Helen Mukoro Idisi was born on 26 December 1969 in Warri Local Government Area of Delta State , Nigeria . She grew up in Benin City in Edo State . She was granted citizenship in Spain in 2013 by the Spanish government, Ministry of Justice (Spain) . She attended St Ita's College, Sapele between 1977–1981. She attended Bendel State College of Agriculture, Anwai, Asaba merged to Delta State Polytechnic, Ozoro, where she obtained a diploma in Agriculture in June 1987. She attended the National University of Distance Education in Spain. where she studied Law in 2008. She attended Universidad Católica Santo Domingo where she obtained a postgraduate certificate as a Legal Expert 'Experto en Perito Judicial' in 2010. She attended Assam Don Bosco University , graduating with a BSc Business Administration in June 2016. She also attended the London School of Journalism where she obtained a diploma in Journalism and Newswriting in 2016. Her first job was with the Bendel State civil service as Assistant Agricultural Superintendent officer, and Delta State, civil service. She worked at es:Cruz Roja Española Javea, in Spain as Immigration officer. She became the President of the African Europe Chamber of Commerce in 2013, and President of Union de Todos 'political party' in 2014. She is an author of many books.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Mukoro_Idisi

A North Korean soldier has defected to South Korea by walking across the heavily protected Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), say officials in Seoul. The man crossed the eastern section of the border unarmed on Thursday morning, said South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), with no shots fired. He is now being investigated, said JCS. The DMZ is fortified with landmines and barbed wire and guarded by tens of thousands of troops on both side. Defections across it are very rare. In June last year, a teenage recruit from the North surrendered to his Southern counterparts at Hwacheon. In 2012 a soldier from the North made it through rows of surveillance cameras and electric fencing before eventually managing to hand himself over - an embarrassment that cost three South Korean field commanders their posts. The border and its fortifications have been in place since the Korean War ended in an armistice in 1953. Seoul says more than 29,000 North Koreans have defected to the South since the end of the Korean War, most of them via China. They receive some government help integrating, although some still complain of financial difficulties and discrimination. The latest defection follows media reports that a young North Korean who defected while competing in a maths competition in Hong Kong left the territory for South Korea on the weekend. The 18-year-old had spent two months living in the South Korean consulate, which was heavily guarded during his stay. South Korea has not commented on the reports.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37503267

The world’s first baby to be born from a new procedure that
combines the DNA of three people appears to be healthy,
according to doctors in the US who oversaw the treatment.
The baby was born on 6 April after his Jordanian parents
travelled to Mexico where they were cared for by US fertility
specialists.
Doctors led by John Zhang, from the New Hope Fertility
Center in New York, decided to attempt the controversial
procedure of mitochondrial transfer in the hope that it would
give the couple a healthy child.
While many experts welcomed news of the birth, some raised
concerns that the doctors had left the US to perform the
procedure beyond the reach of any regulatory framework
and without publishing details of the treatment.
Speaking to the New Scientist , Zhang said he went to Mexico
where “there are no rules” and insisted that doing so was
right. “To save lives is the ethical thing to do,” he said.
Mitochondrial transfer was legalised in the UK in 2015 but so
far no other country has introduced laws to permit the
technique. The treatment is aimed at parents who have a
high risk of passing on debilitating and even fatal genetic
diseases to their children.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/sep/27/worlds-first-baby-born-using-dna-from-three-parents

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Cristiano Ronaldo is one of the great stars of world football and
now one of the oldest and most crucial parts of our galaxy.
Real Madrid's Portuguese forward, whose play sometimes appears
to be out of this world, has had his name given to a galaxy which
houses a cluster of stars thought to have provided conditions
pivotal for life to flourish.
The CR7 galaxy - recently discovered by astronomers - is said to
have existed when the universe was only 800 million years old -
some 13 billion years ago.
The stars of CR7 "ultimately allowed us all to be here by fabricating
heavy elements and changing the composition of the universe,"
according to Dr David Sobral of the University of Lisbon.
Sobral, who led a group of astronomers in discovering CR7,
confirmed its name was inspired by Ronaldo and the name of the
method used to date distant objects in the universe - Cosmic
Redshift 7.
Real Madrid star Ronaldo, who adopts the mantle CR7 because of
his initials and shirt number, won Fifa's Ballon d'Or award in 2013
and 2014 and scored a staggering 66 goals this season.
The former Manchester United has never been short on confidence
but it turns out he has been so much more than a star for so long.

