15. Bill Haast, the "Snake Man," was bitten by poisonous snakes at least 173 times, he injected himself with snake venom every day for over 60 years, he saved countless lives with his antibody-rich blood, and he lived to be 100.
haast
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Bill Haast who has been bitten at least 173 times, 20 of them almost fatally built up his immunity by injecting himself with the mix of venom from almost 32 species of poisonous snakes. He did this for every day for over 60 years. Haast has jet-setted around the world donating his anti-body rich blood to 21 snake bite victims and saving their lives.(source)
16. An elephant-sized sloth existed and went extinct only 10.000 years ago. It was one of the largest land mammals, measuring up …show more content…
In the process of trying to catch serial killer Andrei Chikatilo, Soviet police ended up solving more than 1000 unrelated crimes, including 95 murders and 245 rapes.
andrei serial killer
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Andrei Romanov Chikatilo was a prolific serial killer nicknamed Butcher of Rostov. He committed sexual assaults, mutilations, and murders by luring unsuspecting women/girls and boys to a secluded spot. His crime spree lasted for 12 years and was spread over Russia, Ukraine and Uzbek. He has confessed to a total of 56 murders and was tried for 53 of the killings. A Moscow police team headed by Major Mikhail Fetisov led the investigation of the murders, as a result of this investigation, various unrelated crimes, including murders and rapes were solved.(source)
18. A cat has “predicted” the deaths of 25 residents in a nursing home in the US. The cat displays sudden affection for dying residents by curling up next to the dying residents.
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The father of two who works as a civil servant has an IQ of 75, which is less than the normal of 100 but he is not considered to be a retarded. Max Muenke, a paediatric brain defect specialist at the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, US commented that the slow rate of fluid build up (probably taking years or decades) may have allowed the brain to redistribute the functions that would be normally done by the part that is being pushed aside.(source)
21. There is a spider that turns into a “wheel” and cartwheels away when it is in danger.
Golden Wheel Spider
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The Wheel spider or the Golden Wheel spider is a huntsman spider that is native to the Namib desert of South Africa. The spider is nocturnal who spend their day hidden under the rocks or inside their sand burrows. The wheel spider, when threatened adopts a strange defense mechanism known as flic-flacking. Flic-flacking is essentially flipping on the side and cartwheeling away from its predators. The Golden Wheel spider can cartwheel at speeds up to 44 turns/sec.(source 1,2)
22. For ten centuries, the feet of Chinese women were tightly bound from the young age causing the breaking and bending of the bones resulting in a misshapen foot that resembled the hooves of the
haast
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Bill Haast who has been bitten at least 173 times, 20 of them almost fatally built up his immunity by injecting himself with the mix of venom from almost 32 species of poisonous snakes. He did this for every day for over 60 years. Haast has jet-setted around the world donating his anti-body rich blood to 21 snake bite victims and saving their lives.(source)
16. An elephant-sized sloth existed and went extinct only 10.000 years ago. It was one of the largest land mammals, measuring up …show more content…
In the process of trying to catch serial killer Andrei Chikatilo, Soviet police ended up solving more than 1000 unrelated crimes, including 95 murders and 245 rapes.
andrei serial killer
Image Source: scoopwhoop.com
Andrei Romanov Chikatilo was a prolific serial killer nicknamed Butcher of Rostov. He committed sexual assaults, mutilations, and murders by luring unsuspecting women/girls and boys to a secluded spot. His crime spree lasted for 12 years and was spread over Russia, Ukraine and Uzbek. He has confessed to a total of 56 murders and was tried for 53 of the killings. A Moscow police team headed by Major Mikhail Fetisov led the investigation of the murders, as a result of this investigation, various unrelated crimes, including murders and rapes were solved.(source)
18. A cat has “predicted” the deaths of 25 residents in a nursing home in the US. The cat displays sudden affection for dying residents by curling up next to the dying residents.
oscar
Image …show more content…
The father of two who works as a civil servant has an IQ of 75, which is less than the normal of 100 but he is not considered to be a retarded. Max Muenke, a paediatric brain defect specialist at the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, US commented that the slow rate of fluid build up (probably taking years or decades) may have allowed the brain to redistribute the functions that would be normally done by the part that is being pushed aside.(source)
21. There is a spider that turns into a “wheel” and cartwheels away when it is in danger.
Golden Wheel Spider
Image Source:Giphy
The Wheel spider or the Golden Wheel spider is a huntsman spider that is native to the Namib desert of South Africa. The spider is nocturnal who spend their day hidden under the rocks or inside their sand burrows. The wheel spider, when threatened adopts a strange defense mechanism known as flic-flacking. Flic-flacking is essentially flipping on the side and cartwheeling away from its predators. The Golden Wheel spider can cartwheel at speeds up to 44 turns/sec.(source 1,2)
22. For ten centuries, the feet of Chinese women were tightly bound from the young age causing the breaking and bending of the bones resulting in a misshapen foot that resembled the hooves of the