The error was uncovered in 2009 after the wealthy family realized one of the four brothers did not share their likeness and requested a DNA test. After they found out they were not related they searched hospital records and eventually found their true brother in 2011. The man who grew up in poverty never knew his real parents. "When I found out about my true parents, I wish I was brought up by them," he said. "That's the truth. When I was handed the photograph of my [real] parents, it made me want to see them. Every time I see their photograph, for several months tears would well up." Tokyo's Hospital (identity remains anonymous) was ordered by court to pay the man 38 million yen ($371,233) in damages, significantly less than the 250 million yen ($2.5 million) he had been seeking.

As per reports, Otto the Octopus, the six-month-old rabble-rouser, had climbed up the side of his tank and was squirting water at the 2,000-watt spotlight overhead. It turns out the aquarium staff had trained Otto to aim and squirt water, but at visitors, not at the lights. Otto himself had made the connection between turning out the lights and causing a commotion. Kummer says now the people of Coburg are coming up with new ways to keep Otto occupied, like giving him a chess board. Care takers said: He always adapts to his surroundings, but as soon as a chess board is in there, it's just black, white, black, white. So, that keeps him entertained for quite a while. But then, he was like, no, I don't want the chess board. And he just threw it out of the aquarium.

For nearly 25 years, Pelorus Jack, a Risso's dolphin, met and escorted ships travelling between Wellington and Nelson across Admiralty Bay, north of French Pass. In 1904, he was protected by Order in Council under the Sea Fisheries Act - possibly the only individual sea creature to be legally protected anywhere in the world. He remained a protected creature until his disappearance in 1912.  It is thought that ‘Jack' was orphaned, which may have explained his unusual behaviour pattern. It is also presumed that Jack enjoyed getting a ride from the ships' pressure waves as they passed through his territory.1 Jack delighted passengers, who came from all over the world, some travelling the Nelson/Wellington route just to see him.

If a human ever headbutts, you better get out of their way. But with your cat, things are different. Cats headbutt other cats, furniture, and their favorite humans.According to cat behaviorist Pam Johnson-Bennett, cat headbutting is typically used for bonding and social purposes. “For the cat to place his face so close to yours and engage in this bonding behavior is quite an act of trust,” she says

Peacock spiders have eight eyes like all spiders, but it's the unique configuration that makes them cute. Their two biggest forward-facing eyes are so much larger than the rest, it makes the others almost disappear by comparison. It also gives them a look of perpetual surprise. Peacock spiders are extremely small, and generally range in length from 3.5 to 6.5 mm (0.14 to 0.26 inches); and they do not create webs to catch food, rather their prey is stalked and leapt upon. Male peacock spiders generally have an abdomen of bright metallic coloured patterns, from orange, blues, reds and greens.

It's located  in a remote part of Redwood National Park, just north of Eureka in Humboldt County. Hyperion stands 115.54 m (379.1ft) above the ground and is estimated to be between 700 and 800 years old. The exact location of Hyperion is not accessible to the public because of the fear that tourists might disrupt the ecosystem of the tree. Xylem tubes function as long-distance straws to pull water and some dissolved nutrients up the plant from the roots. In the case of Hyperion, that distance is more than 379 feet! This is no small feat, and trees as tall as Hyperion are pushing the limits of physics to suck water up this distance.

If someone is just in front of the bridge, and they are having a panic attack, there is an emergency number listed on both ends of the bridge and people can call [us] . . . They respond if people are in crisis and they don’t know how to get across.”.Those who treat phobias say a fear of bridges is not only about a fear of heights. Some fear the bridge will collapse, some fear drowning, and some fear they will accidentally drive off. It’s a feeling of claustrophobia: “I can’t get off; I have no way to pull over. I’m up there, yes, but it’s like there’s no way out.” And once an individual has had a panic attack on a bridge, the fear of the panic attack becomes the bigger issue.

