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Man marries pillow

Lee Jin-gyu fell for his 'dakimakura' - a kind of large, huggable pillow from Japan, often with a picture of a popular anime character printed on the side.

In Lee's case, his beloved pillow has an image of Fate Testarossa, from the 'magical girl' anime series Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha.

Now the 28-year-old otaku (a Japanese term that roughly translates to somewhere between 'obsessive' and 'nerd') has wed the pillow in a special ceremony, after fitting it out with a wedding dress for the service in front of a local priest. Their nuptials were eagerly chronicled by the local media.
 
'He is completely obsessed with this pillow and takes it everywhere,' said one friend.
 
'They go out to the park or the funfair where it will go on all the rides with him. Then when he goes out to eat he takes it with him and it gets its own seat and its own meal,' they added.
The pillow marriage is not the first similarly-themed unusual marriage in recent times - it comes after a Japanese otaku married his virtual girlfriend Nene Anegasaki, a character who only exists in the Nintendo DS game Love Plus, last November.

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Bulls are colour blind.The color red DOES NOT make bulls go crazy.

Ever see those Bugs Bunny cartoons where Bugs would paint something red and a bull would go crazy and charge at it? Turns out that wouldn't work.

The Mythbusters tested this one out and found that the bulls were just as likely to charge at white flags and blue flags as they were to charge at red ones. The bulls also ignored a guy dressed in red who stayed motionless. Turns out that bulls just charge at whatever moves the most, regardless of color.

This makes sense, since bulls wouldn't be able to tell if a cape or a flag was red anyway. Bulls are colorblind. Besides, in the middle of a bullfight, the bull is probably more mad about having a bunch of guys stabbing him with spears than he is about the color of the matador's cape.

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EUREKA!!!

South Africa became famous in the 19th and 20th centuries for its copious amounts of diamonds, yet the first one found has an interesting history.

It is called the Eureka Diamond, and a boy named Erasmus Jacobs first discovered it in 1867 near Hopetown on the Orange River. Jacobs was only 15 at the time and had no idea what he had found on his farm.

He took the diamond and used it in a game called “5 Stones”, when it caught the attention of his neighbor. Erasmus’ mother, believing the stone to be worthless, gave it away to their neighbor who presented it to the Civil Commissioner who in turn declared, “I believe it to be a diamond.”

The diamond was so amazing it was presented to Queen Victoria and displayed at the 1867 Paris Exhibition. 100 years after its initial discovery, the diamond was purchased and donated back to the South African people and is currently on display at the Kimberley Mine Museum.

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INDIA WILL EXCEED CHINA'S POPULATION BY 2030.

India is currently at second for the world’s largest population with 1.21 billion people or 17% of the Earth’s population. When India was granted independence from the United Kingdom around 60 years ago, its population was around 350 million.

Since that time however, it has nearly tripled. In a matter of decades, it will out-populate China. This high population rate is a result of increasing poverty and sub-standard health care. There is very little awareness and education about birth-control, even amongst the middle classes.

Meanwhile China's population is expected to drop while the US is never expected to reach the mark of 1 billion people. India has created some goals to reduce their population rates, but those goals will need to be carried out with well-planned, and effective strategies to curb a growth rate of 1.6%.

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A purple polar bear?..........

Look at this strange animal! Yes, that is a purple polar bear believe it or not! This usually white polar bear created quite the buzz about the Mendoza City Zoo in Argentina when it unexpectedly turned purple. It seems that the polar bear named Pelusa had a skin condition that the zoo officials were trying to treat, and as a result of the special treatment of this condition the polar bear turned purple. The purple color only lasted for a little while, but it was quite the talk of the town and spread across the world news and internet like wildfire.

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Neil Armstrong Carried a piece of the Wright Brothers’ 1903 Flyer with him to the moon:

Neil Armstrong is known throughout the world as the first man on the moon. His famous words “That’s one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind” are known almost universally. His biography, “First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong,” written by James R Hansesn, was released in 2005.

