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What you didnt know about your BRAIN

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Fast Brain Facts 3 = the weight of your brain in pounds 4 to 6 = the number of minutes your brain can survive without oxygen before it starts to die 8 to 10 = the number of seconds you have before losing consciousness due to blood loss 10 to 23 = the number of watts of power your grain generates when you’re awake (that’s enough to turn on a light bulb!) 20 = the percentages of oxygen and blood flow going to the brain 100,000 = the number of miles of blood vessels in your brain 1,000 to 10,000 = the number of synapses for each neuron in your brain 100 billion = the number of neurons in your brain  Baby Brains Each person has about the same number of brain cells at birth as in adulthood, but those cells grow, reaching maximum size at about age six. A newborn’s brain triples its size in the first year of life (no wonder babies have such big heads!). The sense of touch is the first sense to deve

Scientists say spiders die for love hours after mating

The males of one species of spiders die shortly after mating but unlike black widows, where females eat the males, they die on their own, U.S. scientists say. Researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln said they found once the male dark fishing spider transfers its sperm to the female, it dies just hours later. Once the male spider releases its sperm, it immediately seizes up, curling its legs and lying still, appearing to be dead but still technically alive, they said. "We measured the heartbeat, and it's still there," behavioral ecologist Steven Schwartz told ABC News. However, he said, the spider can't move and does not respond to any poking, prodding or other forms of physical stimulation, and in less than three hours the heart stops beating and the male spider is officially declared dead. Sexually mature male dark fishing spiders often outnumber females, so there's pressure for them to mate, Schwartz said, and any advantage in passing on

Meet the 16-foot giant snake that can open doors

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Not only can can it devour a  deer the size of a small child  in one bite, but this killer python can also open doors. In this amazing yet terrifying footage, Julius the 16-foot albino Burmese python can turn a closet handle with her own body weight. Yet another reason for you to lock your doors at night.

Meet The Man With Shins of Steel, He Can Break Three Baseball Bats with a Super-Kick

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For obvious reasons, most people wouldn’t even attempt to break a baseball bat with a shin kick, but Dr. Mak Yuree owes his superhuman reputation to his ability to break through three baseball bats with his thunder kicks. Hailing from Dakha, Bangladesh, Mak Yuree is a world renowned martial arts expert who has spent almost his entire life training in 40 different fighting styles, including Varma Kalai, one of the oldest and deadliest forms of pressure point martial art. He is also an international authority on meditation, mind training and motivational speaking, but most average people know him as the guy who can break baseball bats with his tibia. Yuree has set a world record for most wooden baseball bats broken with a single kick, after shattering three of them in one go, and has since then performed the amazing feat at a number of events and on television. Growing up under iron discipline in military boarding school, Thundershin Man says he trained for nearly 20

House for Sale!!!

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The property is located at Gwarimpa One, close to Fish Market, Abuja. It is a Six (6) housing units. 2 bedrooms each, a big living room and kitchen. Other existing facilities includes: gate house, borehole and over head tanks. A big compound that can still take a BQ (Boys quaters) The Asking Price is 200 Million For more enquirers: Email: adedayoiyanda@yahoo.com or call: 08186667611 or 08065972466

The world's tallest twisted tower - Dubai

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Another month, another new landmark for Dubai. Following on from the recent opening of Dubai Miracle Garden , billed as the world’s biggest natural flower garden, the launch of Dubai Design District and the release of plans to build an underwater hotel in the area, the city has now inaugurated Cayan Tower, the world’s tallest twisted tower. Located by Dubai Marina, the 75-storey building rises to a height of 1,010ft (307 metres) and houses 495 apartments. The swerve of the structure will mean residents in the lower part of the tower will find their view oriented towards the waterfront promenade of Dubai Marina; those on the upper floors are rotated to face the Persian Gulf. The unusual form of the building presented various challenges for its designers – Skidmore Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) – and developers. The concrete structure rotates a hexagonal floor plate around a circular core and the top of the tower is offset 90 degre

