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Magnesium can be very effective vs anxiety,many people are quite deficient and a good supplement can be as effective as medicine but with positive side effects.
Brown eyes are actually blue underneath,and as a result there exists laser surgery to turn brown eyes blue. The term "genocide" was coined to describe the mass killing of the Armenians in modern day Turkey in 1915.An estimated 1-2 million were killed,wiping out much of the Atmenian people's herutage and history. |
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In Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia, the smelly durian fruit is banned from buses, subways, hotels and airports. In Danish restaurants you don't have to pay for your meal unless - by your own opinion - you are "full". [ This image is no longer available. ] In Japan it is technically forbidden to be obese - lawmakers set a maximum waistline of 80cm for men aged 40 and over. It is illegal to leave your house in Thailand without wearing underwear. In Denmark you must check under your vehicle for sleeping children before starting the engine. [ This image is no longer available. ] Flushing a loo after 10pm is forbidden in Switzerland. And wearing camouflage is against the law in Trinidad and Tobago, and in St Lucia. |
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The band Rage Against The Machine was told to censor the lyrics of Killing In The Name when performing live for BBC.They started out censored before launching into the full lyrics,which are "F*ck you,I won't do what you tell me!"
Frequent sex can make you look up to ten years younger. William Franklin,son of Benjamin Franklin,remained loyal to the British Crown throughout the American Revolutionary war;he never spoke to his father again. |
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There's a town that was underwater for 25 years and resurfaced in 2009.
http://www.amusingplanet.com/2012/12/villa-epecuen-town-that-was-submerged.html In 1913 researchers kept dogs awake for several days,extracted spinal fluid,then injected this into other dogs which immediately put them to sleep. Portugal has reduced drug related problems by making it a public health concern,rather than a criminal offense. |
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It was claimed the reason the character Tracey replaced Brock in the cast of Pokemon was because it was thought he might be perceived as a racist stereotype because of his eyes.They later replaced him with Brock again once they realized that no one really cared.
The Spanish monarchy was so inbred that Charles II's aunt was also his grandmother,and another grandmother was simultaneously his great-grandmother.Also,his tongue was so large no one could understand what he said. Maximillian Kolbe,a Catholic Priest,gave his life for a man he had never met in Auschwitz.He stated "I am an old man,no one will miss me.He has a wife and family.Take me instead." |
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During a dissection of a mother tiger shark,a scientist was reaching into the birth canal and was bitten by a tiger shark embryo,which are notoriously cannibalistic.This is the only recorded instance where someone was bitten by an unborn animal.
In the original version of Little Red Riding Hood,Little Red Riding Hood and the wolf eat grandma together. In ancient China,an enemy held the Emperor's father hostage,threatening to boil him alive.The Emperor's response was "Send me a cup of the soup." |
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Flushing a loo after 10pm is forbidden in Switzerland
I laughed when I heard that years ago from an English lorry driver who lived in Basle. He was the spitting image of Robert Redford, but shorter. |
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Heath Ledger kept a "Joker Diary" in which he wrote as the Joker,and included a list
of things he thought the Joker would find funny,including blind babies and AIDS. In 1976,an underachieving Princeton junior undergraduate wrote a term paper describing how to make a nuclear bomb.He got an "A" but never got his paper back because it was seized by the FBI. Music can alter your perception of time.E.g.You can lose track of time when listening to your favorite band while minutes can seem like hours if you are listening to your least favorite artists. |
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"Music can alter your perception of time.E.g.You can lose track of time when
listening to your favorite band while minutes can seem like hours if you are listening to your least favorite artists." That explains why an hour on the cross-trainer at the gym flies by when I'm listening to my fave workout music on my ipod. If someone comes to talk to me (I wish they wouldn't) and I turn my ipod off, time stands still and it hurts, then when they shut up and go, I put the music back on time speeds up again. |
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When physics Professor Jack H.Hetherington learned he couldn't be the sole author on a paper (because he used words like "we" "our")rather than rewriting the paper he added his cat as an author.
In 14 years and 14 seasons of trying to become the greatest Pokemon Master,Ash Ketchum has still never gotten past the semi-finals of the Pokemon League. Brain scientist Karl Lashley found that no matter what portion of a rat's brain he removed he was unable to eradicate its memory of how to perform complex tasks it had learned prior to surgery. |
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Raccoons can figure out how to open several complex locks in less than 10 tries,and they can remember solutions to tasks for up to 3 years.
