List of the most corrupt countries in the world

See the list of most corrupt countries in the world, according to the research conducted by Transparency International.

Corruption Index is a database collected from the corruption in the state sector. (lower index, more corrupt country)

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Mobile phone caught on footage from 1928! Time travel or something else?

Belfast director George Clarke discovered an oddity in the video recorded during the premiere of the film Circus by Charlie Chaplin in 1928.

This photo has provoked strong reactions of scientists and film experts. How can a woman be recorded with a mobile 80 years before it was invented? Right now, nobody can answer this. The frames were run in slow motion and zoomed, and the only response that comes up is - yes, the footage shows a woman who speaks on a mobile phone, which can also be observed because she moves her lips for a few seconds.

Time travel or something else - for now there is no answer to this.

Circus can be seen on a compilation of Chaplin's films, which was released in the UK. This DVD also contains footage behind the scenes, as well as footage made ​​during the recording itself.

Interview with George Clarke and his opinion on this astonishing discovery:

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The largest python in the world caught in Indonesia.

The biggest and longest python in the world was found in Indonesia. This huge snake is 14.85 meters long; the widest part of the body has a volume of less than 85 inches with a weight of 447 pounds. A group of local villagers had gone to the forest in order to obtain supplies, and they saw this beast in a meadow. Too scared to do anything, they called 58-year-old expert in pythons, which organized the whole operation to capture the snake. It took 65 people to beat this beast. After they captured it, they were blessed by the local tribal leaders because they consider pythons to be deities. The python is now the main attraction in a zoo, where about 700 people see it daily. Although large, this snake is incredibly slow and sluggish, and does not represent too big a risk for workers and visitors. But, one thing is certain – to be in the cage with it is certainly not a pleasant experience.

Images source: natyu.com

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13-year-old found a mistake in NASA calculations

13 year-old German, Markvardt Niko, found a mistake in NASA calculations on the probability of Apophis asteroid colliding with Earth in 2029. 

Earlier, the National Administration of the United States Aeronautics and Space, published the research data which states that the probability of a crash is 45 thousand to 1, but Markvardt found that it is not true.

Markvardt was researching the results from the monitoring of the asteroid Apophis done by the Institute of Astrophysics in Potsdam and came to the conclusion that the collision probability of 1 to 450, not 45 thousand, which is more than NASA anticipated.

NASA experts had to agree with the data presented to them by the 13-year-old student.

If the asteroid passes close enough to Earth, the artificial satellites surrounding the planet, about 40 thousand, can affect the orbit of the cosmic body. At this turn of events, Apophis, with a radius of 3 km and about 200 billion tons, will come back to earth in 2036, but then may fall on the planet.

If this happens, a giant tsunami will be made that threatens to flood much of the coastal countries and much of their land. In addition, there will be a huge cloud of dust, which will hide the Earth from the Sun.

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Interesting facts about what we eat and drink

1. 7% of Americans feed daily at MacDonalds restaurant.

2. In 1995 the Japanese, the first time in history, ate more meat than rice.

3. English call coffee with milk - "white coffee".

4. Apple Vodka is called - Calvados.

5. Chocolate makes only 3% of the company Nestle selling products.

6. Charles de Gaulle of France once wrote: "How to govern the country in which there are 246 kinds of cheese?"

7. Flemish naturalist of the sixteenth century, Karl Klozi said about chocolate: “it is more appropriate for pigs than for humans."

8. "Fanta" beverage is the third most popular drink in the world after the "Pepsi" and "Coca-Cola."

9. Sandwich was invented by John Montagu, fourth Earl of Sandwich. He was a passionate gambler, and he didn’t want to interrupt the game.

10. Cheese "Roquefort" is covered with the edible mold "Penicillium rocforti".

11. Dry wine is called so because it is completely drained of fermented sugar.

12. Those that drink coffee are having sex more often and enjoy it more than those who do not drink coffee at all.

13. In ancient Greece, wine was always mixed with sea water. A special container used for that was called - a crater.

14. In the Middle Ages, chicken soup was considered a strong stimulant.

15. The German Trokenbeerenauslese wine is made from a rare type of grape, so you need a whole day to gather the grapes for just one bottle of wine.

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A British man caught a giant tiger fish which has razor sharp teeth

A British fisherman caught one of the most dangerous fish in the world. Jeremy Wade has embarked on a quest to find prehistoric fish in the waters of the Congo River, and he found it ... This is one of the most dangerous freshwater fish, something like the piranhas but larger and more deadly.

It has 32 razor-sharp teeth, which are very similar to those of the great white shark. It is known that it attacks humans more frequently than crocodiles. Jeremy said he was very cautious while taking a picture with the fish which is 60 inches long and weighs over 286 pounds!

Fortunately, Wade is an experienced angler; this "monster" was captured while shooting TV show "river monsters". The show is about the attacks of unknown animals and the team comes into the scene in an attempt to find the unknown beast.