Important things that happened today - June 18

618 – Li Yuan becane Emperor Gaozu of Tang, initiating three centuries of Tang Dynasty rule over China. 1053 – Battle of Civitate: 3,000 horsemen of Norman Count Humphrey rout the troops of Pope Leo IX. 1900 – Empress Dowager Longyu of China ordered all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families. 1953 – The Egyptian Revolution of 1952 ended with the overthrow of the Muhammad Ali Dynasty and the declaration of the Republic of Egypt. 1953 – A United States Air Force C-124 crashed and burns near Tokyo, Japan killing 129. 1972 – 118 people were killed when a plane crashed two minutes after take off from London Heathrow Airport. 1979 – SALT II was signed by the United States and the Soviet Union. Source: Ascology 618 – Li Yuan becane Emperor Gaozu of Tang, initiating three centuries of Tang Dynasty rule over China. 1053 – Battle of Civitate: 3,000 horsemen of Norman Count Humphrey rout the troops of Pope Leo IX. 1900 – Empress

Mission Mars (Updates) !!!

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Hello readers, just incase you are searching for updates on "Mission Mars", here are the latest news. The First Woman to go to space,  Valentina Tereshkova wants to embark on the one-way trip to Mars J ust as China sends their second astronaut (or “taikonaut”) into space to dock with the nation’s prototype space station, the first woman of all time to orbit the Earth is about to celebrate the 50th anniversary (on June 16) of achieving her feat. Valentina Tereshkova completed her solo flight around the Earth in 1963, a major propaganda coup for the Soviet Union during the Cold War. But now, the 76-year-old feels it’s time to make an even bigger leap into interplanetary space. “Mars is my favorite planet,” said Tereshkova said during a press conference at cosmonaut training center in Star City, near Moscow, on Friday. She likes the Red Planet so much that she’d be happy to join the crew of a one-way mission. Sadly, her dream of retiring on Mars will proba

The Dirty Things Going On In Lagos Strip Clubs

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A strip or nude club is an adult entertainment venue or a night club where stripteases or other erotic or exotic dances are regularly performed. A strip club is run like a night club or bar, but it can also adopt a theatre or cabaret form. This club, is gradually making its way into many towns and cities in Nigeria, especially in Lagos city and with increasing patronage by different high profile people... Efforts by various governments, especially the Lagos State government to rid towns and cities of these strip clubs have met a brick wall as the operators of such businesses are back with little or no moderation to the usual practice. The government, while attempting to bring a little sanity to the city’s night life once raided the strip clubs in the Ikeja axis of Lagos State and arrested the strippers. But the operators reacted by charging the government to court. This incident generated a lot of issues and divided the public who held different opinions on the

Huge Mosquitoes Spotted in Florida

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Enormous mosquitoes known as gallinippers (or Psorophora ciliata ) have been spotted in Florida, according to WKMG , a CBS affiliate. The insects are about 20 times larger than most common mosquitoes. The sighting comes after a warning by the University of Florida that there could be a bumper crop of these mosquitoes this summer. Gallinippers can grow to the size a quarter and have painful stings, which can feel "like you're being stabbed," Anthony Pelaez of Tampa's Museum of Science and Industry told Fox Orlando earlier this year. The huge insects are known to be aggressive and feed both day and night; most mosquitoes aren't active during the day. The gallinippers depend on heavy rains and were nourished by last year's downpour from Tropical Storm Debby. Continued rainfall, like that from Tropical Storm Andrea, will likely cause a spike in all mosquitoes this summer, Kelly Deutsch, the director of Seminole County Mosquito Control, told

Giant rats eat two babies in South Africa

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Hi readers, although this incident has happened a while ago, I just couldnt help but wonder how this happened, the size of the rate is unbelievable. The unfortunate incident happened in 2011, Read the story below: 'I can't forget how ugly my child looked after her eyes were ripped out' says dead baby's mother The rats can grow up to three-foot long Lunathi Dwadwa, three, was the victim of a giant rat attack Giant rats as big as cats have killed and eaten two babies in separate attacks in South Africa's squalid townships this week. Lunathi Dwadwa, three, was killed as she slept in her parent's shack in the Khayelitsha slum outside Cape Town and another girl was killed in Soweto township near Johannesburg the same day. Little Lunathi was sleeping on a makeshift bed on the floor of her family's breeze block and corrugated iron home on Sunday night when she died. Her puzzled parents didn't even hear her scream. When her mother discover

