Here Are some Useless facts

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The term rule of thumb comes from the old English law that men couldn't beat their wives with anything wider than their thumb.

Less than one percent of people who entered Germany's Auschwitz concentration camp survived, after being liberated by the Russians in 1945.

American poet Edgar Allan Poe was once thrown out of West Point Academy in 1831 after showing up for inspection stark naked.

A monkey's skull wrapped in leather and paper was used as a soccer ball in the very first World's Cup Soccer Championships in Uruguay.

Ants never sleep in their wholelife.

A reward of $1,000 was offered for information leading to the capture and conviction of a man robbing taxi drivers. The man turned himself in and demanded the reward as a result. He received a 20 year sentence for aggravated robbery instead.

The "pound" key on your keyboard (#) is called an octotroph.

Elvis Presley's hip-wiggling started out as a stage fright. He was so nervous, that his legs would shake.

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

A man was arrested and charged with the robbery—of vending machines. The man posted bail, entirely in quarters.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

Tommy Lee Jones and Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.

Abdul Kassam Ismael, Grand Vizier of Persia in the tenth century, carried his library with him wherever he went. Four hundred camels carried the 117,000 volumes.

Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula"

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.

Experts at Intel say that microprocessor speed will double every 18 months for at least 10 years.

Hitler and Napoleon both had only one testicle.

Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.

In 1386, a pig was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.

Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."

Vile Ritual in Thailand of Roasting Fetuses

An unspeakably vile discovery has been made at a Thailand airport in the luggage of a British citizen. Twenty-eight-year-old Chow Hok Kuen was arrested last week when security made a disgusting discovery in his bags. Authorities found items, to be used in black magic rituals were discovered ... roasted, gold-plated human fetuses.

In less extreme forms of the ritual, effigies are made, traditionally from wood, but often featuring gold, which are then kept and treated well with regular worship, in order to bring good luck to the owner.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - The fetuses were between two and seven months old. All of them had been roasted, some of them covered in gold leaf.

Thai police received a tip that a black magic services Web site was offering fetuses for sale. Roasting fetuses and covering them in gold is part of a black magic ritual called Kuman thong, which means "golden child" in Thai. According to the International Business Times, the preserved bodies are thought to bring good fortune to the owner.

Authorities believe that Chow was planning to smuggle the fetuses to his native Taiwan, where one corpse could sell for up to $200,000 Thai baht, or $6,376 in American dollars.

Chow faces up to a year in prison on charges of hiding and covering dead bodies. Investigators say it's unclear where the fetuses came from, though forensic tests are currently being conducted on the bodies.

In less extreme forms of the ritual, effigies are made, traditionally from wood, but often featuring gold, which are then kept and treated well with regular worship, in order to bring good luck to the owner.

Smaller charms can also be made that are worn around the neck as a good luck charm.
However, there is a dark and extreme side to the belief system, in which worshippers delve into the world of the occult.

The original, ancient form of the Kuman Thong would require a dead fetus, often surgically removed from the mother's womb. The fetus would then be taken to a cemetery, where a series of incantations were recited as the fetus was roasted.

Illegal practitioners have been known to coat their effigies in the fat of human babies to consecrate them.

The earliest mention of the belief in Kuman Thong can be found in the 18th century Thai fairytale of Khun Chang Khun Phaen, where the character of Khun Phaen acquires a powerful spirit by removing the fetus of his stillborn son from his wife.

 

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Zombie man Stabs himself 50 times

A man remains in critical condition in hospital after stabbing himself repeatedly in front of police and then throwing his intestines at them.

Wayne Carter, 43, called police in Hackensack, New Jersey at 10 p.m. on Sunday to say he had a knife and was threatening to hurt himself.

Officers swooped on his Clay Street home and kicked in the door to his room, which he had blocked with furniture, Lt. John Heinemann said

Carter was cowering in the corner of the room holding a 12-inch knife.

When he stood up, he shouted at the officers and frantically stabbed himself all over his body, leaving more then 50 stab wounds.

Officers saw that his intestines were sticking out from a wound in his abdomen, Heinemann said.

When they tried to approach him, the man allegedly threw some of his skin and intestines at officers, Heinemann added.

He refused to drop the kitchen knife and allegedly began swinging it at officers.

Attack: SWAT teams swooped on the scene after the man brandished a 12-inch kitchen knife at police officers. They subdued him with beanbag projectiles

'They tried to talk him down, but they were having no luck. He was slashing at them with the knife,' Lt. Timothy Lloyd told Cliffview Pilot.

Officers sprayed two cans of pepper spray at the man but it had no effect.

They left the room and called the Bergen County SWAT Team, who arrived at 11.40 p.m. and helped subdue Carter with beanbag projectiles.

'The scene was a bloody mess,' a police official said. 'The SWAT team had to be decontaminated due to the amount of blood.'

The man had to be wrapped up to protect his wounds and he was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center.

Injuries: He remains critical at Hackensack University Medical Center

He underwent emergency surgery and remains in critical condition.

The Cliffview Pilot reported that he punctured his small intestine and sliced through a major stomach artery.

Police said the man has a history of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest and has previously been taken to the hospital for psychiatric reasons.

Records show he spent nearly a month in the county jail last year after he resisted arrest and made terroristic threats, the Pilot reported.

Authorities are now awaiting the results of blood tests to determine whether he had any drugs in his system at the time of the incident


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