Category: Fun Corner
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Unbelievable Facts
Here is a quick bite of very funny facts. Wow! Interesting.
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What are Extreme Sports?
Extreme sport is term used for those adventurous sports that are dangerous. These sports involve great speeds, height or depth. They also require a tremendous physical stamina. This is the reason why extreme sports are not as popular as conventional sports which are a safe combination of adventure and skills. Extreme sports are often done using highly specialized gear…
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The Story of Green
Would you like to hear a story about color green??Here we go….. Once there lived The Green family. Papa Green and Mama Green lived with their four children – Dark Green, Light Green, Go Green and Feel Green. These children often fought among themselves. Each one thought he was better than the other. Papa Green and Mama Green…
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Elephant Expecting Emails
Do you notice something peculiar about the sentence? For one I’m quite amused that elephants get emails;) But the other thing that is rather amusing is that if you observe, all the words in the sentence are starting with the same letter. Such phrases or sentences are called alliterations. Here is a fun alliteration: Betty…
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Unique Words of English Language
The way you look at some words of the English language is going to change for ever after you read this. Given below are some words, most of them are simple usual words with unusual facts attached to them. So let the exploration begin!! “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt”. “Angry” and…
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The Trojan Horse
Almost 3000 years ago, the Trojans and Greeks fought a long and terrible war. Why? Because the Trojans had captured a beautiful Greek princess Helen. But this is a story about a horse and not the princess :) The Greeks fought a battle with Troy but could not get in the tall strong walls around the city. They…
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The Monsters that Ate Fire
Ohhh! Scared? Don’t be! Because we are talking about imaginary creatures – dragons. These are not real creatures and are safely locked inside fairy tale books along with other imaginary creatures. Most of the times in the stories, the prince or the knight would be looking to find the treasure, or for something magical or…
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The Birth of Money
Today everything that we need, we have to buy it with ‘money’. Yeah! We are talking about those coins and paper notes. But why do we need money at all? Did it exist in olden times? Let’s explore. ‘Barter’ or ‘give and take’ forms the basis of all trade in the world. You have to pay in some way for…
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Yummy Gummi
The Bears and Worms we love to eat…Eww! Who would want to eat bears and worms? Remember that famous song “….., I think I’ll go eat worms! Big fat juicy ones, Eensie weensy squeensy ones, See how they wiggle and squirm!”, Ha! Don’t we all love to eat the gummi worms. But did you know who invented them?…
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Why Tickling makes You Laugh?
Have you ever wondered why is it that whenever some one tickles you, you burst into bouts of laughter but you can never tickle yourself? First of all, let us see why we feel like laughing. All of us have some funny spots on our bodies and they are not difficult to find. So if someone…
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Juiciest Summer Fruit
There are no points for guessing that we are talking about Watermelons!! The crunchy juicy fruit is almost all water and little sugar. Many people believe that though it is refreshing, it is not very nutritious. But this is not true. Like many other fruits it is a very good source of vitamin A and…
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Monkey Trouble
Once there lived a monkey, in a jungle, who was always unhappy because he thought that others were better than him. No matter how many times his parents told him that he was a special monkey he was still sad. One day he was playing with his friends in a cave when he found a magic lamp.…