Totally Strange Events,News And Facts

It takes a lot to shock Maury Povich.But the talk show host admitted that even he couldn't believe it when a woman came on the show to prove her ex-boyfriend was the father of her twins - only to find that he was the father of just one of them.
Speaking about the revelation, which was aired live on his show, he admitted he did not even think this was possible.
He said: 'The show has very dramatic and very edgy themes which I think are played out in American society. The most unusual dramatic DNA theme was when the woman came on the show and had different fathers to her twins.'

Regina contacted the Maury show to try to prove that her ex-boyfriend Eric was responsible for her twins.

When Povich read out the DNA results and announced that Eric was the father of just one of her twins, he had to explain to a visibly shocked audience that this was not beyond the realms of possibility.

When it happened a second time on the show in 2008, to 19-year-old Alejandrina and her ex-boyfriend Jose, he was armed with the facts.He said: 'I want to explain about this situation. Its happened before on this show with fraternal twins. Less than one per cent of fraternal twins are from different fathers, to be accurate 0.001 per cent of the time and this is one of those less than one per cent.'

This occurrence is so uncommon that only a few cases have been documented in medical records.

In rare instances when twins are conceived by different fathers, it's called heteropaternal superfecundation, which occurs when two or more of a woman's eggs are fertilized by different men within the same ovulation period.

Before the results were read out, Alejandrina promised that she had not slept with anyone else while she was with Jose and broke down in tears when the truth came out.

He said his ex was a 'party girl' and said the test results proved she was a 'whore'.

Jose said he would take responsibility for the one child while Povich told Alejandrina that they would do another paternity test if she was able to find the father of her second child.

In May 2009, Mia Washington from Texas also gave birth to twins with different fathers.

She and her fiancé ordered a paternity test when they noticed the twins had very different features. She then admitted to having an affair.

An anti-rape device is a product used for preventing, or deterring, rape. In the 15th century, chastity

The rape-axe is a latex sheath embedded with shafts of sharp, inward-facing barbs. It is designed to be worn by a woman in her vagina like a female condom. If an attacker was to attempt vaginal rape, his penis would enter the latex sheath and be snagged by the barbs, causing the person excruciating pain during withdrawal and hopefully giving the victim time to escape. The condom would remain attached to the man’s body and could only be removed by a doctor, which would alert hospital staff and police. Once the device is utilized, the perpetrator would not be able to walk or urinate.

The device was revealed to the public in 2005, but did not get distributed until 2010, when 30,000 of the condoms were passed out before the World Cup in South Africa. Some critics of the product have objected to Ehlers’ invention, calling it “vengeful, horrible, and disgusting” and are opposed to its sale in drugstores. Other critics fear that the device could possibly enrage an attacker and further jeopardize the victim. Ehlers asserts that she created the product in gradual steps. “I consulted engineers, gynecologists and psychologists to help in the design and make sure it was safe.” Ehlers has also pointed out that some women in South Africa take extreme measures to prevent rape, such as placing razor blades in their nether regions.
belts were designed for this purpose. In the last ten years, a collection of anti-rape devices have been marketed in areas of the world that have high rates of sexual abuse, such as South Africa. One such device is the rape-axe, or anti-rape female condom. The rape-axe was invented by a South African woman named Sonnet Ehlers. She was inspired to create the product after working with a patient who had experienced a traumatizing event. The woman said to Ehlers: “If only I had teeth down there,” referring to the myth of the vagina dentata (or toothed vagina).