SOURCE: http://m.bbc.com/sport/football/33185760

1. The founder of North Korea, first president Kim Il Sung,
created the country's policy of juche or "self-reliance," which
has essentially cut off North Korea economically and
diplomatically from the rest of the world even in times of great
need such as famines.
2. Kim Jong Il, son of the country's founder, has been said by
state media to have managed amazing feats: He scored a
perfect 300 the first time he went bowling and sank 11 holes-
in-one the first time he played golf.
3. Between 150,000 and 200,000 North Koreans live in prison
camps surrounded by electrified fencing, according to South
Korean government estimates and Human Rights Watch. The
worst camps are for those who commit political crimes, and
offenders can have their entire extended family imprisoned
with them. As many as 40% of camp prisoners die from
malnutrition while doing mining, logging and agricultural work
with rudimentary tools in harsh conditions, according to a 2011
Amnesty International report.
4. Only military and government officials can own motor
vehicles.
5. North Koreans must abide by one of 28 approved haircuts.
Unmarried women must have short hair, but married woman
have many more options. The hair of young men should be less
than 2 inches long, older men can go as long as 2¾ , according
to a Taiwanese website WantChinaTimes.
6. All legal televisions are tuned to state-controlled domestic
programming. The Internet does not exist other than a closed
domestic network. Cellular 3G access is allowed to foreigner
visitors. Few North Koreans know anything about world events
apart from how they are described by North Korean
propaganda.
7. North Korea's missile program was first developed with help
from the then-Soviet Union in the 1970s. Its Taepodong-2
missile has an estimated range of more than 4,100 miles but
has yet to be test-fired. Other medium-range missiles are
capable of being fired over Japan.
8. The border between North Korea and South Korea is one of
the most militarized in the world, according to the State
Department. Pyongyang has about 1.2 million military
personnel compared with 680,000 troops in South Korea, where
28,000 U.S. troops are also stationed. Nearly 6 million North
Koreans are reservists in the worker/peasant guard,
compulsory to the age of 60.
9. The World Food Programme estimates that 6 million of North
Korea's 25 million people are in need of food aid and one-third
of children are chronically malnourished or stunted. Analysis of
escapees from North Korea shows that those born after the
Korean War in the late 1950s were on average about 2 inches
shorter than South Koreans. Most North Koreans subsist on
corn and kimchi, a pickled cabbage.
10. In 1978, North Korean agents kidnapped South Korean film
director Shin Sang Ok and his wife, actress Choe Eun Hui, to
create a film industry in North Korea. The couple escaped to
the West eight years later, after having made dozens of films.
11. The elder brother to current leader Kim Jong Un, Kim Jong
Nam, was passed over to become the heir apparent leader
after being arrested in Tokyo in 2001 for traveling to
Disneyland on a forged passport.
12. As many as 2 million people died as a result of famine in
the 1990s caused by erratic government farming policies and
flooding, according to the United Nations. Asia Press reported
that a recent return of famine in the farming provinces of North
and South Hwanghae has forced some to resort to
cannibalism.
13. North Korea spent about one third of its national income on
the military, according to a 2011 report from the South Korean
government.
14. Annual GDP per capita is about $1,800, which ranks 197th
in the world, according to the CIA World Factbook. The GDP is
18 times higher in South Korea.
15. Electric power largely shuts down at night, and the homes
that have electricity often receive only a few hours per day.
16. Schoolchildren provide their own desks and chairs, and
money to pay for heat. Some students are forced to produce
goods for the government. Some parents keep their children
home by bribing teachers to keep quiet.
17. North Korea's regime gets much of its income by exporting
to Japan and elsewhere counterfeit pharmaceuticals, such as
Viagra, narcotics such as methamphetamine, counterfeit
cigarettes and fake $100 U.S. bills, and by selling small arms
and missile parts to terror groups and rogue nations.
18. Nearly all property belongs to the state. A modern
independent judicial system does not exist. Religious freedom
does not exist.
19. Foreign investment in North Korea reached $1.4 billion in
2010, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and
Development. European and Chinese companies have opened
casinos for tourists and invested in mines for copper, nickel,
zinc, iron and gold. Mineral reserves are estimated to be worth
$6 trillion, says South Korean state mining company Korea
Resources.
20. North Korea has a network of informants who monitor and
report to the authorities fellow citizens they suspect of criminal
or subversive behavior. Unauthorized access to non-state radio
or TV broadcasts is severely punished.

SOURCE: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/04/13/north-korea-factoids/2078831/