"The tiger fish is nothing more than a giant piranha! No doubt it is a vicious beast. Its teeth are very long and sharp just like the teeth of the great white shark. It can grow to a length of two meters and it attacks the animals of its size, so it is not surprising that it has people on its "menu". It is believed that these fish react to movement and splashing in the water, so you can see your sign "- adds Jeremy.”It's very difficult to catch them because they live in remote and hard to reach waters of the Congo. This is a rare one that leaves its habitat. It is interesting that we used a big living catfish as bait."

Image source: telegraph.co.uk

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The most expensive mobile phone in the world

A British designer has created the ultimate "toy for the rich" - the most expensive mobile phone in the world. Stewart Hughes’s Apple iphone 4 with is covered with diamonds costs a shocking five million pounds! The phone is covered with over 500 individual diamonds which weigh more than 100 carats. It comes with two additional diamonds that "fit" in the HOME key and you can change them whenever you want. One is 7.4 carats and the other a pink 8-carat diamond. Together, these two diamonds are worth over £ 4 million.

On the back of the phone there are 53 diamonds that make up the Apple logo. This phone was ordered by an unnamed Australian businessman, and not one, but two same models, so Stewart made them.

"This was really a huge challenge and I am impressed with the result – the phones look absolutely fantastic" - said Hughes.

Each phone comes in their separate boxes which are made of pink granite blocks, and they weigh just over 7 pounds. And to provide the best interior protection, the box is covered with the finest natural skin.

Image source: orange.co.uk

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The biblical story of the separation of the Red Sea could be true

The biblical story where Moses separates the Red Sea in two parts and makes the passage for the Israelites maybe happened with the help of some very specific weather conditions. A new computer model that was used for this study used all available data of the time, and it suggests that the strong wind separated the sea into two parts which allowed Moses and the Israelites to escape. But it also says that it didn’t happen in the Red Sea but in the nearby region of the Nile Delta.

According to the Old Testament, the Israelites were trapped between the approaching army of Pharaoh and the Red Sea, but the strong east wind that blew all night opened a passage through the sea, allowing them to escape. When they passed, the water pulled back and thus drowned Pharaoh's soldiers who were following them.

The computer simulation has confirmed the possibility that the passage was created in the place where water was 6, 5 feet deep and wind blew 62 m / h. In that case, passage would be about 1.8 miles long and about 3 wide, and it could have remained open for about 4 hours, which would give the Israelis enough time to pass.

Principal investigator Karl Davis, from the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado said: "People have always been fascinated by this historical story, and asked whether it is true or not. Now we can finally tell them that it has a basis in the most ordinary laws of nature."

There are several other theories that scientists have put forward, including hurricanes and tsunamis, however, this is the first that fully agrees with the description from the Bible.

source: news.sky.com

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Forever together

Archaeologists in Italy found two skeletons which are actually hugging. They are believed to be 5-6,000 years old. Love is eternal...

image source: ebaumnation.com

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The shortest man in the world

Edward Nino Hernandez was officially declared as the shortest man in the world by the book Guinness World Records on 4th September 2010. Hernandez is 24 years old year, and he is just 27 inches tall and weighs just 22 pounds! He currently lives in Bogota, Colombia.

images source: expirationchug.com

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Real "Milka" Cow in Serbia! Purple calf born near Cacak

This calf was born in a village near town of Cacak and local villagers said that they had never seen something like this. Calf has become a major topic of conversation in the town and it is incredibly popular among children who rushed to the barn where the unusual animal lives.

The calf is perfectly healthy and vets say that the purple color is probably caused by genetics.

"We were incredibly surprised when we saw it. This is, so far, the first purple calf in the world" - says the owner.

But the" Milka Cow" is not the only cow that has drawn the attention of the world to Serbia these days. In fact, a six-year old cow called "Baby" brought four calves into the world last month. It happened in the village Sljivic. Cows usually give birth to only one calf so the previously mentioned case is extremely rare.

"After we saw the first calf, neighbors told me that there might be another" - says the owner Dragan Pavlovic. "Then came the second, third, fourth ... and they are all males."

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The most expensive tea in the world grows in the feces of the Chinese panda

Chinese entrepreneur An Jansi believes that he has found the key ingredient for the production of the most expensive tea in the world - panda excrement. Former calligraphy teacher bought 11 tons of manure from a breeding center for pandas. He fertilized the crops of tea on the slopes a mountain in Sichuan province in southwest China. An stated that the first harvest of the tea will be in spring and it will be "the most expensive tea in the world" with a price tag of $ 35,000 for 500 grams. Chinese experts say that the first harvest, which is done in early spring, gives the highest quality tea. Therefore it is not surprising that there are types on the market which cost up to $ 3,500 for 500 grams, but to have a tea which costs ten times as much is completely insane.

The 41-year-old An is very passionate about the new project; he even gives interviews dressed in a costume of the black and white bear. He was often the ridiculed during last few weeks because of his extravagant claims about the potential health benefits of the tea. But he was deadly serious and he left his job at the University of Sichuan to devote himself entirely to this project.

Besides his hopes to earn an exceptional amount of money for the tea, which was planted on an area of just over one hectare, he wants to persuade the world to protect the environment and replace the chemical fertilizers with the natural ones. The tea lover got the idea last year after attending a seminar.

