If you have ever asked yourself how to improve the life and longevity of your parents and grandparents, the scientists have come with a very simple answer: just be around them. In the most recent study, the results showed that people who are lonelier are more likely to experience faster functional decline and earlier death.

The study which was carried out from 2002 to 2008, showed that loneliness can indeed kill you. The target group were 1604 participants with the mean age of 71.

These people were visited every 2 years and were asked if in any way they felt left out, isolated or if they lacked companionship and were then put in the ‘lonely’ and ‘not lonely’ category respectively.

The outcomes of the study showed remarkable results. In fact, the participants who were lonely experienced increased difficulty in their activities of daily living (ADL), such as eating, bathing, dressing, toileting, walking and continence.

Another difficulty they experienced was in their upper extremity tasks, such as extending their arms above their shoulders, pushing or pulling larger objects and lifting or carrying weights heavier than 10 pounds. The lonely participants also experienced decline in mobility and increased difficulty in stair climbing.

The study also showed that lonely people had a greater death rate compared to those who were visited by their relatives and who socialized regularly. More precisely, during the 6 year period of the study, only 14% of the participants who were not lonely died, compared to 23% of the participants who were lonely. This means that loneliness did have a strong impact on the participants’ longevity.

As people grow older, they tend to give greater importance to their relationship with their families; and although they show greater tolerance to being lonely, the effects of loneliness can turn out as fatal. These people tend to get more depressed, eat less and function mechanically.

So ask yourselves how much time you could devote to your parents and grandparents, if you knew that this time spent bonding with them can improve the quality of their life and their longevity? People cannot live a rich life if lonely, as we are by nature social animals.

And never forget that whatever life your parents could offer to you was the best they could do. Caring for them in their old age means a lot more than helping them out with their health problems and other things they don’t feel powerful enough to do. On the contrary, the greatest empowerment they need in order to care for themselves comes from companionship and bonding with their family.

Sources:
Perissinotto CM, Stijacic Cenzer I, Covinsky KE. Loneliness in Older Persons A Predictor of Functional Decline and Death. Arch Intern Med. 2012;172(14):1078-1084. doi:10.1001/archinternmed.2012.1993

The need for safety on the road has been a very concerning topic for a very long time. The truth is, every 25 seconds, someone dies on the roads. The death toll on the roads for last year reached a staggering 1,2 million people. In the United States alone, 34,064 people died in the last year with a count of 10.6 people per 100k.

Sweden’s solution for this problem is called ‘Vision Zero’, where ‘Zero’ stands for the aimed number of deaths in traffic. Although they haven’t come to this number yet, their efforts in improving the traffic conditions and laws have placed them in WHO’s lightest category counting a number of 0 to 4 deaths per 100k people. In fact, the number of deaths per 100k in Sweden reached to only 2,8 people last year!

So what exactly is Vision Zero?

Vision Zero was an idea conceived in 1994 and has become part of Sweden’s Road Traffic Safety Bill ever since. The idea behind Vision Zero states that errors are an inevitable part of human nature and that instead of correcting people, the greatest effort should be put in improving the traffic conditions. This means putting the greatest responsibility on road engineers instead of the drivers and all other people who are part of the traffic safety problem.

Vision Zero does not focus on eliminating traffic accidents altogether. As Matts-Åke Belin states in his interview for Citylab, “…the accident is not the major problem. The problem is that people get killed or seriously injured.” The main focus that Vision Zero has is eliminating deaths and serious injuries by reducing the impact these accidents may have on the people involved.

Some of the changes Vision Zero involves are a reduction in driving speed in urban areas to 30kmph (or 18.6mph) and the introduction of roundabouts instead of intersections. Belin explains these two changes in a very simple way. Concerning the speed limit, Belin states that “…if you get hit by a car at 50 the risk for a fatal accident is more than 80 percent. But it is less than 10 percent when you have 30 kilometers per hour.”

The roundabouts are not only implemented to reduce deaths on the intersections by driving past the red light or turning right when pedestrians have the green light. It is also there to reduce the driving speed. Belin points to the need for roads which would not make it easy to drive fast even if you wanted to. In addition speed bumps, roundabouts require slower driving speed by design.

Enforcement doesn’t play the greatest role in Sweden’s traffic safety.

Enforcement focuses primarily on the idea that people should ‘behave’ when driving and should be punished if they don’t. Sweden takes a different turn on this idea. Although enforcement is present and plays a role in Sweden, the biggest role is given to engineering.

