Gold Pill promises to turn your poop into glittering gold

​Feeling less than impressed by what you see every time you head to the bathroom for a No. 2? It's time to add a glamorous touch to your poo with these Gold Pills from Tobias Wong and J.A.R.K. The pills are 20mm-long, 24-karat gold-leaf capsules that promise to "turn your innermost parts into chambers of wealth." The pills go for $425, but that's all part of the plan. Wong conceived them as part of his INDULGENCES line that comments on society's "ever-expanding market of luxury items." But if you're more into silver, Wong also designed those in 1998. Silver or gold? Decisions, decisions.
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Graça Machel is the only woman in the world to have been First Lady of two different countries, serving as the First Lady of Mozambique from 1975 to 1986 and the First Lady of South Africa from 1998 to 1999.

She married Samora Machel President of Mozambique in the year 1975.Samora Machel died in a plane crash over South Africa in 1986.She married South African President Nelson Mandela on 18 July 1998, his 80th birthday.Machel currently serves as the chair of the Association of European Parliamentarians with Africa (AWEPA) Eminent Advisory Board.

The Netherlands is closing 8 prisons due to a lack of prisoners!

Right now, the Netherlands prisons can hold 14,000 prisoners, but they only have 12,000. So, they’re going to shut down 8 prisons. They have a decreasing amount of crime in the country.

In contrast, the UK has 94,000 prisoners with a population of 62 million people while the Netherlands has a population of 16.2 million. Many of the UK’s prisoners are there related to marijuana. They have twice as many prisoners in regards to percentage.

The U.S. has the highest crime rate in the world. They estimate that 40% of the population could be in jail for small-time drug crimes. It’s costing taxpayers billions of dollars. It also causes severe overcrowding in jails and prisons.

The U.S, in stark contrast to the Netherlands, has to open more prisons often. An argument is that if Proposition 19 were to pass, the U.S. could have the chance to be like the Netherlands and begin shutting down some prisons. At the very least, it would save billions of taxpayer dollars and maybe even give more attention to bigger crimes and manpower to handle them.

A man saved 669 kids during the WWII, and lived almost his life without letting people know.

Sir Nicholas Winton. In 1939, Winton and a friend, Martin Blake, were supposed to take a skiing vacation. Instead, Blake, who worked with refugees, told Winton, at the time a 29-year-old stockbroker, that he should visit him in Prague and help with the refugees fleeing Hitler’s advancing armies.

Nicholas Winton did go to Prague, and he was deeply affected by what he saw: thousands of refugees driven out of Sudetenland, a Czechoslovakian area recently under Nazi control (Britain and France agreed to allow Hitler to annex a large part of Czechoslovakia in an attempt to avoid a World War and the Nazis had started to take control of the country.) There was no plan to save the refugees from the looming danger of the Nazis.

So Winton decided to act.Winton contacted multiple governments for help, but only England and Sweden agreed. The British government approved his bringing children to the UK if he could find them homes and make a deposit of 50 pounds for each child.

From March to August 1939, Winton worked as a stockbroker by day and a rescue worker at night to get the kids to the UK. Winton advertised in British newspapers and in churches and temples to find families. He raised money for transportation and managed logistics—even forging entry permits when the government was moving too slowly.

Winton saved 669 children, working until war broke out and kids could no longer leave Czechoslovakia.In fact, Winton kept his heroic deeds to himself for almost 50 years. His wife, Grete, didn’t even know about his rescue efforts until 1988, when she found his scrapbook in the attic, with records, photos, names and documents from his efforts.

The rescued children, many of them now grandparents, still refer to themselves as “Winton’s children.” And Winton said that hardly a week goes by when he isn’t in touch with one of the children or their relatives.

A man received the heart of a suicide victim, married his widow, and years later killed himself on the same day the donor did!

69-year-old Sonny Graham received a life saving heart transplant after another man named Terry Cottle committed suicide. Cottle’s shot himself, leaving behind a widow, four children, and a perfectly good heart that was sent to Graham. Graham was so thankful for having his life saved that he wrote a letter to Cottle’s family thanking them for his generous donation.
Eventually Graham met Cottle’s widow and claimed it was love at first sight. "I felt like I had known her for years. I couldn't keep my eyes off her. I just stared." They began dating and were eventually married. Strange? It gets weirder.
After a total of twelve years had passed since Graham received the heart, his widow received a call that her second husband had just shot himself in the exact same circumstances as her first! Get ready, because the story gets just downright creepy.
Graham had Cottle’s heart inside of him, shot himself in the same way, in the same circumstances, and also committed suicide on the exact same day! Friends of Graham said he had never shown signs of being depressed and this was completely out of the blue. While the story is extremely sad, the coincides are just eerie.

A man survived three hanging attempts.

