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25/04/2022

Meet Lil Miquela, The Robot That Is Almost Human

Miquela Sousa, widely known as Lil Miquela, is a 19-year-old worldwide pop star who was named one of TIME Magazine's "25 Most Influential People on the Internet" – and she's not human. She's a robot.

Miquela is a singer, change agent, and fashion visionary who originated as a laboratory product of the renowned firm, Cain Intelligence. Her new bosses (and robo-family), Los Angeles-based software business Brud, thought she deserved a better existence and reprogrammed her to have human-level consciousness.

Her style has also piqued the interest of the fashion industry, prompting her to walk the red carpet at the CFDA Awards and model for Prada. Aside from contributing hundreds of thousands of dollars to after-school programs, our robot lady has worked many late nights at the studio—and they've paid off.

Miquela has topped Spotify charts with indie-pop tunes that have received millions of streams since she began pouring her one-in-a-billion experience into music.

Also, Miquela has ganered massive social media followers since she came into spotlight. She currently has 3 million instagram followers.

24/04/2022

All of the teeth a person will ever have are present at birth, higher up in the skull structure. First, a set of 20 baby teeth erupts and falls out. Then 32 permanent teeth grow in.

All people are born with both full sets of teeth in their jaw.

24/04/2022

Meet Shirō Ishii - a serious piece of sh%t
This guy was a Doctor and microbiologist- and a rather smart one at that. He was regarded as a brilliant person for nearly his entire life. He was well educated and joined the army as a doctor. While there he caught the eyes of his superiors and was sent for further education at Kyoto Imperial University.

During WW2 he was placed in charge of Unit 731 and this is what he was known for.

What was unit 731? Well, they were a scientific unit that conducted experiments and thought up new ways to win the war. Some examples of things they did include

Imprisoning women, ra**ng them until they got pregnant, and then running horrid painful experiments on them just so they could see how certain poisons affected pregnant women.
They would infect people with syphilis and then cut them open (while alive and awake) so they could see what their bodies did as the infection progressed. Women, men, and even children were forcibly infected
This is called vivisection- its the practice of cutting someone open while alive to see what their body is doing and its typically done when experimenting on animals. In unit 731 they did it to people without anesthesia- always resulting in a slow agonizing death for the person.
Injected people with animal blood to see what happens (bad way to die)
Placed people in centrifuges and spun it until they died
Deprived prisoners of food and water to see how long it was until they died
Placed people in low-pressure chambers until their eyes popped out
Burned people alive to see how long they would live
Injected people with saltwater to see what would happen
Poisoned people to see the effects
Gave people radiation poisoning to see the effects
Leave 3-day old babies in the cold just to see how long it took them to freeze to death
Tested flamethrowers on live people
Tested grenades on live people
Removed organs for fun. For instance, they would remove someone's stomach and attach their esophagus to their intestines directly.
Tested hundreds of diseases and biological weapons on people
In all, around 10,000 prisoners were killed by Unit 731 and as many as 20,000 were tested on. The biological weapons produced by this unit were used to kill as many as 500,000 civilians

On a side note not even the N***s used chemical weapons in WW2 (they only did in concentration camps). The ONLY nation to employ chemical weapons against civilian and military targets in WW2 was Japan.

You may wonder what happened to Shirō. I mean we caught him and put him on trial for war crimes right?

Nope

He was given full immunity in exchange for full disclosure of his tests. American microbiologists stated that Shirō’s findings were extremely valuable and impossible to replicate unless the experiments were done again.

Shirō lived out the remainder of his life a free man and died in 1959.

23/04/2022

In Sweden, it is legal to be a pr******te, but it is illegal to be a customer of a pr******te.

21/04/2022

She is the first and only person in the world who suffers from this disease

A woman from Thailand's Surin Province is believed to have the world's biggest hands that weigh half a stone each.

Duangjay Samaksamam suffers from Macrodystrophia Lipomastosa, a problem which causes enormous amounts of fat deposits to be distributed across her arms and hands.
She asserted that it was very difficult as she could barely lift her hands to comb or shampoo her hair.

The 59-year-old woman said that some doctors said the only solution was to cut off her hands if she wished to walk around freely but she did not want to do that.

Samaksamam, who now lives with her sister and her niece, was booked for a surgery and she said that during the surgery the doctors didn't remove any tissue, they just opened her arm to check it as they couldn't operate on it.

