SOME INTERESTING BIOLOGICAL FACTS

Soham Biswas

1. Which organ controls the amount of sugar in our blood?

Ans: Pancreas
2. Which part of our body is not doing it’s jobs when food goes down in the wrong way?
Ans: Epiglottis
3. Which is the hardest bone in our body?
Ans: The enamel of our teeth
4. About how much food does an adult eat every year?
Ans: 450 Kgs
5. What coloured eyes are most babies born with?
Ans: Blue
6. What do most baby’s bones start as?
Ans: Cartilage
7. Which part of the body is most sensitive to touch?
Ans: Fingers
8. Which of our sensory organs help us keep our balance?
Ans: Ears
9. What makes up 85% of the brain?
Ans: Water
10. How many bones are in each of our hands?
Ans: 27
11. Which animal skeleton is entirely made of cartilage?
Ans: Shark
12. Which muscle is hollow?
Ans: The heart
 BLACK HOLE

Soham Biswas

A black hole is a region of space time exhibiting such strong gravitational effects that
nothing, not even particles and electromagnetic radiation such as light can escape from
inside it. The theory of general relativity predicts that a sufficiently compact mass can deform
space- time to form a black hole. The boundary of the region from which no escape is
possible is called the event horizon. Although the event horizon has an enormous effect on
the fate and circumstances of an object crossing at, no locally detectable features appears to
be observed. In many ways, a black hole acts like an ideal black body, as it reflects no light.
Moreover, quantum field theory is curved space-time. It predicts that event horizons emit
Hawking radiation, with the same spectrum like a black body of a temperature inversely
proportional to it’s mass. This temperature is in the order of billions of a Kelvin for black
holes of stellar mass, making it essentially impossible to observe.
 THE FIVE SCARIEST SECRETS OF THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE

Sagnik Ray

The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the ‘ Devil’s Triangle’ is a notorious area that lies in
the North Atlantic Ocean between Florida, Puerto Rico and the Island of Bermuda. In fact, it
is estimated to be a whooping 500,000 square miles in size. It terrifies and simultaneously
mesmerizes people all over the world with its spooky statistics. 300 ships had been vanished
without a trace, 75 aircrafts that simply vanished out of thin air and over 1000 victims never
made it home to their families. With each passing year, we see different theories attempting
to explain the phenomenon of the Devil’s Triangle, but we still exactly don’t know for sure
what exactly this place is. Some say it is cursed, others say it is something paranormal and
there those who believe it are got something to do with aliens. Whatever, even scientists
can’t understand the tragedies.

The mysterious incidents are as follows:--

The Bermuda Triangle already started gaining fame in the times of Christopher Colombus.
During his voyage to the New World, the explorer noticed pillars of fire falling from the sky
and crashing into the ocean near the arcane area. At that time, there wasn’t any developed
system of communication, so people didn’t find out about the triangle until the 20th century,
but even before that the mysterious place was claiming victims as a regular basis.
The five scariest incidents are:--

MARY CELESTE

On November 7, 1872, the 282-ton brigantine Mary Celeste set sail from New York Harbor
on its way to Genoa, Italy. On board were the ship’s captain, Benjamin S. Briggs, his wife,
Sarah, and their 2-year-old daughter, Sophia, along with eight crewmembers. Less than a
month later, on December 5, a passing British ship called Dei Gratia spotted Mary Celeste at
full sail and adrift about 400 miles east of the Azores, with no sign of the captain, his family
or any of the crew. Aside from several feet of water in the hold and a missing lifeboat, the
ship was undamaged and loaded with six months’ worth of food and water.

ELLEN AUSTIN’S CURIOUS FINDING

The Ellen Austin was an American schooner, a large multi-masted ship weighing over 1800
tons and was 210 feet long. The ship was manufactured way back in 1854 in Maine. She
used to ply between London and New York over the Bermuda Triangle zone in the Atlantic
ocean. In 1881 during one of her London - New York trips, she met with another ship on the
way which was moving in good speed. Strangely, the other ship had no one onboard.

In order to salvage this unnamed ship, the captain of the Ellen Austin sent some of his prize
crew on board this ship. When the crew boarded the ship, they in fact confirmed that there
was not a single soul on board. The captain of Ellen Austin ordered the crew to guide the
ship so that they could all sail together to New York. After two days, the two ships got
separated by a huge sea storm. And when the storm subsided, the unnamed ship was gone
and never seen again.

Yes, the mystery of the ship is still being explored. The crew and the unknown ship could
never be traced again. However, in 1944, a retired British navy officer, Commander Gould
wrote about this incident. In his article, he mentioned that the ship was actually found again
by the Ellen Austin, but again like last time, there was no one on board. And the ship was
sailing erratically. The crew were also gone.

THE USS CYCLOPS

The Cyclops was nearly 550 feet long, with a crew of 306 people and around 11,000
tons of manganese aboard. She had been sailing successfully since 1910, traveling
between the Baltic Sea, the Caribbean and Mexico and assisting with moving coal
around the world and helping refugees. But in 1917, when America entered World
War I, Cyclops became a key naval asset, transporting troops and coal to fuel other
ships all over the world.

In March 1918, the ship was given a new cargo: tons and tons of dense manganese
ore, used in steelmaking. She left Brazil loaded up with the brittle meta l, then
voyaged to Barbados to resupply for the long journey home to Baltimore. The last
known message from the ship said simply: “Weather Fair, All Well.” But on the nine -
day journey, something went awry, and no one from the ship was ever seen or heard
again—vanishing without even an SOS.
 GRUMMAN COUGAR JET

In 1991 the pilot of a Grumman Cougar jet made a routine radio request to increase altitude.
While ascending, the aircraft gradually faded from radar and vanished.

MU-2B

The 40-year old lady Jennifer Blumin, an event planner and the CEO of the event
management company Skylight flew to Puerto Rico to spend the Mother's Day (Sunday May
14, 2017) along with her two sons (3-year and 4-year) and her boyfriend Nathan Ulrich, 52.
She owned a small private aircraft Mitsubishi MU-2B-40 with twin turbojet engines.

Next day on May 15, 2017 they were returning home to New York. Nathan was an
experienced pilot and was himself flying the plane. The flight took off from Rafael Hernandez
Airport in Borinquen (Aguadilla, Peurto Rico) at 11:08am on Monday, May 15. They were to
make a landing at 2.44pm at the Space Coast Regional Airport in Titusville (South Florida) to
refuel the aircraft.

However at 2:10pm when the plane was only 37 miles east of Eleuthera (Bahamas), the
Miami air traffic control could no longer trace the aircraft on its radar. Apparently there was
nothing wrong with the weather. The flight simply vanished. It was flying at an altitude of
24,000ft at 345 miles per hour.
These major disappearances are just examples of souls taken up by the Devil’s Triangle!