TurnToIslam If you want to know@tti/2nd Edition.

[Abu Juwairiya]

There was a real, radium based, alcoholic drink known as the “Atomic Cocktail” that was served in missile shaped bottles.

They had adverse effects after prolonged exposure, but could cure minor fevers, headaches, and depression.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

The Killer Whale is a natural predator of the Moose.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

There is an autoimmune disease which mimics the symptoms of demonic possession, and it has only been identified in the last 10 years.

It affects mostly young women and can come on with no pre warnings whatsoever.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

An individual horse has a peak power output of 14.9 horsepower.

A healthy human can produce about 1.2 hp briefly and sustain about 0.1 hp indefinitely; trained athletes can manage up to about 2.5 hp briefly and 0.3 hp for a period of several hours.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

The brothers who gave the world the term “Siamese twins” were born in 1811 in a village near Bangkok.

The twins Eng and Chang were joined at the chest and left Thailand for the U.S when they were 17 years old.

Each brother married, and between them they had 22 children.

In 1873, Eng caught pneumonia and died. Chang died a few hours later.

Personal Comment: What is further interesting is that the two brothers sometimes couldn't stand one another and would stop talking to another for hours at a time. The brothers argued so much sometimes that doctors were called to undertake operations several times to separate them, but it was never carried out in the end.

Their spouses were two American sisters who agreed to a strange marital understanding; the brothers would spend four days in the home of one of the wives and the next four in the other wife's home.

Eng, the twin that died first, was found to be not breathing when Chang woke up one morning. He cried saying this meant he would also die soon. Two hours later, the other twin died as well.

 

[P-Thulhu]

The brothers who gave the world the term “Siamese twins” were born in 1811 in a village near Bangkok.

The twins Eng and Chang were joined at the chest and left Thailand for the U.S when they were 17 years old.

Each brother married, and between them they had 22 children.

In 1873, Eng caught pneumonia and died. Chang died a few hours later.

Personal Comment: What is further interesting is that the two brothers sometimes couldn't stand one another and would stop talking to another for hours at a time. The brothers argued so much sometimes that doctors were called to undertake operations several times to separate them, but it was never carried out in the end.

Their spouses were two American sisters who agreed to a strange marital understanding; the brothers would spend four days in the home of one of the wives and the next four in the other wife's home.

Eng, the twin that died first, was found to be not breathing when Chang woke up one morning. He cried saying this meant he would also die soon. Two hours later, the other twin died as well.

From memory, having read an article about said brothers, I believe an autopsy found a major artery was shared between the two because of the co-joining. No medical procedure of the day would have been able to separate them successfully.

 

[queenislam]

From memory, having read an article about said brothers, I believe an autopsy found a major artery was shared between the two because of the co-joining. No medical procedure of the day would have been able to separate them successfully.

thanks for sharing info here brother

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

From memory, having read an article about said brothers, I believe an autopsy found a major artery was shared between the two because of the co-joining. No medical procedure of the day would have been able to separate them successfully.

If what you say is true, it is a fact that was a little late for the brothers and their families.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

Grigori Perelman, a Russian mathematician, successfully proved the Poincaré conjecture (one of the seven Millennium problems) in papers made available in 2002 and 2003. When his work survived review, he was offered a Fields Medal and the $1,000,000 Millennium Prize, both of which he turned down.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

The skin of all human beings is covered in stripes. They’re called Blaschko’s Lines, and they cover the body from head to toe. We just can’t see them.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

The quality of US teachers was so poor in 2001 that the average teacher only scored better than 42% of students. By 2008, it was only up to 50%. This was done by requiring qualifications such as actually having degrees in whatever they are teaching.

 

[P-Thulhu]

If what you say is true, it is a fact that was a little late for the brothers and their families.

Well.. (Again, from a fading memory) I do believe they were the 'talk' of the medical world of the day and such a complication was posited by the Physician's of the time.

It was the autopsy which confirmed their suspicions.

Of course, now a days, with modern equipment (Ultrasounds, X-rays etc) Doctors etc can get a much better 'look' at what's happening inside people and hence do all sorts of amazing medical procedures.

I believe there were twin girls co-joined at their skulls (Unlike Eng and Chang who were only joined at their chest) who have been successfully separated.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

Well.. (Again, from a fading memory) I do believe they were the 'talk' of the medical world of the day and such a complication was posited by the Physician's of the time.

It was the autopsy which confirmed their suspicions.

Of course, now a days, with modern equipment (Ultrasounds, X-rays etc) Doctors etc can get a much better 'look' at what's happening inside people and hence do all sorts of amazing medical procedures.

I believe there were twin girls co-joined at their skulls (Unlike Eng and Chang who were only joined at their chest) who have been successfully separated.

From the biographies that I have read, they were not aware of such procedures and the physicians they consulted either did not know about it or didn't tell them. What was said to them is that such operations were not risk free and the dangers could result in the death of one or both or other health complications. The brothers agreed, despite misgivings, but for one reason or another backed out on a number of occasions. Like you said, their case was known due to their fame and more than once doctors from different parts of the world came to see them personally as well.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

There are over 100 million people in the world today who have Irish ancestry, which is more than fifteen times the population of 6.4 million on the entire island of Ireland.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

In February 1992, Israeli air force reserve major Ishmael Yitzhaki was convicted of stealing a WWII Mustang fighter plane and flying it to Sweden, where he sold it for $331,000.

How did he manage it?

He removed the plane from the air force museum by saying it needed painting.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

The fastest manned and highest flying aircraft is the North American X-15. It was launched from under the wing of a B-52 and boasts a world speed record 4,520 mph.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

The word alcohol is derived from the Arabic word al-kuhl, meaning “finely divided” which is a reference to distillation. It was introduced into the English language around 1543.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

During Prohibition in the USA, temperance activists hired a scholar to delete all references to alcohol beverages from the Bible.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

The Hawaiian Alphabet only contains 12 letters: a, e, i, o, u, h, k, l, m, n, p, and w. Every word ends with a vowel. Where most languages have a larger syllable repertoire, there are only 162 possible syllables in Hawaiian.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

Early Antarctic explorers actually thought penguins were fish and classified them as such.