1. The modern word “China” most likely derives from the
name of the Qin (pronounced “chin”) dynasty. First Emperor
Qin Shi Huang (260-210 B.C.) of the Qin dynasty first
unified China in 221 B.C., beginning an Imperial period
which would last until A.D. 1912. k
2. China is often considered the longest continuous
civilization, with some historians marking 6000 B.C. as the
dawn of Chinese civilization. It also has the world’s longest
continuously used written language. c
3. China is the fourth largest country in the world (after
Russia, Canada, and the U.S.). It has an area of 3,719,275
square miles (slightly smaller than the U.S.) and its borders
with other countries total more than 117,445 miles.
Approximately 5,000 islands lie off the Chinese coast. a
4. One in every five people in the world is Chinese. China’s
population is estimated to reach a whopping 1,338,612,968
by July 2009. China’s population is four times that of the
United States. a
5. Fortune cookies are not a traditional Chinese custom.
They were invented in 1920 by a worker in the Key Heong
Noodle Factory in San Francisco. i
6. China is also known as the “Flowery Kingdom” and
many of the fruits and flowers (such as the orange and
orchid) are now grown all over the world. i
7. Toilet paper was
invented in China in the late
1300s. It was for emperors
only. m
8. The Chinese invented
paper, the compass,
gunpowder, and printing. c
9. The Chinese invented
kites (“paper birds” or “Aeolian harps”) about 3,000 years
ago. They were used to frighten the enemies in battle, and
Marco Polo (1254-1324) noted that kites were also used to
predict the success of a voyage. It was considered bad luck
to purposely let a kite go. i
10. Cricket fighting is a popular amusement in China.
Many Chinese children keep crickets as pets. m
11. Despite its size, all of China is in one time zone. h
12. Many historians believe soccer originated in China
around 1000 B.C. f
13. Ping-pong is one of the most popular games in China,
but it was not invented in China. It originated in Britain,
where it is called table tennis. m
14. The number one hobby
in China is stamp
collecting. m
15. Giant Pandas (“bear
cat”) date back two to three
million years. The early
Chinese emperors kept
pandas to ward off evil
spirits and natural
disasters. Pandas also were considered symbols of might
and bravery. i
16. White, rather than black, is the Chinese color for
mourning and funerals. i
17. Though Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) is credited with
designing the first parachute, Chinese alchemists
successfully used man-carrying tethered kites by the fourth
century A.D. Parachutes were not used safely and
effectively in Europe until the late 1700s. m
18. The custom of binding feet (euphemistically called
“golden lilies”) began among female entertainers and
members of the Chinese court during the Song dynasty
(A.D. 960-1279). Tightly wrapped bandages gradually broke
the arch of the foot and caused the woman’s toes and heel
to grow inward toward one another. Her leg muscles would
also atrophy and become very thin. Bound feet were seen
as highly sexual. m
19. Historians speculate that as the Chinese population
grew, people had to conserve cooking fuel by chopping food
into small pieces so that it could cook faster. These bite-
sized foods eliminated the need for knives and, hence,
chopsticks were invented. c
20. In A.D. 130, Zhang Heng, an astronomer and literary
scholar, invented the first instrument for monitoring
earthquakes. The machine could detect and indicate the
direction of an earthquake. c
21. China invented ice
cream, and Marco Polo is
rumored to have taken the
recipe (along with the
recipe for noodles) back
with him to Europe. i
22. A civil servant named
Su Song built the first
mechanical clock between
A.D 1088 and 1092. It could tell the time of day and also
track the constellations so that accurate horoscopes could
be determined. c
23. On September 27, 2008, Zhai Zhigang made the first
spacewalk by a Chinese astronaut. l
24. The Chinese were the first to invent the waterwheel to
harness water in A.D. 31—1,200 years before the
Europeans. China was also the first country in the world to
use an iron plow. Europe didn’t begin using the iron plow
until the seventeenth century. m
25. The name of China’s capital has changed over the
centuries. At one time or another it has been known as
Yanjing, Dadu, and Beiping. Peking or “Beijing means
“Northern Capital.” Beijing is the officially sanctioned pinyin
spelling based on the Mandarin dialect. Beijing is the
second largest city after Shanghai. h
26. It was customary for wealthy men and women in the
late empire to grow the nails of their little fingers extremely
long as a sign of their rank. They often wore decorative gold
and silver nail guards to protect their nails. c
27. By the fourth century B.C., the Chinese were drilling for
natural gas and using it as a heat source, preceding
Western natural gas drilling by about 2,300 years. m
28. By the second century B.C., the Chinese discovered
that blood circulated throughout the body and that the heart
pumped the blood. In Europe, circulation wasn’t discovered
until the early seventeenth century by William Harvey
(1578-1657). m
29. The Chinese were using the decimal system as early
as the fourteenth century B.C., nearly 2,300 years before
the first known use of the system in European
mathematics. The Chinese were also the first to use a place
for zero. m
30. The crossbow was invented and first used by the
Chinese. They were also the first in the world to use
chemical and gas weapons, 2,000 years before gas was
used in Europe during WWI. m
31. The Three Gorges Hydroelectric Dam spans the
Yangtze River and is the largest dam in the world. It is also
the most controversial dam in the world because it has
been plagued by corruption, human rights violations,
technological difficulties, and has caused dramatic
environmental changes. e
32. According to popular
legend, tea was discovered
by the Chinese emperor
Shennong in 2737 B.C.
when a tea leaf fell into his
boiling water. The Chinese
consider tea to be a
necessity of life. i
33. Martial arts are
practiced throughout China
and were largely developed from ancient farming and
hunting methods. i
34. The most important holiday in China is the Chinese
New Year or Lunar New Year. Chinese traditionally believe
that every person turns one year older on the New Year and,
thus, that day is considered to be everyone’s birthday. i
35. Chinese is spoken by 92% of China’s population. There
are at least seven major families of the Chinese language,
including Mandarin, Cantonese, Wu, Hakka, Gan, Xiang, and
Min. i
36. Red symbolizes happiness for the Chinese and is
commonly used at Chinese festivals and other happy
occasions such as birthdays and weddings. i
37. In ancient China, the lotus was seen as a symbol of
purity and was sacred to both the Buddhists and Daoists.
The peony (“King of Flowers”) symbolized spring, the
chrysanthemum symbolized long life, and the narcissus
was thought to bring good luck. i
38. The Chinese have made
silk since at least 3,000 B.C.
The Romans knew China as
“Serica,” which means “Land
of Silk.” The Chinese fiercely
guarded the secrets of silk
making, and anyone caught
smuggling silkworm eggs or
cocoons outside of China
was put to death. i
39. According to a Chinese
legend, silk was discovered in 3000 B.C. by Lady Xi Ling
Sui, wife of the Emperor Huang Di. When a silk worm
cocoon accidentally dropped into her hot tea, fine threads
from the cocoon unraveled in the hot water and silk was
born. i
40. The oldest piece of paper in the world was found in
China and dates back to the second or first century B.C.
Paper was so durable, it was sometimes used for clothing
and even light body armor. m