Physicians at the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System have cured 12 adult patients of sickle cell disease using a unique procedure for stem cell transplantation from healthy, tissue-matched siblings.
The transplants were the first to be performed outside of the National Institutes of Health campus in Maryland, where the procedure was developed. Physicians there have treated 30 patients, with an 87 per cent success rate. The results of the phase I/II clinical trial at UI Health, in which 92 per cent of treated patients were cured, are published online in the journalBiology of Blood & Marrow Transplantation.The new technique eliminates the need for chemotherapy to prepare the patient to receive the transplanted cells and offers the prospect of cure for tens of thousands of adults suffering from sickle cell disease.
About 90 per cent of the approximately 450 patients who have received stem cell transplants for sickle cell disease have been children. Chemotherapy has been considered too risky for adult patients, who are often more weakened than children by the disease.
“Adults with sickle cell disease are now living on average until about age 50 with blood transfusions and drugs to help with pain crises, but their quality of life can be very low,” says Dr. Damiano Rondelli, chief of hematology/oncology and director of the blood and marrow transplant program at UI Health, and corresponding author on the paper.
“Now, with this chemotherapy-free transplant, we are curing adults with sickle cell disease, and we see that their quality of life improves vastly within just one month of the transplant,” said Rondelli, who is also the Michael Reese Professor of Hematology in the UIC College of Medicine. “They are able to go back to school, go back to work, and can experience life without pain.”
Sickle cell disease is inherited. It primarily affects people of African descent, including about one in every 500 African Americans born in the U.S. The defect causes the oxygen-carrying red blood cells to be crescent shaped, like a sickle. The misshapen cells deliver less oxygen to the body’s tissues, causing severe pain and eventually stroke or organ damage.
Doctors have known for some time that bone marrow transplantation from a healthy donor can cure sickle cell disease. But few adults were transplanted because high-dose chemotherapy was needed to kill off the patients’ own blood-forming cells — and their entire immune system, to prevent rejection of the transplanted cells, leaving patients open to infection.
In the new procedure, patients receive immunosuppressive drugs just before the transplant, along with a very low dose of total body irradiation — a treatment much less harsh and with fewer potentially serious side effects than chemotherapy.
Next, donor cells from a healthy and tissue-matched sibling are transfused into the patient. Stem cells from the donor produce healthy new blood cells in the patient, eventually in sufficient quantity to eliminate symptoms. In many cases, sickle cells can no longer be detected. Patients must continue to take immunosuppressant drugs for at least a year.
In the reported trial, the researchers transplanted 13 patients, 17 to 40 years of age, with a stem cell preparation from the blood of a tissue-matched sibling. Healthy sibling donor-candidates and patients were tested for human leukocyte antigen, a set of markers found on cells in the body. Ten of these HLA markers must match between the donor and the recipient for the transplant to have the best chance of evading rejection.
In a further advance of the NIH procedure, physicians at UI Health successfully transplanted two patients with cells from siblings who matched for HLA but had a different blood type.
In all 13 patients, the transplanted cells successfully took up residence in the marrow and produced healthy red blood cells. One patient who failed to follow the post-transplant therapy regimen reverted to the original sickle cell condition.

A most sensitive, soft, supple, curved, attractive, warm, and sexy part of women body is…Breasts. From the beginning of the time, they have been a focus of sexual attraction, fashion, and health. In addition to the stimulation of sexual desire, breasts are also known as a symbol of femininity and beauty. Breasts can be included in the list of first things that men notice in women. These all are the reasons, why most women are always attentive about their breasts. But excluding these basic things, there are many other fascinating facts about women's breasts for which you should be aware of. In this article, there are 15 Lesser-Known Fascinating Breast Facts that will surely wonder you.

1) In most women, the left and right breast is usually not the same and for some reason the left one is usually larger.

2) When breasts get stimulated, they swell up and get bigger & erect – similar to the penis!!! Around 1 percent of women can reach orgasm really just by arousal of their breast.

3) When stimulated, the average female nipple gets erect and measures 3/8 inch in length that is somewhat longer than 5 stacked quarters.

4) The weight of an average breast measures around 0.5 kg (1.1 lb). Each average breast holds around 4 to 5% of body’s total fat and thereby holds around 1% of the total body weight in an average woman.

5) The average breast size among women in the United States has been increased to 36C from 34B in just 15 years.

6) In comparison to the cow’s milk, woman’s breast milk is sweeter and contains more essential fatty acids, more vitamin E, more iron and less sodium.

7) Sheyla Hershey, a Brazilian woman made the Guinness World Record for having world's largest breast implants in 2009. After 9 surgeries and 10,000cc silicone implants, she achieved her breasts size of 38KKK. 10,000cc is equal to 2.6 gallons.

8) In 2008, breast enlargement surgery was the no.1 cosmetic procedure in the United States with 307,230 surgeries, which is above the nose surgeries standing at 279,000 and liposuction standing at 245,000. In these surgeries, 28% of patients were 40-54 yr, 35% of 30-39 yr and 30% of 20-29 yr.

9) The average cost of breast enlargement surgery is about $3700, which includes the cost of initial implant, fees of surgeon, cost of hospitalization and anesthesia. This cost is just for the initial implant. Some other surgeries are often necessitated by women to fix rippling, wrinkling, & ruptures.

10) In the early days of surgical breast enlargement, surgeons tried various sorts of implants made from weird ingredients like glass balls, ivory, ox cartilage, ground rubber, polyester, and silicone injections. These all implants had given disastrous outcomes. Breast enlargement surgery using silicone injections was very popular in the 1960s, which ultimately caused severe health complications like disfigurement and granulomas.

11) Around 17,903 breast reduction surgeries were performed on men in 2008, as well as, nearly 20,967 women got rid of their breast implants during the same year.

12) Studies suggest that breastfeeding doesn’t contribute to the sagging of breasts but cigarette smoking does. Cigarettes contain chemicals, which break down the elastin protein of human skin and thereby eliminate the skin elasticity, causing smokers to have saggy breasts.