The role of the police has its own importance, but as Belin says, “If you have a very dedicated police staff and they think it’s the most important thing, then you can be quite effective working with police. But I don’t think you will get a safe system. You will reduce risk, but you will not achieve a safe system.”

Vision Zero’s primary focus is thus knowledge and experience in designing and developing a traffic system with all the components essential for road safety. The approach for each local initiative is meant to be holistic, which means there are no preset solutions that would apply for every area.

A very curious fact regarding Sweden’s enforcement is the use of cameras. Sweden has one of the largest camera systems in the world, per population, but, as Belin explains, these cameras serve to “nudge” people, not catch them. Belin says that this method has increased the compliance on the roads from 50 to more than 80 or 90 percent.

“We reduce the speed, but we don’t catch people. And we don’t earn any money. It’s an investment for us.” The truth is that the Swedish government is not trying to make profit out of people’s errors. On the contrary, the system’s aim is to create a safer place on the roads through collaboration and responsibility and many of the enforcement methods aim to remind people of the same.

Will this become possible outside Sweden?

 The good news is that Vision Zero aims to spread as an idea accepted worldwide. They offer help in the construction of a safe system for every country and hold symposiums for the same purpose. Such a symposium was held in New York and NY is pursuing a version of Vision Zero.

Vision Zero could mean a potential end of road deaths worldwide. Perhaps we will see that day where all the people involved in the traffic will be able to coexist freely and safely very soon!

Sources:
www.visionzeroinitiative.com (Retreived 16 Jan 2017)
http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/road_traffic/death-on-the-roads/en/ (Retreived 16 Jan 2017)
http://www.citylab.com/commute/2014/11/the-swedish-approach-to-road-safety-the-accident-is-not-the-major-problem/382995/?utm_source=SFTwitter (Retreived 16 Jan 2017)

The city of Dallas has announced plans to build the biggest urban park in America – the Trinity River Part – that is set to span an amazing 10,000 acres of forests, playgrounds, lawns, riverside trails and endless marvelous sights.  

Image: Michael Van Valkenburgh  Associates Inc

This so called “nature district” is a great leap forward for Dallas to become a much “greener” city as the new city park will be almost 12 times as large as Central Park in Manhattan.

Image: Michael Van Valkenburgh  Associates Inc

Aside from people being able to have peacefull walks along the Trinity River, the Trinity River Park will also feature  a myriad of sport fields, flora and fauna, walkways and endless green and pleasant views.

Image: Michael Van Valkenburgh  Associates Inc

The Harold Simmons Park will part of this nature district and it will feature pedestrian overpasses, roads and many more amazing additions.

Image: Michael Van Valkenburgh  Associates Inc

As it is part of a flood zone, the architect Michael Van Valkenburgh from Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates Inc has found a solution how to deal with flooding.

If floods occur, the park will naturally flood only in controlled areas and the water will drain into sloped courses that will be designed in such a way that they will absorb the water, thus eliminating all danger to the surrounding areas.

The elevated parts of the park will be safe from flooding and will include sports fields, paved trails, a playground, walking trail a grassy lawn.

“To transform the Trinity Floodway into a world-class park and a catalyst for urban growth, MVVA placed two core concepts at the center of its design: civic spaces and naturalistic landscapes. Civic spaces, such as playgrounds, fountains, plazas and lawns, are located to provide a connection between the city and the floodplain, protect programmatic areas from extreme flooding, and bring a sense of identity to the dry side of the city’s levees. Riparian landscapes, on the other hand, will restore the ecological function and natural beauty of the channel and its banks while also reducing the vulnerability of pathways and other important design elements,” it says on the official project page.

This is how the park looks now.

This is how it will look once it is completed.

Image: Michael Van Valkenburgh  Associates Inc

Amazing, right?

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Anton Pilipa, a Canadian citizen, went missing in 2012 and was wandering the Amazon rainforest for 5 years, until he was found safe and alive.

Amazingly as it may sound, Anton Pilipa (39), was reported as missing in 2012, when his family set up a page GoFundMe and reported his disappearance, they clearly stated that after struggling with his mental health condition, he suddenly went missing and they lost track of him.

His brother, Stefan, took care of all the paperwork and money raise for his safe returning to Canada, however they went through a hard time during this search and luckily, the struggle and hardships passed after five years.

