Trending in TN: Septuagenarian fitness freak, Cowboy pigeon, ties between Tamil and Korean

Gym videos of a 72-year-old fitness enthusiast have surfaced on social media, leaving youngsters in awe of her. Lauren Bruzzone, a retired teacher, can be seen deadlifting 70 kgs and flipping tyres in a video, which can seriously put anybody half her age to shame. Business mogul Anand Mahindra, who actively shares interesting videos on twitter, wrote that he felt “lazy and flabby compared to this iron woman.” The video was first posted by a user Manoj Nandi, who wrote, “This is an inspiring video. #mustwatch This lady will make it difficult for me to skip any of my exercise or yoga sessions hereafter. She has proven again that age is just a number.”

While pet parents are always sharing videos of their cats and dogs wearing funny hats such as baseball caps, bowler hats or sombreros, some pigeons in Las Vegas have decided to ring in the new year in some sassy (and tiny) cowboy hats. The sight was first captured by a Twitter user and has been going viral since. In fact, the hatted birds are quite the celebrities. Once netizens were past the obvious adoration, however, many noted that the tiny, custom-pigeon hats were not falling off their heads, even when they were pecking. This suggests that the hats were probably glued to the heads of the pigeons, raising serious concerns. The pictures and videos raise the most important question: Who did this? As per a report by the New York Times, the Las Vegas police said it “does not appear to be a police matter at this time.”

There are often similarities between languages which are based on the same script, but did you know there is a similarity between Tamil and Korean? Yes, these two languages are spoken in two different countries but still they share a lot of similar words and some of them have same meaning. Recently, a YouTube video by Bahador Alast that has gone viral introduces some of the words that are same in both Tamil as well as Korean. The 11-minute-18-second viral video shows Ellen (a Korean speaker) and Visha (a Tamil speaker) along with Alast. The two speakers have used a host of words and sentences to prove that there is a similarity between the two languages. The video shows both the speakers picking up a chit turn by turn and say it loud. The words happen to have exactly the same meaning as well as pronunciation in Tamil as in Korean. The video also explains that the word “I” is pronounced as “na” in Korean while in Tamil language, it is pronounced as “nan”. In both Tamil and Korean languages, the word father is pronounced as “appa”.