22 Unbelievable Facts will make you say “Holy Sh*t” Yet They Are All True!
18 A cat has “predicted” the deaths of 25 residents in a nursing home in the US. The cat displays sudden affection for dying residents by curling up next to the dying residents.
Oscar, the cat of Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Centre in Rhode Island has a peculiar tendency to seek out the dying people and curling up next to them during their last hours.The animal behavior experts in the US say that there is nothing psychic about Oscar’s actions rather it is all biochemical. Jacqueline Pritchard, an expert in animal behavior in the UK agrees with the surmise of the US experts and avers that the cat was sensing and smelling the biochemical released by the dying organs.(source)
19 Man with Suicide victim’s heart marries the suicide victim’s widow and in a bizarre re-enactment, kills himself the same way as the donor did.
Sonny Graham received the heart of a young man, Terry Cottle, who had committed suicide (self-inflicted gunshot wound). The grateful man kept in touch with Cheryl Cottle, widow of Terry Cottle and years later married her after getting divorced from his own wife. The marriage lasted for three years. 12 years after first receiving the heart from Terry Cottle, Graham committed suicide by shooting himself with his shotgun. The heart was ticking well.(source)
20 A man lost about 50%-75% of his brain to hydrocephalus (water on the brain), yet he managed to lead a normal life.
Scans of a 44-year-old man’s brain revealed that a huge fluid-filled chamber called ventricle actually took up more than three-fourth of the room in his skull leaving little more than a sheet of actual brain tissue. The father of two who works as a civil servant has an IQ of 75, which is less than the normal IQ of 100 but he is not considered to be a retarded. Max Muenke, a paediatric brain defect specialist at the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, US commented that the slow rate of fluid buildup (probably taking years or decades) may have allowed the brain to redistribute the functions that would normally be done by the part that is being pushed aside.(source)
21 There is a spider that turns into a “wheel” and cartwheels away when it is in danger.
The Wheel spider or the Golden Wheel spider is a huntsman spider that is native to the Namib desert of South Africa. The spider is nocturnal spending its day hidden under the rocks or inside its sand burrow. The wheel spider, when threatened adopts a strange defense mechanism known as flic-flacking. Flic-flacking is essentially flipping on the side and cartwheeling away from its predators. The Golden Wheel spider can cartwheel at speeds up to 44 turns/sec.(source 1,2)
22 For ten centuries, the feet of Chinese women were tightly bound from the young age as part of their traditional custom, causing the breaking and bending of the bones of the toes. This resulted in misshapen feet that resembled the hooves of the animals.
The foot would be bound between the age of four-six, the traditional custom would be accompanied by several other rituals meant to ward off the bad luck. The procedure required bending of the toes until it broke and pressing it into the sole of the foot. The arch of the foot would be broken next. A long, ribbon would be tightly wound around the feet all the way up to ankles. This process would be repeated many times over a period of two to three years. Then the girls feet would be permanently bound for the rest of her life. This would result in a misshapen foot that was almost like hooves. The peculiar gait strengthened the muscles of the thighs, hips and buttocks of the Chinese women, which was considered to be an attractive attribute to the Chinese men of that era.(source)
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