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The man swallow poisonous snakes

    Poinsonous snakes are scary, but there's someone who is not feared, even swallows poisonous snakes. In Guilin, Guangxi there is a snake expert named Li Weixin. He has swallowed more than 600 poisonous snakes till now. But he can not drink dessert, even a sip of dessert can make him vomit. If there is a period of time he does not swallow poisonous snakess, he will be so weak, then get sick. This peculiar phenomenon is still a mystery.

[英语课]

Pneumatic rock

      Dongshan Pneumatic rock is in Dongshan Island, Fujian Province, known as "the first odd stone in the world", weighing about 200 tons. The magic is all around excellent weight balance. When strong winds are blowing, it's moving from side to side. The human can also shake the wind stone. Selecting the appropriate location, a person will be able to make the huge rock gently shake up. How was this piece rock formed? So far it is a conundrum.

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Holy Spring

      There is a small town named Claudius in France. There is a clear spring in a cave in the town.   The spring, with its magical cure functions, attracts people from all over the world. This is the famous holy spring.
       Each year about 4300000 people go to Claudius, and many people are regarded as hopeless patients. In 124 years, the medical profession recognized 64 cases as miracles. What is the mystery of "Make the dead come back to life"?


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Hayley Okines

      British girl Hayley Okines is only 14 years old, because of suffering from progeria, the face looks like a septuagenarian old woman. The doctors asserted that she could not live over 13 years old. However optimistic Hayley recently not only ushered in her 14th birthday, but also published his autobiography "Old Before My Time". Hayley was diagnosed in 1999 with a rare premature aging disease, which made her aging rate eight times faster than the average person. At present, Hayley's physical age is 105 years old.



http://www.hayleyspage.com/index.htm - the website dedicated to her.

 And more about the progeria:

What is Progeria?

Progeria, or Hutchinson Gilford Progeria syndrome, is an extremely rare, fatal genetic condition of childhood with striking features resembling premature aging. The word Progeria is derived from the Greek meaning “prematurely old”. Hutchinson Gilford Progeria accelerates the process of aging to about eight times the normal rate. Because of this accelerated aging, a child with Hutchinson Gilford Progeria that is ten years old will have similar respiratory, cardiovascular, and arthritic conditions of that of an eighty year old.

Hutchinson Gilford Progeria has a reported incidence of about 1 in 8 million newborns. It affects both sexes equally and all races. In the past 15 years, children with Progeria have been reported all over the world, including in Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Canada, China, Cuba, England, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Poland, Puerto Rico, South Africa, South America, South Korea, Switzerland, Turkey, the US, Venezuela, Vietnam, and Yugoslavia. Hutchinson Gilford Progeria is one of the world's rarest diseases. There are only about 40 known cases throughout the world to this date. There has been only about 100 reported cases since the first diagnosis by Jonathan Hutchinson in 1886 and Hastings Gilford in 1904.

Children with Progeria usually have a normal appearance in early infancy. At about 9-24 months of age, children with Progeria begin to experience profound growth delays, resulting in short stature and low weight. These children also develop a distinctive facial appearance characterized by a disproportionately small face in comparison to the head, an undeveloped jaw, and malformation and crowding of the teeth, abnormally prominent eyes, a small nose and a subtle blueness around the mouth. By the second year of life, children with Progeria lose their hair from the scalp, lose their eyebrows and eye lashes. Small, downy, white or blonde hairs may replace the scalp hair. Hutchinson Gilford Progeria is extremely difficult to diagnose in newborns, but certain suspicious findings may be present at birth, such as unusually taut, shiny, hardened skin over the buttocks, upper legs and lower abdomen, and bluish discolouration of the skin around the mouth. Profound, progressive growth retardation usually becomes evident by approximately 9-24 months of age. According to reports in the medical literature, affected children who are 10 years of age typically have a height of that of an average 3 year old.

Although the time of onset of more definitive symptoms varies from case to case, generally by the end of the first year there is noticeable growth retardation and the appearance of physical features commonly associated with Hutchinson Gilford Progeria.

Progeria is a life limiting disease that results in the Progeria children dying of heart disease and other ageing related problems at an average age of 13, with a range of about 8-21 years of age.


http://www.hayleyspage.com/progeria.htm

[Alexa]

 Ohhh, guys! These all are sooo interesting! Thank you for posting!
 Write more, please!

[英语课]

Werewolf Syndrome

       Danny Ramos Gomez from Mexico is suffering from a rare hirsutism, the body is covered thick black hair, looks like the legendary horror "werewolf".It is reported that Danny is a family that five generations suffering from this "werewolf syndrome".


