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BABY JUMPING
".......it takes place in June of each year in Castrillo de Murcia, Spain. It is a truly bizarre Spanish practice that dates all the way back to 1620, which celebrates the Christian Feast of Corpus Christi. It’s hard to explain the Baby Jumping Festival without sounding like I’m making it up, but here it goes. Grown men dress up as the Devil and jump over babies born in the last 12 months of the year, which lie on mattresses in the street. If this isn’t creepy enough the Brotherhood of Santísimo Sacramento de Minerva, the festival’s organisers, chase people around the town throughout the day… with whips.
The aim of the festival is to cleanse the babies of original sin and protect them against illness and evil spirits. It is absolutely crazy to jump over babies in such a manner, if this happened outside of the festival child welfare or social services would surely be called in."
TESTICLE FESTIVAL
"Testicles are not the nicest things at the best of times, why on earth would they need a festival. Well actually it isn’t a festival for testicles in general; it is a festival for the Rocky Mountain Oyster, better known as bull testicles or Cowboy Caviar (yes really.) And it is what you fear; the festival is for people who enjoy wrapping their mouths around bull testicles and eating them. They are quite versatile; boiled, sautéed or eaten raw I would imagine they would taste quite disgusting. But, they are usually eaten covered in breadcrumbs and deep-fried. You can cover them in whatever you like; it doesn’t disguise what they are."
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".......it takes place in June of each year in Castrillo de Murcia, Spain. It is a truly bizarre Spanish practice that dates all the way back to 1620, which celebrates the Christian Feast of Corpus Christi. It’s hard to explain the Baby Jumping Festival without sounding like I’m making it up, but here it goes. Grown men dress up as the Devil and jump over babies born in the last 12 months of the year, which lie on mattresses in the street. If this isn’t creepy enough the Brotherhood of Santísimo Sacramento de Minerva, the festival’s organisers, chase people around the town throughout the day… with whips.
The aim of the festival is to cleanse the babies of original sin and protect them against illness and evil spirits. It is absolutely crazy to jump over babies in such a manner, if this happened outside of the festival child welfare or social services would surely be called in."
TESTICLE FESTIVAL
"Testicles are not the nicest things at the best of times, why on earth would they need a festival. Well actually it isn’t a festival for testicles in general; it is a festival for the Rocky Mountain Oyster, better known as bull testicles or Cowboy Caviar (yes really.) And it is what you fear; the festival is for people who enjoy wrapping their mouths around bull testicles and eating them. They are quite versatile; boiled, sautéed or eaten raw I would imagine they would taste quite disgusting. But, they are usually eaten covered in breadcrumbs and deep-fried. You can cover them in whatever you like; it doesn’t disguise what they are."
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Jack the Ripper
The most notorious criminal of all time, Jack the Ripper’s identity still remains an unsolved mystery. A serial killer who went on a rampage in London between August and November 1888, Jack the Ripper was responsible for the brutal murders of at least five prostitutes in Whitechapel, London. This much is clear.
However, everything else – the actual identity of the perpetrator, the number of victims, and the manner of killing and enigmatic letters he sent to police – is a hazy cold case. Considering the ambiguity, there are wildly different theories in circulation, including placing the blame on the Royal family, famous author Lewis Carroll, and even a woman, Jill the Ripper. Whoever he or she may be, the legacy of Jack the Ripper, who instilled fear in an entire Empire during its most poverty-stricken era, is hard to deny.
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However, everything else – the actual identity of the perpetrator, the number of victims, and the manner of killing and enigmatic letters he sent to police – is a hazy cold case. Considering the ambiguity, there are wildly different theories in circulation, including placing the blame on the Royal family, famous author Lewis Carroll, and even a woman, Jill the Ripper. Whoever he or she may be, the legacy of Jack the Ripper, who instilled fear in an entire Empire during its most poverty-stricken era, is hard to deny.
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10 Things You Didn't Know About Death
1. When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go -- the first is usually sight, followed by taste, smell and touch
2. A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it has been decapitated
3. 100 people choke to death on pens each year. One is more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a spider
4. Alexander's funeral would have cost $600 million today. A road from Egypt to Babylon was built to carry his body
5. When inventor Thomas Edison died in 1931, his friend Henry Ford captured his last dying breath in a bottle
6. Over 2500 left-handed people are killed each year from using products made for right-handed people
7. It takes longer than ever before a body to decompose due to preservatives in the food that we eat these days
8. An eternal flame lamp at the tomb of a Buddhist priest in Nara, Japan has kept burning for 1,130 years
9. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry is the first person to have his ashes put aboard a rocket and 'buried' in space
10. Japanese factory worker Kenji Urada became the first know fatality caused by a robot in July, 1981, in a car plant.
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2. A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it has been decapitated
3. 100 people choke to death on pens each year. One is more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a spider
4. Alexander's funeral would have cost $600 million today. A road from Egypt to Babylon was built to carry his body
5. When inventor Thomas Edison died in 1931, his friend Henry Ford captured his last dying breath in a bottle
6. Over 2500 left-handed people are killed each year from using products made for right-handed people
7. It takes longer than ever before a body to decompose due to preservatives in the food that we eat these days
8. An eternal flame lamp at the tomb of a Buddhist priest in Nara, Japan has kept burning for 1,130 years
9. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry is the first person to have his ashes put aboard a rocket and 'buried' in space
10. Japanese factory worker Kenji Urada became the first know fatality caused by a robot in July, 1981, in a car plant.
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Ancient Popcorn
Scientists have discovered that people were eating popcorn 1,000 years earlier than previously thought. Scientists discovered some of the oldest known corncobs, husks, stalks and tassels (dating from 6,700 to 3,000 years ago) at Paredones and Huaca Prieta, two mound sites on Peru's arid northern coast. An ancient maize cob is pictured above. The researchers say the cobs indicate that the sites' ancient inhabitants ate corn several ways, including popcorn and flour corn.
The research was reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in a paper co-authored by Dolores Piperno, curator of New World archaeology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and emeritus staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.
Piperno says, "Corn was first domesticated in Mexico nearly 9,000 years ago from a wild grass called teosinte. Our results show that only a few thousand years later corn arrived in South America where its evolution into different varieties that are now common in the Andean region began. This evidence further indicates that in many areas corn arrived before pots did and that early experimentation with corn as a food was not dependent on the presence of pottery."
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Discount Travel
When 5-year-old May Pierstorff asked to visit her grandmother, her parents had no money to buy a rail ticket.
So they mailed her.
On Feb. 19, 1914, May’s parents presented her at the post office in Grangeville, Idaho, and proposed mailing her parcel post to Lewiston, some 75 miles away. The postmaster found that the “package” was just under the 50-pound weight limit, so he winked at their plan, classed May as a baby chick, and attached 53 cents in stamps to her coat. May passed the entire trip in the train’s mail compartment–and was duly delivered to her grandparents in Lewiston by mail clerk Leonard Mochel."
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Uncontacted tribe in Peru
Here is a link to an article with a few photos of an uncontacted tribe which lives along the Amazon river. The tribe is hostile to intuders and recently fired poisoned arrows at a tribesmen from a near by tribe warning him away. The photos were taken with a telescope and lens.
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I find this amazing in the world today there are still peoples who have not yet been discovered.
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I find this amazing in the world today there are still peoples who have not yet been discovered.
