Showing posts with label unusual. Show all posts
Showing posts with label unusual. Show all posts

10/08/2008

Curiosities of our world

Where will my car?
After the car, the 4-wheeled vehicle used in the world is the grocery cart.

Heavy torture
The deposed Panamanian dictator Manuel Noñega, accused of drug trafficking, was tortured by the U.S. military with the song Highway to hell, AC / CD.

Divers with wings
The mafioso, a polar sea birds, can submerge 100 meters deep enough and stay until 3 minutes without breathing looking for prey.

On Sunday, no
The people admitted to hospital over the weekend Venen greater risk of dying prematurely in the first 48-hour-entering the working day, according to a Spanish study published in the journal Clinical Medicine.

Caca de luxe
In 1961, the Italian artist Piero Manzoni sold 90 cans filled with 30 g of their own excrement. Each can cost 32 U.S. dollars, the equivalent of its price in gold.

Fewer wolves, HIV!
A recent study shows that the AIDS virus, HIV-has lost virulence, because it is adapting to humans. If true, it could become deadly within a period of 20 to 2,000 years.

Dinogateadores
The embryos preserved in a fossil dinosaur eggs found in South Africa show that babies ios bipedal dinosaur walking for a while to 4 feet, as human babies.

8/03/2008

More unusual in the world

Sex Work
Half of Spaniards has maintained an erotic adventure with coworkers, according to a recent survey, the timing: Christmas party and business meals.

Tentacles inhibited
The squid inherit some of his personality traits such as shyness.

We have Gordo
Before putting obese, 25% of people pretiere become sterile, 30% divorce and 46% have a year less of life, according to a study in the journal Obesity.

If you pica ...
Last summer 105,000 people suffered jellyfish stings on Spanish beaches.

Artists in bed
People with artistic sensibility practiced more, sex, which explains the persistence of schizophrenia in the human population, according to two British psychologists.

The wave does not come alone
The largest number of surfers riding on the same wave occurred on November 18, 2005 in the Brazilian Macumba beach. In total, rose 42 surfers.

Face the sun ...
70% of sunglasses that are sold in markets and top manta do not protect the eyes from harmful solar rays.

The road residual
Europe leads accumulated enough nuclear waste to produce a jam of trucks loaded with 32 tons of these materials over 30 kilometers of highway.

7/01/2008

Unusual, but true!

Risk of amputation.
There are an estimated 110 million antipersonnel mines hidden in 64 countries.

Without doubles.
The actor Jac-kie Chan stars in dangerous scenes and no company dares to assure the shooting.

A sleep with rolled.
The Chinese Hua To (115-205) was among the first surgeons to use general anesthesia: asleep in patients with rolled, a mixture of hashish and wine.

Mom, teat!
Only one in five Spanish mothers breastfeeding their children up to 6 months.

Olido and not smelled.
Only in France each year are launched 400 new perfumes: Ei 90 per 100 does not last more than 3 years in the market. Asean and braying, Poppaea Sabina, wife of Nero, was bathed in his tub silver with 500 milk burras his property.

What forzudos!
Everyone can lift, if only for an instant, up to two times their own weight.

Weapon fetal.
The popes of the Middle Ages tried to ban the use of the crossbow as being a lethal weapon and inhumane.