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Hypertrichosis

        Hypertrichosis (also called Ambras Syndrome) is an abnormal amount of hair growth on the body; extensive cases of hypertrichosis have informally been called werewolf syndrome. There are two distinct types of hypertrichosis: generalized hypertrichosis, which occurs over the entire body, and localized hypertrichosis, which is restricted to a certain area. Hypertrichosis can be either congenital (present at birth) or acquired later in life.The excess growth of hair occurs in areas of the skin with the exception of androgen-dependent hair of the pubic area, face, and axillary regions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werewolf_syndrome

[英语课]

The oldest person in the history

Li Qing Yuan (1677-1933), longevity of 256 years. He married 24 wives in his life and had many children. He was a  Chinese medicine scholar at the end of Qing Dynasty.  He got special incentives by the Government for outstanding achievements in Chinese medicine at the age of 100 years old, at the age of 200 years old, he still often gave lectures at the universities.


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[英语课]

Pica--Drink gasoline, diesel and pesticide!

     
       Drink gasoline, diesel and pesticide! A woman named Cheng Shumei from Daqing, Heilongjiang is a PICA enthusiast. She can be regarded as the king of citta! She already drank tons of gasoline and diesel more than ten years. Gasoline and diesel are fuel, but in her mouth they are delicious food. No gasoline and diesel to drink, she eats pesticide 666 powder. Gasoline, diesel and pesticide are poisonous. What causes her pica?

            
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P.S. Don't do it! It can cause death of the ordinary people.

[英语课]

Trovant

   
         In the area Valcea of central and southern Romania, there is a village called Costesti. There is a kind of magic stones called Trovant, the appearance is very common, mostly no edges and corners, but whenever it rains, these stones grow up fast like bamboo shoots after a spring rain. The smaller  stones grow faster, one pebble of a few grams can grow to around a ton after a period of time. Scientists think that these stones have intumescent material that expands in water, so that cause this strange phenomenon.


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[英语课]

 

19 year-old girl's longest memory is only 24 hours

   
   Have you seen a movie called  50 First Dates? The actress has infrequent short-term memory loss, her memory is only 24 hours, and the man falling in love with her tries every day to  make the girl fall in love with him.
    19 year-old British girl Jess Lydon unfortunately became a heroine in the reality. Because  suffering from rare encephalopathy Susac Syndrome, her longest memory can only be maintained for 24 hours, thus her boyfriend broke up with her, it's a cruel blow for her. At present, Lydon is actively treated, she hopes this condition will improve.

     
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[英语课]

Human Magnet

    British 50-year-old woman Brenda Allison has a specific function. Her body is like a magnet, a variety of small metal objects can stick to her skin, it can also light the lamp. When she pass by, her body would trigger the car alarm or make the supermarket cashier stop working.


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[SEO]

  My relative has the same ability. But she dead. Pity...but when I saw this magnet black lady, I just remember my dead relative. It is interesting. I can't do it. I am not a human magnet.

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Roy Sullivan

American park ranger Roy Sullivan,  after being struck by lightning in seven different places, still survived. Roy Sullivan was recorded by Guinness World Records which description is: a person who was struck by lightning the most from human beings have ever recorded. He got two nicknames "lightning rod" and "human lightning conductor." He shot himself at the age of 71 because of the crush-free faliure.


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[英语课]

'Dead' Brazilian boy Kelvin Santos

                                       apparently came back to life

Two-year-old Brazilian boy Kelvin Santos had died of cardiac- respiratory failure and dehydration after a bout of pneumonia and his body was handed to his family for burial. But when his parents were about to cover the coffin, Kelvin Santos apparently came back to life and rose from coffin to ask for water. Everyone was stunned. His father thought Santos resurrection but then he lay down again and did not move again. They took him to the hospital and checked, but he had no signs of life.
Kelvin did not wake again and he was buried. His father believes his son was the victim of medical malpractice and has lodged a complaint with the police.
'Perhaps they didn’t examine him properly,’ he said. ‘Dead people don’t just wake up and talk. I’m determined to find out the truth.’


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[英语课]

The world's most slender waist

American woman Pinchyna Casey has a record with the world's most slender waist-  Casey is more than 70 years old and her waist is only38 cm.

Casey is from Connecticut, USA, a woman with height of 1.7 meters, weight 58 kg. It sounds like a common old woman, but if you meet her in person you would be intimidated. Casey's waist is only 38 cm while wearing a tight skirt, big as only a large beer mug.

Casey likes to call hersel "corset queen", but her waist is not inherently so. In 1983, 46-year-old Casey suddenly found her body is seriously out of shape in the mirror, so she made a determined effort to keep slim. In the past, she kept wearing recoil underwear for 23 hours every day, then succeeded to have an "hourglass figure".

Casey's waist is outrageous slim, but did not cause any adverse consequences to her. Her recipes have no difference with ordinary people. Casey's doctor husband, Gbagbo said: recoil underwear worn by Casey supports the spinal very well , so that even she's 70 years old, her body is still fit, tall and straight, no hump signs."


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