Now that the boring introduction's out of the way, on to the fun part:

The Cursed Car

In September 1955, a man named James Dean was killed by a car accident while he was driving his Porsche. Afterward, the car had some very unlucky occurrences surrounding it.

First, when the car was towed away from the accident, the engine slipped out and fell on one of the mechanics, which unfortunately shattered both of his legs.

If that wasn't bad enough, the engine was bought by a doctor, who decided to put it into a racing car that he owned. He was later killed in a race in which he had been using the car with the cursed engine.

Then, when the Porsche was repaired, the garage that it was repaired in was burned down in a fire.
The car was later put on display in Sacramento, California, but it fell off of it's mount and ended up breaking a teenager's hip.

Later, in Oregon, the trailer that the car was mounted on slipped from it's towbar and smashed right through the front of a shop.

4 years later, in 1959, the car somehow broke into 11 pieces. (and while it was on steel supports!)

The Legend of King Umberto

Monza, Italy.

One day, King Umberto I went to dinner at a small restaurant. When the owner took his order, he noticed that the two of them looked identical. They talked to each other and found even more similarities.

• Both were born on the same day, in the same year. (March 14th, 1844)
• Both had been born in the same town.
• Both married a woman named Margherita.
• The owner of the restaurant started business on the same day that Umberto was crowned King of Italy.

On July 29th, 1900, King Umberto was told that the restaurant owner had died that day in a mysterious shooting accident. As Umberto was feeling regretful for him, a wild-looking man suddenly pushed through a crowd and assassinated Umberto.

A Friendly Game of Poker

In 1858, Robert Fallon was shot and died while playing poker. He had apparently been killed as an act of revenge by the people playing with him. They claimed he had won the $600 (worth a lot back then) pot through cheating. With his seat now empty and none of the other players wanting to take the now unlucky $600, they found someone new to take his place, and staked him with the $600.

Later, when police arrived to investigate the killing, the new player had already turned the $600 into $2200 in winnings. The police demanded that he give the original $600 to Fallon's next of kin - and discovered that the new player was Fallon's son, who hadn't seen his father for seven years!

The Mystery Monk

In Austria during the 19th century, a near-famous painter named Joseph Aigner attempted to commit suicide several times.

1. First attempt - Aigner tried to hang himself at the age of 18, but was interrupted by a mysterious monk.
2. Second attempt - At age 22, he tried again to hang himself, but was interrupted by the same monk.
3. Eight years later, he was sentenced to death, but was saved by yet again the same monk.

 At age 68, he was finally successful in committing suicide. His funeral ceremony was conducted by, amazingly, the same monk.

The Occurrence of Greenberry Hill

November 26, 1911:

Three men were hanged at Greenberry Hill in London after being convicted of murdering Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey. The names of the killers were Robert GREEN, Henry BERRY, and Lawrence HILL.

A Few Neuro-Architecture Facts on the Human Brain

The central organ of the human body, brain, is anatomically divided into three parts called the forebrain, midbrain and the hindbrain. Here are a few interesting facts on the size and dimensions of the brain.

At the time of birth, the size of the brain is approximately 400gms and later as one becomes an adult, the size increases to approximately 1400gms. Another interesting fact is the height of an adult brain is 3.6 inches and the length is 6.3 inches. The width is 5.5 inches.

The cerebral cortex of the brain consisting of a frontal lobe, temporal lobe, occipital lobe and the parietal lobe occupies 85% of the human brain. The composition of the brain is 10-12% lipids, 8% protein, 77% water, 1% carbs, 2% soluble organics and 1% inorganic salt.

Half of the neurons in the brain reside in the cerebellum. But cerebellum occupies only 10% of the human brain.

Did you know that number of neurons in the human brain is equivalent to the total number of stars in our galaxy? That is 100 billion. There are 186 million more neurons in the left hemisphere of the brain than the right hemisphere.