41. The Chinese were the first in the world to use stirrups
in the third century A.D. m
42. China’s “one child” policy has contributed to female
infanticide and has created a significant gender imbalance.
There are currently 32 million more boys than girls in China.
In the future, tens of millions of men will be unable to find
wives, prompting some scholars to suggest that this
imbalance could lead to a threat to world security. m
43. The first known species of Homo erectus , the Peking
Man, was found in China and lived between
300,000-550,000 years ago. It is thought that he knew how
to manipulate fire. c
44. During the first half the twentieth century, Shanghai
was the only port in the world to accept Jews fleeing the
Holocaust without an entry visa. i
45. Chinese mathematics evolved independently of Greek
mathematics and is consequently of great interest to
historians of mathematics. m
46. Originating as far back as 250 B.C., Chinese lanterns
were an important symbol of long life. Lanterns were once
symbols of a family’s wealth, and the richest families had
lanterns so large, it required several people with poles to
hoist them into place. i
47. In the Tang dynasty, anyone with an education was
expected to greet as well as say goodbye to another person
in poetic verse composed on the spot. i
48. In 1974, a group of farmers digging for a well in the
Shaanxi province uncovered some bits of very old pottery.
They discovered the tomb of Qin (259-210 B.C.) the first
emperor who united China. The tomb contained thousands
of amazing life-sized soldiers, horses, and chariots. c
49. China’s Grand Canal is the
world’s oldest and longest canal
at 1,114 miles (1,795 km) long
with 24 locks and around 60
bridges. e
50. The bat is a traditional good
luck symbol that is frequently
depicted in designs for porcelain,
textiles, and other crafts. i
51. The bicycle was introduced
into China around 1891 by two
American travelers named Allen and Sachtleben. The
bicycle is now the primary transportation for millions of
Chinese. The last Qing emperor (Puyi) rode a bicycle around
the Forbidden City in Beijing. China is currently the leading
bicycle manufacturer. i
52. The Boxer Rebellion between 1898 and 1901 in
northern China was against Christian missionaries, foreign
diplomats, and technology by a secret group called the
“Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists” (Yihequan or I-
ho-ch’uan ) so named because its members practiced
weaponless martial arts as well as secret rituals. Westerns
called it “shadow boxing” and the members “Boxers.” m
53. Suspension bridges were invented in China in 25 B.C,
1,800 years before such bridges were known in the West. m
54. The first American woman to win the Nobel Prize was
Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) for her novels about China, most
notably The Good Earth (1931). Amy Tan (1952-) is a best-
selling Chinese-American author of The Joy Luck Club . i
55. The Chinese word for civilization (wen ) is pronounced
the same as the word for script, pattern, or calligraphy. In
fact, calligraphy was thought to reveal the calligrapher’s
moral and spiritual self-cultivation as a type of “heart
print.” i
56. The carp is a symbol of strength and perseverance.
The scales and whiskers of the fish make it resemble a
dragon, the greatest symbol of power in China. Fish in
general play a large role in Chinese culture and the words
for “fish” and “abundance” are pronounced the same in
Chinese (yu ). i
57. In some parts of China,
“pigtails” were associated
with a girl’s marital status.
A young girl would wear
two pigtails, and when she
married, she would wear
just one. This may have
contributed to the Western
view that pigtails are
associated with children
and young girls. i
58. In ancient China, mirrors were believed to protect their
owners from evil, making hidden spirits visible and
revealing the secrets of the future. A person who had been
scared by a ghost could be healed by looking in the mirror.
Mirrors were often hung on the ceilings of burial chambers. i
59. The longest river in China is the 3,494-mile Yangtze
(Changjian) River and the 2,903-mile-long Yellow (Huanghe)
River. e
60. The Chinese developed a theory of three levels of
heaven—Heaven, Earth, and man—which has been
influential in landscape painting and flower arrangements. e
61. The horse most likely originated in Central Asia and
became very important in China. A horse is considered to
be associated with the masculine symbol, yang , and with
the element of fire. A person born in the Year of the Horse
is considered cheerful, independent, clever, talkative, quick
to anger, and able to handle money. i
62. Because the cicada (katydid) has the longest life span
of any insect (up to 17 years) and sheds its skin, it has long
been a symbol of regeneration and rebirth for the Chinese.
In ancient China, the Chinese would place jade cicadas in
the mouths of the dead because they were thought to slow
down the decay process and speed up the rebirth in another
world. i
63. Concubinage has been practiced throughout Chinese
history, primarily by wealthy men who could afford it.
Chinese emperors had large harems with hundreds of
concubines.j
64. The phoenix is the most important bird in Chinese
legend and represents the feminine power of the empress.
The graceful crane, which is a symbol of long life, is the
second most important bird in Chinese legend. Ducks are
also important symbols and represent happiness and
marital faithfulness. i
65. The Cultural Revolution (the Great Proletarian Cultural
Revolution) from1966-1976 resulted in severe famine,
thousands of deaths, and the erosion of thousands of acres
of farmland. m
66. While the dragon is typically seen as an evil creature in
Western culture, it holds first place among the four greatest
creatures in Chinese mythology, including the phoenix, tiger,
and tortoise. It is typically associated with the emperor. i
67. The highest mountain in the world (29,028 feet) is
named in the honor the Welshman Sir George Everest who
was the first surveyor of India. The Chinese call Mount
Everest Qomolangma, which means “Mother Goddess of the
Earth.” e
68. China’s national flag
was adopted in September
1949 and first flown in
Tiananmen Square (the
world’s largest public
gathering place) on October
1, 1949, the day the People’s
Republic of China was
formed. The red in the flag
symbolizes revolution. The
large star symbolizes
communism and the little stars represent the Chinese
people. The position of the stars represents the unity of the
Chinese people under the leadership of the Communist
Party. i
69. China has the world’s oldest calendar. This lunar
calendar originated in 2600 B.C. and has 12 zodiac signs. It
takes 60 years to complete. i
70. The number of birth defects in China continues to rise.
Environmentalist and officials blame China’s severe
pollution. d
71. The consumption of mushrooms was recorded in
Chinese historical documents more than 3,000 years ago. In
1996, China produced 600,000 tons of mushrooms, making
it the world’s leading producer, and it has 60% of the
world’s mushroom varieties. i
72. In 2007, dog food and toothpaste products made in
China were recalled because they contained poisonous
ingredients. In July, China’s head of the State Food and
Drug Administration was found to have accepted bribes
from pharmaceutical companies. He was executed. g
73. Famous Chinese and Chinese-American actors include
Jackie Chan (Hong Kong), Chow Yun Fat (Hong Kong),
Bruce Lee (San Francisco), Jet Li (Beijing), Zhang Ziyi
(Beijing), and Lucy Lui (New York). e
74. The 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing were the most
expensive games in history. b While the 2004 Athens Games
were estimated to cost around $15 billion, the Beijing
Games were estimated to cost a whopping $40 billion.

