Unbelievable Facts: September 2012

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

World's Most Wealthy In One Room

world's most wealthy and influential philanthropists all in one room

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Yosof A. Mohammed
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Monday, September 24, 2012

A Soviet Surgeon Has to Remove His Own Appendix

Antarctica, 1961: A Soviet Surgeon Has to Remove His Own Appendix

In 1961, Rogozov was stationed at a newly constructed Russian base in Antarctica. The 12 men inside were cut off from the outside world by the polar winter by March of that year. In April, the 27-year-old Rogozov began to feel ill, very ill. His symptoms were classic: he had acute appendicitis. "He knew that if he was to survive he had to undergo an operation," the British Medical Journal recounted. "But he was in the frontier conditions of a newly founded Antarctic colony on the brink of the polar night. Transportation was impossible. Flying was out of the question, because of the snowstorms. And there was one further problem: he was the only physician on the base."

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Yosof A. Mohammed
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Dog Promoted To Sergeant

A dog named Stubby was promoted to sergeant in the US Army for locating and effectively capturing a German spy.

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Yosof A. Mohammed
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The Brain Fact

Our brains spend 80% of its time replaying memories & creating scenarios of perfect situations.

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Yosof A. Mohammed
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The Norwegian Army Has Knighted A Penguin.

The Norwegian army has knighted a penguin.

Colonel-in-Chief Sir Nils Olav is a King Penguin living in Edinburgh Zoo, Scotland. He is the mascot and Colonel-in-Chief of the Norwegian Royal Guard. Nils was visited by soldiers from the Norwegian Royal Guard on the 15 August 2008 and awarded a knighthood.The honour was approved by the king of Norway, King Harald V. During the ceremony a crowd of several hundred people joined the 130 guardsmen at the zoo to hear a citation from King Harald the Fifth of Norway read out, which described Nils as a penguin "in every way qualified to receive the honour and dignity of knighthood".The name 'Nils Olav' has also been given to two other King Penguins who preceded the current Nils Olav as the King's Guard's mascot.

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Yosof A. Mohammed
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Printer System Used To Produce Skin

Printer system used to produce skin.

Researchers are using a mechanism similar to ink-jet printer to develop skin-printing system whose products could be used for treating wounds.

Standard ink-jet printer's technology has inspired US scientists to use almost a similar system in the production of damaged or burned skin.

During the process, first the scientists take a sample of skin from the patient, then separate, and replicate the cells in large quantities. After that, they put the produced cells on a cartridge in the printer to form and print skin sheets.

"We started out by taking a typical desktop ink-jet cartridge. Instead of ink we use cells, which are placed in the cartridge," said Dr. Anthony Atala, director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine.

The project is in pre-clinical phases and Wake Forest is going to receive approximately $50 million fund from the US Defense Department to develop operational human skin producing system.

The technique involves a portable bioprinter that could be carried to wounded soldiers on the battlefield, where it would scan the injury, take cells from the patient and print a section of compatible skin.

Another technique uses a three-dimensional printer combining donor cells, biofriendly gel and other materials to build cartilage.

Scientists from Wake Forest, Cornell University and the Medical University of South Carolina presented the findings at an American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in Washington.
source : http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=desktop-printer-technology-lay-down-cells

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Yosof A. Mohammed
Yosof_90@yahoo.com
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Lincoln Pocket Watch SECRET

Lincoln carried around a secret message in his pocket watch

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History announced it has found a “secret” message engraved in President Abraham Lincoln’s watch by a watchmaker who was repairing it in 1861 when news of the attack on Fort Sumter reached Washington, D.C.

In an interview with The New York Times April 30, 1906, 84-year-old Jonathan Dillon recalled that he was working for M.W. Galt and Co. on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, where he was repairing Lincoln’s watch. The owner of the shop announced that the first shot of the Civil War had been fired. Dillon reported that he unscrewed the dial of the watch, and with a sharp instrument wrote on the metal beneath: “The first gun is fired. Slavery is dead. Thank God we have a President who at least will try.” He then signed and dated the inscription and closed the dial. Dillon told The New York Times in 1906 that to his knowledge, no one ever saw the inscription.

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Yosof A. Mohammed
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Bryan Williams .. The Biggest Lost

Birdman (Bryan Williams) lost 20 houses and 50 cars including 2 Maybachs and 4 Ferraris during hurricane Katrina.

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Yosof A. Mohammed
Yosof_90@yahoo.com
http://UNB-facts.blogspot.com

Florida lighting Strike

This is a waterspout accompanied by a lighting strike, photographed over Lake Okeechobee in Florida. A sister of the tornado, waterspouts are generally less powerful. They occur when high layers of cool air blow across a body of water while warm moist air sweeps up from below. They appear as thin columns with the funnels sucking up water.

Waterspouts can vary in size from a few feet to more than
a mile in height, and from a few feet to hundreds of feet wide.

These water twisters can move anywhere from 2 to 80 miles an hour. Winds within the waterspout can spiral around at 60-120 miles an hour.

