Top 5 Mysterious Places on Earth

1. Mystery Spot

The Mystery Spot is a gravitational anomaly located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California. It is a circular area of effect around 150 feet or 46 meters in diameter. Within the Mystery Spot you will be stunned as your perceptions of the laws of physics and gravity are questioned. But don’t take our word for it, see and decide for yourself!

The Mystery Spot was discovered in 1939 by a group of surveyors and opened to the public in 1940. The Mystery Spot has amazed and perplexed hundreds of thousands of visitors from all over the world, and many return time and time again to experience these puzzling variations of gravity, perspective, and height.




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2. The Bermuda Triangle

The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil’s Triangle, is a region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean where a number of aircraft and surface vessels are said to have disappeared under mysterious circumstances.

The Bermuda Triangle is located off the Southeastern coast of the United States in the Atlantic Ocean, with its apexes in the vicinities of Bermuda, Miami, Florida, and San Juan, Puerto Rico. It covers roughly 500,000 square miles.

The area may have been named after its Bermuda apex since Bermuda was once known as the “Isle of Devils.” Treacherous reefs that have ensnared ships sailing too close to its shores surround Bermuda, and there are hundreds of shipwrecks in the waters that surround it.

3. Socotra

If you visit the Republic of Yemen, your not far from Socotra Island. Socotra Island is a wonder to behold.  There are 55,000 people who live there and there’s no shortage of amazing things to experience. Socotra is one of the most isolated landforms on Earth of continental origin. The archipelago features narrow coastal plains, a limestone plateau with caves, and mountains which rise to 1,525 meters above sea level.

4. Mount Roraima

Mount Roraima is the highest of the Pakaraima mountain chain in South America. The 31 square kilometer summit area is defined by 400 meter tall cliffs on all sides and includes the borders of Brazil, Venezuela, and Guyana. The tabletop mountains of the Pakaraima’;s are considered some of the oldest geological formations on Earth, dating back to some two billion years ago.


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5. Rio Tinto

The Rio Tinto is a river found in Southwestern Spain. Due to the large amount of iron and sulfur ionising bacteria the river has a bizarre colour of a very deep shade of red. The extreme conditions in the river are thought to be similar to that on Mars, with NASA scientists claiming the chemistry of the water is similar to the chemistry of rocks from the red planet.

37 Most Amazing Real Pictures

Balloons in Cappadocia

The border between Belgium and the Netherlands in a cafe

Favelas of Brazil . The boundary between wealth and poverty.

In the Chinese province of Shandong is a bridge across the Gulf of Jiaozhou.

The bridge length over 36 km is calculated for eight car lanes, and is the longest sea bridge in the world.

In the city of Buford , WY ( USA ) lives just one person. He works as a janitor and as a mayor.

Autumn camouflage

The world’s highest chained carousel, located in Vienna , at a height of 117 meters.

Balcony of floor 103 in Chicago

From the outside it looks like this

In northwestern Montana , USA.

The water is so transparent that it seems that this is a quite shallow lake. In fact, it’s very deep.

Morning Glory –

kind of clouds observed in the Gulf of Carpentaria in northern Australia

Desert with Phacelia (Scorpion Weed). Flowering once in several years.

Dubai. The view from the skyscraper BurjKhalifa. The height of buildings is 828 m (163 floors).

And this is the view……. down

Emerald Lake in the crater of an extinct volcano. Tongariro National Park – New Zealand

Paris computer games store. In fact, the floor is absolutely flat.

Haus Rizzi – Germany

Lost paradise in the Indian Ocean . Isle of Lamu.

Banpo Bridge in Seoul , South Korea

This is a unique geological phenomenon known as Danxia landform. These phenomena can be observed in several places in China . This example is located in Zhangye, Province of Gansu . The color is the result of an accumulation for millions of years of red sandstone and other rocks.

Lighthouse guard in Mare

Lighthouse guard in Mare , France must be one of the most courageous people on the planet! Not everyone will have a smoke in such weather, and in such a place!

Skyscraper-Crescent Crescent Moon Tower ( Dubai )

Office of Selgas Cano in Madrid

Gibraltar Airport is one of the most extraordinary airports around the world

These trees grow in the forest near Gryfino , Poland . The cause of the curvature is unknown

The river above the river: Magdeburg Water Bridge , Germany .

Lena Pillars. Russia , the Lena River

In the resort town of Skagen you can watch an amazing natural phenomenon. This city is the northernmost point of Denmark, where the Baltic and North Seas meet. The two opposing tides in this place can not merge because they have different densities.