The rail worker trained him because he was handicapped. You can see the leg splints in the picture. He trained the baboon, supervised him, then eventually had him run the controls on his own....Anyone passing through Cape Town, South Africa on the Port Elizabeth Mainline Railroad in the late 1800s saw something curious along the railway: a baboon operating the switchboard. This wasn't some Planet of the Apes scenario; quite the opposite, in fact. Jack the Baboon was an intelligent creature who spent nine years working on the railroad and providing companionship for his owner, a paraplegic man named Jumper. Jumper and Jack the Baboon lived together in a cottage half a mile away from the railroad. Each morning, the man and his primate friend made their way up the hill to the depot, where Jack quickly learned to work the signals that told engineers which tracks to take. He was also in charge of the key to the coal sheds at the depot, so whenever an engineer needed to score some more fuel, they had to signal the baboon. For his hard work, Jack earned $0.20 per day and half a bottle of beer per week. For a baboon, he was living the high life.

It takes an average human eye about 25 minutes to fully adapt from bright sunlight to seeing in complete darkness—if a pirate was fighting on deck in the sunlight, then had to continue the fight under the deck where it is usually pretty dark, it could take too long for their eyes to adjust and for the pirate to be able to see.  The eye patch could be used to prepare one eye to see in the dark, so when they would go below deck they could swap the eye patch from one eye to the other and see with the eye that has already adjusted to low light conditions. This would allow them to instantly see in the dark. Mythbusters confirmed that this use of eye patches among pirates was plausible, but there is no recorded historical precedent for this fact. So for now, keep on wearing that pirate-y eye patch—you're actually looking like one smart pirate when you do!

It is also known as the "revenge bedtime procrastination." The "revenge" prefix is believed to have been added first in China in the late 2010s, possibly relating to the 996 working hour system (72 hours per week). "Revenge" because many feel that it is the only way they can take any control over their daytime self.⁠ The term "bedtime procrastination" became popular based on a 2014 study from the Netherlands.⁠ Writer Daphne K. Lee wrote about it on Twitter, describing it as "a phenomenon in which people who don't have much control over their daytime life refuse to sleep early in order to regain some sense of freedom during late night hours."⁠ An individual may procrastinate sleep due to a variety of causes. The person may not necessarily be avoiding sleep, but rather continuing to complete activities they perceive as more enjoyable than sleep (such as watching television or browsing social media).⁠

And the reason why behind so many lion statues in London is: They were sculpted by Timothy Butler for Sir Joseph Bazalgette's Victorian sewage works, and are used as a flood level monitor for the river. If water gets up to the lion's mouths, the city is at risk of flooding and there's a saying that goes: “If the lions drink, the city will sink”.

Aviation has a ton of its own unique technical words, but Jesus nut is a little bit different. It is widely used in literature, but it was created back in the times of the Vietnam War. The name was so fitting and the part is so important that later it became a good way to pay respect to retired officers.

Similar case happened when bitcoin was first ever mentioned in the mainstream media. They displayed an image of their private key during the bit. There was a thread about it on reddit that went something like this: "Did you guys see what they just did?" "They posted their private key. Did someone get it?" "Yeah. I got it. I swept their funds and am contacting the station to give it back to them." Basically a reddit user stole their bitcoin just to give it back to them before a real thief could do so.

As a group, sharks have been around for at least 420 million years, meaning they have survived four of the “big five” mass extinctions. That makes them older than humanity, older than Mount Everest, older than dinosaurs, older even than trees. It is possible that sharks just got lucky in the lottery of life. These also exploited new habitats following extinction events. They even managed to survive during times when the ocean lost its oxygen - including one such event in the Cretaceous period, when many other, larger, species died out. As a refuge, sharks moved deeper underwater, says experts. And while there, they had another cunning trick. Some evolved the ability to glow in the dark. Sharks are older than trees. Sharks have existed for more than 420 million years, whereas the earliest tree, lived around 350 million years ago. These estimations are done by carbon da_ting methods.