After his family activated the social media, they have received a call announcing that Anton was noticed in the north of Brazil, looking as a homeless person and he was wandering the highway and later was thought to be a 10,500 km walk from Ontario, Canada to South America.

The amazing fact is that Anton has made it alive through these dangerous and hazardous areas in Brazil.

Bearing in mind his mental condition, specifically schizophrenia, his family is more than pleased to state that the quest ended positively and with a happy ending.

When his brother received the news of his showing up, he immediately started taking care of the paperwork- passport and identification and regulating everything to get Anton back safely and as quickly as possible.

The officer, Helenice Vidigal was responsible for the social media campaign, being among the few people who can communicate in English and identify Anton at the Brazilian Police Department in Porto Velho.

So, after his brother received the news of the appearance of his brother, he immediately started to arrange and raise money for his returning.

Even though Anton tried to escape, the police had successfully managed to return Anton home, right after Christmas in 2016.

The quest for Anton was not only hard for the family emotionally, but as well financially. Sadly, they needed a great amount of money which was only possible to get, if they asked for help from people through their page.

On their page GoFundMe, Stefan managed to successfully raise $12,500. He used the money to help his brother recover and get back home safely.

Anton is now working on his recovery, with the help of his brother in Toronto, so Anton can continue with his life as he was once a known member of radical communities and anti-poverty activist.

This heartbreaking story is a true inspiration and testifies for the humanity in people and the greatness of moving mountains if joined together.

Many people have helped Stefan in his struggle and by doing so, they helped a man in need. With all the help now Anton can have a proper life and put all of his hardships behind him.

Everyone deserves a second chance, and luckily Anton got one, thanks to his family’s faith in humanity and believing in the impossible.

Source:
http://livetheorganicdream.com/

“Change is inevitable”. This thought provoking statement is driven every time when there is change in life. But what if the whole lifestyle of humans changes? Has it really happened? The answer to the question is Yes. The Humans back in 80s or 90s and the humans of today are poles apart. Blame the Digitalisation.

The Digital world has its own boon and banes but it has entirely changed the Human world, literally. Right from waking up to sleeping, the smart phone has taken place of a human being. More deeply, the applications in the phone have become the comrade than human beings.

How Apps Have Changed Our lifestyle?

How many kms running and jogging is needed? how many calories of food intake required? How is the weather outside? or for that sake how is your mood? all can be known by a particular app in your mobile phones. These useful apps have taken over everything, humans used to do on their own.

Connecting your long distance friend or relative was simply not possible but Facebook made it possible. Currently there are more than 2 billion users of Facebook. Similarly you can watch movies, TV shows, documentaries etc via Live TV and video apps.

Based upon the usage, we tried to categorize the kind of apps people like to use.

1. Social Apps (Like Facebook, Twitter, Quora)

Among the most common app used by the people at large are the social apps. Apps like Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, and Instagram are a source of medium to connect to the masses.  In fact people can even raise their opinion, share their views, feelings on this app. Social apps let you socialise digitally with the people, and you need not meet them personally.

 To make these apps more fun and interesting various types of filters, features are added. They are like the daily dose of protein in human body. After waking up the first thing human would do is checking Facebook, Insta or Whatsapp messages etc. 

2. Streaming Apps (Sports, Movies, News)

The Video On demand services has garnered a huge fame in recent years. The market was tapped owning to the increase in use of Mobile phones and internet connection. There are plenty of free movie apps such as TubiTV, Snagfilms, Netflix, Hulu, Hotstar let you enjoy your favourite TV shows and stream movies online.

Gone are the days where you used to wait for your favourite show episode to air on TV at a fixed time. Now you simply can stream or download the episodes and watch when you are free. Same in the case of movies or sports for that sake.

3. Shopping Apps (Like Amazon, Ebay)

Ever wondered Humans could have shopped sitting at their sofa/couch watching TV? Yes this was made possible with shopping apps like Flipkart, Amazon, Infibeam, Ebay etc. Majority of the population now shop online. Be it clothes, gadgets, gifts, grocery or any other thing, shopping is possible sitting at your home/office delivering at your desired location.

In fact these apps do provide you with various offers and discounts on MRP. They are genuine, safe and secure medium to shop. Shopping is no more tiresome and time consuming all thanks to these apps.

