May 1, 2013

Did You Know That...(Some random facts/events that will blow your mind).

If you have doubts on any fact, just click the link on that fact for more details or google the title of the image of the particular fact.

-1- There is a snake venom that causes you to bleed from all holes of your body.
Boomslang

-2- There is a micro nation in Nevada named Molossia that consists only of a house, front yard and back yard. It also declared war on east Germany.
Republic Of Molossia , The smallest Country In The World

-3- US interrogators tortured an Afghan detainee to death by hanging him by his arms for 4 days and beating his legs so badly they needed amputation. They did this despite most interrogators believing him to be “an innocent man who simply drove his taxi past the American base at the wrong time”.
Dilawar was an Afghan farmer and taxi driver who died while in custody of American troops. The sketch is by Thomas V. Curtis, a Reserve M.P. sergeant, showing how Dilawar was chained to the ceiling of his cell. The leg photo is the forensic photo of Dilawar's pulpified legs.

-5- Icelanders have no family names. Instead, their surname is just their father’s name plus “son” or “dottir”.
Icelandic Flag & Name chat

 -6- If a man takes a pregnancy test and gets a positive result, it means he most likely has testicular cancer.
Human-Chorionic-Gonadotropin (R) & Pregnancy Test Kit (L)

-7- There used to be fake Apple stores in China, even the staff were convinced they were working for Apple.
Workers At the China Apple Store.

-8- A woman in Mexico performed a successful Caesarean section on herself without any medical training.
Ines-Ramirez
-9- In 2006, The FBI planted an informant in a Southern California mosque who pretended to be a radical Muslim and the Muslims at the mosque reported him to the FBI.


-10- Christine Chubbuck was a T.V News reporter who committed suicide on live T.V in 1974.
Christine Chubbuck


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