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

[queenislam]

People see me as Andre first. Then they see me as someone who happens to be a Muslim.
Andre Carson

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

In 2009 burglars broke into Dolph Lundgren‘s house and had restrained his wife. They then fled when they saw a family photo and realized whose house they were in.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

The world’s only diamond mine open to the public is in Murfreesboro, Arkansas (USA). Visitors can keep whatever gems they find, and over 31,000 diamonds have been found since it became a state park in 1972.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

In 1994 a 75-pound bag of cocaine fell out of a plane and landed in the middle of a Florida crime watch meeting (USA).

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

There is a theory known as “Quantum Immortality”, in which the mind will always transport itself to alternate realities where it survives otherwise fatal events.

 

[queenislam]

I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music.

Brian Eno

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

A growing number of wealthy women in the USA are getting cosmetic surgery know as Blowtox – Botox injections in the scalp. This stops nerves from activating sweat glands so they can emerge from the gym with their hair still looking blow-dried.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

The first stealth technology test failed. They couldn’t understand why until they noticed a bird sitting on the test object. They blew a loud horn, the bird flew off, and the test object disappeared from the radar screen showing stealth technology was a success.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

Coloring books for grown-ups in the USA are a huge trend and publishers struggle to keep up with demand. The books have successfully been used to reduce stress, relieve anxiety and as rehabilitation aids for patients recovering from strokes.

 

[queenislam]

I'm a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me.
~Mike Tyson

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

A bank in the USA that lost 66 employees in the 9/11 attacks has sent 54 children of their fallen colleagues to college.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

A guide dog calmly led 30 people down 1,463 steps out of the World Trade Center on 9/11 despite the confusion, smoke, and noise around them. Once safe, the dog then helped a woman who was blinded by the debris.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

If a billiard ball was the size of Earth it would have bigger canyons then the Grand Canyon and taller mountains then Mt. Everest. Conversely, if Earth was the size of a billiard ball its surface would be smoother then a billiard ball.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

A blind man was kicked off a US Airways flight after his service dog repositioned itself several times during a 2 hour delay. The passengers demanded that he be let back on and the flight attendant responsible be kick off instead. The flight was eventually cancelled.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

A televangelist called Oral Roberts once told his viewers that if he didn’t receive 8 million dollars in 3 months God would kill him, and he received over 9 million dollars in that period of time.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

In May 1997, an IBM supercomputer known as Deep Blue beat then chess world champion Garry Kasparov, who had once bragged he would never lose to a machine. After 15 years, it was discovered that the critical move made by Deep Blue was due to a bug in its software.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

Did you know there was actually a ‘Face-book’ in 1902? This newspaper article was originally published in a U.K. newspaper called the Western Times, describing a book in which ‘everyone who comes to stay has to draw a face in… however badly, and sign his name underneath’

Western Times – Wednesday 30 April 1902

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

Louis Le Prince, who filmed the first ever motion pictures, disappeared without a trace in 1890. Thomas Edison soon took credit as the first and sole inventor of cinema, and even took Le Prince’s son to court to dispute it. Few years later, the son also died under mysterious circumstances.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

The world’s oldest social housing complex, “Fuggerei”, which is still inhabited today, has not raised its rent of 0.88 Euros since 1523.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

Some astronauts experience a profound shift in life perspective after seeing Earth from space.