 
Tokyo’s battle with flooding stretches back through its history. The city sits on a plain crossed by five rowdy river systems and dozens of individual rivers that naturally swell each season. Intense urbanisation, rapid industrialisation and imprudent water extraction that caused some regions to sink have exacerbated the city’s vulnerability.After decades of planning for these scenarios and non-stop construction, the Japanese capital now boasts dozens of dams, reservoirs and levees. Cut into the city’s ground, as you would with a birthday cake, and you will find an underground maze of tunnels alongside the subway lines and gas pipelines that criss-cross the city⁠.

“I took it out of the show in honor of Her Royal Highness,” Jackson told Barbara Walters in 1997 of their first meeting. “Are you going to do Dirty Diana?” Jackson recalled Diana asking him during the meet-and-greet before the show. “I said, ‘No, I took it out of the show because of you.’ She said, ‘No! I want you to do it. Do it. Do the song.’” Diana reportedly danced during the concert as Prince Charles remained seated. Jackson also gifted the couple two miniature tour jackets for their sons, Princes William and Harry.
 
Michael Jackson and Princess Diana both had an immense respect and love for each other. When she died, he cancelled his concert in honor of her and dedicated the next two upcoming concerts to her memory.

It was an 'i-Deal' situation for the couple...They had no plans to move. But when Apple Inc said they wanted to buy the property, which originally cost just under $6,000 and sits on less than one acre of land, they finally agreed. 'They told us to put a price on it and we did,' Kathy Fulbright, 62. The couple used the proceeds from the sale to build a new 4,200 square-foot house - on 49 acres, boasting a jacuzzi and pond. They said they rejected Apple's first offer, and second. Well, they always did say that the third time's  the charm. Later, the gigantic warehouse-like facility was set to be humming with servers and generators that delivered all the digital entertainment that makes Apple's flagship products - the iPod, iPhone and iPad - so popular

This animal is built for battle. It has powerful 1.5-inch-long (4 cm) claws and teeth that are strong enough to crack a tortoise shell, making these small mammals a formidable opponent. Honey badgers are fearless. Snakes, including venomous ones, are an "excellent source of meat" for honey badgers, making up to 25% of the animals' diet. And to dine on venomous snakes, which would be an otherwise deadly meal option for most carnivores, honey badgers have evolved a special kind of immunity to the toxins in snake venom. A similar venom-defense mechanism has evolved in other mammals that share habitat with venomous snakes, including mongooses, hedgehogs, and even wild pigs.

 
In 1998, the Japanese electronics giant Sony released 700,000 camcorders that had the adroitness to see through people’s clothes. As soon as Sony realized what havoc it had caused, the camcorders were immediately recalled. The camcorders having a visual appearance similar to a normal were equipped with a lens that uses IR (Infrared Rays) to allow a person to take pictures in the dark, termed as Night Vision. Dark clothes like swimsuits went transparent in front of those camcorders and it was in no matter of time, nude pictures of ladies were trending on the internet. “At least 12 Web sites feature pictures of women who look almost naked, even though they are wearing clothes or a swimsuit. The see-through power in Sony’s camcorder was discovered by Greg Hunter, who was the Customer Correspondent at Good Morning America back in 1998. Finally after receiving enough criticism Sony recalled them!

The medical team determined the cause of his sudden growth spurt, a tumor pressing against his pituitary gland. The doctors operated on Rainer to remove the tumor in the hope of preventing further growth. Though successfully removed, it was only enough to slow Adam's growth. When he was measured the next year his height was unchanged, but his spine had begun to curve, meaning he was still growing. As he grew, his health declined, with his curved spine eventually leaving him unable to stand on his own. His eyesight and hearing grew worse, and he eventually died aged 51 in a "home of the aged", measuring 7 feet 11 inches tall, the tallest man in Austria. There are currently no other known instances of a person being classified as both a dwarf and a giant across their lifetime.

Teaching existed at Oxford in some form in 1096 and developed rapidly from 1167, when Henry II banned English students from attending the University of Paris.During the 20th and early 21st centuries, Oxford added to its humanistic core a major new research capacity in the natural and applied sciences, including medicine. In so doing, it has enhanced and strengthened its traditional role as an international focus for learning and a forum for intellectual debate.