Day and night. The monument in Kaunas, Lithuania

Twice a year in the Gulf of Mexico rays migrate. About 10 thousand stingrays swim from the Yucatan Peninsula to Florida in the spring and back in the fall.

Photo of storm in Montana , USA , 2010

Heavy fog in Sydney , which enveloped the whole city

The longest traffic jam in the world — recorded in China

Its length is 260 kilometers [and that's 161 MILES, folks!]

Thor’s Well a/k/a ”the gates of the dungeon” on Cape Perpetua , Oregon

At moderate tide and strong surf, flowing water creates a fantastic landscape

View of the sunset from inside the wave.

Restaurant on a cliff on the east coast of Zanzibar

Depending on the tide the restaurant can be reached both on foot and by boat.

An unusual tunnel in California’s Sequoia National Park

Tips to Get Confirmed Tatkal Ticket from IRCTC Site

Getting confirmed tatkal ticket from IRCTC site is like winning a gold medal. I have tried to get tatkal ticket hundreds of times but most of the time I was unable to get the tatkal ticket. And yes, I was always unfortunate at times when it was real emergency.

Daily thousands of needy people use IRCTC in the morning to get a tatkal ticket but a large percentage of them never got the success. The main reason of the failure of getting the tatkal ticket is either you were just 1-2 minutes late or the window says “session expired”.

Reasons you don’t get a confirmed tatkal ticket-

1. You can use the tatkal booking only when its 8.00 am at the IRCTC but even if your computer time has 1 minute difference with that of IRCTC, it will be a big problem as most of the tatkal tickets are booked in the first 5 minutes only and if this is peak season all the tickets booked in minutes.
2. After 8 am you start filling the details like station name, booking date, selecting your train, then filling passenger form details etc and when you want to book it says no more confirmed ticket.
3. If you try to fill all the details before 8 am and wait and after 8 am you try to go to the next window then it says “session expired” and you need to login again.
4. And one of the main reason is many fields in IRCTC does not work (like filling typing station name and it does not popup the code) and it loads very slowly or page does not open etc.

Its really frustrating because there is no other option left if you miss this tatkal ticket. Flights tickets are really not affordable now a days.

Here I am trying to give you one of the best tip for getting IRCTC ticket which I am using from the last couple of months and I was really successful most of the times. So next time when you are trying to get the confirmed IRCTC ticket, just refer this tip and increase your chances of getting a confirmed tatkal ticket.

Tips to get a confirmed tatkal ticket

Get Multiple IRCTC account

For this, you need to have at least 3 IRCTC accounts. Either you can create this or get the account of your friend and relative. You need to have different internet browser in your PC to open different account in different browser. You can install Internet Explorer (IE), Mozilla Firefox & Google Chrome.

You have to login to all different IRCTC account from different browsers. You can not login to different account in the same browser. So open one account in IE, one in Firefox & other in Chrome.

This is because if there is problem in one browser, you can immediately use another logged in account. This is confirmed that if you have problem in the booking process in one browser, it will work in other browser as per my experience.

Match the time of your PC with IRCTC

Next thing you have to do is match the time with that of IRCTC. To check IRCTC time, just visit this link here and get the schedule by entering any train number (or use 12833). Now scroll down to the bottom of the page in the next window and check there IRCTC time. And then match it with your PC.

Get Magic Autofill

Most of your time in the booking process goes in filling the passenger details form and saving here even 5 seconds can make a difference and where this Magic Autofill play the role. This is one of the best auto filling form developed by Amit Agarwal.

It’s a simple online tool that will fill the passenger details form on the IRCTC website with the click of a button thus giving you an upper hand.

Just check how the tool works. Visit ctrlq.org/irctc around 15 minutes prior to the opening of the booking window and complete the form i.e at around 7.45 am. Its an almost exact replica of the form that’s available on the Indian railways website. Once you’ve filled the passenger details, hit I’m Feeling Lucky and the tool will generate a Magic Autofill button that you need to drag to your bookmarks toolbar as shown in the image below.

Now at 8 am when you start the booking process and come to the passenger details form click on Magic Autofill button and with in a second all the details will be filled automatically. Its really magic. Now you complete other formalities like payment and get your ticket.

Get your details ready

This is very important as sometime you just forget the train details or sometime you get confuse which payment methods to choose when there is no time to think all these things. So just open a notepad, write all the details in advance like source train & destination train, credit card details or bank details with password.

You have already filled the passenger details in the magic autofill and bookmarked the button.

Write every details in that notepad that you are going to fill in the booking process so that you just copy and paste that detail. It can save your at least 1 minute and here every second counts in tatkal ticket booking.