SOURCE: http://facts.randomhistory.com/2009/05/04_china.html

Twitter was started in 2006 by four internet
entrepreneurs, and it took 3 years to get to one billion
tweets. However, today over one billion tweets are sent
every week. Here's some really interesting things you
probably don't know about Twitter.
1. Twitter was actually created on a playground. The
founding team members were at the top of a slide in a
playground in San Francisco, when Jack Dorsey said "I've
got an idea so simple that you don't even think about it -
you just write."
2. At first glance it may seem that, unlike most websites,
Twitter is advertisement free. But that's not quite true,
Twitter is a business, and it does make money through
cleverly disguised advertisements. Twitter has two main
revenue streams, firstly Google and Bing pay Twitter a
handsome license fee so that they can include tweets in
their realtime search results. And secondly big brands
such as Starbucks, Coca-Cola, Red Bull and many others
pay Twitter for sponsored tweets which appear in Twitter
search results. Brands can also pay for "promoted
trends" which appear amongst the other naturally
trending topics. The cost for a Promoted Trend in the
United States for one day is $200,000.
3. Twitter gave the city of Boston a promoted trend free
of charge after the Boston Marathon bombing in April
2013. The trend was #OneBoston.
4. But when it comes to profit, Twitter is very different
the likes of Facebook, Google and Apple. Because Twitter
has never made a single dime of profit. In 2014 Twitter
made a net loss of $578 million. Which can be attributed
to its rapid expansion and excruciatingly high operating
costs.
5. But why are Twitter's operating costs so high. Well, it
has a lot to do with the fact that 500 million tweets are
sent every day. Which is an astonishing 6,000 tweets per
second. All those messages take an awful lot of
processing power and storage.
6. A single day's worth of Twitter posts would fill a 10
million page book.
7. The person with the most followers on Twitter is Katy
Perry who has 68 million followers. Second is Justin
Bieber and third is Barack Obama.
8. The most followed brand on Twitter is YouTube, which
has 50 million followers.
9. Twitter wasn't always called Twitter, and it didn't
always have a bird as a mascot. When it launched it was
called Twttr and it looked like this. When it was being
created "Friendstalker" was also considered as a potential
name.
10. Twitter later added it's famous blue bird as its
mascot, who by the way is called Larry. Named after
basketball player, Larry Bird.
11. Twitter is responsible for starting the hashtag
phenomenon. The first ever use of the hashtag on Twitter
was, #barcamp, posted by an open source software
advocate Chris Messina. Who thought it would be a good
idea to use the hashtag to signify a group. Chris was
inspired by the hashtag's heavy use in IRC chatrooms.
He is now referred to as "The Hashtag Godfather".
12. We've all heard of a hashtag, but how about a
cashtag? Cashtags are used on Twitter by Wall Street
tweeters interested in tracking the news around stocks.
13. Speaking of news, Twitter has become the de-facto
source for global news. When something big happens
around the world news of it spreads on Twitter via
hashtags faster than any other news source in the world.
Because of this Twitter is now the primary resource for
the majority of TV news stations.
14. Twitter is seen as the home of super fast, and often
instantaneous communication. So it may come as a
surprise that between 2008 and 2010 to help keep the site
online Twitter had a "guy with a pager". The pager would
rotate between four people who would constantly monitor
Twitter to check if it went offline. These days they're a bit
more high tech and use automated monitoring systems to
keep the website online.
15. Twitter has 288 million active monthly users. 80% of
whom access the service through mobile devices.
16. In the early days of Twitter, they were thinking about
introducing a "worship" button. If you worshipped
someone, you would get every single one of their
messages, but the idea was ditched.
17. Twitter CEO Dick Costolo said any Twitter employee
can launch any test to 1 percent of users without any
senior approvals.
18. The most retweeted tweet ever was by Ellen
DeGeneres with her star-studded selfie tweet at the 2014
Oscars. It got 3.4 million retweets.
19. Tweets containing hashtags receive two times the
levels of engagement than those without hashtags, yet
only 24 percent of tweets actually contain hashtags.
20. Twitter is on Twitter, but Twitter is also on Facebook,
and Facebook is also on Twitter. Twitter is also on
YouTube and YouTube is on Twitter.
21. There is a Twitter account called everyword that has
manually tweeted every single word in the English
dictionary. The task took them 7 years to complete.
22. There is also Twitter account with the username
SignOut that has only ever tweeted once but has 1,435
followers. Why? Because, apparently some Twitter users
think that they can sign out of Twitter by following the
account.
23. Visiting either Twittter.com (with an extra t) or
Twiter.com (missing a t) will both redirect you to the
official website.
24. The average number of followers of all users on
Twitter is 208.
25. The FBI has a dictionary of Twitter slang.
26. In order to promote diversity the official twitter
account of Sweden is given to a new random citizen
every week to manage.
27. The Library of Congress is archiving every single
tweet sent by an American citizen, because they believe
each tweet is an important part of the national narrative
of American history. Their database of tweets is over 150
terabytes and growing.
28. The CIA also reads up to 5 million tweets a day. They
could be reading yours right now.
29. 44% of Twitter users have never sent a single Tweet.
They just use the site for stalk people.
30. A report found that over 50% of Justin Bieber's
Twitter followers are fake.
31. According to the Vatican, you can reduce the time
you spend in purgatory by following the Pope on Twitter.
That sounds legit.
32. And finally, Twitter may not yet be making a profit
but it is worth $31 billion and is the 8th most visited
website on the internet. And financial analysts predict
that Twitter could finally become profitable by the end of
2015, so don't give up on the old bird just yet.