A team of Italian scientists have mathematically demonstrated that companies would be more efficient if they promoted their employees at random. A man named "Chesty Puller" joined the Marines as a private,got promoted to Sergeant and then became an officer as a Lieutenant.He was discharged but enlisted as a Private again,became an officer again,and ended up being a Lieutenant General. |
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When Super Famicom (SNES) first launched in Japan.Nintendo had to ship the consoles in the middle of the night so the Yakuza didn't hijack them.
Jerry Seinfeld turned down $100 million dollars to film one more season of "Seinfeld". In a competition to build the world's tallest building,the architect of the Chrysler Building secretly built it with a 125 ft long spire inside of it.When his competitor's building was completed,the spire was pushed up through the building making it taller by 119 ft. |
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The Overtoun bridge in Scotland is famous for dog suicides. Since 1950, over 50 dogs have leaped over the bridge and killed themselves.
A Mexican Internet portal has created a machine called ‘Poo Wifi’ that gives you free wifi in exchange for dog poo. http://www.odditycentral.com/news/poo-wifi-a-machine-that-exchanges-dog-poo-for-free-wifi.html When played together,the McBain clips from The Simpsons form a coherent mini-movie. |
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A company has developed a process which gives you freshly brewed beer on the go.One pouch of the concentrate can be turned into a pint of full-flavored pale ale.
http://www.popsci.com/gadgets/article/2013-04/anywhere-beer A man in South Africa rescued and adopted a baby hippo.He was killed by the same hippo in the very river from which it was rescued. Exhaled breath can act as a "fingerprint" for individuals.As it is unique for every person. |
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"The Overtoun bridge in Scotland is famous for dog suicides. Since 1950, over 50 dogs have leaped over the bridge and killed themselves."
More like stupid owners not having them on a lead. Bigmo, you've just ruined my day with that one  |
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In a competition to build the world's tallest building,the architect of the Chrysler Building secretly built it with a 125 ft long spire inside of it.When his competitor's building was completed,the spire was pushed up through the building making it taller by 119 ft.
I like it. |
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Lot of good it did him it was only the tallest for 11 months
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Sorry to ruin your day Makybe_Diva.
Batman The Animated Series had a unique drawing style.The animators used light colors on black paper,the complete opposite of the animation industry standard. There's a sculpture in front of CIA Headquarters (since 1990) that depicts an encryption that hasn't been completely solved yet. Yale researchers have stated that ketamine - a "party drug" often found at raves - is a "magic drug" for treating severe depression.Unlike other antidepressants,it's effects take hold within hours rather than weeks. |
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Charlie Chaplin was payed $10,000 a week in 1915.
A group of developers spent 8 years recreating Streets of Rage.The game had over 100 levels,19 playable characters,and 76 remixed songs.Sega shut it down a week after it was released. The 1998 sci-fi film "Lost in Space" is referred to by some as the "Iceberg" because it ended Titanic's 15-week run as number one at the box office. |
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In France ("in the 1500's),women could charge their husbands with impotence.He would have to become erect and show he could ejaculate in a courtroom.If he failed,he could demand a Trial by Congress and attempt to have sex with his wife in front of the experts.
One acre of hemp (grown in a single season) yields as much paper as up to 4 acres of trees. A Turkish artist designed pieces of jewelry that distort your face in awkward positions and give you a temporary face lift. |
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Paper cuts hurt so bad because paper does more microscopic damage to the skin,and
there is often much less clotting of blood thus making the pain last longer. Due to the decline in fertility that tends to accompany wealth,human population is expected to stabilize at near 9 billion by 2050. There are seven times as many people of Irish descent living in America,than in Ireland. |
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Good read Bigmo. As someone interested in military history the Chesty Puller one reminded me to get his biography. Cheers
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He sounds a pretty impressive guy Hank.
In Saudi Arabia women are allowed to fly aircraft,though they must be chauffeured to the airport because it's illegal for them to drive a car. Dreams about losing teeth are one of the most commonly interpreted dreams,usually indicating anxiety or a profound change in your life. When asked in an interview whether he was gay at all,Kurt Cobain replied !I am not gay,although I wish I were,just to p*ss off homophobes." |
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During the mating season,snow leopards mate 12-36 times a day.
A man who had half of his bodey amputated after being run over by a truck opened his own bargain supermarket,called the Half Man-Half Price Store. http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/money/amputee-peng-shuilin-opens-bargain-supermarket-called-half-man-half-price-store/story-fn300aev-1225798438064 A Soviet probe "Luna 15",crashed onto the surface of the moon while Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong were still on it. http://tranquilitybaseblog.blogspot.ca/2012/06/luna-15-and-apollo-11-near-miss-on-moon.html |
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In 2012 PETA Virginia euthanized 89% of the animals they "rescued."