If you're think penguins are cute and cuddly, you maybe wrong. We are amazed by the funny way penguins waddle and their amazing lifestyles. But this closer look reveals that they have a dark side. Some scientists resist this statement and come with another theory behind this act : What happens is that penguins like Adelie Penguins (a species of penguin) congregate at the water's edge – and despite their marvellous adaptations for a life in water, they can often appear reluctant to enter it. Eventually one or two will dive in: whereupon the rest may or may not choose to follow.

They were not allowed by Marvel and Disney to promote their magnum opus, Avengers: Endgame together. And the reason is hilariously believable! By now we've all realised that the two hunky Chris' share an impeccable camaraderie that doesn't limit to their onscreen characters, Thor and Captain America. Hence, considering how they would be goofing around instead of working, the makers decided to not pair them up for interviews and promotional events. As per an interview with Chris Hemsworth on Variety, the actor revealed, "With Chris Evans, I have a real brotherly bond. I think they wouldn't pair us up on this press tour, because we just spend the whole time screwing around and none of it is on topic." On the same, even Chris Evans commented and told Variety, "We had too much fun together, and truly like kids in school, we were separated because we weren't getting s--- done." Like we mentioned earlier, the two Chris' share a really good bond so it is not surprising to see the makers figure out that pairing them would only lead to monkey business and no work.

Ostriches raised entirely by humans can end up developing an attraction to their handlers. The type of attraction an ostrich develops leads to the bird believing that a human can become a suitable mate. In fact, many ostriches start to exhibit courtship behavior if they notice a human within their vicinity. More research has to be done to find out the exact reason why ostriches can become attracted to people. However, scientists speculate that there’s a causal factor found with ostrich chicks raised by hand and their consistent interaction with humans. This increased frequency of interaction can cause the chicks to become sexually confused when they reach sexual maturity.

The stripes run up and down your arms and legs and hug your torso. They wrap around the back of your head like a speed skater’s aerodynamic hood and across your face. Or they would, if you could see them. Most people will never see their own stripes. As scientists noted, there are dozens of skin conditions that follow these lines, but most of them affect patches of skin or a single body part, not the entire body. Lined and whorled nevoid hypermelanosis can create beautiful patterns.

In 1999, one of the future greatest soccer players of all time sat in a doctor’s office in Rosario, Argentina. Lionel Messi was just 11 years old and awaiting a diagnosis after over a year of tests (Caoili, 2012, p.41). He was 4 feet and 4 inches inches tall (Hawkey, 2008), and had not grown since he was nine (Thompson, 2012). His doctor, Diego Schwarsztein (Caioli, 2012, p.41), diagnosed him with Growth Hormone Deficiency (GHD), predicting he would grow to a maximum height of about 4 feet and 7 inches tall without intervention (Cooney, 2016). Yet, three years later, thanks to an agreement inked out on a paper napkin with one of the richest sports teams in the world, Lionel Messi would be treated, healthy, and ascending to both normal stature and soccer stardom. GHD is treated by daily injections of somatotropin, or human growth hormone (hGH), into the lower body, which enable people to grow to potentially an average height, effectively curing the disease. These injections made it possible for Messi to achieve both a soccer career and a normal life, saving him from both being 4’7” and suffering from the other aforementioned effects.

The study of ancient remains from around the world has demonstrated the ingenuity that existed in the application of surgical and cosmetic dental practices going back many millennia. Historical records reveal numerous dental and hygiene procedures practiced by the ancient Egyptians. The Edwin Smith Papyrus, written in the 17th century BC but which may reflect previous manuscripts from as early as 3000 BC, includes the treatment of several dental ailments, and the Ebers Papyrus, dating to the 16 th century BC, contains eleven recipes which pertain to oral issues. Four of these are remedies for loose teeth: the tooth in question is filled with a mixture that is akin to a modern day composite filling: a filler agent (ground barley) is mixed with a liquid matrix (honey) and an antiseptic agent (yellow ochre). This is either used as an actual filling, or as a splint to keep the tooth in place. Cavities were found to be filled with linen, which may have first been dipped in a medicine such as fig juice or cedar oil.