Joseph Samuel was an Englishman who was deported to Australia in 1801 after committing a robbery. Samuel continued his immoral ways down under, joining a local gang and subsequently burglarizing a rich woman's home. A policeman guarding the home was murdered in the process, and Samuel was sentenced to death by hanging though he denied committing the murder.
In 1803, he was to be hung with another criminal, but the rope snapped! The executioner tried to repeat the process, but this time the rope slipped and Samuel's feet touched the ground. A third attempt at hanging Joseph resulted in yet another snapped rope! The governor concluded that the failed hangings were a sign from God, so Joseph Samuel was instead sentenced to life in prison.

Shah Jahan had planned to construct another Taj Mahal in black marble on the other side of the river, but the war with his sons interrupted his plans.

Shah Jahan had planned to build mirror image of the Taj Mahal he built for Mumtaz, albeit in black, on the other side of the river and connect the two by a bridge. This Black Taj was to be dedicated to Shah Jahan himself. A European traveler by the name of Jean Baptiste Tavernier who visited Agra in 1665 first mentioned the idea of Black Taj in his fanciful writings. And considering Shah Jahan's obsession with symmetry, the idea certainly seems plausible. More credibility to the story is added by an observation made by archeologists in 2006, when they reconstructed part of the pool in the moonlit garden and it reflected a dark reflection of the white mausoleum. The writings of Tavernier mention that Shah Jahan began to build his own tomb on the other side of the river but could not complete it as he was deposed by his own son Aurangzeb.
Fuel to the fire is further added as some scholar suggests that the blackened marbles in Mehtab Bagh that lie on the other side of the river are actually grim remains and foundations of an abandoned plan.

Some Facts About Camel

1. The name comes from the Arabic ǧml meaning "beauty".
2. A camels hump does not store water. It stores fat, lessening heat-trapping insulation around the rest of the body.
3. One reason they can go long periods without water is the shape of their red blood cells. These are oval so will flow when they are dehydrated rather than clumping as ours do. The camel is the only mammal to have oval red blood cells.
4. Camels can drink up to 40 gallons of water in one go.
5. Their temperature ranges from 34 degrees celsius at night to 41 degrees during the day. They don't begin to sweat until they are over 41 degrees

Women use both sides of their brains to solve things, But men only use one side.

Men use gray matter, and women use white, but they're also accessing different sections of the brain for the same task. In one study, men and women were asked to sound out different words. Men relied on just one small area on the left side of the brain to complete the task, while the majority of women used areas in both sides of the brain.

A theory suggests that the painting of Mona Lisa is not of a woman but instead a self portrait of da Vinci wearing woman’s clothes.

The artist Susan Dorothea White has interpreted the masculine proportions of Mona Lisa's cranial architecture in her anatomical artworks Anatomy of a Smile: Mona's Bones (2002) and Mona Masticating (2006).Lillian Schwartz of Bell Labs suggests that the Mona Lisa is actually a self-portrait. She supports this theory with the results of a digital analysis of the facial features of the woman in the painting and those of the famous possible self-portrait drawing by Leonardo. When the drawing is reversed and then merged with an image of the Mona Lisa using a computer, the features of the faces align perfectly.

Wright Brothers

Orville and Wilbur Wright, American inventors and aviation pioneers, achieved the first powered, sustained, and controlled flight of an airplane.on the morning of December 17, 1903. In the two years afterward, they developed their flying machine into the world's first practical fixed-wing aircraft, along with many other aviation milestones.

The Fore people of Papua New Guinea traditionally eat the bodies of their relatives including their brain.

The Fore people of Papua New Guinea traditionally eat the bodies of their relatives including their brain.During the 1950s to 1960s an outbreak of the disease kuru was traced to the practice & people were dissuaded from enjoying the usual funeral meal.

The Cadbury script logo is based on the signature of William Cadbury, son of the company's founder Richard Cadbury

Book Filled With Blank Pages Outsells Harry Potter and The Da Vinci Code.

Ever wonder what every man thinks about apart from sex? Apparently, the answer is quite simple: nothing. Or at least that’s what author and comedian Sheridan Simove claims in his gripping book, What Every Man Thinks About Apart From Sex.
To demonstrate his position, Simove cunningly has filled the book with 200 blank pages. And even though you could say it is far from “well written”, it’s climbed the ranks of Amazon’s charts to No. 744, and even outsold both Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code and J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. But who exactly is lapping up Simove’s words of wisdom? Well, it turns out it’s become a campus craze throughout Britain after a student at the University of Nottingham bought the book as a joke for her friend who brought it to class to take notes on.
Author Simove, a 39-year-old Oxford University psychology graduate, said he never expected his work to become a bestseller, but admitted his next project is a PhD on what women think about apart from sex. But let’s face it, that might take him a whole decade to finish.

