclimate their bodies slowly to match the water pressure out side of the ship. The men ascended to the surface with the use of their equipment for their bodies to adjust, some did act agitated but all 14 members survived.
2. The day I fell from sky
Juliane Koepcke, a young German girl living in Peru with her zoologist’s parents, was travelling with her mother to a different part of the country. While in the air the flight was hit by a lightning making it implode, Juliane fell from the sky while still buckled to her seat. She crashed some two miles to earth landing in the Amazon rain forest, when she gained conscious, she had a broken color bone and lost half of her vision. She walked around and found out she is the only survivor. In the thick jungle, Juliane knew if she can find a water stream it will lead her to civilization.
She went on for nine days, she did not get any sleep as the bugs have infected her wounds, on the nineth day she found and small boat with gasoline for its engine she remembered once her father cured an animal with maggots with gasoline, she did the same for her wounds and took 35 creepy crawlers out of her wounds. The owners of the boat found her and took her back a 7 hours journey where she could be air lifted to a hospital. Julian survived and later wrote a book called “When I fell from the sky”.
3. A World War II escape
In February 1941, a Polish war veteran along with a hand full of other prisoners escaped from a Russian gulag. The group first had to go through the punishing frozen landscape of Siberian winter and then through the heat of the Tibetan desert before descending the Himalayas. The group sucked frost to stay hydrated, hunted and fish as they travelled and finally made it to British governed India. The veteran waited 60 years to tell the story. The bestselling book “The long walk” is inspired by this story.
4. The plane crash in Ande’s Mountain
In 1972 a charter flight carrying a Rugby team of 45 players and the team staff crashed in the Ande’s mountain while on the way for a match in Chile. The extreme cold and snow limited the rescue efforts. 19 people died. An avalanche left the rest of the survivors without shelter and food. Luckily many of them were strong, athletic and young with a will to survive, most of them perished as the days went by. However, 16 men survived these harsh weathers with frequent snow storms and avalanches for 72 days before they were rescued. They had to even eat the flesh of their dead mates in order to survive.
In 2012 the players held the rugby match they were supposed to play in 1972 to mark the 40th anniversary of their survival.
5. The man who came back from the dead twice
A Texan named Beck Weather was left for dead twice while climbing the mount Everest. Due to the low oxygen levels, the group and to leave him and proceed the 13 hours track, he was told that the second team will pick him up but as the weather plummets and ten hours went by there was no second team as the two members of the second group including the expedition leader Rob Hall perished at the top to an avalanche.
On their way down the first team saw weathers who was too ill to continue and they had no choice but to leave him for dead as he looked almost dead. Long after that a doctor found weathers who is without a glove and left his jacket opened also decided that weathers condition looks beyond saving and thought he is already passed away. A miracle happened as weathers woke up from his hyperthymic Coma and walked down the mountain himself until he found a low-level camp. He lost several of his limbs and his nose due to frost bites but survived.
How to make your work place a happy and an interesting one
As we spend most of our time at the working place it is very important to stay happy and positive as it is beneficial for your life itself.
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Identify what you would like to at the working place, do something creative? Caring for you customers? Making a colleague’s day better? Whatever that makes you happy go for it.
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Identify what makes you unhappy, your duties? Colleagues? Customers? Or anything else? Speak to the management to see if any changes can be made rather than staying unhappy because if you do not try things will remain the same.
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Be honest to yourself, ask yourself these questions, what type of an attitude you have? Are you friendly? Are you complaining a lot? Do you do your fare share?
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When dealing with a bad customer or colleague what you should take into consideration, think how it will affect you if you react the same way they have to you. is it worth it? By changing a negative attitude in to a positive one you might be able to change the attitudes of the whole work place.
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Are you bored with your work? This is one huge aspect that keeps you unhappy at work. If you are bored with your work try and look for new opportunities within your job, help a colleague who is stuck, this will help you be engaged in your work and also learn a lot of things.
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Feel pride of your work, once you completed a task do you feel proud of yourself, you should this will help you go on. Complete you to do list before the end of the day this is a good place to start with.
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Build a good relationship with your colleagues, you spend a lot of time with them so it is very important to be friendly. In this way when the work gets difficult you can rely on each other also the day will be fun.
If you decide to leave job don’t burn bridges. Keep a name that your co workers will talk only good about you as it may help your next job.
Lesser known facts about Countries
Lesser known facts about countries
1. In 1974 in Ethiopia scientists found a focalized bone of an ancient human ancestor. This was the first proof that the human kind is way older than we used to think they are.