In 1963, a man in the Nevşehir Province of Turkey knocked down a wall in his basement and ended up discovering a gigantic underground city. Known as Derinkuyu, the city had been abandoned for centuries – probably much to the relief of the man who'd just hammered his way in. Work on the city, estimated to hold up to 20,000 people, may have begun as far back as the 8th–7th centuries BCE, according to archaeologists at the Turkish Department of Culture. Despite the rock – formed by volcanic ash deposits – being soft, the Phrygians who began the build didn't get very far with it. A manuscript from around 370 BCE which possibly describes Derinkuyu mentions that the underground dwellings were about big enough for a family, domestic animals, and food. Those living on the bottom levels, for example, were able to cut off the water supply to the upper and ground levels, preventing enemies from poisoning the supply. The tunnels could be blocked from the inside with round rolling stone doors, and the passageways themselves were narrow to force any invaders to line up one at a time – an attack system so dire it is only seen in movies whenever the good guy gets surrounded.

Switzerland has a vaunted reputation for political neutrality and hasn't fought a war since 1815. The mountainous and land-locked country wanted to keep its stance intact even during the tensest years of the Cold War — and even if it meant destroying crucial pieces of its own infrastructure to stop an invading army. Switzerland's Military Defense Involves Blowing Up All Roads Into The Country. Near the German border of Switzerland, every railroad and highway tunnel has been prepared to pinch shut explosively.  Nearby mountains have been made so porous that whole divisions can fit inside them. In short: Switzerland is devoted to extreme neutrality. But were a nation to test that, they're prepared to mess an invader up. But as of 2014-15, Switzerland Is Finally Getting Around Dismantling Its Cold War-Era Defense System . The disarmament of the Säckinger Bridge was only the latest bridge along the German-Swiss border to be defused/

When your body defends itself against UV rays, your skin tans or darkens. Too much sun exposure allows UV rays to reach your inner skin layers. You know this as sunburn. This can cause skin cells to die, damage, or develop cancer. Blood vessels dilate to increase blood flow and bring immune cells to the skin to help clean up the mess. All this causes the redness, swelling and inflammation we associate with a sunburn. The sunburn will eventually heal, but some of the surviving cells will have mutations that escape repair.

At the time of her death, 19 y/o Sunandha already had one daughter and was expecting another child. In May 1880, when Sunandha was just 19 years old, she was on a trip to the royal family’s bountiful Bang Pa-In summer residence, outside of Bangkok. She was accompanied by Princess Karnabhorn Bejraratana, not even two years old, and a group of guards and servants. But reaching the palace required crossing Chao Phraya River, Thailand’s biggest river. The queen consort and the princess were escorted to a separate boat which was dragged by a bigger boat to carry them over the river. However, the royal vessel capsized in strong currents and both were plunged into the water. None of the royal entourage proceeded to help them. Supposedly everyone followed the lead of the main guard, who did not assist them or urge anyone else to help the drowning royals–all three lives were lost while their attendants just stood and watched. The guards, and everyone else on the scene, were adhering to an old and rigid Siamese law that did not allow any ordinary person to touch a member of the royal family. Breaking this law was punishable with death.

After his retirement from boxing in 1914, former bantamweight champion of the world Johnny Coulon (5 ft, 110 lbs) hit the vaudeville circuit demonstrating his apparently mysterious power to resist being lifted into the air. The act was simple; the tiny Coulon would first allow himself to be lifted by his “opponent”, typically a big heavyweight boxer, wrestler or weightlifter.  The opponent would initially have no difficulty at all hoisting the smaller man into the air, especially as Coulon would tense his body into a straight vertical line and bear down upon the lifter’s wrists, effectively assisting in the lift. Coulon would then apply his special counter-grip, in which he lightly seized the would-be lifter’s right wrist (over the pulse-point) with his left hand and placed his right index finger on the left side of the lifter’s neck, near the carotid artery. The results were always the same; regardless of how much he strained and struggled, the lifter couldn’t budge Coulon from the floor.