In it was a lot of very interesting information about Armstrong’s trip to the moon and back. On the Apollo 11 mission, each of the three astronauts had a small, lunch-box sized pouch called a “Personal Preference Kit,” or PPK.

It was a teflon-coated bag that, with the contents included, could weigh no more than five pounds. Its purpose was for the astronauts to be able to bring personal items to and from the moon.

The astronauts were allowed to chose whatever items they wanted, and while Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin have auctioned off some of the items they took with them on the journey, little is known of the contents of Armstrong’s PPK.

Armstrong had made an arrangement with the National US Air Force Museum to be given a small piece of wood from the propeller of the Wright Brothers’ famous 1903 flyer, as well as a piece of the fabric from the left wing to include in his PPK.

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Those who were born completely deaf and only learned sign language will think in sign language:

They can 'see' themselves signing in their mind in the same way that most people 'hear' themselves talking when they think. However, the level at which this happens depends on how early the hearing loss was, and what kind of languages they have learned.

Those who were born deaf but have had vocal training, will sometimes think in the language that they have learned. Deafness changes the way that the brain works in a more dramatic way than blindness does. In the past, people tried to teach deaf people how to interpret spoken language before teaching them to sign. This is completely changing, because research has shown that even if they learn spoken language, the brain never associates it with thoughts, so they don't develop an inner voice. Teaching them to sign allows them to develop the inner voice.

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Silver is the whitest color of any metal.

Silver is harder than gold, but softer than copper.

Silver is more malleable than any element except gold. It can be pounded to a thinness of 6/10000 of a millimeter, or thin enough for light to pass through, one hundred and fifty times thinner than a standard piece of paper. One ounce of silver can be drawn into 8,000 feet of thin wire.

Of all the elements, silver is the best conductor of electricity and is used as a comparative meaure for the conductivity of all other metals.

Of all the elements, silver has the highest degree of reflectivity, and can reflect up to 95% of visible light.

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The Element Lead is defined as...

A soft, malleable, ductile, bluish-white, dense metallic element, extracted chiefly from galena and used in containers and pipes for corrosives, solder and type metal, bullets, radiation shielding, paints, and antiknock compounds

Alchemists believed lead to be the oldest metal. It was associated with the planet Saturn.

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ELECTRICITY FROM SNAILS....

We all would be familiar with this little creature which creeps so slowly and having a hard shell at its back often found in the gardens and on plants.

Well, we Humans have finally figured out something positive from them as well other than creeping and amusing children: Scientists at the Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York want to extract electricity from their blood after they have been implanted with biofuel cells.

According to Evgeny Katz, the leading scientist of that team shared that the electricity is extracted from the glucose and oxygen in the snail’s blood. All they do is attach their electrodes to it and extract the power from it.

This could be brought to a huge scale as the power generation likely from this source would be amazingly a new dimension.

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OCTOBER WAS ORIGINALLY THE EIGHT MONTH OF THE YEAR.

The original Roman calendar that our modern calendar is based on was 304 days long and contained only 10 months. The final six months (Quintilis, Sextilis, September, October, November, and December) were derived from the Latin words for the numbers 5-10! Quintilis and Sextilis would later become known as July and August, but their namesakes, Julius Caesar and Augustus Caesar weren't born yet.

During the reign of Numa Pompilus, the emperor chose to add the months of January and February to the beginning of the calendar, thus making the calendar 355 days long. In doing so, however, he made the names of the final months misnomers!