A castaway Japanese seaman wrote of his ordeal in a message in a bottle,which he threw into the ocean in 1784.It washed up in 1935 in the village where he was born. After being forbidden from attempting the first ever heart catheterisation on patients,a surgical intern was fired for performing it on himself.He won a Nobel Prize for his contributions to medicine 27 years later. |
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A team of Italian scientists have mathematically demonstrated that companies would be more efficient if they promoted their employees at random. Managers promote incompetant people. They do not want to be surrounded by people more able than they. The competent people lower down do the work. The company sheds competent people. Whatever the top man thinks, his brown-nosers think. Group think. No one dares have an opinion. Bankrupcy. |
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Here's a bit more about it kincsem.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/nov/01/random-promotion-research |
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The Dominican Republic offered to take 100,000 Jews in 1938.Only 645 made it and each Jew was given 80 acres of land,10 cows,a mule and a horse.
There is a "Cuddle Cafe" in Japan that allows customers to take a 20 minute cuddle nap with a girl for 40 dollars. Blind people experience visual hallucinations when they take LSD. |
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From 1979 to 1992 Soviets drilled a super deep bore that reached 12,262m (40,230 ft)
just to see how deep they could drill. Britain's smallest bird the Firecrest weighs the same as a teaspoonful of sugar. In the UK most toilets for the disabled are fitted with the same lock to which disabled people can buy a key. |
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A British officer,wearing a monocle in Egypt during WW1,was confronted on the
parade ground by lines of Australians with pennies in their eyes,threw his monocle up in the air,caught it in his eye,then turned to the parade and roared,"ALL right,you bastards,let's see you do that." There is a slang term for plastic bags which are caught in trees and bushes: witches' knickers. The author of the "Alchemist",Paulo Coelho was caught by his publisher leaking his books through Pirate Bay! |
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The "food coma" which describes the tiredness after eating a meal is actually a medically proven process called alkaline tide.
A teenager named Bradley Wernham was single handedly responsible for an increase of 500 percent in crime in a town called Chelmsford.Wernham committed over 660 burglaries and thefts before finally getting caught. A police officer offered to split a lottery ticket with a waitress at his favorite restaurant in Yonkers,NY in place of a tip.The ticket was a winner of $6 million,which he split with her without hesitation."If I say I'll do something,I do it.I hope money never changes me." http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20087657,00.html |
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http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20087657,00.html
They made a feature film based on that story http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110167/ |
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Ah yes pumphol.I remember now.
During Napoleon Bonaparte's autopsy,his p*nis was removed.It was passed onto various owners and was last inherited by a New Jersey woman who's father kept it in a suitcase under his bed for 30 years. The State of Georgia was originally colonized with three prohibitions:no alcohol.no slavery,and no Catholics. In the summer of 1995,the Nickelodeon show Rugrats was the most watched show among adult males aged 18-31. |
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The amount of alcohol that evaporates from whisky casks during maturation is called the Angel's share.
A simple test involving asking a patient to draw the face of a clock is used as a screening tool for Alzheimer's and other types of dementia. In Vietnam,there's a popular brand of toilet paper named "Google". |
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Ancient Greek writer Demosthenes would shave half his head to ensure he looked so idiotic that he would stay at home and work.
Leonardo da Vinci sketched plans for a humanoid robot in the 15th Century. A lonely,deformed dolphin was adopted by a family of sperm whales. |
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Frank Zappa was approached by a crazed fan with a gun.Zappa persuaded him into
walking with him,and numerous others to a nearby lake.He then persuaded everyone present to start throwing things into the water,including the attacker,who threw in his gun. A Massachusetts court ruled that a sandwich must contain two slices of bread,thus legally barring tacos,burritos,and quesadillas from being called "sandwiches." People who complain frequently through social media are more likely to suffer from stress,anxiety and some form of depression. |
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"In France ("in the 1500's),women could charge their husbands with impotence.He would have to become erect and show he could ejaculate in a courtroom."
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Brings a whole new meaning to the saying " my husband was up in court "
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"A man who had half of his bodey amputated after being run over by a truck opened his own bargain supermarket,called the Half Man-Half Price Store.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/money/amputee-peng-shuilin-opens-bargain-supermarket-called-half-man-half-price-store/story-fn300aev-1225798438064" Good grief! How on earth did he survive that?! "He had good care but his secret is his cheerfulness - nothing ever gets him down." I am truly humbled. I've been a miserable old bat lately. I'm going to cheer up as of now! |