He and his wife, Marjorie Zybach, whom he met while delivering a pizza, were married in 1962 and have four daughters: Margaret, Susan, Mary and Barbara. As of 2014, they have 10 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

A stolen bottle of vodka thought to be the world's most expensive at $1.3m (€1.17) was found empty on a construction site, Danish police said in 2018. The bottle, made from gold and silver and with a diamond encrusted cap, was on loan to a Copenhagen bar which had a collection of vodkas on display.⁠
CCTV showed an intruder, who grabbed the Russo-Baltique vodka and fled the bar.⁠ "I don't know what happened with the vodka, but the bottle was empty", Riad Tooba, spokesman for the Copenhagen police, told AFP news agency. Brian Ingberg, owner of the Cafe 33 bar, said the bottle was still valued at the same price.

Canada (No. 15), the United States (No. 16) and the United Kingdom (No. 17) all made it into the top 20. India is ranked at 136th position. (2022 data)

Most Korean hospitals are now issuing a "plastic surgery certificate" at the request of overseas visitors. Customs officials, of course, are strict about making sure people match the mugs in their passports. These certificates can supposedly help make clearing immigration go smoother so officials don't have to call hospitals to confirm procedures. The certificates include the patient's passport number, the length of their stay, the name and location of the hospital as well as the hospital's official seal to certify the document. Travellers can show the forms to immigration officials on their return trip home. This practice of issuing plastic surgery certificates apparently began three years ago, but has increased with the rising number of visitors getting plastic surgery done in South Korea.

During the Second World War, meteorologists began naming hurricanes the names of their wives and daughters, and if the storms intensified, they were called by the names of hated people, hence this tradition. The names were very resonant and unforgettable, but at today's stage, the naming is random.

The elevators can wisk you to the to the observation deck at 1823 feet in less than a minute.  Currently the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa measures 2717 feet in height (828 meters), including 163 floors above ground, 58 elevators, a 304 room Armani hotel, 6 exclusive restaurants, and 900 residences. It took 6 years, 12,000 workers, and 22 million man hours to complete.  But despite all the amazing technology that went into this masterpiece, the exterior windows are still cleaned the old fashioned way... with a bucket of water and a squeegee.

Nokia's XR20 is termed the most durable phone ever created till date. The XR20 sports a tough 6.67-inch Gorilla Glass Victus display from American tech firm Corning and can resist damage from scratches and drops from about 6 feet, the company says. Nokia phones are so resistant as they are typically made of a LOT of high quality plastic, with support structures inside (as well as very solidly mounted components).

Niels Bohr gained more than just fame and a medal after winning the Nobel Prize in 1922 for his work in early quantum mechanics. Back in 1875, the brewery was one of the first to isolate a new species of yeast that was used to brew pale lagers, apart from making discoveries in protein chemistry that ended up having applications elsewhere. The beer bond goes just beyond free drinks, and in 1921 Bohr founded that Insititute for Theoretical Physics with the help of the Danish government and the Carlsberg Foundation. Bohr went to unearth complementarity, which became a key principle in quantum mechanics

 
Rolls Royce car leather on all classic cars were made using Connolly leather hides, why would you want anything else in such a luxurious vehicle like a Rolls Royce. The average Rolls Royce has around 18 full hides to make a full interior, all hand selected to deliver the finest leather finish in the world.Rolls Royce has one specific criterion based on which the eligibility to own a Rolls Royce depends on. So, one who wants to purchase ​Rolls Royce have to fulfil all criteria as RR do complete research on your background, your class, and then they decide if the user is worth the Spirit of Ecstasy. Also, some brands, such as Bentley, bulls are preferred for their slightly thicker and more durable hides.