Are you aware of the fact, approximately 1000ml of blood flows through the human brain every sixty seconds? In a minute the human brain absorbs 46 cubic centimeter of oxygen from the blood. Only 6% of the oxygen is used by the white matter of the brain while the gray matter absorbs 94%.

A Few Interesting Facts on the Human Brain

Did you know a human brain could survive up to 15 minutes without oxygen?
The weight of the brain is just 2% of an individuals total body weight. However, it consumes 20% of total energy. It is believed this energy is more than enough to light a 25 watt bulb.

Can you imagine human brain processes 70,000 thoughts on an average in a day?

The weight of Albert Einstein's brain was 1,230 grams that is less than an average weight of the human brain.

The rate of growth of neuron during pregnancy is 250,000 neurons in a minute.

These are a few of the interesting facts on the human brain. You should also know lavender would help to reduce insomnia and jasmine oil has the ability to restore mental alertness.

You can tell the difference between a crocodile and an alligator by looking at their noses. Crocodile has a skinner nose. The most dangerous crocodiles are the Nile and Australian crocodiles.They eat fish, turtles, and water birds, but usually anything they can catch. Nests are built on the water's edge and are really just shallow holes.

There are about twenty to ninety eggs in a nest, but most never hatch due to predators who eat the eggs. The first crocodiles appeared 240 million years ago. They live in wet habitats such as swamps, ponds, rivers, lakes and marshes. Crocodiles can grow up to 7 m or 23 ft in length, and weighs up to 1000 kg or 2200 lb. 

Each crocodile jaw has 24 sharp teeth, used for grasping and crushing, but not chewing. They do have a strong jaw when they close but they can't open it if your holding on to its jaw. Crocodiles do not shed their skin.

He was born to two parents who loved him.  He was wanted, loved and cherished.  How did this great start in life turn into the beginning of a story of one of America's most notorious serial killers?  Was Jeffrey Dahmer a "born killer" or did he become conditioned to become so awful?  The famous "nature vs. nurture" debate rages on.  The truth nearly always is some mixture of both -- he was genetically predisposed to violence and the life he lead triggered these predispositions.  It's difficult to understand that serial killers are often more like us than not like us.  They blend into crowds and disappear looking like any other ordinary person.  In fact, Jeffrey Dahmer himself was once quoted as saying:  "When I was a little kid, I was just like anybody else."  I don't know about you but that scares the crap out of me.  Here's ten weird facts about Jeffrey Dahmer's childhood.

Jeffrey Dahmer's mother, Joyce, had a difficult time carrying him.

It's been said that Joyce had a very difficult pregnancy and relied on many different medications to help with nausea and assorted pregnancy woes.  It's also been said that "every little thing seemed to annoy her" after the birth of Jeffrey.  Perhaps she was suffering from post partum depression which can lead, in some instances, to a difficulty bonding to the baby.  Difficult pregnancies and childbirths have also been associated with a difficult bonding process between new mothers and babies.  Although it has also been reported that Joyce made an extensive scrapbook for her precious son Jeffrey including his first words, the first time he walked, many photos and even a description of his first scolding.

Jeffrey Dahmer was an animal lover.

He's seen here with a photo of his dog.  There have been many rumours that Dahmer tortured and killed animals.  However, these rumours are untrue.  He spoke of an incident of his friend trying to run dogs down in the road while they were driving to school and how disgusted he was by that.  He seemed to genuinely feel badly about the animal's deaths.

He may not have tortured and killed animals but he did like to examine their dead bodies.

He had a fascination with dead animal bones and dead animals.  He stated once that he liked the sound of the bones clicking together in a bucket.  He liked to dissect dead animals and bleach their bones.  There is no evidence that he actually killed the animals that he sickeningly "played" with.  Once upon finding a dead dog, he impaled it's head upon a stick.  This fascination seems to have started with his father finding a dead animal under the family home's porch.  This fascination with death and remains appears to have stayed with him until his death.

He underwent a double hernia surgery at the age of four.