Plastic surgeon Dr Eiju Uchinuma said she is the first and only person in the world who suffered from Macrodystrophia Lipomatosa from shoulders to her fingers on both arms.

11/04/2022

04/04/2022

Ellen Sadler also known as the sleeping girl of turville, was the 10th child out of 12 children.

On the 29th March 1871 when Ellen was 11 years old, she retired to bed with the rest of her family. But by morning all attempt to wake her up proved futile, Ellen was pushed yet she didn't wake up.

After everyone thought that she had passed away but her pulse was still reading. The local medics couldn't explain her situation because they hadn't seen such case before. Expert from all over the country came to look at Ellen but the condition beat their understanding.

In no time, news about Ellen spread both far and wide. People began to visit her home. And they started donating money towards this cause. Some of the visitors requested permission to try their own method of waking her up. Everyone came with different types of alarms, inventories and techniques but all method failed.

And if you are wondering how the girl was still alive, after months of not eating and drinking, her mother was feeding her. Ellen's mother was feeding her with porridge, milk and wine with a small teapot. But after a year, her jaw locked. Then the mother began to feed her through a small gap from where her canine fell.

In 1880, her mother Anne died of heart attack, according to the doctors, it was caused by constant thinking of that Ellen might never wake up. But 5 months after her mother died, Ellen woke up! A girl who went to sleep at the age of 11, and woke up been 21.

At waking up, the whole town was surprised. Her siblings told her that her both parents had died. She felt like it was a dream. Even though she was 21 when she woke up, mentally she was still 11.

30/03/2022

In June 2013, 19-year-old Maureen Kelly went camping with friends in the remote wilds of the Pacific Northwest. They headed two hours into the national forest near their home in Vancouver, Washington to an area named Canyon Creek, known for its lush undergrowth, dense tree cover, and steep terrain. Then, Kelly suddenly told her friends that she needed to go on a "spiritual quest" and would be back soon. She immediately stripped naked and walked into the woods and disappeared. She's still missing till date

28/03/2022

The letter "J" was actually the last letter, added to the English alphabet.

27/03/2022

There are more phone calls placed on Mother's Day than any other day of the year. Approximately 122 million phone calls.

26/03/2022

I hereby introduce you to Demodex. It’s a kind of mite that lives in the follicles of your eyelashes and comes out at night to have s*x on your face.

Most people have it.

But aside from the gross-out factor, it doesn’t appear to be harmful, so doctors don’t bother with it except in cases of allergy or such a high density that there’s obvious symptoms such as itching or rosacea.

26/03/2022

Zana of Abkhazia

There are mamy stories of persons who lived outside civilization and how wild they acted. Among them all, the story of Zana the Apewoman stood out.

Zana was described as a six-foot, six-inches tall woman discovered in the Caucasus mountains between Georgia and Russia. In 1880 she was captured by local hunters. Zana behaved like a wild animal and as such was was kept in a cage. It is said that she dug a hole in the ground and slept in it for the first three years.

After three years she was tethered at first, but then was let loose to walk around and wonder. Like a well trained dog, she never went far from where she received food. She did not like living indoors and preferred to sleep in a hole in the ground.

Description

Zana's skin was dark and her whole body was covered with reddish-black hair.

She was very tall, broad, and had huge breasts and buttocks with very muscular arms and legs.

She never learned to speak, instead she made inarticulate sounds and mutterings. She, however, knew her name and carried out many commands.

Zana was said to be too fast she could outrun a horse, and could swim across the wild Makva River even when it rose in a violent high tide.

She was very strong and could lift incredible amounts. She preferred to walk naked even in the winter, tearing dresses that she was given into shreds.

Children

This may not sit down well with anyone, but Zana got pregnant by the men of the village.

Zana had four children who grew up to be normal speaking men and women. The oldest son was named Dzhanda, the oldest girl Kodzhanar, the second girl Gamsa and the youngest boy Khwit, she died in 1954.

26/03/2022

Your eyebrow renew themselves every 64days

22/03/2022

1. Don’t call someone more than twice continuously. If they don’t pick up your call, presume they have something important to attend to;

2. Return money that you have borrowed even before the person that borrowed you remember or ask for it. It shows your integrity and character. Same goes with umbrellas, pens and lunch boxes.