Man calls police; complains that prostitute looks Ugly

A man has been warned after he dialled 999 to complain about a prostitute's looks after meeting her. West Midlands Police said they were contacted by the caller who said he "wished to report her for breaching the Sale of Goods Act". The force said the call was received at about 19:30 BST on Tuesday complaining that the woman was not as attractive as she had claimed. Officers have now sent the man a letter warning him about wasting police time. West Midlands Police said the man had claimed he met the woman in a hotel car park. "The caller claimed that the woman had made out she was better looking than she actually was and he wished to report her for breaching the Sale of Goods Act," a spokesperson for the force said. "When he raised this issue with the woman concerned, she allegedly took his car keys, ran away from the car and threw them back at him, prompting him to call police."

Things you should know about DREAMS!

Everyone dreams—every single night—and yet we tend to know so little about our dreams. Where do they come from? What do they mean? Can we control them and should we try to interpret them? We spoke to the dream experts to bring you nine surprising facts about dreams. Read before snoozing. 1. Dreaming can help you learn. If you’re studying for a test or trying to learn a new task, you might consider taking a nap or heading to bed early rather than hovering over a textbook an hour longer. Here’s why: When the brain dreams, it helps you learn and solve problems, say researchers at Harvard Medical School. In a study that appeared in a recent issue of Current Biology , researchers report that dreams are the brain’s way of processing, integrating and understanding new information. To improve the quality of your sleep—and your brain’s ability to learn—avoid noise in the bedroom, such as the TV, which may negatively impact the length and quality of dreams. 2. Just like men, women can have

Important things that happened Today, June 12 in the book of history

1898 -- Philippine was declared independent of Spain by General Emilio Aguinaldo. 1940 -- 13,000 British and French troops surrendered to Major General Erwin Rommel at Saint-Valery-en-Caux during World War II. 1943 -- German troops marched down and shot dead 1,180 Jews at Brzeżany graveyard, Poland (now Berezhany, Ukraine). 1964 -- Anti-apartheid activist and ANC leader Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa. 1967 -- The United States Supreme Court declared all U.S. state laws which prohibited interracial marriage to be unconstitutional. 1978 -- David Berkowitz, the "Son of Sam" killer in New York City, was sentenced to 365 years in prison for six killings. 1987 -- The Central African Republic's former Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa was sentenced to death for crimes he had committed during his 13-year rule. 1993 -- Nigerians took to the polls to elect Chief MKO Abiola as president in unarguably the country's freest and fairest e

Things you should know

Women blink nearly twice as much as men. In Kentucky, 50 percent of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers. Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during W.W.I. Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded. In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles. About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it. (Who studied this and why? LOL :) You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day than in any other weather. An average person laughs about 15 times a day. Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas. Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air. The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night. A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 600 m.p.h. The condom - made originally of linen - was invented in the early 1500's. The first known contraceptive was crocodile du

7 most Amazing Structures

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  This skyscraper a masterpiece, because of the sheer imagination and vision that Jeanne Gang had. it is over 800 feet tall, this structure has more than 80 stories. What distinguishes it from other contemporary structures is its rippled exterior.  This is the CCTV Headquarters , It is approximately around 800 feet tall. It is located in Beijing. I wonder where this inspiration came from. It is a work done by Jan Marcin Szancer and Per Dahlberg. This is what i call Beauty.   Tired of the monotonous box shaped homes, This design was created by Piet Blom . These houses were first made in Helmond, and now Rotterdam also hosts such abodes. Piet Blom considered each “cube” to be an abstract tree, thus making a cluster of such houses a forest. It is located in Netherlands. This is simply Brilliant. The structure looks more like a snail shell.