Bottom Line

It is clear that Apps are predominant in all areas. Some of the apps even pay you money for downloading. Imagine what not can you get from these apps. You simply need a smart phone and an internet connection to use such apps and you are sorted. It takes whole day of yours and you still not get enough time to cover them all. 

The apps have broken the ice between vendors and customers. Almost all the businesses are upgrading themselves to digital medium all thanks to growing acceptance of these apps.

Mindful living is more and more present in the recent years, mostly because of the countless scientific proofs of its benefits.

Actually, this practice has been present for hundreds of years and it is all thanks to the spiritual guidance of Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism.

The mindfulness is all about knowing or sensing what is happening at the moment, without any negative feelings towards it or wishing for something else. The mindfulness lifestyle offers many benefits, and you need to continuously practice it in order to see them.

In this article we’ll show you 11 laws of mindfulness that you can implement in your lifestyle and make them your routine.

1. The only reality is now – the present.

The quote perfectly defines the principle. Indeed, the past is only a memory or a sort of fiction, we cannot influence it. The future is not here yet and if we want to have some control over it we have to be aware of the present.

2. Negative thinking is dangerous only if believe in it.

Negative and positive thoughts come and go away continuously. It is normal to have negative thoughts sometimes because that is simply in our nature. The important thing is that the thoughts don’t mean anything in real life, they don’t define us – only our actions do.

3. You will not be punished for your anger, it is the anger that will punish you.

People get angry often, and sometimes it is for a valid reason. But reacting to that anger really gives positive results. It is not hard to get angry, but you have to be really wise to get something positive of that. All you need to do is realize that the present moment is what we have and what we control, and then it will become obvious that life is too short to be angry.

“The best fighter is never angry” –  Lao Tzu.

4. The peace within is to know how to belong to yourselves.

Don’t get obsessed with the opinion of the others.  No matter what they think of you, you should never look up to them and become like them. The truth is, we are who we are and no one can truly change that. Osho gives some guidance on how not to care about other people’s opinion of you.

“Nobody can say anything about you. Whatsoever people say is about themselves. But you become very shaky, because you are still clinging to a false center. That false center depends on others, so you are always looking to what people are saying about you. And you are always following other people, you are always trying to satisfy them. You are always trying to be respectable, you are always trying to decorate your ego. This is suicidal. Rather than being disturbed by what others say, you should start looking inside yourself…”

If you truly know who you are, then you will not have a problem with this.

5. All things are created twice, first in your mind and later in your life.

Our brain is the chief creator of the picture of the world around us. People don’t act unless their brain knows what it wants. That’s why we need to have an idea of what we want and our goals, and act accordingly.

“The future depends on what you do today” – Mahatma Gandhi.

6. Nobody can walk our path for us

Life itself is a set of challenges, for some people they are bigger and for others they are smaller, but the only thing we can have control of is how much effort we put in overcoming these challenges. We can’t credit outside objects for our success and happiness – it is all inside us.

7. If you don’t get something you believe in, it is not what you honestly want. 

Never back down on what you want to be, because of society. Never change your personality so that others accept you better. Stay unique and stand for what you believe in and you will never be fooled by others.

8. The hard path is sometimes the right path

At some point of life we all understand that the struggles from the pas have made us stronger. Every difficulty we encounter is important. If something is difficult, do not avoid it. It will take you right where you want to go.

9. Everything comes with a price, and you need to know what you are paying.

If you are searching your passion, maybe it is a good time to ask yourself the next question: What is worth suffering for? If something is worth suffering for, you must be passionate for it.

“Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment.”  – Eckhart Tolle

10. Overthinking and overworking are the complete opposites of the principles for mindful life

Don’t overbook your day. Don’t make long lists of what you need to do today or the next day. It is not the busyness that counts. Try focusing on one thing only, and do it well. Peaceful life is a true mindful life. Stay organized and find the time to rest.

“You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.” – Steve Marboli.

11. Don’t try to control everything – that way you enjoy nothing

People usually have the need for control over things. But what is the truth, really? Are we in control of everything? The truth is that we are never in control. We are only stressing ourselves while we are trying to stay in control. We believe that this way we will stay in our comfort one. But the sooner we learn to go with the flow, the sooner the things will improve.  

“Tension is who you thing you should be. Relaxation is who you are” – Chinese Proverb.

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Last year was very harsh, a lot of famous people left this world. One of these famous people who passed away was the British musician George Michael. He ironically celebrated his last Christmas (the title of his famous hit ‘Last Christmas’) and passed away on December 25^th, 2016.