2. The chopsticks in China were first used for cooking not eating five thousand years ago.
3. India has the largest postal network in the world serving the country with more than 155,000 post offices.
4. United States of America has the greatest number of millionaires. It is 18.6 million millionaires.
5. The Komodo Dragons of Indonesia is the world’s largest lizard which can even take down animals’ lager than humans.
6. Pakistan is producing more than 40% of the worlds Soccer balls.
7. Bottled nose Dolphins helps fishers help fish in Brazil. They swim with the boats appear on the surface and slap their tails as a signal in the places where there are fish.
8. Nollywood of Nigeria is the second largest film industry in the world in terms of movie output.
9. Bangladesh has six seasons, Summer, Rainy season, Cool season, Fall, Winter & Spring.
10. The Red Square of Russia was earlier named Krasnyi (means beautiful) later the meaning was changed to Red.
11. The capital of Mexico is slowly sinking into the soil as the city has been built on a lake that once appeared in a volcanic crater.
12. Japan has the biggest number of vending machines in the world, you can buy from coffee to umbrella to toilet papers or anything, it has more than five million machines in the country.
13. The national symbol of Philippines is the Philippine’s Eagle which is the largest of its kind in the world by wing surface at length.
14. The Pyramids of Egypt is the only one of the seven wonders that are still standing.
15. A farmer of Vietnam discovered the Hang Son Doo, the world’s largest natural cave when he was searching for a shelter to get rid of a heavy rain.
16. Germany is the first country to publish a magazine in 1663.
17. the most unusual sweet is made in Turkey with milk, sugar, Cinnamon, shredded chicken and few other ingredients.
18. One of the world’s oldest feline breeds is the Persian cat from Iran.
19. The national symbol of Thailand is the Elephant. There are thousand in the wild while others have been domesticated.
20. In United Kingdom it is necessary for all kids of Horse related animals (even Zebras) to hold a passport which includes the information of its height and species.
21. France was the first country to preserve food from spoiling by canning when a researcher contained some food in a can and heated to get rid of microorganisms in 1809.
22. Each year, visitors throw more than one million dollars to the Rome Italy’s Trevi Fountain. That is about three thousand dollars a day.
23. South Africa found the world’s largest diamond in 1905. The 3106-carrot stone was called ‘The Kullinan” which weighed as much as a Basketball.
24. People of Myanmar use tree bark to produce a natural sun screen.
25. In Lamu Island in Kenya, the cars are banned. People can travel only by foot, bicycles or donkeys.
26. The babies in South Korea are considered one year old at birth.
27. Columbia is the world’s largest producer of Emeralds.
28. Spain the world’s oldest restaurant. It was opened in 1725 in Madrid. The restaurant still has its original firewood oven.
29. Argentina was the first country to identify criminals by its finger prints.
30. Uganda has more than 1070 bird species.
31. The Fennec Fox is the smallest of all Foxes and the national animal of Algeria. The national Soccer team is also named after this animal.
32. Sudan is more home for Pyramids than Egypt. It has about 200 to 250 of these types of constructions whereas Egypt has only 138.
33. People of Poland have received 19 Nobel prizes so far, four peace prizes, four prices in Physic and six in literature.
34. In Alberta Canada the temperature went from -2.2 degrees to 72 degrees in jus one hour in 1962.
35. The oldest university is in the world is situated in Morocco founded in 859.
36. There are Camel beauty pageants in Saudi Arabia, the prize worth more than 370,000 dollars.
37. One of the largest open pit gold mines is in Uzbekistan and it is called the “Muruntau”.
38. If you take a boat tour from the South or Peru to a group of small islands you can see the Penguins relaxing along the shoreline, but due to conservation reasons you cannot set foot on these islands.
39. The largest by area cave chamber is in Malaysia. The size is approximately 30 times the size of a football field.
40. Angola is likely to be the county that influenced the popular dance the Brazilians called Samba, a similar style dance is called Semba in Angola.
41. Mozambique is the only one-word country in the world to feature all five vowel letters.
42. The Angel Falls of Peninsula is the highest uninterrupted waterfall. During the summer the water evaporates before it reaches the bottom.
43. 90% of animals and plant species in Madagascar can only be found in Madagascar not anywhere else on earth.
44. Cameroon is called miniature Africa and about 200 languages are spoken in the country.
45. Nepal is the only country that does not have a rectangular flag.