10 facts about Tom and Jerry

1. In their very first outing in 1940, Tom was actually called Jasper, while Jerry – though nameless in the cartoon itself – was referred to as Jinx by the animators!
2. Tom and Jerry are American as apple pie – except for a really weird period in the 60s when the cartoons were made in Czechoslovakia.
3. There was once a suspiciously similar knock-off series called Herman and Katnip. The antics of this particular cat and mouse aren't that well-remembered today, which is odd since its theme tune is almost nightmarishly catchy.
4. Bet you didn't know Tom and Jerry had a spin-off? Made in the 1950s, it was called Spike & Tyke and featured the adventures of that big bulldog we often saw beating Tom up.
5. It's a myth that Tom and Jerry were silent characters. They both uttered lines throughout the decades, and in the 1992 movie they couldn't keep their traps.
6. Tom and Jerry won seven Academy Awards.
7. TOM and JERRY were first created for an advertisement where Jerry hides from Tom in the car, and the narrator tells the viewers that their new car is the safest place to hide for.
8. Traditionally, music plays a very important part in Tom and Jerry shorts–since Tom and Jerry almost never speak–effectively emphasizing the action, adding emotion to the scenes, and filling in for traditional sound effects.
9. So who actually created Tom and Jerry? It was animation's most successful ever partnership – William Hanna and Joseph Barbera.
10. There’s a Tom and Jerry episode where they both commit suicide!

10 facts about India

1. India belongs to the continent of Asia, it is bordered by the countries of Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, China, Nepal, and Pakistan.
2. India has the second largest population in the world, with over 1.2 billion people (1,205,073,612 as of July 2012).
3. India is the seventh largest country by total area.
4. The highest mountain in India is Kanchenjunga, standing at 8,598 m (28,209 ft), which it shares with Nepal. Kanchenjunga is the third highest mountain in the world.
5. Many different languages are spoken in India. The main ones are Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, and Urdu.
6. The capital city is New Delhi, while the most populated city is Mumbai. Other major cities include Kolkata, Chennai and Bangalore.
7. Because of India's location, it experiences periods of heavy rain called Monsoon.
8. The Taj Mahal (a famous mausoleum and popular tourist attraction) is located in the region of Agra.
9. India became an independent nation in 1947 after ending British rule that began in 1858. Mahatma Gandhi is famous for the important part he played in gaining India's independence.
10. The most popular sport in India is cricket, with the Indian team being the first to win the Cricket World Cup on home soil when they were victorious in 2011.

Photo: The Kedar Range of the Greater Himalayas rises behind Kedarnath Temple (Indian state of Uttarakhand), which is one of the twelve jyotirlinga shrines.

10 facts about Stars

1. There could be over a Septillion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) stars in the universe.
2. Contrary to popular belief a black hole does not “suck” in the objects around it. Due to their incredible mass, according to Einstein’s general theory of relativity, they actually bend space in such a way that everything within their gravitational field is pushed towards it.
3. The closest observable star is Sol, or as it’s more commonly known, the Sun.
4. There are approximately 400 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy alone.
5. Despite many peoples claims of there being “green” stars, there are no stars in the known universe which are green. A green star is usually a side effect of a looking through a telescope on a certain wavelength.
6. The Sun produces the energy equivalent to 100 billion typical hydrogen bombs every second.
7. Scientists believe that 3.5 billion years from today, the Sun will shine 40 percent brighter than it does at present. The heat will be so high, it will make oceans boil and the resulting water vapor will be lost forever to space.
8. Despite how often stars are claimed to “twinkle” this is not true. The twinkling effect is merely the light from the star passing through the Earth’s atmosphere, and it is merely deflecting the light before it reaches your eyes.
9. The largest star in the universe is the VY Canis Majoris. It is 2,800,000,000 kilometers in diameter. It would take you 1,100 years to complete an orbit around it if you are aboard a passenger airplane that flies at 900 kilometers per hour.
10. If you look at the stars, you are actually looking back in time. This is because light from stars and galaxies in far away distances take a long time, about thousands or even millions of years, before it can reach the Earth. The largest star is said to be 4,900 light years away from the earth.

optical illusions

And it just keeps going…


Just don’t try to sit in this chair.








These tiles are actually the same color.








These squares aren’t what you think.


The grey rectangle is one solid color.





7.) Can you keep track of the surface of this mobius trip?





These squares are actually moving at the same speed.





11.) And so are these. Watch as the background turns grey.


You could watch this for hours.