Q: What is an interesting fact of history that most people don't know about?
A: During the Spanish Succession War, prostitutes in Madrid, like most of the city, were sympathizers of the candidate for the throne Felipe V de Borbon.
So when English and Portuguese troops arrived in the city to crown Archduke Charles as Charles III in 1706, the prostitutes devised a biological attack on the troops. In collaboration with some doctors, they fixed and perfumed sick prostitutes. Within a month there were 6,000 cases of syphilis and gonorrhea among English soldiers, enemies of Philip V.
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Q: What are some unknown facts about world?
A: Ling Festival is celebrated in Japan.
1. This festival is called Kanemara Matsuri. This festival is celebrated every year on the first Sunday of April.
2. Child birth rate is very low in Japan. Either people do not have time or money to have children. An interesting fact is that there are more adult diapers sold than baby diapers.
3. The oldest people on earth are two Japanese people, 117 and 116 years old.
4. Japan has the lowest crime rate in the world.
5. Japan is a country made up of 6852 islands.
6. In Japan, children themselves clean the schools.
7. Japan has more earthquakes than any other country in the world.
8. Children are allowed to sleep in schools.
9. Japan has the largest number of elderly people relative to its population.
10. People in Japan do not like to sit idle.
The Japanese are the hardest working people in the world.
Q: If I buy an entire row of seats on a long flight so no one is next to me, can the airline sell one of my empty seats to someone or will they respect the fact that the empty seats are mine to do as I please with?
A: Here’s the problem… You paid for 3 (maybe 4) seats but only one person checks in. Under normal circumstances, the airline considers the other 2 seats as “no-shows” and will fill the seats with stand-by passengers if there are any.
Be warned that the check-in process has a set procedure and some check-in staff are quite capable of denying your request for the sake of making themselves feel important by saying no to you. So, leaving your plan to the check-in phase could derail your plan. You are well advised to make your booking for multiple seats by phone rather than online, this way your booking of a row of seats will be reflected on the system and there is no negative decision to be made by the check-in staff who will be compelled to then issue you with multiple boarding passes.
Keep in mind that simply paying for the seats online is not enough to hold the seats as check-in staff can still flag those seats as “no-show”, your protest will be met by an indifferent “get a refund and move on”.
Q: What would happen if a person tried to travel in space without a suit? Would it be possible to do so without any protective gear?
A: In a best case scenario you can live for around 7 minutes but you’ll only be conscious for about 15 seconds. After 2 minutes the risk of permanent damage becomes very high.
One minute you were happily cleaning the window of the space station but the next minute the seals fail and the window is blown out into space. The air pressure inside of the station would jettison the window into the vacuum of space and you along with it.
Breathing: In the near vacuum of space there’s no Oxygen, but you also wouldn’t want to hold your breath. The pressure of the air in you lungs would increase, expanding your lungs until they ruptured. However, you are wise so you immediately blew all the air out of your lungs that you could.
Pressure: Our bodies are designed to be in air. Despite vacating all the air we could from our lungs we still have air throughout our bodies and we would begin to swell. Any exposed tissue would be subject to rapid evaporation of fluids.
Radiation: With nothing to protect you, you will be subjected to cosmic radiation. You can attempt to roll and spread that damage around to decrease any permanent damage.
Temperature: It is very cold in space, but your body can do a pretty decent job of retaining heat in a vacuum. That’s because there’s nothing to pull the heat of your body away.
Interesting fact, the bottle of cleaning fluid you had would also be floating in space but would not freeze like you’d expect on Earth. The air in the bottle would rupture the container. The water inside would boil in the vacuum of space and go through rapid evaporation. The water vapor would then freeze as a solid.
Interesting fact, the reason that you don’t rapidly become cold in space is because you are in a vacuum. The same reason that your vacuum sealed bottle keeps its contents at a steady temperature. The vacuum prevents the conduction of heat.
Interesting fact, Guardians of the Galaxy 3 did an exaggerated but decent job of Starlord’s exposure but you wouldn’t have the frost because of the lack of moisture to freeze.
Q: My husband found my Tinder profile and now wants to divorce me. What do I do?
A: Respect his wishes, he is looking out for himself. He sees your lack of self respect does not match his self respect. Nothing you can do, I wouldn't trust you one bit and do the same. Set him free! There's a better woman out there waiting to give him honesty& loyalty, who has integrity and lots of love to give him. And he knows it! Sounds like you broke his heart and he's not gonna stand for it. Good for him!!!!
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Q: Can I kill an attacking chimpanzee with my bare hands?