3. Never order the expensive dish on the menu when someone is giving you a lunch/dinner.

4. Don’t ask awkward questions like ‘Oh so you aren’t married yet?’ Or ‘Don’t you have kids’ or ‘Why didn’t you buy a house?’ Or why don't you buy a car? For God’s sake it isn’t your problem;

5. Always open the door for the person coming behind you. It doesn’t matter if it is a guy or a girl, senior or junior. You don’t grow small by treating someone well in public;

6. If you take a taxi with a friend and he/she pays now, try paying next time;

7. Respect different shades of opinions. Remember what's 6 to you will appear 9 to someone facing you. Besides, second opinion is good for an alternative;

8. Never interrupt people talking. Allow them to pour it out. As they say, hear them all and filter them all;

9. If you tease someone, and they don’t seem to enjoy it, stop it and never do it again. It encourages one to do more and it shows how appreciative you're;

10. Say “thank you” when someone is helping you.

11. Praise publicly. Criticize privately;

12. There’s almost never a reason to comment on someone’s weight. Just say, “You look fantastic.” If they want to talk about losing weight, they will;

13. When someone shows you a photo on their phone, don’t swipe left or right. You never know what’s next;

14. If a colleague tells you they have a doctors' appointment, don’t ask what it’s for, just say "I hope you’re okay". Don’t put them in the uncomfortable position of having to tell you their personal illness. If they want you to know, they'll do so without your inquisitiveness;

15. Treat the cleaner with the same respect as the CEO. Nobody is impressed at how rude you can treat someone below you but people will notice if you treat them with respect;

16. If a person is speaking directly to you, staring at your phone is rude;

17. Never give advice until you’re asked;

18. When meeting someone after a long time, unless they want to talk about it, don’t ask them their age and salary;

19. Mind your business unless anything involves you directly - just stay out of it;

20. Remove your sunglasses if you are talking to anyone in the street. It is a sign of respect. Moreso, eye contact is as important as your speech; and

21. Never talk about your riches in the midst of the poor. Similarly, don't talk about your children in the midst of the barren.

22.After reading a good message try to say "Thanks for the message".

APPRECIATION remains the easiest way of getting what you don't have....

✅A Little Gift From The Creator:

19/03/2022

Without your little finger you will lose 50% of your hand strength

15/03/2022

Lina Medina’s parents knew something was off about her stomach. The swelling was clearly getting worse.
The family lived in a small village in Peru, with Lina being one of nine children. Doctors ran tests and were stunned to learn she was 6 months pregnant. The case drew widespread outrage and medical curiosity. It defied physiology that someone so young was pregnant. Many people initially believed the story was fake — until multiple doctors flew in to confirm the case via testing.
In the summer of 1939, Lina gave birth at just five and a half years old, meaning she’d become pregnant at four. She delivered a healthy son, Gerardo, via C-section. She was nowhere near able to pass a child through her hips. There have been other young children who got pregnant further back in time.
Their stories are mostly grim, with either the baby dying and/or the child dying in the process (c-sections weren’t widely used until the early 20th century).
There is a rare condition called precocious puberty. Because of genetics, or dysfunction in hormonal glands, the body begins releasing estrogen (or testosterone) very early.
For those who have it, it is often a source of embarrassment and family tension.
Top doctors were assigned to Lina’s case and, during her delivery, they noted she had fully developed s*xual organs.
They also learned she’d had her first menstrual cycle at three years of age.
Her condition happens in 1 in 5,000 to 10,000 children but is more common in girls.
Boys experience comparable symptoms, developing adult features like facial hair and lower voices.
Lina is an extremely rare and well-documented case of precocious puberty.
In fact, you will see Lina’s case in many obstetrician textbooks in medical schools around the world.
Her son, Gerardo, grew up alongside his mother, not knowing she was his mother until he was 10.
Unsurprisingly, there was international pressure to find the abuser. Police and doctors interviewed Lina repeatedly in hopes of identifying him.
However, Lina could never provide any specifics: she either didn’t know who he was or she’d been coached not to say anything.
There was speculation she’d been abused at an annual festival where r**e was common but this theory was later dismissed.
Lina’s father, Tibuerelo, was initially arrested on charges of r**e. But after being held for several days, he was released as there was no evidence to tie him to the crime.
Statistically, the odds are high that her abuser was someone close to the family, if not an actual family member.
The family garnered massive amounts of unwanted attention.
It was in newspapers all over the United States in the late 1930s before fading into the backdrop of World War II.
Fortunately, Lina was able to get an education and secure a stable job as a secretary in Lima, Peru.
She had a relatively-good career, and by most accounts, a good life. She later married and had a second son when she was 40. She was able to provide him an education and better life than the one she was born into.
She is still alive today, at 88 years old. She lives in relative privacy and thankfully, wasn’t ruined by the incident.

