The razor blade is sharp but can't cut a tree. The axe is strong but can't cut the hair.
Everyone is important according to their own unique purpose. Never look down on anyone, unless you are admiring their shoes.
~ Mark Gosling at his farewell
This fruit is called soursop or guanabana and has been proven to be 10,000 times more effective than chemotherapy at reversing the affects of cancer. However it does this very differently to chemo though, instead of killing all the cells surrounding the cancer cells often resulting in hair loss, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, anemia, infection, easy bruising/bleeding plus many more! On the contrary "the compound extracted from the Graviola tree selectivelyhunts down and kills only cancer cells. It does not harm healthy cells!" Why haven't you heard of this amazing fruit?! Well long story short a large company years ago spent millions to find a cure for cancer. However in order for them to have made their money back and further profit from their finding they needed to create a synthetic duplicate of the compound found in the soursop as they could not pattern something natural. Unfortunately for them they were unable to do this so they left it all and didn't publish their findings. Luckily there was one scientist who was unable to let this amazing finding slip under the rug, so he contacted a company that is dedicated to harvesting medical plants in the Amazon rain forest. Hopefully this post gives you a better understanding at how powerful plants are and why more and more people are becoming plant-powered/vegan to be as healthy as possible and to reverse and avoid chronic disease like coronary heart disease.
The Libreria Sopra la Penna in Lucignana.
Elton John’s forgotten Wedding
In 1984, Elton married his close friend and sound engineer, Renate Blauel, on Valentine’s Day. For the occasion, Rod Stewart sent a wedding telegram that read “You may still be standing but we’re all on the f**king floor”. The marriage lasted three years. Found via The Guardian.
In 1979, two families escaped East Germany in a homemade hot air balloon. They flew for 28 minutes at −8 °C (18 °F) with no shelter as the gondola was just a clothesline railing. They landed just 10km (6.2 mi) from the border. The escape was planned out over 1 and 1/2 years and took 3 attempts.
Read about the escape on Wikipedia.
Since ancient history, people have been looking for a magic potion to stimulate their sex lives, whether by boosting one's sex drive, enabling an erection, lowering inhibitions, or in seducing a partner. Fertility aids factored in, too, although until modern medicine came in, it was assumed that plenty of sex would lead to procreation. Classic aphrodisiacs fall into three categories: drugs with actual physical effects of some sort, those with psychological effects, and magic potions that might work due to the placebo effect.
Some aphrodisiacs were associated with animals that appeared to have a good sex life. Some were plants that grew in shapes that resembled genitals, so they obviously had a purpose there. And some just make you feel good or made a potential partner happy to receive them as a gift. Hey, when your partner has a headache, anything that would relieve the pain will make progress. Substances that contained needed nutrients got their reputation as an aphrodisiacs by restoring overall health and therefore sexual ability. And some were just downright dangerous. That said, there are more supposed aphrodisiacs than can be enumerated in anything short of an encyclopedia, but you'll learn about an awful lot of them at Today I Found Out.
In 1752, Benjamin Franklin famously flew a kite in a thunderstorm and literally caught lightning in his hand. In 1753, Russian physicist Georg Wilhelm Richmann tried to do the same with a metal rod and was killed by lightning. Meanwhile in Bohemia (now the Czech Republic), a priest named Prokop Diviš wanted to build a machine to control the weather, specifically the electricity in the atmosphere. In 1754, he erected his weather machine atop a 40-meter pole in order to extract the natural electricity from the air and prevent thunderstorms. Scientists thought he was nuts. The local villagers believed in his machine, and tore it down when there was a drought.
The "weather machine" worked, but not in the way Diviš wanted, and for reasons he didn't quite anticipate. For a long time, people thought Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning rod, but Diviš' tower preceded Franklin's. Read how Diviš came up with the lightning rod at Amusing Planet.
(Image credit: Bohemianroots)