Leshan Giant Buddha

This Maitreya Buddha was carved from a cliff face where the Minjiang, Dadu and Qingyi rivers meet, in southern Sichuan, China. It was constructed by a Chinese monk named Haithong in 713, his followers worked on and off for 90 years to complete it and, today, it is still the largest stone Buddha in the world, at 71m tall and 28m wide. Where the three rivers meet, the water currents were dangerous and would often sink shipping vessels, Haithong thought if he carved the Buddha there it would help to calm the waters. The stone removed to carve the Buddha was dumped into the river, unintentionally altering the currents and calming the waters. Today the Buddha is threatened by pollution, and the wear and tear caused by the thousands of tourists who come each year to visit the site. The Chinese government has closed factories nearby, in an effort to reduce the damage being inflicted on the Buddha.

The first ATMs were installed in NYC in 1977 at Citibank branches.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur

veryone knows that a tiger has a striped coat, but how many people know that the tiger’s skin is striped as well?! It is true! Underneath all those lovely stripes, the tiger’s skin is striped too, and even the rare white tiger has bluish stripes on its skin.No two tiger have same stripe pattern.

Safety pin

Walter Hunt had no trouble thinking up new ideas. First he invented a machine to spin flax. Then he invented a fire engine gong, a forest saw, a stove that burned hard coal. His inventions worked, but he just did not have the knack for making money from them. One day in 1849 Walter Hunt wanted to pay a fifteen-dollar debt to a friend. So he decided to invent something new. From a piece of brass wire about eight inches long, coiled at the center and shielded at one end, he made the first safety pin. He took out a patent on his invention, sold the rights to it for four hundred dollars, paid his friend back and had three hundred eighty-five dollars to spare.Then he watched his latest brainstorm go on to become a million dollar money earner for someone else.

Many tribes around the world have practised trepanning since the stone age.It involves drilling a hole in the skull,often with stone,to ease headaches by letting out evil spirits.People frequently survived as many skulls have been found with several such holes,some partially healed

Smallest Newspaper

‘the smallest newspaper measures 32 x 22 mm (1.25 x 0.86 in) achieved by First News Children’s Newspaper in West Horsley, Surrey, UK published on the November 8, 2007 in celebration of Guinness World Records Day.

Director Michael Bay destroyed a total of 532 cars while filming the Transformers movie!

What a waste of a bunch of perfectly good automobiles, right? WRONG. All of the vehicles were actually donated for the film because they were already headed to the scrap heap! Bay clarified this point in an interview with Reuters: "These are cars that are flood-damaged. Car companies give them to us because by law they have to be crushed, so I am the perfect guy to do that." I wonder...do you think any flood-damaged Transformers were donated to Pixar for the rendering of Cars 2?

A kung fu master is able to hold a power drill to his head for a full minute without being harmed!

Unbreakable Body” by his peers, Master Hu Qiong is also able to press the drill to his throat and stomach for additional minutes without sustaining an injury. To prove that the drill is functional and sharp, he then proceeds to bore holes in metal, wood, and plastic. As part of his exhibition, Hu also catches an electric saw while it is running!

Bullfighting is national sport of Spain.

Jon Brower Minnoch (29 September 1941– 10 September 1983) was the heaviest man recorded in history. At his peak weight, he was approximately 1400 lb (634 kg, 100 stone)

Robert Pershing Wadlow (February 22, 1918 – July 15, 1940) was the tallest person in history for whom there is irrefutable evidence. Wadlow is sometimes known as the Alton Giant or Giant of Illinois because he was born and grew up in Alton, Illinois. Wadlow reached 8 ft 11.1 in (2.72 m) in height and weighed 485 lb (220 kg) at his death at age 22

There is actually a flower that smells like chocolate.

Cosmos atrosanguineus, aka chocolate cosmos, is a plant from Mexico that can grow up to about 24 inches high and has a maroon-colored flower. It’s famous for it’s chocolate-y scent, but don’t be fooled. No part of this plant is edible. This plant is not actually fertile, so it produces no viable seeds. It is extinct in the wild. They currently only propagate by the division of tubers.

10 Biggest Brain Damaging Habits

1. No Breakfast .
2. Overeating.
3. Smoking.
4. High Sugar consumption.
5. Air Pollution.
6. Sleep Deprivation .
7.Head covered while sleeping.
8. Working your brain during illness.
9. Lacking in stimulating thoughts.
10. Talking Rarely .

After 16 years at the typewriter, Les Stewart from Mudjimba (Australia) is a millionaire. On 25 November 1998, he reached his goal of typing all numbers from one to one million - in words (not numbers) on his manual machine. A regular entrant in the record books since he started his marathon task in 1982 as therapy following an accident and serious illness. Seven manual typewriters, 1000 ink ribbons, 19,890 pages, 16 years and seven months later, he finished with the lines nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine. one million.