13) In 5% cases, newborn infants produce breast milk for the first two months after birth. This is called witch's milk or Neonatal milk, and it can secrete in both sexes.

14) The women who do not want to wear a bra can legally go topless in the states of New York, Ohio, Maine, Hawaii and Texas. However, they can still be arrested on public nuisance laws. On the contrary, women found topless on public places and beaches of Dubai are thrown in jail for 6 months.

15) Bra like garments are in use from the 7th century BC but the large scale production has been started only in the 1930s. Today, the bra industry makes a business of $16 billion annually.

There are millions of things about pregnancy that aren’t listed in books and that no one ever tells you about. For instance, did you know that being pregnant can cause you to have perpetual hiccups for months on end?.. And that’s not even the strangest.
Here are 26 strange and interesting pregnancy facts that I’d bet you didn’t know.
1.) During the second half of pregnancy your baby will pee about a liter a day. Where does all of that urine go you ask? The baby swallows it. Consider it your kid's first lesson in recycling.
2. When nearing the end of pregnancy, a woman's placenta produces more estrogen in one day than a non-pregnant woman will produce in three years.
3. It's common for women to experience change in skin tone during pregnancy. It happens about 90% of the time.Saying a pregnant woman is glowing is a common expression, but most people chalk it up to the woman's excitement about becoming a mommy. As it turns out though, glowing skin is a very real thing for pregnant women. While you're pregnant, the amount of blood in your body will increase by 50%. The extra blood ends up showing through the skin in many areas, particularly the cheeks.On top of this, hormones cause the oil glands to become more active, resulting in a softer, shinier appearance. When the increased blood flow combines with shine, the result is a noticeable glow.
4. Studies have shown that babies can taste what the mother is eating. Strong flavors like garlic are especially able to pass through the amniotic fluid.
5.Babies cry in the womb. Not because they're upset, more as practice for their big day.
6.Pregnant women and new mothers can lactate at the sound of a baby crying, even if it's not their baby.
7. The baby's fingerprints are formed within the first three months of pregnancy.
8. Your heart grows:Progesterone softens the joints. Your ribcage stretches out and, as your uterus grows, everything else in your body shifts about. Organs, such as the heart and live, enlarge too, due to their extra workload.
9. Your bones soften:High levels of the hormones oestrogen and relaxin cause ligaments throughout your body to relax, including those in your back. The extra strain on the muscles and joints of the lower back area can cause back pain.
10. Your body can swell anywhere.Extra fluid circulating can sometimes cause swelling (oedema) throughout your whole body, but more commonly in the ankles due to interstitial fluid building up.
11. Your skin changes.Hormones mean skin can dry out. Extra collagen in your skin tears when it stretches, causing stretchmarks. They won't go after the birth but may fade.Help your body - Use a body moisturiser to improve the condition of your skin.
12. Blue veins appear.Some people are genetically predisposed to varicose veins, some aren't. Light exercise and support tights may help.
13. Your womb holds a pint of water.At the start of pregnancy, your uterus is the size of a small Conference pear. By the end of the nine months it's more like an oversized watermelon, holding a baby and at least a pint of water, so it's not surprising you feel twinges as it grows, especially as it will be touching the bottom of your ribs. At 16-20 weeks you may feel slight pain caused by some ligaments beginning to stretch.
14. Your hair's thicker,Your hair becomes glossy and thicker due to the oestrogen receptors it contains. It is thicker because growth has slowed down and hair loss is reduced.
15. You're more stretchy .To prepare your body for childbirth, the hormone, relaxin, reduces cartilage and ligament density, so you can stretch parts of your body a lot more than normal.
16. Your hands tingle.Numbness and tingling may be a sign of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome - pressure on a nerve where it passes into the hand at the wrist. Anyone can get it, but you're more at risk in pregnancy. It usually disappears after birth.
17. You produce more blood.Your total volume of blood is 50% higher than usual and cardiac output (the amount of blood pumped out with each heartbeat) increases by 40%. You manufacture 20% extra red blood cells to carry more oxygen around your body. It's normal to feel out of breath at times in the later months. But breathlessness can be a sign of anaemia so if you're concerned, ask your midwife to check your iron levels.
18. Your baby gets food before you.It's important to eat healthily in pregnancy. The baby will take all the nutrients he needs, but this can leave you lacking, especially in iron. Your GP can provide iron tablets if you're anaemic.Help your body - Vitamin C in a glass of orange juice helps your body absorb iron. Most breakfast cereals are fortified with iron, too.
19. You breathe deeper.As your uterus grows, the diaphragm is compressed, It seems difficult to breathe deeply, but you actually breathe more air.
20. Your pelvic muscles stretch.Incontinence caused by childbirth is decreasing as women get better at doing pelvic floor exercises.
21. Your face darkens.The ‘mask of pregnancy' is caused by a change of pigment in your skin across your nose and cheeks in a butterfly shape. It only seems to affect some women, but no-one knows why.
22. Your tummy develops a line.Some women develop a dark line on their abdomen in pregnancy. This is known as the linea nigra and is caused by higher melatonin levels, but it's not known why it develops. It tends to affect women with dark colouring more than those with fairer complexions.
23. Your boobs keep changing. Many women worry unnecessarily that breastfeeding will ruin the shape of their boobs. In fact, any change in shape is actually caused by the pregnancy itself and not by breastfeeding your baby. Proper support at this time is vital to support the muscles in your chest wall as there's no muscle tissue in your breast.
24. Your teeth need extra care.It used to be said that a woman lost one tooth for each of her pregnancies. Thankfully, that's no longer the case for women who have a healthy, varied diet. But your gums are vulnerable now and gingivitis, or bleeding gums, is very common. It's important to make the most of the free dental treatment you are entitled to (up until your baby is 12 months old) and see your dentist and hygienist regularly.
25. Digestion slows.Progesterone slows your digestion early on so your body can absorb more nutrients to pass to your baby. It can cause constipation.Help your body - Have plenty of fluids, fruit and vegetables. Light exercise will also help digestion.
26. Your blood clots faster.Your blood clots more easily now, a protective mechanism so you don't bleed to death when the placenta is delivered. There's a concern that a clot in the calf may fragment, and cause clots elsewhere, particularly if you've had thrombosis or are overweight.
 