SOURCE: http://thoughty2.com/p/82/32-surprising-facts-about-twitter/

9. Drinking the Ashes of the Dead
10. Man Down

5. Baby Tossing
6. Walking With the Dead
7. Finger Cutting
8. Carrying the Bride Over Hot Coals

1. Satere-Mawe Bullet Ant Gloves 2. Kanamara Matsuri 3. Bride Kidnapping 4. La Tomatina

1. Morgan Dana Harrington
First up is the mysterious disappearance of Morgan Dana
Harrington. She was a 20 year old student at Virginia
Tech University in Blacksburg, Virginia. On the 17th
October 2009 Morgan attended a Metallica concert in
Virginia with a few friends.
Whilst the support act were still performing, Morgan went
off on her own to use the bathroom, since she didn't
want to have to go after Metallica had come on stage.
After an unusually long time Morgan had still not returned
from the bathroom, Metallica then came on stage and
Morgan was still nowhere to be seen. Her friends grew
very worried.
They rang Morgan and she picked up, she told them she
had not been allowed back into the venue because of a
"no re-entry" policy. But this was very strange because
there were toilets inside the venue. Yet Morgan had
mysteriously gone outside, for no good reason at all.
Morgan told her friends not to worry and enjoy the
concert without her. She told them she would make her
own way home. Having trust in Morgan, her friends
stayed to enjoy the rest of the concert, unbeknown to the
fact that their friend was in grave danger.
Witnesses later said that they saw Morgan outside the
arena, on her own. She was never spotted with anyone
but her friends throughout the entire night. Which leaves
no explanation as to why she exited the venue. Someone
or something must had made her act so strangely, but
what was it?
She was spotted by a witness hiking along the side of the
road later that night, still on her own. She was not seen
again for several weeks until a farmer several miles from
the venue of the Metallica concert, found the skeletal
remains of a young woman on the outskirts of his
property.
The remains were confirmed to be that of Morgan. There
were signs that her death had been extremely violent and
she had been raped. There was extremely little evidence
to go on and what had led Morgan out of that arena that
night and caused her to end up, dead, at a farm several
miles away, is still a mystery to this day.

2. Elisa Lam
In 2013 at the Cecil Hotel in the notorious Skid Row
neighbourhood in Los Angeles, one of the creepiest and
most unexplainable deaths of the 21st century, took
place.
In the days leading up to February 19th 2013, hotel
guests had been complaining of low water pressure and
oddly-coloured, foul smelling and tasting water. Some
even said the water coming out the taps was black in
colour. When the hotel staff went up to the roof to
investigate the cause, they were shocked to find a body in
the water tank. For a whole 19 days hundreds of guests
at the hotel, were bathing in, brushing their teeth with and
even drinking the water from a tank on the rooftop that
contained the decomposing corpse of a college student.
The body turned out to be that of 21-year-old Canadian
student, Elisa Lam. Lam's death is shrouded in mystery.
19 days before being found dead in the water tank, Lam
had gone missing whilst staying at the hotel. On the day
of her disappearance this disturbing CCTV footage was
released from inside the hotel elevator. The video went
viral on the internet. Lam appears to be hiding from
someone, she starts behaving erratically and at one point
she waves her arms around in an odd fashion, before
finally, disappearing. She was not seen again.
Until 19 days later, when her body was found inside the
water tank on the roof. But apart from the fire escape,
the roof is only accessible via a set of stairs and locked
doors which only hotel employees have the keys and
passcodes to. The doors would set off an alarm if
anyone else tried to open them. Yet Elisa Lam managed
to somehow get through the doors and onto the roof,
without setting the alarm off. Not only that, but she
managed to get inside one of the water tanks which is 2.4
metres tall and has no fixed access, the hotel staff had to
put a ladder up to check inside it. So how on Earth did
Elisa Lam get in there?
Even more bizarrely, Lam also managed to somehow
close the extremely heavy lid on herself, once inside the
tank. Which would be extremely difficult, if not impossible
to do by herself. In fact the water tank was so tightly
sealed that authorities had to drill a hole into it to get her
body out. This has led many people to believe that her
death was suspicious. Which probably goes without
saying, considering it would be nearly impossible for Lam
to end up in that water tank all by herself. But with
insufficient evidence her death was marked as accidental
and to this day nobody truly knows what happened to
Elisa Lam.

3. Laetitia Toureaux
A "locked room mystery" is a unique sub-genre of
murder-mystery fiction, in which a murder takes place in
a seemingly locked room with only one person inside, the
victim. In these stories the murder seems to take place
under impossible circumstances. It's extremely rare that
these so called "locked room mysteries" actual happen in
real life. But one such case did happen, in 1937 in Paris,
to Laetitia Toureaux.
At 6:27pm Laetitia Toureaux boarded a metro train at the
Porte de Charenton. When she got onto the train she was
the only person in the first-class carriage. However, when
the train pulled into the next station, only one minute and
twenty seconds later at 6:28pm, Laetitia Toureaux
slumped forwards in her seat with a dagger in her neck.
She had somehow been stabbed in the neck and killed, in
seemingly impossible circumstances. Witnesses at both
stations swore that they saw no one getting onto or
leaving Toureaux's train compartment at either stop. And
witnesses in both adjacent compartments, said that
nobody had tried to enter the one where Toureaux's body
was found.
Police tried their best to solve the mystery. But even
Paris' best detective's had no idea how Toureaux could
have been stabbed in the neck, in a time span of 1
minute, in a seemingly empty train carriage.
World War II came and Toureaux's case was forgotten
about. Despite crime writers the world over giving it their
best. Nobody has since been able to solve this infamous,
real-life, locked room mystery.

4. Ottavio Bottecchia
Italian man, Ottavio Bottecchia was one of the most
talented cyclists the world has ever seen. In 1924 he
became the first Italian to win the world renowned Tour
de France race. He was also the first person in history to
maintain the lead in the Tour de France all the way from
start, to finish.
But the fame and glory was short-lived for Bottecchia,
because in June 1927, two years after his second Tour de
France victory. Bottecchia was found dead at the side of
the road in the village of Poenis, Italy, just a few miles
from his home.
So what's so strange about this, it just sounds like a
bicycle crash. Well Bottecchia's bike was a few metres
from his body, completely undamaged, with not a single
mark or scratch upon it. No skid marks were found on the
road and there were no signs that he had been forced
from the road or that he was in a collision at all. Yet
Bottecchia's body lay in the road with his skull smashed
in, a snapped collarbone and numerous other broken
bones.
If that wasn't suspicious enough. The authorities came to
the conclusion that he had died of a sun stroke. Skull
smashed in? 20 broken bones? Looks like a bad case of
sunstroke chief! This ridiculous cause of death led many
conspiracy theorists to come to the conclusion that
Bottecchia was killed in a government assassination. For
speaking out against authoritarian prime minister Benito
Mussolini and his murder was covered up by the police.
To this day we still have no further clue as to what
happened to legendary Italian cyclist Ottavio Bottecchia.