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Facts About Turtles

1. Turtles cannot breathe in water, but they can hold their breath for several periods of time.
2. Adult sea turtles can weigh from 150 – 1000 pounds!
3. They are thought to have exceptional night vision due to the unusually large number of rod cells in their retinas.
4. They use their jaws to cut and chew food. Some turtles can live for more than a year without food. 5. They lay soft and leathery eggs. The eggs of largest species are of round shape while the eggs of other turtle species are elongated. They deposits their eggs in holes dug in sand or mud and incubate the eggs themselves. Some turtle lay their eggs on dry, sandy beaches. They lay 100-120 eggs in the nest and take about 2 months to incubate and their sex is determined by the temperature. Temperature determines whether an egg develops into a male or a female: a higher temperature causes a female, a lower temperature causes a male.
6. The baby turtles crawl fast to the water.
7. Turtles have been on the earth for more than 215 million years.
8. The top domed part of a turtle's shell is called the carapace and the bottom underlying part is called the plastron. Most land tortoises have high domed carapaces that offer protection from the snapping jaws of terrestrial predators. They withdraw their neck into their shell for protection.
9. The shell of a turtle is made up of 60 different bones all connected together.
10. When in danger the green turtle can swim almost 20 miles an hour to escape.

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GHOST ORCHID !!!!

Not only rare but fascinating, the Ghost Orchid is a plant that was presumed to be extinct for almost 20 years and only recently materialized again. The plant is so rare because it is near-impossible to propagate. It has no leaves and does not use photosynthesis to manufacture its own food.

The Ghost Orchid can live underground for years and is only found in forests in Cuba, and another variety, in Florida. In Cuba they grow on cypress trees in which they appear to float like ghosts, thus the name. They can only be pollinated here by the giant sphinx moth and if their seeds land on a specific moss.

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Coca-Cola is one of the most popular soft drinks in the world. In fact, over one billion cans of Coca-Cola are consumed every day. But this magical drink can be used in many more ways than just an ordinary cold refreshment.

1. Coca Cola was first invented by a pharmacist name John Pemberton as a medicine to cure headaches.
2. Coca-Cola is called “Coca-Cola” because of the original ingredients used in the medicine, Coca leaves and Kola seeds.
Wine was also added in place of sugar similar to the coke we drink today.
3. When Mentos is added to Coca-Cola, the carbon dioxide in the coke will be rapidly released, causing
the coke in the bottle to burst out. Diet coke works the best.
4. Coca-Cola can be used to help cure jellyfish stings.
5. Coca-Cola can also be used as a cleaning solution, cleaning
anything from rusty pans to dirty toilets. It can also be used to remove odor.
6. If you accidentally got gum in your hair, rinse it in coca-cola and the gum will come of very easily.
7.While someone was having a competition “who can drink the most coke in one go” they drank 8 bottles of coke and died on the spot. This was because he had too
much carbon dioxide and to less oxygen in his blood.
8. Coca cola was first green.

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FACTS ABOUT MOSQUITOES

1. Only female mosquitoes bite humans and animals; males feed on flower nectar.
Mosquitoes mean nothing personal when they take your blood. Female mosquitoes need protein for their eggs, and must take a blood meal in order to reproduce. Since males don't bear the burden of producing young, they'll avoid you completely and head for the flowers instead. And when not trying to produce eggs, females are happy to stick to nectar, too.


2. Mosquitoes fly at speeds between 1 and 1.5 miles per hour.
That might sound fast, but in the insect world, mosquitoes are actually rather slow. If a race were held between all the flying insects, nearly every other contestant would beat the pokey mosquito. Butterflies,locusts, and honey bees would all finish well ahead of the skeeter.


3. A mosquito's wings beat 300-600 times per second .
This would explain that irritating buzzing sound you hear just before a mosquito lands on you and bites.


4 . All mosquitoes require water to breed. Some species can breed in puddles left after a rainstorm.
Just a few inches of water is all it takes for a female to deposit her eggs. Tiny mosquito larva develop quickly in bird baths, roof gutters, and old tires dumped in vacant lots.If you want to keep mosquitoes under control around your home, you need to be vigilant about dumping any standing water every few days


5. Mosquitoes can detect carbon dioxide from 75 feet away.
Carbon dioxide, which humans and other animals produce, is the key signal to mosquitoes that a potential blood meal is near. They've developed a keen sensitivity to CO2 in the air. Once a female senses CO2 in the vicinity, she flies back and forth through the CO2 plume until she locates her victim ..