1. There is a town in Jamaica called ABEOKUTA. It was founded by former slaves from present-day Ogun State who were brought to a plantation in that part of Jamaica.
2· In Turkish, the bird we call a Turkey is called “Hindi” (“from India”wink. In India, it’s called “Peru.” In Arabic, the bird is called “Greek chicken”; in Greek it’s called “French chicken”; and in French it’s called “Indian chicken.” The bird is indigenous to none of these places.
3· The letter ‘i’ that Apple uses (in their products iPhone, iPad, iMac, iPod) stands for “Interactive”.
4· Edward James Roye, the fifth president of Liberia, was of Igbo descent.
5· President Robert Mugabe is Africa’s oldest Head of State and the world’s second oldest Head of State. He was born in 1924.
6· The name”Nigeria” was coined by Flora Shaw, the wife of Lord Lugard, Nigeria’s Governor-General from 1914 to 1919.
7· There is a high school in Kingston, Jamaica named CALABAR High School, the capital of Cross River State.
8· Queen Elizabeth II is the only person who travels to any country without International Passport.
9· Ebun House, located at 85 Odunfa Street, was the first three-story building built in Lagos. It was constructed in 1914.
10· The city of Port Harcourt (capital ofRivers State) was named after Lewis Vernon Harcourt in 1913 by Frederick Lugard. It was originally known as Iguocha.
11· There are 3 things the Human Brain cannot resist noticing –Food, Attractive People and Danger.
12· The CMS Grammar School in Lagos, Nigeria is the oldest secondary school in Nigeria. It was founded on June 6, 1859.
13· The first book written in the Igbo language (Isoama-Ibo :A Primer) was by Samuel Ajayi Crowther, the renowned Yoruba/Creole bishop.
14· Gatwick Airport in London, which is not that far from Heathrow Airport also in London, England is owned by Nigerian businessman Adebayo Ogunlesi.
15· The Naira, Nigeria’s currency, was named by Obafemi Awolowo.
16· Nigerian staple food cassava was brought to West Africa from Brazil by the Portuguese.
17. The Official Residence of the President of Barbados, a Caribbean country, very close to Jamaica and Bahamas, is called Oronna Court. The name Oronna was used by two Barbadorian Citizens close to a decade in tracing their origin to Ilaro in Ogun state. One was named Odewale and the other was named Aramide Oronna( the German Shephard man) was one of the hero/founders of Ilaro town alongside Iya Ala. Oronnais just like the likes of Lisabi and Shodeke in Egbaland.

Zautun Nakanda, a great-grand mother is now married to 27-year-old Steven Tikubuwana and the couple is now living together in the old woman's house in Kyungu village in central Uganda's district of Mukono. To those who were attacking the old woman for getting married to the young man old enough to be her grand child she said;

'Love has no age limit.We love each other and that is what matters in marriage.''

Tikubuwana has advised those against his marriage to the old woman to mind their business and leave them alone. He said,


''I wonder why some people who poke their noses in issues that do not concern them. Why are they concerned about my marrying an old woman of my choice?'' He said that when he lost his job and had nowhere to stay, the old woman welcomed him to her house and some how they fell in love and are now husband and wife. An elder on the village, Vincent Kalule said, ''I wonder whether that young man is in his senses. How can a 27 year old man marry a 70 yr old woman. What kind of marriage is that," he posed.