He was not told, or perhaps didn't understand, the details of the surgery.  This event seemed to turn a happy, normal child into someone who is confused and withdrawn.  He didn't realize the reason for the surgery and was shocked when doctors and nurses were touching him and examining him without explanation.  One source even states that Dahmer asked his mother if his genitals had been removed because he was in so much pain.  This would be horribly traumatizing and confusing for a boy at such a young age.

His parents fought openly and constantly in front of him before their divorce.

It seems that the Dahmer's marriage was strained from the very beginning.  After Dahmer's birth, their arguing began effecting someone besides themselves.  Dahmer has been quoted as saying:  "I decided I wasn't ever going to get married because I never wanted to go through anything like that."  Research has shown that marital squabbles in front of children can deeply scar them and effectively, change who they become.

It has been reported that he was sexually molested at the age of 8.

The validity of these reports remains unproven although molestation would fit the profile of the childhood of a serial killer.  These reports involve an older neighbour molesting Dahmer and having the assault go unreported.  I doubt we'll ever know whether this attack actually occurred or is one of the many rumors of Jeffrey Dahmer's life.

Dahmer was extremely shy and introverted through his childhood and teenage years.

He went from being a shy little boy to being an extremely introverted teenager who had difficulty connecting with the world around him.  He was widely praised by adults for being very obedient when in reality he just didn't care what was happening.  He withdrew into his fantasies and spent a lot of time collecting, dissecting and examining road kill.

Dahmer rarely smiled.

His father said that Dahmer rarely smiled.  This can be readily seen in his high school graduation photo shown below. Some sources said that his double hernia surgery at the age of four confused Dahmer so much that he became quite sullen.  His smiles were extremely infrequent and rarely evident in pictures.  This is his high school graduation photo.

Here's one of the infamous photos of Dahmer during his court case.  He looks quite ordinary, even mildly handsome but the mouth looks extremely flat.  As if it has never smiled at all.

When his parent's marriage finally deteriorated to the point of separation, Dahmer was left to fend for himself.

In his senior year, Dahmer's parents split up.  His father left alone and his mother left with his younger brother Daniel.  Dahmer seized this opportunity of living alone to commit his first murder just a few days after his high school graduation.  By this time Dahmer was a very heavy drinker.  He picked up a nineteen year old hitch hiker named Steven Hicks and invited him back home for a few drinks.  The two drank and had sex.  When Hicks went to leave, Dahmer killed him and cut him up into several pieces.  He bagged the pieces and buried them in several areas in the woods behind his home.  This murder seemed to shock him and he tried to "clean up his act" for the next several years.

Dahmer joined the Army at the insistance of his father who wanted him to get a job or enlist.

Dahmer tried college for two terms and then dropped out.  His father then forced Dahmer to enlist in the army hoping that it would clean him up.  Dahmer enlisted for six years but was discharged after two for his heavy drinking.  It was later investigated whether Dahmer was connected to a series of killings in Germany during his service there.  There was no official link between Dahmer and the killings but suspicions remain.

In one of Dahmer's quotes he says exactly what I've been thinking, "It's hard for me to believe that a human being could have done what I've done, but I know that I did it."  Perhaps by profiling commonalities in serial killer's childhoods and lives, we can pinpoint what to watch out for and more importantly, what to avoid when dealing with children.  If Jeffrey Dahmer had been stopped after his first murder, sixteen lives would have been saved.  Maybe Dahmer's life itself would have been saved too.

Most people won't be surprised by this, but that's why its number ten

Everyone Dreams

Yea, I know what you're saying,  "I swear, I have never had a dream in my life!", but the fact is EVERYONE dreams.  Some people just have a harder time remembering dreams.

You Dream About 6 Dreams a Night

Yup, six.  Most likely you are not even going to remember one of those dreams, so it really doesn't matter.

Blind People Dream, Too

I know, i was like "WOAH!" when i first saw this, but the scientists say that blind people dream, only they don't see anything, they just smell/feel/hear stuff in a dream.