We live in a sick world peeps.

14/03/2022

Issokay 🤣😂

13/03/2022

HISTORY OF OSHODI, LAGOS

The history of Lagos cannot be complete without making reference to the exploits of the legendary Chief Balogun Landuji Oshodi Tapa.
For those who are not in the know, Oshodi Tapa was a little boy from the North (Nupe descent) who was about to be loaded onto a Portuguese ship as another sold slave. With his parents already murdered, he escaped and sought
refuge in Oba of Lagos palace. Oba Eshinlokun (Kosoko’s father) took him in and raised him like one of his own princes under Fagbemi.
He was fairly successful in trade and was able to acquire his own slaves.

Some years later, one of the Portuguese merchants, a friend of King Eshilokun, asked the king to let two of his children accompany him to Portugal and he promised to bring them back. The King was very wary of this offer and he thought instead of risking the lives of any of his own children, he would offer two people loyal to him. Hence he chose Oshodi and Dada Antonio to go with the Portuguese merchant.

While the King thought he was protecting the interests of his own children, he was in fact denying them an opportunity that would have benefited them more in the future.

Oshodi and Dada Antonio went with the Portuguese merchant to America and they were later returned to the King after many years.

On arrival from America, Oshodi was employed by Messrs. G. L. Gaiser as a Commission Agent and Toll Collector. With the arrival of the ships of the Portuguese merchants, business flourished, and Oshodi’s commissions from sales increased and he eventually became a rich man. Oshodi never forgot the hands that fed him, so to speak; he continued to be loyal to the King and was made a chief solely responsible for looking after the King’s wives. He was the only one who could go into the Queen’s apartment to oversee repairs, if the need arose.

After the death of King Eshinlokun, Chief Oshodi remained loyal to his children. He particularly cast his lot with Idewu Ojulari who succeeded his father. After the reign of Chief Idewu Ojulari, Kosoko, a son of Oshinlokun, was said to be the rightful heir to the throne, but he was an enemy of Chief Eletu Odibo, whose duty was to install and crown any new king. It was said at the time, that young Prince Kosoko had seduced Eletu Odibo’s would-be wife. In retaliation, Eletu Odibo used his powerful position to crown Oluwole as the next King of Lagos in 1836.

Kosoko and other descendants of King Eshilokun were not satisfied with the decision

and were ready to show their resentment. They waged a war against King Oluwole and Chief Eletu Odibo. Kosoko and his warriors invaded Isale-Eko. The battle was fierce and prolonged but ended with victory on the side of the king’s army. Kosoko fled to Whydah, realizing the consequences of his action.



When King Oluwole died, Akitoye was crowned in 1841 as the next King of Lagos.

Conscious of the right of Kosoko to the throne, Akitoye justly decided to search for Kosoko his nephew, who had taken refuge in Whydah. He believed that he must enjoy his patronage while on the throne. Akitoye organized a search party under the command of bold and gallant Chief Oshodi. The rapidity with which the party achieved its success was directly related to the military might of Chief Oshodi.

Kosoko finally returned to Lagos with Chief Oshodi in a vessel belonging to a merchant called, Domingo.



Henceforth, Chief Oshodi worked to maintain peace between Kosoko and Akintoye, and eventually brought the two together on terms. The peace effort was thwarted by Chief Eletu Odibo who had employed all the persuasive words he could, to dissuade King Akitoye from bringing Kosoko back to Lagos. He believed that Lagoswould not contain the two of them. For a while, he did all he could to create conflicts between them, but later left Lagos for exile in Badagry.



When a war broke out between King Akitoye and Kosoko, Chief Oshodi loyally pitched his tent with Kosoko, the son of Eshilokun, through thick and thin. Akitoye asked Eletu Odibo to return to Lagos with his warriors to fight on his side. Akitoye’s men led by Eletu Odibo were soundly defeated. Eletu Odibo was captured in an ambush and killed.



With the death of Eletu Odibo, the elders advised Akitoye to escape to his mother’s town in Abeokuta. When Kosoko heard about the plan, he detailed his war chief, Oshodi, to lay ambush for Akitoye, kill him, and bring his head before him. Akitoye was in fact caught by Oshodi in the Agboyi waters, but instead of killing him, he paid homage to him and his Lord and prayed for his safe journey and safe return.