Only after his death we learned how generous he was. George Michael had spent milions in order to help those in need: orphans, the homeless, the sick and evern strangers who experienced some kind of misfortune.

A selection of stories about his incredible generosity has been put together. The stories come from those who bore witness to his actions of kindness or  personally know the singer.

George Michael worked anonymously at a homeless shelter I was volunteering at. I’ve never told anyone, he asked we didn’t. That’s who he was

— EMILYNE MONDO (@EmilyneMondo) December 26, 2016

A lady from a children’s charity once told me they were only still afloat because of George Michael ❤ https://t.co/W0vs3QxN1E

— Kate Waugh (@katewaugh) December 26, 2016

Every Easter at Capital when I was on air with chris Tarrant for help a london child George would call in at 3.30pm with a £100.000 donation

— Mick Brown (@djmickbrown) December 25, 2016

@richardosman he gave a stranger in a cafe £25k as she was crying over debt. Told the waitress to give her the cheque after he left.

— VectorVictoria (@V3ct0rv1ct0r) December 26, 2016

George Michael once gave free concert for NHS nurses as a thank you for looking after his late mother #MerryXmasNHS https://t.co/JxLsBR20yN

— Andrew (@wisecur) December 26, 2016

I wrote in a piece ages ago about a celeb I’d worked with tipping a barmaid £5k because she was a student nurse in debt. Was George Michael.

— Sali Hughes (@salihughes) December 26, 2016

George Michael was also the only star on HWTBAMillionaire who, when gambling all the charity’s cash, said “if I lose it, I’ll just pay it”.

— Sali Hughes (@salihughes) December 26, 2016

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

Science never ceases to amaze us. With each passing day, there are discoveries that hold the potential to change the way we live and think. Some of these discoveries are the result of years of research, others come about completely by accident. Whichever the case, these innovations are a great leap towards a better future for all mankind.

Researchers from the University of California-Irvine have managed to develop a battery that could last up to 400 times longer than any other battery available on the market.

The weird thing is: the discovery was completely accidental. The researchers were trying to find an alternative to lithium, whose liquid state helps conduct charge but is, at the same time, highly combustible and sensitive to temperature.

Their nanowire-based battery material can be recharged hundreds of thousands of times, which means we are one step closer to having batteries that would never require replacement. Awsome, right?

By using gold nanowires to store electricity, the scientists found that their newly developed system could cycle through 200,000 recharges without any significant corrosion or decline. These results are jaw-dropping even thought the research is still in its early stages and a lot more needs to be done.

What is most astounding, is the fact that they bassically stumbled upon this amazing discovery. What they wanted to make in the first place was a solid-state battery that uses electrolyte gel instead of liquid to help it hold charge.

According to study leader, UCI doctoral candidate Mya Le Thai, they coated a gold nanowire in a manganese dioxide shell and encased the assembly in an electrolyte made of a Plexiglas-like gel.

“Mya was playing around, and she coated this whole thing with a very thin gel layer and started to cycle it,” said Penner, chair of UCI’s chemistry department.

“She discovered that just by using this gel, she could cycle it hundreds of thousands of times without losing any capacity.”

“That was crazy,” he added, “because these things typically die in dramatic fashion after 5,000 or 6,000 or 7,000 cycles at most.”

“The coated electrode holds its shape much better, making it a more reliable option,” Thai said.

“This research proves that a nanowire-based battery electrode can have a long lifetime and that we can make these kinds of batteries a reality.” 

In a nutshell, this new design allowed batteries to have 97% capacity after 1.000 cycles of charging and discharging. However, due to the high price of gold, the scientists state that nickel could be the perfect substitute for gold for mass production.

The discovery could lead to the development of batteries that could last forever so you never have to worry about recharging your laptops, phones and anything else that requires batteries to run.

According to the official announcement, the study was conducted in coordination with the Nanostructures for Electrical Energy Storage Energy Frontier Research Center at the University of Maryland, with funding from the Basic Energy Sciences division of the U.S. Department of Energy.

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Nikola Tesla was widely known as the father of the modern age. He is most famous for his  inventions of the alternating current (AC), wireless technology, television and the radio, and robotics, among other important things.