5. Who Put Bella in the Witch Elm
Who put Bella in the Witch Elm? That's was the question
on everyone's lips in 1943. It all started on 18th April
1943 when four boys were poaching in the Hagley Woods
near Wychbury Hill in Stourbridge, England.
The boys stumbled across a large Wych elm tree.
Believing it would be a good place to find bird's nests,
one of the boys climbed up the tree. To his horror, when
the boy looked down, inside the tree's hollowed-out trunk
he saw a human skull with hair and teeth.
One of the boys reported it to the police and when they
investigated they found, almost, an entire skeleton inside
the trunk of the Wych elm. They also found a shoe, a gold
wedding ring, some fragments of clothing and a severed
hand which was buried in the ground near the tree.
After forensic examination it was determined that the
body was a female's and she had been dead for at least
18 months. Taffeta was found in her mouth, suggesting
she died from asphyxiation.
But then things got weirder. A year after the body was
discovered strange graffiti started to appear in random
locations in the surrounding area. First on a wall in Upper
Dean Street, Birmingham and then in several more places
over the next few decades, until the last graffito was
sprayed onto the side of a 200 year-old obelisk known as
Wychbury Obelisk, in August 1999. The obelisk is located
on Wychbury Hill, Hagley, near where the body was
found.
Every single one of the graffiti said the exact same thing
"WHO PUT BELLA IN THE WITCH ELM". The identity of
the killer and that of the graffiti artist, were never
discovered.

SOURCE: http://thoughty2.com/p/92/5-most-unexplainable-deaths-of-all-time/

1. Satere-Mawe Bullet Ant Gloves
I'm sure you've heard tales of tribes, secret societies and
fraternities that have strange, humiliating and sometimes
painful initiation ceremonies. Well, for years the Satere-
Mawe tribe of the Amazon rainforest have been looking
down at such rituals and thinking "that's cute". Because
no other society, tribe or civilisation has as painful an
initiation or coming of age ritual as these guys.
When a young boy comes of age in the Satere-Mawe
tribe, before he can become a man in the eyes of his
fellow tribesmen and women, he must prove himself. To
do that he must insert both his hands into specially made
gloves containing an angry hive of the most painful
stinging animal on earth, the bullet ant. This little
deviant's sting is 30 times worse than a bee sting, in fact
they are called bullet ants because the pain of their sting
is said to be similar to a bullet hitting your flesh.
Justin Schmidt, an expert on insect stings, and author of
the 'Schmidt sting pain index', ranked the sting of the
bullet ant as the most painful in the world. Schmidt
described the pain as "Pure, intense, brilliant pain. Like
walking over flaming charcoal with a 3-inch nail in your
heel." Just imagine that for a second - ouch. Now
imagine sticking your hands into gloves filled with
hundreds of these little devils whilst they repeatedly sting
you for 10 minutes.
But apparently even that's not man enough for the chiefs
of the Satere-Mawe tribe, the poor boy has to repeat this
agonising ritual 20 times, over the course of an entire
day, before he is truly considered a man. Never mind a
"man", anyone who can withstand that deserves to be
king of the bloody Amazon in my opinion.

2. Kanamara Matsuri
Next we go to Japan. Come on you knew the Japanese
were going to be somewhere on this list. Specifically to
Kawasaki, where, on the first Sunday of April, every year,
the locals host a Penis Festival. Known to the Japanese
as Kanamara Matsuri.
This festival is meant to celebrate fertility and the power
of the penis. The festival started in 1977 and was
relatively small but it has enlarged significantly in
popularity in recent years, and has become somewhat of
a tourist attraction. During the event there are a whole
range of phallic activities to participate in, you can make
penis candles, enjoy a penis shaped lollipop, try your
hand at carving a penis out of a radish, or just pose with
a giant penis on your head.
The highlight of the festival is a parade in which a giant
pink penis known as "Elizabeth" is carried around the
streets by trans-gender and cross-dressing Japanese
festival participants. Of course there's plenty of penis
related merchandise available to purchase as well. It may
look silly but it's all for a good cause. As well as its
symbolic meanings, in recent years all the proceeds from
the festival have been donated to HIV research.

3. Bride Kidnapping
Remember that person you had a crush on in school,
whom you dreamt of eloping with? Well Romani gypsies
do more than just dream about it, if they like a girl they
simply take her. It's a very old and highly illegal tradition
known as "bride kidnapping" and it's practiced frequently
in Romani communities all around the world, where it is
seen as completely normal and acceptable, even by
today's standards.
Basically the rules are as so, if a man likes the look of a
woman, even if he has never met her before, he can
forcibly kidnap her. If he can then keep her by his side for
three days without her escaping, she officially become
his wife, at least in the eyes of the Romani community.
This practice is more formally known as "marriage by
abduction". The practice is also carried out by some
tribes in Central Asia and Africa. But surely the bride and
her family don't approve of this new union between
woman and her possibly psychopathic new husband who
just subdued her with chloroform only three days earlier?
Well, since the tradition is so deeply imbued within the
community the bride and her family usually accept her
new fate and she simply has to learn to love her new
partner. Kidnapping is 100% illegal but most governments
never prosecute individuals for bride kidnapping because
it is a cultural tradition of an ethnic minority, and
outlawing cultural traditions is not an easy thing to do
and often results in somewhat of a PR nightmare.