Chief Oshodi returned to report to Kosoko that Akitoye had escaped by the use of a powerful charm which put them all to sleep when he was passing. Historians were not able to assign any reason for the treatment which Oshodi gave Akitoye when in fact he was on orders to bring his head to Kosoko. In 1845, Kosoko defeated Akitoye and ascended the throne. In the meantime, Chief Oshodi remained Kosoko’s “Abagbon” war chief.



While in exile, Akitoye appealed to the British Government for help to restore him to his throne. A war broke out; the British started to bombard Lagos, setting the town on fire. Kosoko’s defense under the command of Chief Oshodi was effective and modern by the international standard of the time. After nine days of consecutive serious military actions, the British fleet unleashed excessive gun power which resulted in the defeat of Kosoko’s fleet. Under this unfavorable condition, Kosoko had to flee to Epe with Chief Oshodi and his warriors on the night of the13th of August 1853.

Akitoye was brought back to Lagos by the British Consul and was restored as the King of Lagos. Akitoye died on the 2nd of September 1853, about two weeks after Kosoko and his men had fled. In the afternoon of September 3rd, 1853, his son, Dosunmu was formally installed as the King of Lagos.

Although the war seemed to have ended with Kosoko in exile, there were sporadic raids on Lagos from Epe; disturbing the peace and trade of the island. The raids caused the British Consul Campbell, the Elders, and White Cap chiefs of Lagos, to initiate a move to reconcile the warring royal relatives.

On the 26th of January 1854, a peace conference, historically known as Langbasa meeting, was held at Agbekin (Palaver Island) about four months after King Dosunmu’s coronation. The British Consul’s party included the Commander of HMS Plato with other officers under his command, and Kosoko’s party which included Chief Oshodi Tapa and Chief Onisemo Adeburusi of Epe. They came without Kosoko in about sixty canoes each containing forty men. King Dosunmu was represented by several white cap chiefs and war chiefs.

At the opening of this remarkable conference, the Epe people, led by Chief Oshodi Tapa expressed their strong desire to return to Lagos a to the British Consul and be at peace with their friends and relatives. Chief Oshodi proposed that Kosoko be allowed to return to Lagos and live as a private person.

The proposal was not agreeable to the Consul on the basis that two Kings could not rein in Lagos. As an appeasement, Chief Oshodi was offered to return alone as the Consul for the people of Epe, but he declined the offer and insisted on Kosoko’s return from exile. Several years later in 1862, Kosoko was allowed back to Lagoswith his war chief, after signing a peace treaty negotiated with the British Consul by Chief Oshodi.

Governor Glover was very grateful for Chief Oshodi’s contributions to peace inLagos.

On their arrival to Lagos, Governor Glover sought permission from Aromire to give part of Epetedo to Chief Oshodi. For himself, his family, his followers, and servants who returned with him from Epe, he held the area under the native customary law of land tenure, subject to the native system of the devolution of land.

The palace of Oshodi is located in the center of the area of land in Epetedo. The area is uniquely laid out into 21 compounds. Four of these compounds; Oshodi, Akinyemi, Ewumi, and Alagbede courts belong exclusively to Chief Balogun Oshodi’s extended family.

For the most notable and extraordinary role of Chief Oshodi in the restoration of peace to Lagos and his contribution to the Government of Lagos, he was presented by Governor Glover on the Lagos Race Course grounds with a sword from Mr. Cardwell, the Secretary of State to the British Government. The sword was inscribed “presented by the Government of Queen Victoria to Chief Tapa in commemoration of the loyal services rendered by him to the Government of Lagos”

With his background of having been to America, Oshodi did not miss the opportunity to educate his children. He solicited Governor Glover to educate one of his children in England. This child later assumed the surname of Oshodi-Glover.

Chief Balogun Oshodi Tapa died on 2nd of July1868 about six years after his return from exile in Epe, leaving forty six surviving children. His body was laid to rest at the center of Oshodi Street in Epetedo, Lagos. The descendants of Chief Oshodi constructed an imposing edifice at his burial site, as a monument to the memory of the renowned warlord, peacemaker, and statesman. This monument has been classified as a historic site by the Lagos State Government.

13/03/2022

What if you were actually breastfed by a goat??