A: Once, at a private animal refuge, I was face to face with a caged chimp. The chimp reached out to me and, not thinking, I extended my hand. It grabbed my arm and pulled my arm into the cage, pulling me against the outside of the cage. It had a very strong grip, it had me pinned, it did not seem to want to let go of me, and if it had decided to attack there’s nothing I could have done.
I don’t remember exactly what happened next. I think I relaxed, avoided looking it in the eye, and adjusted my stance so I was shorter than the chimp. Eventually it let go, without hurting me other than the ache of an overly-strong handshake.
My money is on the chimp.
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Q: What are the weirdest experiments performed throughout history?
A: What happens to animals in a kind of paradise where there are no natural enemies? American scientist Dr. John Calhoun wanted to find out in the early 70s.
Here is the result flow:
They created a special space for mice, a mouse paradise, with plenty of food and water and plenty of living space.
First we placed four pairs of clam rats.
They soon began breeding, and the mouse population soared.
However, after 315 days, fecundity began to decline significantly. When the number of rats reached 600, a hierarchy formed among them, and so-called "hikikomori" emerged.
The males began to "break down" psychologically, and as a result, the larger individuals began to attack the entire group. As a result, females abandoned their primary role in protecting themselves and their young and began to show aggression toward younger individuals.
Over time, the mortality rate of young mice reached 100% and the reproductive rate dropped to 0. Homosexuality was observed among endangered mice, and cannibalism increased in spite of the abundance of food.
Two years after the experiment began, the last baby of the "experimental paradise" was born. By 1973, all mice in Universe 25 were dead.
The experimenter repeated it 25 more times, each time with the same result.
People talk about withdrawal, non-marriage and gender issues as if they are looking at Japan today.
Q: If Olympus Mons was on Earth, would it be possible for people to climb it?
A: First of all it would probably collapse on Earth. Mars only has 38% gravity which allows taller structures. However lets ignore that for the moment,
Olympus Mons is about 22.5 km (72,000) feet tall. That is not quite 3 times Everest, but close. It is also so high up that not only can’t you breathe, it is starting to push body limits on withstanding low pressure. I think at a minimum you would need a pressure suit and LOTS of oxygen. In fact it would require so much oxygen that you couldn’t possibly carry it up. The only possibility would be for you to somehow parachute oxygen tanks onto the route ahead of time and then use all of those. However, most aircraft can’t even fly that high. That would require something like military aircraft to get that high. I won’t say it is impossible but it would be a logistical nightmare and cost many millions of dollars.
It is also about -55 C half way up, so you better have cold weather gear.
There is also the shear distance issue. After scaling the initial cliffs that are kilometers high (think 4 or 5 El Capitan's on top of each other) you have hundreds of kilometers of uphill slope. Below is Olympus Mons laid over France.
Q: What are the most epic failures in history?
A: The humorous time that the KGB tried to blackmail the Indonesian president Sukarno, but backfired spectacularly.
During a “honey pot” operation, the KGB sent female operatives disguised as flight attendants, to have an orgy with Sukarno. The KGB secretly filmed the whole orgy in hopes of blackmailing the unknowing president. Amusingly, being the sexually promiscuous beast that he is, this did not faze Sukarno one bit. Sukarno was actually quite pleased with the tapes. He even wanted to have those tapes in order to watch them himself. Sukarno also wanted to show those tapes to his country.
History really can be quite hilarious at times.
Q: What sounds extremely wrong, but is actually correct?
A: Did you know that about 85% of all humans breathe out of only one nostril at a time?
Matter of fact, the nose switches between which nostril to breathe out of in cycles about four hours long. This switch happens via erectile tissue inside the nose, not unlike the erectile tissue in a penis or clitoris, swelling and blocking one nostril while shrinking and opening the other.
Your body may also react differently depending on which nostril you use. Using the right one may increase your alertness and concentration, while the left might calm you down and reduce stress.
We have two small nostrils instead of one big one for a reason.
Q: What has been misunderstood in the past?
A: Tetanus is an infection caused by bacteria called Clostridium tetani. When these bacteria enter the body, they produce a toxin that causes painful muscle contractions. Another name for tetanus is “lockjaw”. It often causes a person's neck and jaw muscles to lock, making it hard to open the mouth or swallow.
Just over 200 years ago, tetanus was thought to be a demonic obsession, as those afflicted suffered from sudden muscle contractions and stiffness. Today, however, we know that tetanus is caused by the bacterium Clostridium tetani, which affects the nervous system. The characteristic position of this disease is called opisthotonos.
Q: My aunt passed away and she said in her will that I can have all the stuff I want from inside the home, but the executor says I can only have access to certain areas of the home. Is this legal?
A: I doubt your gift in your aunt’s will is precisely worded “I give my nephew/niece all the ‘stuff’ he wants from inside my home.” In other words, you need to read the wording in her will of your aunt’s gift to you to learn precisely what she has left you.