Tesla was born to a Serbian family in Yugoslavia, in the now Croatian village of Smiljan. He moved to the United States at the age of 28 with only a few pennies in his pockets and managed to become one of the most influential scientists in the world.

Tesla managed to create a lot of inventions and he invested the money he earned from those inventions in creating new ones. He didn’t really care much about money, he lived in hotels in New York and he died poor and alone. He once said that he didn’t have anything against people claiming his inventions as their own as long as they served for the good of humanity.

There are a lot of stories surrounding his life and work, but these 10 things are something you probably haven’t heard of before.

1. Tesla cared a lot about the environment

Tesla was concerned about people’s dependency on natural resources that were not renewable, such as coal, oil and the most dangerous one – nuclear power. He saw the destructiveness in the process as not only being unsustainable resource-wise, but also destructive to the environment. That was the main reason why he was trying to perfect the use of the abundant natural resources, such as air, water and the electricity of the Earth that was abundant and untouched.

You can read his article, Our Future Motive Power, which talks a lot about it.

2. Tesla was born during a summer lightning storm

Tesla was born “at the stroke of midnight” during a summer lightning storm. The midwife made a comment that he would be “a child of the storm”, to which his mother replied “No, of light”. They were both right.

3. Tesla was a humanist

He believed in improving the quality of life through better education and living conditions. He saw ignorance, insanity and religious fanaticism as the “frictional forces which impede progress”. He was also a strong opponent of the countries’ tendencies to spend more on war than on education. This inspired him to take a stand against war with his invention that would end all war – ‘the Teleforce’.

In short, he saw all the unnecessary investments in destructive power as enemies to humanity.

4. Tesla thought of smartphone technology in 1901!

Tesla was able to envision the 21^st century long before it began. In fact, he talked of a system that could collect information, encode it and broadcast it to a hand-held device. This idea came to him while developing the transantlantic radio and it is very similar to today’s mobile internet on our phones.

5. He had his own mind lab

Tesla had a very strong and precise eidetic memory. Not only could he recall whole books in great detail, but he could also create whole designs and constructions in his mind, which he later used to develop his new inventions. The results he got in his mind while imagining the inventions were incredibly accurate. This meant a lot less physical efforts in achieving results!

6. The US Government seized and classified Tesla’s stuff after his death

When Tesla died, the Office of Alien Property seized all of Tesla’s documents and schematics and kept them classified. While most of his possessions were later returned to his family or donated to the Tesla Museum in Belgrade, some are still missing, as they remain classified to this day.

7. Tesla may have had insomnia and OCD

Tesla claimed that he needed only “about one and one-half hours a night” of sleep. He said that “Time spent in sleep is lost time”. He said that there were so many things to do, he didn’t want to spend time sleeping needlessly. This, though, might point to insomnia.

Tesla was also obsessed with the number 3, or in fact with the numbers 3, 6 and 9. He once said: “If you only knew the magnificence of the 3, 6 and 9, then you would have the key to the universe.”

Of course, this does not point to any kind of OCD, but he was obsessed with any number dividable by 3. For example, he cleaned his dining room with 18 napkins before eating his dinner. He also detested jewelry, especially pearls, round objects and touching hair.

8. Tesla and Edison were not enemies

Despite the popular claim that Edison was Tesla’s arch nemesis, the fact is that they had worked together in designing direct current generators before Tesla left Edison to pursue his dream of the alternating current induction motor.

That’s when they became rivals. Edison made a lot of efforts to put a halt to Tesla’s alternating current, and these involved traveling shows in which he electrocuted elephants with Tesla’s AC.

9. Tesla made Mark Twain crap his white suit

One of the popular anecdotes about Nikola Tesla was about when he made Mark Twain leave a remarkable stain on his white suit. As all other men who wanted to brag with their ‘new toys’, Tesla was no exception.

After Mark Twain’s complaints about his “recurring bouts of constipation”, Tesla offered him to try out his newest “vibrating humming oscillating metal disc” which he claimed to have “imparted vitality.”

Although the sensation was amazing for Twain, Tesla warned him to step off the platform at a given moment, which he ignored – the following went into history as Mark Twain’s crapped white suit.

10. You can get free WiFI from Tesla

The Tesla Statue in the Silicon Valley was an idea which originated with Northern Imagination and was backed by 722 people. It was unveiled on December 7, 2013 and it is famous for two things:
– It provides free WiFi signal and
– It contains a time capsule to be opened on January 7, 2043.