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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Walt Disney entered Mercury!

 

 

This image was taken by the U.S. spaceship Messenger which has snapped more than 100,000 pictures since it went into orbit round Mercury in March 2011. One of the picture taken of crater in mercury surface resemble the face of
Mickey Mouse .
I think not only NASA ,Walt disney also entered Mercury it seems....lol
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Scenic beauty Plitvice lakes - Croatia

Plitvice Lakes National Park is the oldest national park in Southeast Europe and the largest national park in Croatia.

The national park is world famous for its lakes arranged in cascades. Currently, 16 lakes can be seen from the surface.

The lakes are renowned for their distinctive colors, ranging from azure to green, grey or blue. The colors change constantly depending on the quantity of minerals or organisms in the water and the angle of sunlight.

The national park area is home to many endemic species. Those species that prevailed at the lakes before the arrival of man still exist.

Mosses, algae and water plants play a major role in forming the unique landscape of the Plitvice Lakes and its tufa barriers.
Rare fauna such as the European brown bear, wolf, eagle, owl, lynx, wild cat, and capercaillie can be found here.

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Dragon Falls(Venezuela)

Dragon Falls are part of the Angel Falls located in Venezuela. Angel Falls is the world's highest uninterrupted waterfall, with a height of 979 m (3,212 ft) and a plunge of 807 m (2,648 ft). The waterfall drops over the edge of the Auyantepui mountain in the Canaima National Park (Spanish: Parque Nacional Canaima), a UNESCO World Heritage site in the Gran Sabana region of Bolívar State.

Surely a trip to the Angel falls will be a complicated affair. The falls are located in an isolated jungle, and a flight from Puerto Ordaz or Ciudad Bolívar is required to reach Canaima camp, the starting point for river trips to the base of the falls. River trips generally take place from June to December, when the rivers are deep enough for the wooden curiaras used by the Pemon guides.

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Incredible India:Tranda road(Risky road)

This risky road named Tranda is located in kinuar district in Himachal pradesh , India.

Himachal Pradesh is a state in Northern India. It is spread over 21,495 sq mi (55,670 km2), and is bordered by Jammu and Kashmir on the north, Punjab on the west and south- west, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh on the south, Uttarakhand on the south-east and by the Tibet Autonomous Region on the east. Himachal Pradesh is known to be abundant in natural beauty.

Kinnaur, surrounded by the Tibet to the east, is in the northeast corner of Himachal Pradesh, about 235 km (146 mi) from the state capital, Shimla. It has three high mountains ranges, namely, Zanskar, Himalayas and Dhauldhar that enclose valleys of Sutlej, Spiti, Baspa and their tributaries.

TRANDA ROAD:

A motorable road, construction work on which was started 25 years ago by the PWD Department in Himachal Pradesh, still remains a far cry at Tranda village in Kinnaur. The road was brought under the Pradhan Mantri Gramin Sadak Yojna(also known:PMGSY is a nationwide plan in India to provide good all-weather road connectivity to unconnected villages. It is under the authority of the Ministry of Rural Development and was begun on 25 December 2000) in the year 2006 and was due for competition in May 2007. The villagers, especially school children and old people, are the worst sufferers who have to trudge 4- km up and down steep hills to reach the main road.

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