Kids Have Nightmares More than Adults

You know how your always wondering why your kid is such a sissy and scared of everything?  Well this is the answer.

Not Dreaming Can Mess Up Your Brain

There are some facts being thrown around, which I always believe, that not dreaming one night is the equivalent to getting drunk.  So I'm thinking that we hide this from the government before they start making "Dream before you drive" posters...Yikes.

You Can't Snore and Dream at the Same Time

Don't worry, next time your husband is snoring, you can rest assure that hes not dreaming about doing your best friend.  So sleep tight!

Animals Dream Too

Next time your see your cat sleeping, she could be dreaming about doing your best friend!

Your Body is Paralyzed While You are Dreaming

So, next time your are dreaming your best friend could be doing you, and you couldn't even feel it!  Ok, enough  with the doing your best friend jokes.

You Can do Anything in Your Dreams

Ok i lied, you can only do anything in lucid dreams.  Lucid dreams are dreams that you know you are dreaming in.  You can take control of whatever you want in that dream.  You want to jump off a 40 story building and still survive?  You can do it.  You want to shrink do you can go inside someones body?  You got it.  You want to dream about doing your wifes best friend? You got it.  Dammit, I did it again.

Well there you go, the top 10 facts about dreams.  I just have one more thing to say, please, PLEASE, don't look these facts up.

Just kidding.

Thanks for your time, wait for more posts soon! Turtles!

1931: Norman Charles Parker opens his first NCP car park in London.

1912: Albert Sidney Donald Andrews opens first ASDA shop in Pickering North Yorkshire.

1939: Walt Disney sells Bugs Bunny idea to Warner Brothers for $1.5 m

1896: Dilithium discovered by John Dalton at Manchester University.

1983: Jimmy Saville signs deal with Duerrs to produce “Jim’s Jams”

2003: With his latest purchase, Bill Gates becomes the worlds largest private landowner with 83.526 Km2. Larger than Ireland.

1953: In protest against the Korean war, 3 states (North & South Dakota and Utah) resign from United States of America. However, after 2 days they return.

1981: Pope John Paul II accidentally swallows Cats Eye when he bends to kiss tarmac at Heathrow

1979: Linda Baron & Pauline Quirke open their first DIY superstore, B&Q.

1862: Brunell starts work on the Irish Sea tunnel. It stops exactly 1 year later as Brunell's only engineering failure.

1966: John Lennon pens "Puppet on a string" leading to a Eurovision win by Petula Clarke.

1974: Michael Lee Aday  becomes “Meat Loaf” after he discovers the name “Steak Pudding” is already taken

1949: The first National Insurance Number AA000000A is issued to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.

2005: The Hexagon in Shengyang, China, replaces the Pentagon as the world’s largest office complex.

2004: The most recognisable words on earth "Coca Cola" is replaced by the word "Nokia".

1951; The worlds first telephone call centre is opened by  the Phillips company in Eindhoven, Holland.

1985: “Eastenders” commissioned after BBC bosses realize “West Side Story” already been done

1997: “Beadles About USA” almost ends after first show after a disgruntled victim shoots at Jeremy in a New York street

2005: Microsoft threaten legal action against small electrical retailer “Micros of Telford” for use of their name

Science Fact: By 2062 the weight of carbon emissions will outweigh Planet Earth resulting in the formation of a twin planet

1994: The real Gladys Allthorpe tries to sue Boddingtons for defamation of character in the “she never buys her own” advert.

1987: Grange Hill spin off “Roland and the Nolans in the Forest of Bowland” is scrapped after “irreconcilable rift” between actor Erkan Mustafa and Colleen Nolan

More Science Facts: If every ship in the world were to meet at the equator, the magnetic effect would cause the Earth’s orbit to change by 6 degrees. Thus making any form of life impossible.

