1000 Facts That No One Knows

[<>Diamond<>]

A river in Thailand randomly shoots red fireballs into the air. No one knows why.

About 70 - 100 km downstream from Vientiane, capital of Laos, the Mekong River does something really strange. At night, the river produces red fireballs that rise up into the air and disappear without making any noise. The balls are usually small, but some have been observed to be the size of basketballs. While it might seem mysterious and remote to most of us, the area along the river is heavily populated with homes and roads, and people have gotten used to it.

People from the area confirm to witnessing the fireballs their whole life and that their parents and grandparents did too. So far there is no scientific explanation for the phenomenon. There are, however, myths about the fireballs have been formed over the years. The most famous is of a naga, dragon or snake, which crawled through the mountains where the Mekong is now. The naga continues to pass through the area, but now underwater, and like a good dragon it spits fireballs into the air from the river bottom.

At the end of every October, a festival is held in celebration of the mysterious fireballs. Tens of thousands show up every year, but the balls are random and some years aren’t even witnessed during the festival.

[Aquishira]

Flies fly in the key of F.

[ambertiger]

A river in Thailand randomly shoots red fireballs into the air. No one knows why.

About 70 - 100 km downstream from Vientiane, capital of Laos, the Mekong River does something really strange. At night, the river produces red fireballs that rise up into the air and disappear without making any noise. The balls are usually small, but some have been observed to be the size of basketballs. While it might seem mysterious and remote to most of us, the area along the river is heavily populated with homes and roads, and people have gotten used to it.

People from the area confirm to witnessing the fireballs their whole life and that their parents and grandparents did too. So far there is no scientific explanation for the phenomenon. There are, however, myths about the fireballs have been formed over the years. The most famous is of a naga, dragon or snake, which crawled through the mountains where the Mekong is now. The naga continues to pass through the area, but now underwater, and like a good dragon it spits fireballs into the air from the river bottom.

At the end of every October, a festival is held in celebration of the mysterious fireballs. Tens of thousands show up every year, but the balls are random and some years aren’t even witnessed during the festival.

Do you have the source in which you found this?
I'd like to look more into it

[scoopyfrog]

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[meowool]

The reason why our fingers go wrinkly after a while in the bath/water is because the wrinkles help us to grip wet things better under water.

Thats false ^^ There is information here: x but there is too much to paste here

That source only explains how they get wrinkly, not why, its also two years older than my source. here Also They don't swell up because of the water, they swell because of vasoconstriction in the fingers.

[Rainbow Crystal]

Arogel is 99.8% air
If you don't know what it is ,it's the material that can be used to make your oven door feel cool on the outside when it is on.

[rewind]

Supercomputers have been invented to find more numbers to pi (3.14).

[ShadowHunteress]

Ice isn't really slippery, it is the layer on top that melts when you step on it

[Helmuth]

Money isn't made out of paper; it's made out of cotton.
The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
Everyone has a unique tongue print.

[12wolfie]

A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.

This has been posted before many, many times. It. is. not. true. the echo is at a frequency we cannot hear.