This way you can really increase your chances of booking a tatkal ticket. I have many times used this tip and more than 95% time I was successful in booking a tatkal ticket.

Some Most Interesting Facts About Facebook

Amidst so many things said and heard, we has collected some crazy & interesting facts about Facebook that have made the company a treat for the readers.





Whether you are a user of Facebook or not, it’s always there and millions upon millions of people use it every single day. When Facebook IPO came, Facebook share was priced in open market for about $38 a share, bringing the totaled value of the company to a whopping $100 billion.



Did you know that Mark Zuckerberg makes about $67 every second totaling around $650K every week? Or what if Facebook was a country – with over 900 million users, FB would be the 3rd largest country in the world after China and India, basically crushing the US which is home to only 300+ million. In such a short amount time, this website has become an extremely strong force in today’s society and it only looks to go up after the IPO.

Some Interesting Facts About Facebook

• Facebook’s Worth would be more than eBay, Yahoo, Groupon, LinkedIn, Netflix, IAC, AOL, Zynga and Pandora combined, when it goes public.
• Facebook has 901 million monthly active users, with 526 million who use Facebook at least once a day as of March, according to Facebook’s fact page.
• Countries that block Facebook include China, Iran, Uzbekistan, Syria, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
• Eminem has the most popular celebrity page on Facebook with over 57 million likes, beating Rihanna and Lady Gaga.
• In 2011, Zuckerberg became a vegetarian, according to his Facebook timeline history.
• The company that’s been valued at over $100 billion dollars was started from Mark Zuckerberg’s dorm room in Harvard. Yep, that part of the movie is true.
• Eduardo Saverin, the Brazilian co founder of Facebook has renounced his US citizenship and is now investing billions in startups at Singapore.
• About 60 percent of the voting power at Facebook is controlled by Zuckerberg.
• The big shot media company Viacom had offered to acquire Facebook, but was rejected by Mark Zuckerberg.
• After agreeing to an acquisition offer from Yahoo while it was led by Terry Semel, Facebook stepped down from the deal when there were talks of lowering the offer price.
• The Microsoft CEO, steve Ballmer had offered to buy Facebook. Steve has invested $240 million in Facebook till date.
• Of all the incredible talents that Zuckerberg is bestowed with, his greatest and what seems to be his favorite is Firing People.
• Facebook interviewed Yahoo executive Ellen Siminoff, Apple veteran Bud Colligan, and former OpenTable CEO Jeff Jordan for the position of COO which is now held by Sheryl Sandberg.
• Steve jobs had to cancel the presentation that he had offered Facebook for the iphone application in 2008. Jobs, who had expected Zuckerberg to do the presentation was disappointed by the audition of the engineer who was selected by the Facebook CEO.
• Maintaining his reputation of having a a bad fashion sense, Zuckerberg wore a hoodie to the meeting with wall street investors.
• In 2005, Mark Zuckerberg took CEO lessons to improve his managerial skills.
• Mark Zuckerberg is said to be a big time Glee fan.
• One of the reasons for Facebook to be so mobile friendly is that Mark Zuckerberg is a huge fan of Blackberry.
• In 2010 Zuckerberg switched to iphone from Blackberry, apparently, because his thumbs were hurting.
• The employees at Facebook seem to be getting bored as Zuckerberg won’t agree to work on weird projects like driverless cars.
• Mark Zuckerberg promises to code every day of the year 2012.
• The CEO never consulted his board before starting his negotiations with the $1 billion acquisition Instagram.
• Facebook had started looking for overseas investors when it was not getting any attention from domestic investors during the housing crisis.
• The Like Button was originally named the Awesome button by the Facebook engineers.
• Facebook’s valuation is four times that of Google when it went public.
• In 2009, after being charged by the government for changing user privacy settings, Facebook agreed to 20 years of FTC privacy audits.
• The Zuckerberg family spent $85,000 to keep running Facebook during its first Californian summer.
• Before starting YouTube, founder steve chen had worked for a few weeks at Facebook.
• To drop the “the”, Sean Parker helped the company buy the domain name Facebook.com for $200,000.
• Mark Zuckerberg had initially resisted to the idea of including photo sharing. Sean parker had convinced him to include what is the most used feature of the website.
• Engineers at Facebook are paid more than any other in Silicon Valley.
• The young billionaire recently married to his long time girlfriend Priscilla Chan. Mrs Zuckerberg, who is of Chinese-American descent, had inspired her new husband, 28, to learn Chinese some time ago.