Waterspouts, like their land counterparts, can pick up and transport some interesting objects. They have sent showers of tadpoles in New York, and even toads in France. One in Providence, Rhode Island, rained fish down on the people, who promptly collected and sold them!

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Yosof A. Mohammed
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The City Built Into The Rocks

Setenil de Las Bodegas – the City Built Into the Rocks

Setenil de las Bodegas is a small town in the province of Cádiz, Spain. Named after its once flourishing wineries - bodegas - Setenil de las Bodegas (which means Setenil of the Wine Cellars) is unique among the pueblos blancos , white villages, of Andalucia and particularly famous for its dwellings built into the rock overhangs. The town extends along the course of the Rio Trejo with some houses being built into the rock walls of the gorge itself, created by enlarging natural caves or overhangs and adding an external wall.
Modern Setenil evolved from a fortified Moorish town that occupied a bluff overlooking a sharp bend in the Rio Trejo northwest of Ronda. The castle dates from at least the Almohad period in the 12th century. However, evidence of other nearby cave-dwelling societies, such as those at the Cueva de la Pileta west of Ronda, where habitation has been tracked back more than 25,000 years suggests that Setenil was occupied much much earlier. It was a spectacular defense place at the Arab age, which resisted several times the attacks of the Christian troops, before being conquered by the Catholic Monarchs in 1488.

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Yosof A. Mohammed
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Eddie Van With Drums And Guitar

Eddie Van Halen actually started out playing the drums. He bought a drum set and his brother bought a guitar. When his brother got better at the drums than him, Eddie said "OK, fuck you, I'll play your guitar."

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Yosof A. Mohammed
Yosof_90@yahoo.com
http://UNB-facts.blogspot.com

Last Person Who Known Hitler Personally

Rochus Misch, age 95, is the last surviving person to have known Hitler personally and witnessed his suicide. He worked as his personal bodyguard, courier and phone operator in the Fuhrerbunker, and still lives in the same house in Berlin where he moved upon his release from the Soviets in 1954.

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Yosof A. Mohammed
Yosof_90@yahoo.com
http://UNB-facts.blogspot.com

Drinking Beer Leads To Stronger Bones In Women

Drinking beer leads to stronger bones in women

Scientists in Spain found that women who were light-to-moderate beer drinkers had stronger, denser bones than non-beer drinkers. The researchers attributed the findings to beer's high levels of phytoestrogen (the plant version of estrogen) and silicon, both of which slow down bone thinning and promote growth.

"Silicon plays a major role in bone for
mation," the study reported. "Beer has been claimed to be one of the most important sources of silicon in the western diet."

Drinking beer regularly, the study goes on to say, makes women less likely to suffer from osteoporosis after menopause. Try out that pickup line the next time you're hitting on an older woman in a bar.
source: http://www.asylum.com/2009/08/13/study-finds-that-drinking-beer-leads-to-strong-bones/

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Yosof A. Mohammed
Yosof_90@yahoo.com
http://UNB-facts.blogspot.com

Leopard Attack

a man being attacked by a leopard after he threw a stone at it

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Yosof A. Mohammed
Yosof_90@yahoo.com
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Saturday, September 22, 2012

SHOCKING STORY

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MIRACLE OF LIFE - A MUST READ..

Twin girls, Brielle and Kyrie, were born 12 weeks ahead of their due date. Needing intensive care, they were placed in separate incubators.

Kyrie began to gain weight and her health stabilized. But Brielle, born only 2 lbs, had trouble breathing, heart problems and other complications. She was not expected to live.

Their nurse did everything she could to make Brielle’s health better, but nothing she did was helping her. With nothing else to do, their nurse went against hospital policy and decided to place both babies in the same incubator.

She left the twin girls to sleep and when when she returned she found a sight she could not believe. She called all the nurses and doctors and this is what they saw (refer to the picture above).

As Brielle got closer to her sister, Kyrie put her small little arm around her, as if to hug and support her sister. From that moment on, Brielle’s breathing and heart rate stabilized and her health became normal.

Well, I was wondering hows it possible..It seems too miraculous to be true..

A little bit of tender love goes a long way. Show affection to all

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Yosof A. Mohammed
Yosof_90@yahoo.com
http://UNB-facts.blogspot.com

Friday, September 21, 2012

2012 Land Rover DC100 Sport Concept

2012 Land Rover DC100 Sport Concept.

The DC100 Sport features a wraparound aero screen and cut-down side windows, and is painted in a special yellow inspired by the vibrant ochre hues found in Africa. On the interior, the seats are trimmed in leather with a lightweight, breathable mesh insert in a bold Tribal Tech pattern. The same pattern is repeated on the floor of the DC100 Sport where floor mats are made of Ombrae, a sculptural medium used in art installations and modern architecture.

The DC100 Sport is powered by a 2.0-liter four-cylinder petrol engine with hybrid compatibility mated to an eight-speed automatic transmission with Intelligent Stop/Start and a transfer case.