4. La Tomatina
Most traditions have a purpose to them, some kind of
hidden meaning. Not this one, I present to you the
world's most pointless tradition, La Tomatina, an annual
Tomato fight in the Valencian town of Buñol in Spain.
On the last Wednesday of August every year, a huge
crowd gather's in the town, and then comes the most
bizarre initiation ceremony to ever begin a food fight. A
huge greased up pole is erected with a ham on top. The
tomato fight doesn't officially begin until someone is able
to climb to the top of the pole and knock the ham off. You
couldn't even make this stuff up.
Once the ham is dislodged from it's greasy pole all hell
breaks loose and the contestants lob tomatoes at each
other whilst spectators shower them with water from
hoses. But how did this sheer lunacy originate?
The story goes that in 1945, a group of young people
went to a parade in the town and were so excited that
they knocked a parade participant off their float. The
participant was so enraged that they went to a nearby
vegetable stall and threw tomatoes at everyone in a fit of
rage.
Chaos ensued and eventually the police had to break up
this mass vegetable fight. But they enjoyed it so much
that they returned on the same date the following year
and once again had a food fight of epic proportions. So
yeah, there really isn't any point to it, but who cares it
looks like fun.

5. Baby Tossing
For the past 500 years Indians have been chucking
babies off the top of 15 metre high temples, in a ritual
known as baby tossing or baby throwing. But don't worry
they're not complete psychopaths, the baby is caught at
the bottom in a large cloth. Okay it's still insane, but
there is some method behind the madness. The ritual is
believed to bring luck, prosperity and health to the new
born baby.
Most babies are under two years old when they undergo
this barbaric treatment. The ceremony starts with the new
born baby's parents saying a prayer at the temple. A
large crowd then gather's and a priest, stood at the top of
the temple, shakes the baby before throwing them onto
the cloth below. The crowd then cheers and the baby is
passed around before being returned to the parents.
Child's rights campaigners have been trying to get this
tradition banned for years.

6. Walking With the Dead
Funerals can be expensive and families don't always
have the funds available to pay for a burial when a loved
one passes away. So what do you do? Well the Toraja
people of Indonesia have a very unique way of dealing
with this. If they can't afford a burial, the corpse is
instead dressed in garbs and placed in a temporary coffin
inside the family's house.
The family lives with their dead relative until they can
save up enough money for a proper burial. When this
time comes do they simply pick up the coffin and carry it
to it's new resting place? Oh no! That's no fun. They
instead raise the corpse from it's temporary coffin and
ceremoniously walk the cadaver to it's final resting place,
which could be miles away. Giving a whole knew
meaning to life after death.

7. Finger Cutting
The Dani tribe, also from Indonesia, have a less
disturbing but more gruesome way of dealing with the
death of a loved one, they amputate their fingers. Or get
one of their family members to amputate it for them.
When a loved one passes away, relatives of the dead cut
the upper part of their finger or sometimes multiple
fingers off. This is meant to be a physical manifestation
of the emotional pain that the mourner is feeling. It is
their way of showing their grief for the deceased.
The amputation is done by first tying a piece of string
tightly around the finger for 30 minutes, to halt the flow of
blood. A relative of the mourner then snips the top half of
the finger, or fingers, off. The new ends of the amputee's
fingers are then burnt in a fire to create scar tissue and
prevent infections.
It is usually the women in the tribe, more so than the
men, who undergo this barbaric treatment. I bet the
mother's in the tribe are extra careful not to ever lose
sight of their children, because if anything unfortunate
does happen to them, daddy's going to cut mummy's
fingers off. The practice has been banned in recent years,
nevertheless it still goes on.

8. Carrying the Bride Over Hot Coals
The Chinese have a peculiar wedding custom. Before a
newly wed couple can cross the threshold of their new
home for the first time, the husband must carry his wife,
on his back, over a smouldering bed of hot coals. This
ritual is meant to ensure that the wife will have an easy
and successful labour.

9. Drinking the Ashes of the Dead
Next up I'm afraid is another macabre death ritual. The
Yanomamo tribe of Venezuela and Brazil believe that
burying a body after death and leaving them to decay is a
truly horrifying prospect. So corpses are cremated as
quickly as possible after death. Okay that all seems
pretty normal! Well I'm afraid this is where things get
weird.
The tribe believe that by ingesting the remains of a loved
one, their spirit will live within them forever. Yes I did just
say "ingest" - that's right the Yanomamo tribe consume
the ashes of their dead relatives. After cremation, the
corpse's ashes and bones are crushed into a powder and
mixed into a plantain soup. Chowder anyone? The ash
and bone soup is then shared around the tribe and eaten.
Yum!

10. Man Down
And finally, I wouldn't leave you on such a macabre note,
would I? Let's cheer ourselves up by going to Russia,
obviously. It's no secret that the Russian's love vodka.
Former Russian leader Peter the Great who reigned in the
1700s used to greet every foreign diplomat with a 1.5
litre jug of vodka and required that the diplomat finish the
entire thing to prove their trustworthiness.
So it will come as no surprise that the Russian's have
their own traditional drinking game, that involves - you
guessed it! Lots and lots of vodka. The game is simply
called "Man Down" and participants must stand in a circle
each wielding a bottle of vodka. The goal is simple, keep
drinking until someone falls over or passes out - and you
must drink! Refusing to drink is considered an insult.
Sounds like a super fun way to get alcohol poisoning!

SOURCE: http://thoughty2.com/p/96/10-most-bizarre-traditions-from-around-the-world/

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Will Smith’s son, Jaden Smith is in the news again
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Jaden’s new fashion line is to be called 666 and
according to him, he was inspired by God to embark
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God exists in all things that surround the fire that burns in
the sky. She is responsible for all spontaneous ideas. In
fact, 666 is not an evil number. This number is actually
three part and represents the six angels that descended
from the six Heavens, who are searching for the six
prophets who are meant to lead the masses. Each
prophet will be the exalted leader of that heaven.
I have been chosen by one of those angels as one of
those prophets. This line is not just clothing. Clothing is
meant to cover, while 666 is meant to transform. To wear
these clothes is to seek protection from the ills of the
world and to pledge allegiance to my Heaven.”

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Bo j'osan tabi loru

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