Also knowing how your aunt’s home is titled might help determine if executor can bar you from accessing some parts of it. If your aunt owned her home in her name only, the home would now be estate property: executor would be steward of the property and as a practical matter de facto[1][2] owner of the house. S/he can decide who and who not to let in, similar to any other homeowner. Executor might then be able to lawfully bar you and anyone else from certain areas of the home or the home outright. So you are lucky that executor is graciously granting you access to certain areas of the home altogether. S/he is under no obligation to afford you that courtesy.
Also executor may have just started probate and is marshaling your aunt’s property in order to prepare the inventory; therefore, s/he needs to keep her home intact to ensure s/he locates every piece of her property in the home to ensure the inventory is as complete as possible. So in my opinion executor has a point in limiting your access to your aunt’s home.
Go find an estates attorney and discuss with him/her for a better answer.
Q: My son got sentenced to 15 years in prison. He is 20 years old. I don’t want him to feel depressed and give up. Is there anything I can do for him while he is in prison?
A: I've been out a year after doing 22 years off a 15-to-Life sentence in the California Dept. of Corrections, and I will say to you that you have NO IDEA what your son will HAVE TO deal with in there, depression, though prevalent, being low on the list.
There are no pretty words to alleviate your worries, Ma'am, because prison in America is in no way constructed to be a relief of any kind. Your son will face hardships and challenges and experience loneliness that is quite literally unspeakable, especially in such an environment. And he will either grow and gain knowledge and maturity, and physical as well as inner strengths, and be of so intimate an understanding of the harshnesses of Life that he chooses for himself a greater path than the one he's known…..or not.
What you can do for him, Mom, that would be a godsend through the hardships and conducive to his growth and gaining, is to accept them as the reality they are, and encourage him to be not just 'strong', but to be steel. To be iron. Say to him how you have always known that you gave birth to a lion. A leader. Let him know that there is wisdom to be gained from every situation he may be confronted with, and to analyze EVERYTHING.
Be brave, Mom. As brave as you need him to be. BRAVER than you need him to be. The road is long and rougher than you can imagine, Mom. I pray the Lord's Intervention, but minus that, I wish you, for your son, a Warrior Mother's heart. This is the best thing you can do for him, Mom. The best thing to BE for him. May God bless you all.
Q: I’m falling in love with someone who doesn’t want a relationship but likes me and wants to keep sleeping with me, what should I do?
A: This reminds me of one popular analogy.
A person used to feed a puppy with unadulterated cow milk every single day. With lot of love.
The puppy grew up to be a loyal dog. It guarded him and his house till his death.
Another person saw this and and fed a baby snake with unadulterated cow milk every single day. With lot of love and an ounce of affection.
The snake grew up and bit him one day.
He wondered why the snake never had loyalty, while the people around him wondered why he never had commonsense to not expect loyalty from snakes.
The top line of the bottomline is
Your love may not be that powerful to change the nature of people.
Accept this first.
He has clearly mentioned his boundaries and established his nature. Respect that and try to align your expectations from your relationship with him accordingly.
Even if you want to try changing his opinion, consider it is a risk with win or lose situation. Prepare your heart that it is going to hurt and yet you want to try it.
Or if it is hurting you to have feelings for him and yet conform to his expectations, better give it up and cut all ties with him.
Always check whether you mind and body are feeling safe and comfortable when you are in any relationship and give this the utmost priority.
Q: Have there been sports in history where the consequences for losing were severe?
A: The Maya used to play a game known as 'Pelota.' The Pelota was a ball made from rubbery resin, about the size of a bowling ball.
The objective was to bounce it into large rings atop tall poles in the center of the field without using hands. Surprisingly, this game often ended with the losers facing dire consequences in the form of human sacrifices.
Remarkably, the game is still played today, but thankfully, without the grim specter of human sacrifices.
Q: What is a disturbing fact most people are unaware of?
A: See this picture?
You’re probably wondering what in the HECK that is. Some sort of mutant humanoid skull, maybe?
Actually, it’s completely normal. What you’re looking at is a human toddler's skull. Turns out, toddler’s adult teeth are underneath their eyes.
Later on, they pop into place when the baby teeth fall out. If I had known that when I was a toddler, I’d have been severely creeped out about my own body.
Q: What do massage therapists do if a male client gets excited during a massage?
A: There are a few different things that massage therapists can do if a male client gets excited during a massage.
If the therapist is uncomfortable, they can ask the client to turn over or to stop the massage altogether.
Some therapists may choose to ignore it and continue with the massage.
It is important to communicate with the client about what is happening and to make sure that they are comfortable with continuing.