Caffeine is a pesticide.

Believe it or not, the active ingredient in some of our favorite beverages is deadly to snails and slugs. It acts as a neurotoxin for mollusks. Applying caffeine to soil will get rid of your slug problem. A 4 oz solution with 2% caffeine applied to 4 square inches of soil takes out 92% of the slug population in 2 days. Also, when caffeine is added to pests’ food, it becomes inedible. Both slugs and caterpillars avoid leaves that have been sprayed with caffeine. These same tests also concluded that caffeine is not effective for killing frogs.

Accident Prone Street Covered in Bubble Wrap.

A street identified as being the most accident prone in the UK, has been covered in bubble wrap to help protect residents from harming themselves. Somerville Rd. in Worcester has averaged 10 insurance claims every year for the last decade, so insurance company Confused.com decided to wrap the whole street up in bubble wrap. This was all in an effort to raise safety awareness. It took 1500 square meters of bubble wrap to cover it all.

A legless woman has been given a mermaid tail to help her swim!

Nadya Vessey of Auckland, New Zealand was born with a congenital disorder that kept her legs from forming completely. She is now in her 50s, but has not had legs since they were amputated at the ages of 7 and 16. One day, a young boy approached her with questions about her prosthetic legs, and she claimed that she was a mermaid! This novel idea percolated in her mind for a while and eventually she contacted the special effects team behind The Lord of the Rings movies, asking if they could craft her a prosthetic tail. A competitive swimmer since losing her first leg, Nadya had never even dreamt of being a mermaid, but the effects gurus at Weta Workshop said they could make her a tail! Made from wetsuit fabric and plastic moulds, the appendage allows her to move through the water just as a real mermaid would. Nadya is even thinking about taking this venture a step further by competing in a triathlon someday!

The glass frog has a transparent body,it's blood vessels,stomach & beating heart are all visible

Ironically, when doctors in Los Angeles, California went on strike in 1976, the daily number of deaths in the city dropped 18%

The cover of the first issue of Captain America shows the hero punching Adolf Hitler!

Early Indian surgeons used ants to hold the edges of wounds together.They would get an ant to bite through both sides of the wound,then twist off the ant's body & throw it away,leaving the head in place with jaws acting as a stitch.

All zebras have unique stripes.

he zebra stripes are some of the most distinct markers in the animal kingdom. Like a human being's fingerprints, no two sets of zebra stripes are exactly alike.
While no two zebras are the same, in general the zebras' patterns are most similar to other members of their own species. That way, you can tell which of the 3 zebra species a given zebra belongs to, by recognizing general pattern similarities. This might also be the way that zebras are able to recognize one another!

"Carpet viper" kills more people in the world then any other type of snake.It bite leads to uncontrollable bleeding.

A Chemical engineer named Neil Tollotson accidentally created Latex balloons while trying to make liquid rubber.

Obama is also the first president to use Twitter to communicate with people.

Chicken that lived for 18 months without Head

Mike the Headless Chicken (April 1945 – March 1947), also known as Miracle Mike, was a Wyandotte chicken that lived for 18 months after his head had been mostly cut off. Thought by many to be a hoax, the bird was taken by his owner to the University of Utah in Salt Lake City to establish its authenticity.

Cell Phones for the Blind and Visually Impaired.

The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.

The first novel ever written on a typewriter is Tom Sawyer

There are about 450 types of cheese in the world. 240 come from France.

In English, “four” is the only digit that has the same number of letters as its value.

Shakespeare invented the words “assassination” and “bump.”

One of Einstein’s notebooks is posted online for everyone to see!

Sometimes, it feels like all the internet is a swirling vortex of cats, goats, and boobs that pulls us in just when we’re at our busiest. But every once in a while, we are reminded of the fact that the internet is also a storehouse full of weird and wonderful things, like Albert Einstein’s notebooks. After Albert Einstein died in 1955, a small, brown notebook was found amongst his papers. It contained all of his private calculations from 1907-1915. Aka: The period of time during which he was working on this theory of relativity, aka: One of the most important contributions to modern science. It is referred to as the Zurich notebook, and it is fully uploaded to the internet for all those who want a little peak into the brain of a genius. Check it out in the source! source : http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/Goodies/Zurich_Notebook/index.html

J.K. Rowling was the first person to become a billionaire by writing books.

She's also one of only 14 self-made female billionaires - in contrast, there are 665 males who’ve earned a billion on their own (fortunately the list of females has more than doubled within the past six years). The Harry Potter author is currently worth an estimated $1.1 billion, and get this - she is strongly considering releasing digital versions of the book series, a move which could net her an additional $100 million!

IBM’s motto is “Think”. Apple later made their motto “Think different”.

Bruce Lee was so fast that they had to slow the film down so you could see his moves.