His claim that the green tea he produces will help people lose weight and protect them against radiation has already been repeatedly ridiculed on the large Chinese websites where there are doubts about the alleged health benefits of the tea as well as its high price.

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The rulers of the abyss - animals that you will never meet in your life !

It is said that we know much more about the surface of the Moon than what is happening, in the dark depths of the ocean which are on our own planet. Indeed, man has investigated only 5% of the world’s oceans (there are even better maps of Mars than the ocean floor!).

Here is an interesting fact for all of you: Did you know that a human being spend about two minutes on the surface of the Moon without any equipment before the vacuum kills him/her? But, the same man would not survive one millisecond at the bottom of the deepest oceans because the pressure would literally destroy him/her.

Also, the dark side of the Moon has more light than down, down, down ... in the depths of the abyss ... There is one thing we know; even in the deepest part of an ocean, known as the Mariana Trench, despite enormous pressure (from about 16,000 pounds per square inch - or 1.6 billion bars) and the absolute, total darkness - there is life! Auguste Picard, the man who travelled into the abyss with his bathyscaphe in 1960, saw a couple of extreme creatures who apparently live in the previously described environment.

Fangot fish live at depths of over 16 5000 feet:

At these incredible depths, scientists keep finding strange and bizarre creatures that inhabit the deep abyss. The ocean floor makes more than 50% of the earth's surface.

We already said that there is no light at these depths, so most animals use various tricks to attract bait. Grammatostomias flagellibarba, or to simplify, dragon fish, uses so-called "biological light." Mainly for one thing: food. If a diver would go deep enough to notice a radiant light, it would be wiser for him to flee immediately because he could easily become the prey to monstrously big and pin-sharp fangs of the dragon fish.

"The sea angler" is another type of the "monster" fish that uses the "flashing bait." However, it uses a different trick. Rather than to lure prey into the mouth, it uses its "fishing rod" like a harpoon to catch the prey.

One mile from the Coral Sea off the coast of Australia another type of fish has been found - "The Hairy Sea Carnivore". It uses long "hair" to gather information about the environment:

"Long head sleeper" is also a carnivore found in the waters of Greenland.

Batisaurus will bite whenever it gets the chance, and can grow up to two feet.

Another candidate for the award is a so called "Golooka fish." This fish looks really weird and strange. This fish has eyes, but why would they be in one place? This fish has a transparent head and eyes can move in whatever direction inside the skull!

Medusa atolls and perifila:

The transparent sea cucumber, Enipniasta, was seen at a depth of 1.5 miles. It lives in northern part of tge Gulf of Mexico. The right photo shows "Dambo" - with funny "ears".

Ping pong tree sponge comes from a family of carnivores. I is quite large, can grow up to two feet.

Granrojo (top right) is a deep water jelly fish with a strange, plump "hands", and irresistible body that looks like it is made of plastic.

Since none of these fish and jellyfish is monstrous in size, we'll now see something called abyssal gigantism, or the tendency of all organisms that live in extremely deep waters to be gigantic and not just disgusting and ugly.

Do you have a small dog, a cat or a turtle? Would you like to have a similar pet in size but in a totally different form and type?

Sweet? Not at all. Nice? Even less. But the giant isopods would certainly start many rumors about you if took him out for a walk. Just imagine: a pill shaped bug which weighs about 4 pounds.

Other abyss giants are not for those who are afraid of spiders ... Japanese spidery crab, which reaches a length of 12 feet, is indeed a true example of gigantism.

Vampire sea spiders in the Antarctic? Sounds like a fantasy, but they really exist...

Although it is not large, one of the beautiful creatures that live in the dark ocean depths has true name that describes it: the vampire squid. With its blood red color, this squid has hooks instead of ordinary soft tentacles which turn into a thorny ball when in danger. This squid also radiates natural light when it wants to be seen, but it can ‘turn it off’ whenever it wants and disappear in the dark.

Of course, we can talk for hours since there are thousands of strange and weird organisms down there, but we should note one thing: every day there is a possibility to find an even stranger and more twisted animal in the unexplored depths of the sea.

We will now return to the abyssal gigantism. Namely, there is one animal that is a mixture of known and unknown which is a nightmare in dark ocean depths. It was thought for a long time that it is just a myth, a story that circulates between the idle seamen. But then proof arrived: disturbing scars on a large whale the king of the ocean depths - which gave evidence of the unimaginable fight deep below sea level.

These giants are down there and they are probably the biggest creatures that currently live on the planet. Their eyes are big like plates; they have 32 feet long tentacles which are strung like razor sharp protuberances with a massively strong beak. Architeuthis, the giant squid, has just recently been recorded for the first time, but it is still a mystery.

So, take a moment and look at the sky and the stars and think about how many misteries are hidden there; then please follow the coastline, take a look at the sea and realize that men have better knowledge of a big rock that is 250 000 miles away then about the fantastic underwater world that is located just a few miles from us ...

images source: darkroastedblend.com

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