World's first test tube baby

On this day in history, 25th july 1978, the first “test tube” baby, Louise Brown, was born weighing 2.6 kg to Leslie and John Brown who had up to this point been unable to have a child due to Leslie’s lack of proper fallopian tubes. The couple eventually learned of and agreed to try In vitro fertilization (IVF), though the doctors did not tell them that no baby had ever successfully been born via this experimental method. None-the-less Louise was born healthy, albeit prematurely due to some complications during pregnancy. This success paved the way for about 4 million other IVF babies being born to date. Ultimately, rather than a natural birth, the doctors decided for Louise to be born via a Caesarian section. According to Dr. John Webster who helped deliver Louise, “It was the only way to show the world that this woman had no fallopian tubes. Otherwise, there would have been skeptics who might claim that she could have become pregnant naturally, no matter what we said… A lot of people felt we were meddling in nature, and shouldn’t be doing things like this, but the majority of the people coming to us had damaged tubes, and had no chance of conceiving naturally.” By the time the couple had their second daughter, Natalie Brown, who was also conceived via IVF four years after her sister, 39 other babies had successfully been born via this method, which earned its creator, Robert G. Edwards, a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2010. Although the media has dubbed Louise and subsequent babies born via IVF “test tube” babies, the egg and sperm are actually placed in Petri dishes for incubation. Depending on the method utilized, a single sperm may be used to fertilize an egg, particularly in cases of the man having a low sperm count; or, more commonly, they are mixed at a rate of about 75,000 sperm to 1 egg in the Petri dish. Once the egg is fertilized, it is placed in a special growth medium until about 6-8 cells are present (after about 48 hours), at which point it is then placed in the uterus of the woman and will hopefully result in a pregnancy.

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World's biggest traffic jam

The first reason everyone want to give if we were late to class or office or any appointment is "I struck in traffic jam".
Okay, we are moreover familiar with traffic jam.
Do anyone know about world's biggest traffic jam of all time?

Yeah.The event happened at Beijing, China in 2010 when traffic was struck for almost 20 days. Interestingly, look at the discipline of drivers that they have stopped the cars and vehicles in lines and lanes with a reasonable distance to front cars. !!

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What you know about bananas?

Bananas are an excellent source of vitamin B6, soluble fiber, and contain moderate amounts of vitamin C, manganese and potassium.
Okay....what it does:

1) A reduced risk of colorectal cancer

2) In women, Reduced risk of breast cancer

3) Reduced risk of Renal cell carcinoma

4) Banana ingestion may affect dopamine production in people deficient in the amino acid tyrosine, a dopamine precursor present in bananas.

5) In India, juice is extracted from the corm and used as a home remedy for jaundice.

6) sometimes with the addition of honey, for kidney stones.

7) In an animal experiment carried out by a professor in Tokyo U comparing the various health benefits of different fruits, using banana, grape, apple, water melon, pineapple, pear and persimmon, it was found that banana gave the best results. It increased the number of white blood cells, enhanced the immunity of the body and produced anti-cancer substance TNF.

8) According to the Japanese professor, yellow skin bananas with dark spots on it are 8 times more effective in enhancing the property of white blood cells than the green skin version.

9)It recommended to eat 1 to 2 banana a day to increase your body immunity to diseases like cold, flu and others.

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A man with two faces - Edward Mordake

It is said literally that every human has two faces, good and evil. But in case of Edward Mordake physically had two faces.

Edward Mordake's story dates back to 19th century. Actually there is no written histories or records about him but his life story is spread word by mouth. Edward Mordake belongs to a nobel and rich English family. He is born as a parasitic twins, this case is similiar to conjoined twins because his story depicts that his other face is independent in other words not in control of Edward Mordake. Edward Mordake's first face was said to be charming and handsome he is a scholar, a musician and a young man in possession of profound grace.

The second face or his other character or his brother or evil. It has been said that the eyes of evil face would follow spectators and its lips would ‘gibber’ relentlessly and silently.Edward begged doctors to have his "demon head" removed, because, supposedly, it whispered satanist language to him at night, but no doctor would attempt it. He committed suicide at the age of 23. a letter requesting that the ‘demon face’ be destroyed before his burial, ‘lest it continues its dreadful whisperings in my grave.

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