1993: Comedy actor Jackie Wright sues the estate of the late Benny Hill claiming the constant slaps on the head made him deaf

1815: After much controversy the letter 'G' is accepted into the German alphabet. Enabling the former Hanseatic Republic to have the name Germany

1936: John Eccles of Barnsley, South Yorks, produces the first Eccles Cakes for his colleagues at Goldthorpe colliery.

1978: Golden Wonder produce first packet of "Ringo" crisps to commemorate the biopic film about Ringo Starr. They temporarily stop production in the 1980s when Ringo sells out and voices "Thomas The Tank Engine".

2004: David Dickinson wins the “Sunkist Orange” Tan of the Year Award.

1803: Grocer’s son Charles Babbage refuses to take over “Babbage’s Cabbages” choosing to devote his time to building the world’s first computer instead.

1996: Peter and Eliza Court name their first child Nelson Mandela, not in honour of the great leader but in honour of their favourite TV programme, “Only Fools And Horses”

1986: Bob Carolgees’ Tour of the far-east is cut short as he is imprisoned in Singapore where his act is found " Offensive to public morals"

78% of Americans believe Liverpool’s Albert Dock is a real person. President Bush himself once asked who Earl Scourt was when he saw an ad for a concert.

Bubble wrap was invented as padding for the cages of laboratory mice during a prozac drugs trial in the 1950s

1984: Floella Benjamin suspended from “Playschool” following allegations she put Little Ted and Jemima into compromising positions during recording

1999: Al Murray “The Pub Landlord” banned from Welsh TV on Sunday afternoons due to licensing laws.

TV personality Lowry Turner’s is the grand-daughter of great British artists LS Lowry and Joseph Turner. Her mother was the Mona Lisa.

1971: Sonia Tarbuck, wife of comedian Jimmy, opens first Starbucks in Aigburth, Liverpool.

1963: Ted Hughes opens a bookshop in Notting Hill. He later starts selling discounted goods in there too, trading under his full name of T.J.Hughes.

1960: Donna Reed and Grace Kelly open rival acting agencies in Hollywood. 50 years later Reed Employment and Kelly Services continue to grow...

1873: The Minors Strike sees children across the UK lay down their chimney sweeping brushes for 48 hours.

408BC: Greek philosopher Plato invents the plate

1996: Cadbury relaunch the Curly Wurly following the departure of Curly Watts from Coronation Street. A spokesman says "Watts made the name Curly unfashionble for 16 years but at last Cadbury can reclaim the name and put things right".

1991: Simon Le Bon and Jon Bon Jovi sign sponsorship deal with Nestle Bon Bons.

1976: The Pope denounces Tammy Wynnette for promoting D.I.V.O.R.C.E.

2004: 98 year old Emily Jenkins of Swansea becomes oldest ever recipient of an ASBO for disrupting funerals at Neath cemetery

1890: The Hearts suit introduced to modern playing cards at the request of Queen Victoria. It replaces the previous suit of Pyramids.

2003: 4'10" Thomas Evans of Prestatyn takes his local newsagent to court claiming the "top shelf" magazines discriminate against little people. He loses the case.

1949: A young American actor takes his future name from his home town of East Clintwood, Alabama. Incidentally, Clint Eastwood's name is also an anagram of "Old West Action".

1991: Royal Shakespeare Company change play to "Taming of the Shrow" in protest about the BBC's constant mispronunciation of Shrew-sbury as Shrow-sbury.

1992: Ted Rogers of “3-2-1” tries to sue Yorkshire TV for aggravating the arthritis in his left hand. He fails and is declared bankrupt.

1. The estimated total weight or mass of the Earth is  6,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (6E+24) kilograms!!!!!.
2. The average person walks about a total of 100,000 km in their lifetime. To put this into perspective, that is over  328 MILLION STEPS!
3. The most popular food in the world is NOT PIZZA! It is actually rice! In fact, over 600 MILLION TONS of rice are consumed per year!
4. The estimated total amount of all the money in the U.S. is around $6 TRILLION!!!!!!!!!
5. OVER 60 MILLION atoms can fit on the head of a pin!

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