There’s a resort in Finland where you sleep in a glass igloo to watch the northern lights.

Talk about a room with a few. Hotel Kakslauttanen is a first class resort in Finland. They have the world’s largest smoke sauna, equipped with its own restaurant. In the winter, they offer you a possibility to stay overnight in a traditional snow igloo or a “futuristic glass igloo,” where you can gaze up at the northern lights in a normal room temperature under the glass ceiling.

Their newest attraction is Santa’s Resort, and it’s open all year around. The resort includes Santa’s house, a tower bridge over the Gold Creek, and the Smith Elf Forge. In summer, you can even pan for gold under the direction of the selves. But to be fair, if you’re staying there, you probably have plenty of gold to spare.

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The teen named America's safest driver fell asleep on the wheel and killed himself and another person!

Michael Douchette fell asleep at the wheel and killed himself and another person, after being named America’s Safest Driving Teen. 17-year old Michael Douchette was honored as the nation’s safest teen-age driver in the early 1990s. Shortly after, he fell asleep behind the wheel before his car slammed into another car, killing him and 19-year-old Sharan Ann Link.

They were both instantly pronounced dead. Douchette’s car, which he was awarded in the driving competition, drifted over the center line and struck Link’s car, the police report on the accident said. Link tried to avoid the oncoming car, but to no avail.

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Ever wondered why you feel a lump in your throat when you cry or freak out? Learn here

Whether it’s because you watched a sad movie or just got your report card, crying often makes it feel like you’ve got a lump in your throat. This lump-like sensation has to do with how the nervous system deals with stress. The part of the nervous system that deals with stress is called the autonomic nervous system.

When human being experience emotions such as grief or sorrow, the autonomic nervous system responds as it would to anger or fear by increasing the flow of oxygen throughout the body. To increase oxygen intake, the autonomic nervous system makes us breath faster, and expands a part of the throat called the glottis. Swallowing involves closing the glottis. So when we swallow while crying/freaking out, we work against the muscles that open the glottis and experience the resulting muscle tension as a lump in the throat.

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Carrots haven’t been orange for that long!

Before the 17th century rolled in, almost all carrots cultivated were purple! The modern day orange carrot wasn’t even cultivated until Dutch growers in the late 16th century took mutant strains of the purple carrot, including yellow and white carrots (mutated versions of the regular purple carrot) and gradually developed them into the orange variety we have today.

It is believed that this strange desire to change the color of a vegetable was brought about the fact that the emblem of the House of Carrots was also orange. So, the orange carrot became popular in the Netherlands because it represented the struggle for Dutch independence.

It is more likely however, that the success of orange carrots had to the fact the orange carrots that the Dutch developed were sweeter and more fleshy than the purple ones.

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Maruchan has produced so much ramen, that when placed end to end the noodles can reach Mars and back!

Maruchan Inc. is an American company with three manufacturing plants; two in Irvine, California and one in Richmond, Virginia. The company produces ramen noodles and related products. They actually produce 3.6 billion packages of ramen noodles each year. 

The company started out in Japan as Toyo Suisan Kaisha in 1953. They are the leading consumer packaged foods company in Japan. They make a lot more than just ramen noodles including fish sausage and packaged, cooked rice. In 1972, they established Maruchan Inc. in the U.S. to continue fulfilling their mission statement of “to deliver the world’s most wholesome bounty to the dining tables of the world.” 

Since 1977, Maruchan has steadily grown and become the top selling ramen brand in North America. At first, Maruchan simply imported everything from Japan and marketed it in the U.S. It took 5 years for them to build their own manufacturing plant in Irvine, California. Now, so much Maruchan ramen has been made that if strung end to end, it would reach Mars and back to Earth. 

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